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War Is the Answer

Five Finger Death Punch

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Album Review

Five Finger Death Punch first stormed rock radio in 2007 with "The Bleeding" (from debut album The Way of the Fist), a powerful, emotionally tense track that matched vintage Metallica-style thrash with a throat-shredding chorus more typical of late-aughts metalcore. The Los Angeles-based band's sophomore disc, War Is the Answer, mines much of the same territory as that breakout song, keeping the flame of the classic '80s Four Horsemen sound alive with snap-tight chugga-chugga guitar rhythms, minor-key, classical music-inspired clean/acoustic passages, and vocals dripping with a James Hetfield-approved combination of sensitive angst and macho defiance. First single "Hard to See" backs a catchy, harmony vocal-laden melody with a syncopated groove so rhythmically engaging it could almost be called funky, while the closing track, "War Is the Answer," takes a headbanging riff seemingly straight out of the Anthrax songbook and uses it to drive home one of several ultra-aggressive sentiments ("To me you're just a cancer/War is the answer"). Elsewhere, Five Finger Death Punch delve into somewhat more diverse sonic territory; "Bulletproof" pairs a throbbing industrial feel reminiscent of late-period Ministry with Yngwie Malmsteen-esque melodic shred guitar solos and a vocal hook that recalls the '80s pop-prog of Asia and GTR, while "Far from Home" is a straight-up power ballad, complete with dramatic strings and a soaring chorus that could sit on a compilation album right alongside any big lighter-waver, from Staind's "It's Been Awhile" to Poison's "Every Rose Has Its Thorn."

Customer Reviews

what a trip

thats funny, i just heard the song on criminal minds too. I thought it was 5FDP but had to make sure. What a trip

both awesome albums

Its a Kickass album and all but i think way of the fist is better , oh and i wish it had succubus on it , but otherwise its awesome. if you like the heavier songs on this album listen to the way of the fist, i recomend "the Bleeding" , "the way of the fist" , "never enough" , "Stranger than fiction" , "devils Own" . those are my fav's

Great Song

Love the song also first heard on Criminal Minds

Biography

Formed: Los Angeles, CA

Genre: Rock

Years Active: '00s, '10s

Los Angeles-based thrash outfit Five Finger Death Punch formed in 2005 around the talents of former U.P.O. guitar player Zoltan Bathory, former W.A.S.P. guitarist Darrell Roberts, vocalist Ivan Moody (Motograter/Ghost Machine), bass player Matt Snell (Anubis Rising), and former W.A.S.P. drummer Jeremy Spencer. The underground supergroup's volatile but groove-heavy debut, Way of the Fist, was released in 2007, followed by War Is the Answer in 2009. The following year, the bassist Matt Snell parted...
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War Is the Answer, Five Finger Death Punch
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  • $10.99
  • Genres: Rock, Music, Metal
  • Released: Sep 22, 2009

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