The Divine Zero

Album: Misadventures (2015)
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  • This song details vocalist Vic Fuentes' battles with depression and self-harm. He told Kerrang:

    "The title of the song comes from a movie called The Grand Budapest Hotel. The guy's name is Zero and there's a part where he is introduced as the Divine Zero which just stuck with me and I thought there was something pretty cool about it.

    As for relating it to the song itself, sometimes you feel like a hero, you feel like you're small but, at the same time, you have to realise that you have a lot to offer and glorify that."
  • This was released as the lead single from Misadventures on June 18, 2015. Fuentes explained: "The new album has a lot of diversity and this just felt like the right song to put out first. We didn't want to put out a slow song or one of the crazier heaviest songs first. 'The Divine Zero' is somewhere in the middle and it just felt like a good example of the sort of work for the new album."

Comments: 1

  • Julianne from Bakersfield, CaFor me, this song feels really personal. Vic was clearly singing with as much emotion as he could, and this is a lyrical masterpiece. “Desperate times and desperate measures” makes me think that he felt like time was of the essence during this part of his life, and the line “a million waves in the ocean crash at once to make you smile” shows how the person he’s taking about feels as if they’re a small, almost insignificant part of the world as a whole, but it’s possible that they could make an impact. “How I’m becoming a work of art” is a more optimistic outlook on a rather depressing song.
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