Five Finger Death Punch: How The Band Got So Big

How Five Finger Death Punch Became So Popular

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Five Finger Death Punch is without a doubt one of the most popular rock bands in the world today. But it hasn’t been an easy road. The band has suffered plenty of obstacles to get to the top and today we’re going to explore how this band became so big while also transversing so much adversity including in-fighting, lineup changes, critics hating them and much more. . Stay tuned for the full story.

Five Finger Death Punch of FFDP or 5FDP as it’s known was founded sixteen years ago in 2005 by guitarist Zoltan Bathory and drummer Jeremy Spencer. The band’s name was inspired by classic martial arts movies. The band would spend 2006 rounding out their lineup with original bassist Matt Snell and vocalist Ivan Moody joining the group. The band also hired a second guitarist with former WASP member Darrell Roberts joining the group. FFDP would cite Pantera, Voivod,and W.A.S.P. as some of their influences.
By the end of 2006,, the band had recorded and self-produced their first album “the Way of the fist.”
It wasn’t too long after the band recorded their debut album that they signed a recording contract with Firm Music. The band would release a statement following their signing describing their music as “ metal… undiluted, raw as metal was always meant to be. In fact, for FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH it was important that everyone involved at any stage of this recording was a diehard metalhead.”
July 2007 was a busy month for the band. They released an EP titled Pre-Emptive Strike exclusively in America through the itunes store in addition to their first single called the bleeding and their debut LP The Way of the Fist by the end of the month. The way of the fist entered the Billboard 200 charts at number 199 and eventually peaking at no. 107. It was certified gold 4 years later. Their first three singles including The Bleeding, Never Enough and Stranger Than fiction all charted in the US mainstream rock charts in the top 20.
To support the album, the band got a high profile touring slot opening for Korn, All That Remains and Disturbed.

By the end of that tour the band would already have a lineup change with guitarist Darrell Roberts being fired. He would be replaced by Jason hook. And according to Jeremy Spencer’s Book Death Punch’d, Roberts firing supposedly had to do with alcohol and in-fighting. Spencer summarized that basically Roberts stopped being a functioning member of the band.
In 2009 the band would put out War is the answer followed by 2011’s American Capitalist. Both albums would be certified platinum and only helped to boost the band’s profile.
By late 2010 news leaked online that bassist Matt Snell was fired, but the band wouldn’t confirm the news until April of 2011. The band wouldn’t state the reasons for his firing but Zoltan Bathory told Harddrive Radio that contractual obligations stopped the band from discussing it any further before adding that the bassist’s departure wouldn’t impact the band’s sound as Matt wasn’t a writing member of the band. He would be replaced by Chris Kael
As the band’s profile grew, success also brought hardships for some members of the band. In 2012 frontman Ivan Moody admitted that his substance abuse problems almost cost him his job revealing to Team Rock Radio When I sang, I was a totally functional alcoholic,”I could do my job. But then half of the tour for ‘American Capitalist’, I couldn’t even tell I had been onstage. I would literally wake up the next day and say, ‘Where the hell are we? What did we do last night?’ And someone would go, ‘Well, we played a show in front of 20,000 people.’ And I’d go, ‘F**k, I wish I remembered.'”
His substance abuse problems would hamper his time in the band for the foreseeable future. During a 2016 during a concert in Massachuseetes he cut the set short claiming his mother was dying that night, despite the fact that his mother was in good health at the time. In 2017 during a june concert in the netherlands he announced he was leaving the band. Following that show he would temporarily leave the band and enter rehab and was replaced by Bad Wolves singer Tommy Vext for the remainder of the tour. He wasn’t the only member struggling with substance abuse as

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