Tommy Vext

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Thomas Cummings (born April 15, 1982), better known under the stage name Tommy Vext, is an American heavy metal singer and songwriter best known for his role as Bad Wolves' lead vocalist, Snot, Divine Heresy, and Westfield Massacre.

He was also the back-up vocalist for the multi-platinum-selling heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch on their European Arena tour in 2017, when Ivan L. Moody left the tour to get back to rehab.

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Career

Vext began his musical career in Brooklyn, New York, as a youth performing in local hardcore bands and participating in freestyle rap competitions with the neighborhood's preeminent candidates. Vext was compelled to join clubs even for his own shows because he was too young. He formed Maniacal Disciple with Jim Donovan, Steve Perlmutter, and Mike Kontaras, before he started to be known as "Tommy Vext" in the New York hardcore scene, where he later became his nickname. Vext was a local buzz band and appeared on CBGB, The Continental, and Lamours. Biohazard, Candiria, and several others were also available. Vext appeared at the Roadrunner Records 25th anniversary show in 2005, a special occasion for singer Corey Taylor of Slipknot.

Vext was recruited by Dino Cazares of Fear Factory in 2006 to front his current band Divine Heresy. Bleed the Fifth, the company's debut studio album, was released in the United States on August 28, 2007, by Century Media Records. Logan Mader, a former Machine Head and Soulfly guitarist, produced the album.

Both the followers and the press all expressed their admiration for Bleed the Fifth's warm reception. "All in all, the portly pioneer has hit the bull's-eye, and it's going to be exciting to see what happens next," Metal Hammer's Dom Lawson said. AllMusic's Eduardo Rivadavia said the album "strikes a near-perfect balance between confirmation (reminding followers of Cazares' capabilities and unique vision) and creativity (he even plays a few guitar solos!)" Blabbermouth.net's Scott Alisoglu summed up his review, saying that the album is "one difficult son of a bitch that may have you humming tunes long after you've ejected it." "Great musicianship, good songs, and excellent execution make this a very respectable debut," Chad Bowar of About.com said.

The bulk of the songs, which are about personal struggles and how to resolve them, was written by Vext. The Book of Revelation, natural disasters, war, and terrorism inspired a large portion of the lyrical text.

After a physical altercation with Cazares in May 2008, Vext was thrown from Divine Heresy. Both the followers and the media were left confused by the break. Vext shared the real reasons behind his departure from the band in an exclusive Metal Injection interview:

The entire band condemned his remark and said, "It's sad that our friendship with Tommy Cummings has become so bad." ... Tommy Cummings was not the decision to exclude him from Divine Heresy solely because of Dino Cazares. It was a call we made as a group."

Vext's latest iteration of Divine Heresy appeared with drummer Tim Yeung in September 2014.

In an interview with MetalSucks, Cazares, late bassist Joe Payne and drummer Tim Yeung confirmed that they were the only remaining member of Divine Heresy.

Snot is an American metal band from Santa Barbara, California. The band formed in 1995 and disbanded after Lynn Strait's death in 1998. The band reformed in 2008, with Vext on vocals. Snot has appeared on several television shows fronted by Vext, including a fall 2008 tour in the United States, supporting Mudvayne, 10 years, and DevilDriver. Snot went on hiatus again after original guitarist Sonny Mayo left the band.

Snot reunited in Hollywood on February 11, 2014, for the second time. Vext, Mayo, Doling, Fahnestock, and Miller were among the second reunion line-ups on display. They went on to perform three more shows in the Southern California area before going back to silence. Snot will return in another reunion incarnation, but not without Tommy Vext.

Tommy Vext joined Mutiny Within, (Bill Fore, and Andrew Jacobs), as well as guitar virtuoso Angel Vivaldi in 2011. Impermanence was a member of the Royal Institute of British Physiology. In 2012, there were 29 people on the planet. Vivaldi and Jacobs had left the venture by 2013, with Billy DiNapoli taking over on guitars. Broke Is the New Black is the new black's EP.

Tommy Vext was on tour with Mayhem Festival 2013 as a cook and then moved to Los Angeles after the tour.

Vext. After his time with Snot, he formed Westfield Massacre, a new band. The band's self-titled debut album on Urban Yeti Records was released in 2016. While Vext was on tour with Five Finger Death Punch, he began working on a side project with former DevilDriver drummer John Boecklin Vext.

