Translation: Your music sucks and we need time to fix it. However, Prospect Park says the band's sound is getting stale and needs more creative input. In the suit, the label says 5FDP members admitted they were rushing the record before "Ivan does something stupid - dies - goes away to jail. Prospect Park filed a lawsuit against the heavy metal rockers, saying the band is "shamelessly attempting to cash in before the anticipated downfall of their addicted bandmate."Īs we first reported, frontman Ivan Moody's estranged wife thinks he desperately needs rehab for alcohol because he's having Jekyll and Hyde-like episodes. Good day to all of you.Five Finger Death Punch is trying to crank out new songs before its lead singer ends up in rehab - or worse - but that haste is making for some really crappy music, according to their own record label. It appears as though everything that proceeded this album was slowly regressing towards what we would eventually have here. Their 2013 double album was like walking a tight rope for the band. All of this is so disappointing, that it's actually presented as a Five Finger staple. The solos are nearly competent, or at least competent enough to compete with the other radio friendly rockers that make you cringe. "Jekyll and Hyde" has a catchy enough hook, but when it sets the pins up, only it itself falls down, flat on its face. "My Nemesis" is another track that merrily charts into offensive territory as if nothing's wrong. Boringly written and unamusingly sung makes this another skipper that takes mainstream rock to the same place the album is trying to take heavy metal into total obscurity. "Hell to Pay" plays like your typical radio-friendly rocker. I know I sound very arrogant and snarky, ladies and gentlemen, but this is the only proper explanation of how I feel about this. And it's been shown in recent heavy metal releases like this when you have nothing else to write about, go with explicit language that would make you want to replace the "Parental Discretion" sticker with a "Warning: Do NOT Purchase. Eponymous track "Got Your Six" is a swear-fest with one explicit word following another and proceeding another and so on and so forth. Maybe that serves reason why this album is so abysmal. Radio play dies like a fish out of water and it raises little hope for future discography. Either way, when a singer's image goes down the tubes, so does the band's. He did cut his drinking, but the domestic violence accusations further question if he's sober. Lead vocalist Ivan Moody has been tagged with accusations of alcoholism and domestic violence, and he hasn't exactly done a lot to debunk these claims. When mixed in with these abhorrent offenses, you'll forget you even liked "Jekyll and Hyde" in the first place.Īnd this abhorrent nature of the album comes at a bad time for Five Finger Death Punch. "Jekyll and Hyde" played like a track that could garner some positive recognition. I'll mince words here, ladies and gentlemen, this is the worst album, not only of the year, but the worst to hit store shelves since Attila's "Guilty Pleasure", which was released nine months ago. But c'mon, did we expect Five Finger Death Punch to actually release a solid album when so many of their contemporaries are putting out masterpieces? Nothing here is absolved of the contrived and lackluster identity of this terrible album. FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH YOUTUBE YOU GOT YOUR SAIX FULLThis album is chock full of heavy hitting swear-fests that will make moshers sweaty and bloody. (brain cells lost by typing this) You got the extreme part down too. My narrow-minded skinny jean wearing friend who loves some of the worst in the genre said this album was one of his all time favorites. It's actually more brutal, with more extreme dynamics." Well, Jeremy, you got the brutal part right on the nose. What's more is that this goes without mentioning an interview with Five Finger drummer Jeremy Spencer, who claimed he was "digging it. Go figure?Īfter an outstanding week of top-notch releases for heavy metal (Nile, Ahab, Soilwork and Motorhead), Five Finger Death Punch comes out with an abomination that stops this freight train right in its tracks and sucks the life out of it completely. Review Summary: The year's best (so far) and worst (by far) albums both come out in the same week.
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