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(Footage from that 2010 USO tour can be seen in the video for the band’s popular, but impressively awful cover of Bad Company’s “Bad Company”.)Īround the same time, in an interview with Loudwire about the video for “Wrong Side Of Heaven,” Bathory said, “Generally the band employs a lot of veterans anyway, in the past and in the future. When they found him and his things, his iPod was stuck on ‘The Bleeding.’ The last thing he was listening to before he went was one of our songs. He told me one of his closest friends went out on a mission and didn’t make it back. When they were promoting their twin 2013 albums The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell, Volumes 1 and 2, frontman Ivan Moody told ArtistDirect, “When we were over in Iraq playing our USO tour, I had one soldier come up to me, and he laid a burnt iPod down on the table. Not only do they employ the imagery of combat in many songs, they also actively support soldiers in a myriad of ways. But 5FDP have taken things much farther than their peers. Even Dream Theater made “The Enemy Inside,” a song about battling PTSD, the first single from their last album. Think Black Sabbath’s “War Pigs” think Metallica’s “Disposable Heroes” and “One” think Motörhead’s “Voices From The War” and “When The Eagle Screams” and probably dozens more think Slayer’s “Eyes Of The Insane,” which won them a Grammy. And I have a theory about that audience: I think Five Finger Death Punch have succeeded by building a relationship with listeners in the military, in a way other bands haven’t.Īs long as there’s been metal, there have been metal songs about war, and they’ve frequently expressed solidarity with soldiers. But they’re able to sell 114,000 albums in a week, which means they’re reaching an audience your average blog-friendly metal band can’t even dream of. Critics pretty much hate them (a reaction that’s likely to get worse, now that guitarist Zoltan Bathory has endorsed Donald Trump’s presidential campaign on Twitter) metal elitists sneer at them and consider them knuckle-dragging, lowest-common-denominator purveyors of post-Pantera crap. This is the band’s third album in a row to hit #2 on the charts 2011’s American Capitalist debuted at #3.įive Finger Death Punch are probably the least cool metal band around right now. However, the Weeknd’s album was streamed many more times, granting him a total of 145,000 “equivalent album units” (10 digital track sales, or 1500 song streams of an album, count the same as an album sold) to 5FDP’s 119,000. Their sixth album, Got Your Six, sold 114,000 albums in its first week the next best contender, the Weeknd’s Beauty Behind The Madness, sold 77,000 last week. BONUS TRACK: “ WASH IT ALL AWAY” (JOE HAHN REMIX) ġ7.If the Billboard Top 200 chart was still based on album sales alone, Five Finger Death Punch would have the #1 album in America right now. BONUS TRACK: “TROUBLE” (FELMAX REMIX) ġ6. FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH are currently the most-streamed artist in US Hard Rock/Metal space, outpacing other monolithic hard rock acts like Metallica and AC/DC.Ī DECADE OF DESTRUCTION, VOLUME 2 official track listing is as follows below:ġ. Since the band’s debut in 2007, FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH have amassed over 4 billion streams and sold 9 million digital songs and over 4.7 million albums in the US alone. streams, to date.Īlso included on the album are 5 previously unreleased tracks, including a studio track ( “Broken World”), an acoustic/orchestral rendition of one of their most popular songs ( “Wrong Side Of Heaven-Acoustic”–which will be released digitally on September 25) and three remixes of past favorites by some of today’s most prominent remix artists, including Steve Aoki ( “Bad Company”) Joe Hahn ( “Wash It All Away”), and Felmax ( “Trouble”). Collectively, these songs have generated over 1 billion U.S. The compilation features 12 of the band’s most popular radio and streaming favorites that were recorded for the Prospect Park label during its first decade of existence. The album has continued to rank on the Billboard Top 200 Chart for over two and a half years. The multi-platinum hard rock group FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH will release a new 17-track greatest-hits collection, A DECADE OF DESTRUCTION, VOLUME 2 on digital and CD formats October 9 with a 2 LP set arriving on November 20 pre-order the collection now (CD pre-order link (HERE) LP pre-order link (HERE).Ī DECADE OF DESTRUCTION, VOLUME 2 is the follow-up to the band’s popular 2017 compilation, which was recently certified Platinum by the RIAA.