five finger death punch got your six playlist

Musically, the band are equally defiant and in-your-face, with precise performances from Bathory, Hook, Spencer and Kael: the two guitars weave and mingle effortless, bouncing off each other with fluidity, yet with the right aggressive edge needed to mark that of the vocals, while the bass and drums are tight and methodical, with the former in particular suitable subtle in its interconnection with the album’s overall musical themes. Or try the open defiance of “I never did / And I still don’t give a shit / I’m such an outcast / You swore I wouldn’t last / I got news for you / This ain’t my last dance” (‘Ain’t My Last Dance’) with their middle-fingered salute to the mainstream music media and those who wrote off, and continue to write off, not only FFDP and bands of their ilk but the entire metal genre as a whole.īut, these aren’t just empty words, albeit ones spat with visceral determination. Lead single, ‘Jekyll And Hyde’ – the lyrics for which were recorded direct from voicemail messages the singer sent to guitarists Zoltan Bathory and Jason Hook – sees him spit lines like “There’s just so much God damn weight on my shoulders / All I’m trying to do is live my mother fuckin life / Supposed to be happy but I’m only getting colder / Wear a smile on my face but there’s a demon inside” with a spine-chillingly cold viscosity. And the first thing which strikes you both how aggressive and deeply personal ‘Got Your Six’ is, especially in its lyrical content and delivery by Ivan Moody. Thankfully, FFDP have taken a somewhat more compact approach to this follow up, with 11 songs on one CD (well, 14 if you decide to go down the ‘deluxe’ version route!).

Following a triptych of increasingly impressive albums, there are some – and we most likely are in the minority – who believed that Five Finger Death Punch somewhat lost their way in 2013, with the overly-ambitious double ‘The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell’ set – a duopoly which, while their most successful collective commercial outing to date, seemed to be a case of quantity over quality and could easily have been trimmed to half its ultimate length.

Five finger death punch got your six playlist