Five Finger Death Punch ‘War Is The Answer’ Track-By-Track Preview

Your first look at the new album from the mighty Five Finger Death Punch!

Five Finger Death Punch’s new album ‘War Is The Answer’ is due for release on 21st September on Spinefarm/Universal and was produced by Kevin Churko and mixed by Randy Staub.The band also released details of a tour with Shadows Fall for later on in the year and you can get details and tickets here!

Here’s our track-by-track guide to what you can expect from FFDP!

Dying Breed – Wasting no time in getting things underway with a track that flies out of the traps in an avalanche of savage riffs and vocal delivery. It recalls Slipknot’s ‘The Heretic Anthem’ in the verses before Ivan Moody pulls out one of the many mountainous choruses that dominate ‘War Is The Answer’. Light the ticker-tape, watch it go.

Hard to See – Double-kick drums pound away behind a stirring lead-guitar line and a hell of a vocal-line on the verse. The album’s first single, you can check it out here and make up your own mind. We think it rocks like a motherfucker!

Bulletproof – Hurtling along like a steam-train, it’s another chugging slab of a track. It’s got to be said, FFDP have nailed a style that combines nu-metal aggression, a colossal guitar sound and classic hard-rock song structures. There really is something for everyone here and ‘Bulletproof’ is a grade-a example of this.

No One Gets Left Behind – A hell of a lead chugging riff and call-and-answer start to the track. Ivan’s vocals reach a personal best in the chorus. “Have you no back-bone, have you no spine?”, he sings with melody and menace in equal measure.

Crossing Over – Crossing Over is a ballad with balls that has soul but without entering wussy, sell-out territory. It also contains a solo that absolutely wails. Again, it’s the mix of saliva-snarling venom and pitch-perfect melody from vocalist Moody that really brings Crossing Over home.

Burn It Down – Already available online, ‘Burn It Down’s eastern-inspired riffing mixed with palm-muted brutality and some serious aggression levels. “You think you know me? You don’t know shit!”! Now, THAT’S a way to open a track!

Far From Home – This song has the potential to be huge. Like, SUPER huge! An acoustic intro, strings, subtle distorted power-chords before unleashing a chorus that could fill stadiums. The lead guitars and the rhythm section behind them is really something else. If this isn’t ‘a US smash-hit’ then we’ll eat our hat if you provide the condiments.

Falling In Hate – A driving, mid-tempo riff that reminds of Metallica’s ‘Load’-era. There’s none of the singing that’s all over the album on this track, it’s just a snarling beast of a track. The mid-song beatdown is a volcanic explosion of heaviness.

My Own Hell – FFDP are providing some serious choruses this time out. My Own Hell is a first-class example of just how much this band have improved. The band haven’t rewritten their blue-print, they’ve just improved on everything and the chorus hook of “I’m a prisoner of My Own hell!” is perfect for this anthem-in-waiting.

Walk Away – Shades of Tool here on this ballad. Again, this one could become a huge hit for the band with the slow-burning guitars and immense vocals combining to provide maximum impact. The building and pacing of the track is fantastic.

Canto 34 – A great instrumental that’s packed with disjointed low-end riffs and those epic, wailing lead guitars. It’s great to hear a new band come through with guitarists that can shred it with the best of them and the rhythm-track remains interesting throughout. A beautiful mid-section with subtle synths is an eye-opening surprise too.

Bad Company – A cover of the classic Bad Company song. To take on a Paul Rodgers vocal and knock it out of the park deserves massive respect and the song is reinvented as a road-worn, Metallica-esque rocker.

War Is The Answer – Going out with a bang, the album’s title-track recalls Pantera and Slipknot in equal measures. We’re talking ‘Eyeless’ territory here. It’s a nasty, bruising thrasher of a track. “I’ll slap you so hard you’ll feel like you kissed a fucking freight-train,” spits Ivan half-way through the record. Boom, motherfucker!

If you liked ‘The Way Of The Fist’, you are going to love the shit out of ‘War Is The Answer’. If you’re yet to get acquainted with FFDP, it’s best you do so now because this band is going to blow-up. Believe it.