Vext, the lead vocalist for the heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch, performed onstage during the European Arena tour in 2017, when lead singer Ivan Moody left the tour to check into rehab.

In 2016, Vext formed Bad Wolves, a tribute to former DevilDriver drummer John Boecklin. Doc Coyle (Bury Your Dead), Chris Cain (Bury Your Dead), and Later, bassist Kyle Konkiel formerly of In This Moment were recruited for the project. They began recording AudioHammer Studios with longtime collaborator Mark Lewis (Trivium, All That Remains) and tracked what would be the company's debut studio album during the summer of 2016. Bad Wolves performed "Learn to Live" alongside a music video on May 2, 2017. The song was streamed over 600,000 times on May 2, 2017. Bad Wolves, the band's founder, had been signed to Eleven Seven Music and Zoltan Bathory, and the band's manager, John Levy, was announced in November 2017.

On May 11, 2018, Eleven Seven Music released Disobey, the band's debut studio album.

The album debuted at number 23 on the US Billboard 200. Bad Wolves' debut album, "Learn to Live," debuted in May 2017. Bad Wolves' second album, "Toast to the Ghost," was released in November 2017. They released a third single on January 18, 2018, which was a cover of "Zombie" (originally by The Cranberries), which charted on various Billboard charts. Dolores O'Riordan's death was the night of her death. She left a voicemail to her sister, record label executive Dan Waite, where she said she't "sing on it" on the news that Waite had previously given O'Riordan to listen to and credit. This voice message appeared in TMZ's April 5, 2018. On February 22, a music video was released. The song debuted on the US Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs chart, while the music video was watched more than 170 million times. The single has been named platinum in Canada and the United States, and gold in Germany.

For the first half of 2018, the band performed with Five Finger Death Punch, Shinedown, Breaking Benjamin, and Starset.

On January 9, 2021, Vext and Bad Wolves parted ways. Despite that he originally stated that he was "forced out by his ex bandmates and record label," Vext came out with a public statement on January 11, 2021, stating that the decision to leave was entirely his. Vext spoke out against the brutality surrounding the Black Lives Matter protests in the spring and summer of 2020, expressing his dissatisfaction with the US and publicly supporting then-sitting President Donald Trump. "And for this they came for me," he says. Cancel culture came after my band...However, this is my rebellion; I know I can't drag my band members or the people around me into it. "I on my own decided to go solo" on the same day, John Boecklin and Doc Coyle responded to Vext's explanations during a live stream on Facebook, but they did not want to reveal anything about the reason for their dismissal, saying that it had nothing to do with "cancel culture" or "his political convictions." "It was just past the point of going back," Boecklin said.

Bad Wolves' Daniel "DL" Laskiewicz, the band's former guitar player, was revealed on May 25, 2021, after his departure from the band. This had been revealed by the band just over a week earlier.

After being kicked out of Bad Wolves, Vext started a GoFundMe campaign for a solo album of original music. He also started posting a series of cover songs he recorded in 2020 on his YouTube website, as well as a revealing tour dates for a "Fuck Cancel Culture Tour" in April 2021. Before Vext announced on March 15, 2021 that he would not be releasing it because it was "financially pushed into submission," he said. "The original album I made last year would either not come out or be given to another act on the label to perform as their own," he said. Sadly, fighting this will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and take years to get resolved." According to him, the covers album is still on the radio until the legal documents are reached, but I'm excited to get them out to you guys as soon as I can."

Vext began exporting his own 'Zombie Drops' brand of CBD oil in April 2021.

Vext sang of "fucking scams" and that "these fucking clown asshats got some fucking no-name artist," and they're re-recording the entire new album that I wrote in the studio with my producer during COVID." He also reiterated his earlier claims that his music was being held hostage. "Don't give a word about our children," these "fucking psychotic liberals" in America's major cities "don't give a damn about our children," claiming it was a "protest against our children."

Vext filed a lawsuit against Allen Kovac, the producer of Bad Wolves and the CEO of Bad Wolves' company Better Noise Music, in July 2021. When Vext refused to sell him the trademarks in an attempt to deter Vext's existence and often use racial insults to denigrate him, Vext accused Kovac of attempting to discourage him from making political statements on social media, strong-arming radio, and streaming services to avoid playing Bad Wolves. Kovac later released a statement saying that Vext's allegations were "categorically inaccurate" and that "he has pulled us into a false, unfounded story falsely portraying him as a victim."

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