Five Finger Death Punch stormed rock radio in 2007 with "The Bleeding" (from debut album The Way of the Fist), a powerful, emotionally tense track that matched vintage Metallica-style thrash with a throat-shredding chorus more typical of late-aughts metalcore. The Los Angeles-based band's sophomore disc, War Is the Answer, mines much of the same territory as that breakout song, keeping the flame of the classic '80s Four Horsemen sound alive with snap-tight chugga-chugga guitar rhythms, minor-key, classical music-inspired clean/acoustic passages, and vocals dripping with a James Hetfield-approved combination of sensitive angst and macho defiance. First single "Hard to See" backs a catchy, harmony vocal-laden melody with a syncopated groove so rhythmically engaging it could almost be called funky, while the closing track, "War Is the Answer," takes a headbanging riff seemingly straight out of the Anthrax songbook and uses it to drive home one of several ultra-aggressive sentiments ("To me you're just a cancer/War is the answer"). Elsewhere, Five Finger Death Punch delve into somewhat more diverse sonic territory; "Bulletproof" pairs a throbbing industrial feel reminiscent of late-period Ministry with Yngwie Malmsteen-esque melodic shred guitar solos and a vocal hook that recalls the '80s pop-prog of Asia and GTR, while "Far from Home" is a straight-up power ballad, complete with dramatic strings and a soaring chorus that could sit on a compilation album right alongside any big lighter-waver, from Staind's "It's Been Awhile" to Poison's "Every Rose Has Its Thorn."
This, Five Finger Death Punch’s lead single from their forthcoming second studio album, War Is The Answer, is to be released as a limited edition, hand-numbered, coloured vinyl 7″ and a digital version (which is already live). Guitarist Zoltan Bathory has done the rather nifty artwork for it - a highly-stylized bound and bloodied skull [...]
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Artist: Five Finger Death Punch Album: War Is The Answer Release date: 22.09.2009 Tracklist: 1. Dying Breed2. Hard To See3. Bulletproof4. No One Gets Left Behind5. Crossing Over6. Burn It Down7. Far From Home8. Falling In Hate9. My Own Hell10. Walk Away11. Canto 3412. Bad Company13. War Is The Answer Style: Nu Metal...
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5FDP (Five Finger Death Punch) have just released an audio stream for the song "Walk Away." The song is featured on the band's sophomore album, War is the Answer, which is in-stores everywhere now. With the new album Five Finger Death Punch has fine-tuned their songs more than ever, and ...
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5FDP (Five Finger Death Punch) have just released an audio stream for the song “Walk Away.” The song is featured on the band’s sophomore album, War is the Answer, which is in-stores and online at and Amazon. With the new album Five Finger Death Punch has fine-tuned their songs more than ever, and [...]
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Five Finger Death Punch have confirmed a November 16th digital release for “Dying Breed”, the opening track to their latest album ‘War Is The Answer’, currently available via Spinefarm Records UK.The digital single also features “Succubus”, a bonus track previously unreleased and taken from the sessions for ‘The Way Of The Fist’, the band’s hugely [...]
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This, Five Finger Death Punch’s lead single from their forthcoming second studio album, War Is The Answer, is to be released as a limited edition, hand-numbered, coloured vinyl 7″ and a digital version (which is already live). Guitarist Zoltan Bathory has done the rather nifty artwork for it - a highly-stylized bound and bloodied skull [...]
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Luckily for Five Finger Death Punch, being total assholes who completely lack any musical talent isn’t hurting their record sales: their new album, War is the Answer, is apparently going to sell to somewhere between 35,000 – 40,000 copies in its first week of release… and that’s just here in the U.S. That probably sounds [...]
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| 1 Dying Breed |
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| 2 Hard To See |
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| 3 Bulletproof |
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| 4 No One Gets Left Behind |
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| 5 Crossing Over |
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| 6 Burn It Down |
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| 7 Far From Home |
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| 8 Falling In Hate |
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| 9 My Own Hell |
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| 10 Walk Away |
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| 11 Canto 34 |
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| 12 Bad Company |
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| 13 War Is The Answer |
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