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Thursday, February 28th 2008
Five Finger Death Punch Climb Back Onto The Billboard 200
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH – released their debut album, THE WAY OF THE FIST on 7/31/07. The CD hit
stores and the band hit the road to headline the RedOctane “Guitar Hero” second stage of the
2007 FAMILY VALUES TOUR. Later outings with Korn and HellYeah road-tested their
lineup for subsequent headlining dates. Seven months later, as the band prepares for the
ROCKSTAR MAYHEM TOUR with Slipknot and Disturbed, their record increases in sales
by 35% then again by 45% and vaults itself to #144 on the Billboard Top 200!
The album has garnered critical acclaim along the way, “Five Finger Death Punch have
enough MySpace friends to fill a stadium and the music to match… The Way of the Fist
aims squarely for the thrash-groove nirvana that many a band has chased ever since
Cowboys From Hell, and actually hits the bulls-eye… Five Finger Death Punch are just
the smack in the face that the metal mainstream needs.” says DECIBEL Magazine.
METAL EDGE Magazine adds “Five Finger Death Punch is the sound of violent
exhilaration, giving contemporary metal a belligerent shove in an exciting direction.”
“The Bleeding,” Rate The Music’s #1 testing song in the country, has climbed the Active Rock
Charts, arriving at #9 this week. The track is the only one from a brand new band in the Top
10. The video for the single, directed by Bradley Scott, can be seen on the band’s Myspace at www.myspace.com/ffdp. The video for “The Bleeding” was one of Headbangers Ball’s Top 20
videos of 2007, as voted on by the viewers.
Zoltan Bathory (previously of U.P.O.), was the architect of what has morphed into FIVE
FINGER DEATH PUNCH, recruiting standout studio Metal drummer, Jeremy Spencer to
add his trademark ‘double-bass mayhem’ to the equation. Vocalist, Ivan Moody’s previous
band, MOTOGRATER, had played to huge crowds on Ozzfest and beyond, while guitarist
Darrell Roberts toured with metal legends W.A.S.P.. Matt Snell, bassist of acclaimed
experimental outfits ANUBIS RISING and DEADSETT, completed the circle by lending his considerable fretboard mastery to the band’s music.
THE WAY OF THE FIST was recorded at Next Level Studios by Stevo “Shotgun” Bruno (MOTLEY CRUE, PRONG) and at No Name Studios by Mikey Sarkisyan (SPINESHANK)with mixing and mastering duties being handled by Logan Mader (MACHINE HEAD,
SOULFLY).