Former
W.A.S.P. guitarist
Darrell Roberts has joined
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH, the new band featuring former
MOTOGRATER vocalist
Ivan Moody (
Ghost), ex-
U.P.O. guitarist
Zoltan Bathory, and former
DEADSETT bassist
Matt Snell. "I will continue to write and record my own material, but when I heard
5FDP, I knew I had to be a part of this band,"
Roberts writes in a statement. "They are fucking brutal, extremely talented and the debut CD,
'The Way of the Fist', contains some of the best songs I've heard in a long time! I haven't been this excited to play music in years!!!"
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH's debut album,
"The Way of the Fist", was recorded at
Next Level Studios with
Stevo "Shotgun" Bruno (
PRONG,
MÖTLEY CRÜE) and at
Complex Studios with
Mikey Sarkisyan (
SPINESHANK). Mixing and mastering duties were handled by
Logan Mader (
MACHINE HEAD,
SOULFLY).
Commenting on their musical direction, the band write, "No nu metal, glue metal or anything hybrid or hyphenated. It's TRUE metal... undiluted, raw as metal was always meant to be. In fact for
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH it was important that everyone involved at any stage of this recording was a diehard metalhead."
Check out audio samples at
www.myspace.com/ffdp.