
Raising the preferred middle digit, the quintet- Ivan Moody, Zoltan Bathory, Jeremy Spencer, Jason Hook, and Chris Kael -fuel the beating bloody heart of 21 st century hard rock. Try telling that to Five Finger Death Punch… However, the canned modern millennial response to such a narrative is, “It’s impossible now,” “Kids don’t listen to that”–or the evergreen favorite, “Rock is dead.” It’s a similar storyline shared by everyone from Black Sabbath and Judas Priest to Metallica and Iron Maiden.

A hard rock band sticks to its guns in face of a fickle mainstream market, refuses to compromise its principals for anybody, amasses millions of fans by doing so, and quietly ascends to multiplatinum chart-topping success in every corner of the globe.
