Five Finger Death Punch - White Knuckles

Band: Five Finger Death Punch
Song: White Knuckles
Album: The Way OF The Fist (2007)
Genre: Heavy Metal

I went to see Five Finger Death Punch and Breaking Benjamin in Pittsburgh last night, and I just want to stress how good a show Death Punch puts on.

Since the singer's series of meltdowns over the last couple years, I wasn't sure how they'd end up holding up in a live set.  It turns out Ivan (the singer) was having a lot of trouble with alcohol and is now clean.  Good for him honestly, I feel like it was incredibly beneficial to the show that he's clean now.

The whole thing was fantastic though, their stage was really slick looking, the songs were really tight.  The only thing that bummed me out was that they didn't play this song, so I'm gonna share it with you today, eh?

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Five Finger Death Punch - Lift Me Up

Band:  Five Finger Death Punch (5FDP) feat. Rob Halford
Genre:  Heavy Metal
Language:  Once, Strong

This was the track that spawned a great amount of excitement about 5FDP's album a few years back.  It was fantastic because you've got one of the best vocalists in Metal guesting on one of the newer groups on a really solid song.  There's a couple really good songs on the album, but hands down this is probably the best one.

It was a fantastic single to herald what promised to be a good album, and I feel they held the bar too high.  The album was good, don't get me wrong.  I've got a lot of love for the album here, it's got a couple of my favorite Death Punch songs on it, but with how nice this was the whole second album was just kinda...  Flat.  It felt like this album's rejects.  But you know what?  This song is still good, and that's what counts.

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Five Finger Death Punch - Dot Your Eyes

Band:  Five Finger Death Punch (5FDP) feat. Jamey Jasta
Genre:  Heavy Metal
Language:  Strong

There's a certain appeal to the Metal strain that 5FDP plays because it's big, chuggy, and easy to get into.  There are times that I really don't care for them since the second part of Righteous Side Of Heaven was a little disappointing, but all in all I still like their stuff.

This is one of the tracks I like more off of this album.  "Lift Me Up" is probably my favorite, but this one is more than a little solid as well.

Jamey Jasta is from Hatebreed by the way, so if you liked his verse maybe check them out.

Five Finger Death Punch - Wash It All Away

Band:  Five Finger Death Punch (5FDP)
Genre:  Heavy Metal
Language:  Brief, Strong

Screw this band.  They have made it so hard to actually find their songs on YouTube.  Their copyright is so freaking tight that people can't even upload the songs most of the time.  On top of that they don't allow YouTube to stream their album.  Like seriously, this sin't the song I actually wanted to post.  It isn't even the second song I wanted to post.

I can listen to their stuff on Spotify, but not YouTube.  That's just weird.  Not a great move guys, but you do you.

Five Finger Death Punch - 100 Ways To Hate

I'm not sure who was the person behind this remix cause they just put it at the end of their album.  I'm supposing that it was just could have done, or maybe it was an aspiring sound tech that wanted to be special.  I don't really know though, so let's move on.

This is one of my favorite pump up songs.  I can't recall if I posted the original before, but the raw "I hate you" energy that pours off of this is some of my favorite stuff, ya know?  I really enjoy the aggressive energy of it.

Funny thing, this video has some major issues staying on YouTube, so here's a Soundcloud link that's been up for 2 years.  Should be safe.

Here's a Spotify one though, just in case the Soundcloud one goes down.

Five Finger Death Punch - My Heart Lied

This is a wonderful example of what good old 5FDP has turned into.  It's a decent song, but it's all definitely bro metal now.  It's really a disappointment cause they could have gone a lot further if they had managed to stick closer to the first and second albums. stuff.  I still like their new stuff well enough, but I will say that it's really not as good.

5FDP - The Bleeding

Back in the early days 5FDP was a legit good band.  They weren't too "bro" and they had a solid angry sound that really majorly killed it.

This is one of the songs off of the first album when Ivan Moody was still kinda singing like he was is Motograter, which is a really good thing.  In my opinion, this was probably his best sound he's ever had.  It was raw, unpolished, and had this punch that you just can't beat.  Unfortunately the band has moved past that point, so we'll not get to hear this anymore.

I'm really not sure how this song is supposed to be interpreted, because it almost sounds like an apology song, but then it's an I hate you song, and then it's just a pile of confusion.  It's kinda weird, but I can dig it cause it's super powerful feeling.