I could write so much about this inflamed testicle of a band, but what can I say that Metalsucks didn’t write already.

Make up your own mind (well, if you’re a 14 year old, you may struggle with this a little, so let me help you: don’t risk listening to this and the propensity for self loathing and self harm that it will lead to. Also, this isn’t a ‘gateway band’ for other ‘metal’, it’s a pointless diversion. If you’re trying to offend your parents try Archgoat or Pig Destroyer instead which would be far more effective and take up smoking weed in your bedroom. )

Cringeworthy

A bunch of never-had-beens (two from some irrelevant incarnation of the mighty W.A.S.P) formed a band and thought it appropriate to call themselves Five Finger Death Punch – clearly a name chosen from Cringeworthy Band Names For Dummies. The founder member is a bloke named Zoltan Bathory which is obviously not his real name, and if he thinks that using the word ‘bathory‘ will endear him to the snobbish Black Metal fraternity then he’s got another thing coming.

Having heard some Nu-Metal in the 90′s they have set about pretending they hadn’t and have re-created Nu-Metal, which didn’t need doing. There’s some Nu-Goth influence here, and guitar solos (how very modern!) but mainly just posturing, pop-metal nonsense.

Over produced, over styled, over the hill.

http://www.last.fm/music/Five+Finger+Death+Punch/_/The+Bleeding