2008年 May 28日 Wednesday, 0:33

Five Finger Death Punch / "A Place to Die" / The Way of The Fist (4) / Jul 2007

Artist: Five Finger Death Punch
Original Album: The Way of The Fist
Track: A Place To Die

Like groove metal, thrash metal, metalcore? Then check these guys out, because they have all the goods: mixed clean & hardcore vocals, pummeling rhythm section, and great guitar breakdowns.

These guys are another band that went from "unheard of" in my collection to heard lots within a span of a couple of weeks, spurred no doubt by their inclusion on the bill for the Rockstar Mayhem Festival this summer. First I heard them in heavy rotation on XM42, then on a mix CD (courtesy of Johnny Vinyl), then decided I'd heard enough to grab of the full album.

I realize I'm about a year late in discovering them, since the single hit radio last summer and they were on the 2007 Family Values Tour. Well, what can I say: I'm a slow, old dude, but maybe I can make up for it in speed of acquantaince: a buddy of mine told me over the weekend that one of his bandmates is a good friend of a couple of the guys in FFDP, so if we all hook up for the show August 2, we can go early and spend some time with them before the show. If that all works out, that would be covering a lot of lost ground from "never heard of 'em" to "hung out with 'em backstage" within a three month span.

"It's days like this I wish that I, wish that I had stayed asleep /
It's times like these that make it so difficult to be /
The light at the end, the crack in the sky /
there's no promise for release /
No way for me to get away /
And all I'm trying to do is breathe"

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