LAS VEGAS PROGRESSIVE POST-HARDCORE BAND DIV3R EXAMINE THE HEAVY, PHYSICAL TOLL OF DEPRESSION ON NEW SINGLE, “WISH”
MUSIC VIDEO FOR “WISH” NOW STREAMING
DATES SUPPORTING HAIL THE SUN ANNOUNCED FOR SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER
DEBUT ALBUM, BAD CRY LOUD, PRODUCED BY JASON WEICHE, AVAILABLE VIA EQUAL VISION RECORDS / kill iconic records ON OCTOBER 9
Equal Vision Records, kill iconic records and DIV3R are pleased to present “WISH,” the latest single to be lifted from the Friday, October 9 release of BAD CRY LOUD, the debut full-length album from the Las Vegas-based progressive post-hardcore band. Derived from a type of abject existential malaise experienced by vocalist/guitarist and producer Jason Weiche, BAD CRY LOUD is the sound of acceptance along with an intentional need to combat these fiercely intrusive thoughts. Together with drummer Carlo Marquez, with whom he played in the acclaimed post-hardcore band Stolas, Weiche set about writing himself out of that black hole. Pre-order BAD CRY LOUD HERE.
“‘WISH’ is a white-knuckled ride through the suffocating physical toll of depression — an internal collapse that weighs you down over years and never really goes away,” Weiche said. “It captures the terrifying paralysis of being moved by invisible forces, staring down a shattered sense of self, and craving a quick, blunt way out of the mental wreckage.” Watch the music video for “WISH” on YouTube HERE.
Additionally, DIV3R will be touring this fall supporting acclaimed, progressive math-rock veterans Hail The Sun across September and October. Kicking off on Tuesday, September 22 at Metro in Chicago, IL, the band will make appearances across the U.S. midwest and west coast through Friday, October 9 in Springfield, MO. Tickets for all shows are on sale now and a full listing of dates can be found below. 
BAD CRY LOUD, the debut full length album from DIV3R, is a term coined by the Las Vegas band as a way to describe a more morbid version of the “ugly cry” — that visceral physical reaction to the worst news that results in uncontrollable facial expressions. However, “bad cry loud” is pure primal, abject suffering, the human condition reaching its lowest point — one from which there’s often no return.
While this album might be about wanting oblivion, by its very existence it rages against the dying of the light. And while it’s very much rooted in the travails and tribulations of life (or the wish for its opposite), its songs are also set in alternate dimensions — places that vocalist/guitarist Jason Weiche actually experienced through some extremely intense encounters that he’s had with plant medicine, something he says has helped (and continues to help) him come to terms with his morbid desires.
This is very much captured in the music — the otherworldly atmospheres of opening one-two gambit “Sober” and the frenzied space-time vortex of “Wrung”, the freewheeling, careening fist single “1047 AD” and the electrifying, high-octane nihilism of “Metroid” with its urgent, desperate screams of ‘Dance with death/Dance with nothing.’ All of them are complex yet visceral songs that tap into that human condition — even if they’re set elsewhere, the emotions they convey are very real, very human, very honest. Take, for instance, “Neue Neptune” or “Luna”. While the latter is one of the few more tender, vulnerable songs of the 12 here, it still feels like a communiqué from another plane of existence, a swathe, a rush, a jolt of pure feeling that, like the rest of these songs, is dark and heavy, full of the burden both of being human, and just being.
BAD CRY LOUD serves as an act of resistance to a host of demons. For Weiche, it also serves as something of a redemption arc, a return — after a near-decade break — to fully immersing himself in what he loves and what makes him complete.
“In 2015, I left Stolas,” he says. “I had this crazy relationship that took me away from friends and family, and really threw me into the dark. Carlo and I didn't talk for a while, and we didn't write music for several years. Coming back to that was how DIV3R was born. Something was just missing in my life, and this is totally what it was.”
DIV3R will be making the following appearances this fall supporting Hail The Sun. Dates below.
Hail The Sun w/DIV3R
Sep 22 Chicago, IL — Metro
Sep 23 Minneapolis, MN — Varsity
Sep 24 Lawrence, KS — Granada
Sep 25 Denver, CO — Oriental Theatre
Sep 26 Salt Lake City, UT — Grand at the Complex
Sep 28 Portland, OR — Crystal Ballroom
Sep 29 Boise, ID — Treefort Music Hall
Sep 30 Seattle WA — El Corazon
Oct 02 Chico, CA — Lost on Main
Oct 04 Bakersfield, CA — Temblor Brewing Co +
Oct 05 Ventura, CA — Ventura Music Hall
Oct 06 Mesa, AZ — The Nile Theater Underground +
Oct 07 Albuquerque, NM — El Rey
Oct 08 Dallas, TX — Puzzles Deep Ellum +
Oct 09 Springfield, MO — The Regency Live
Oct 16 Las Vegas NV — The Griffin*
* DIV3R only, w/Shiner and Fotocrime
+ w/The Fall of Troy and Blight Town