FiveFingerDeathPunch

Throwdown's Dave Peters called at 6:30 PM on the button to talk to me about his band's upcoming tour with Five Finger Death Punch and Shadows Fall, which begins Jan. 21. He wasn't even a minute late, despite dealing with the crisis of a broken down bus with a wheel that caught on fire...

Later this month, Metal Hammer will be releasing a very special compilation that pays homage to the late and legendary Dimebag Darrell. One of the founding members of Pantera, his death in 2004 is considered a major tragedy in the metal world, much like his life's work is a major influence on metal's evolution over the last 20 years...

When Dave Witte isn't rocking the drums with Municipal Waste, he's got a surfeit of other projects going on. But sadly, his activities with harrowing noise band Burnt by the Sun seem to be coming to an end. Hours after joining us on ''Creep Show,' Witte headed into band rehearsal for the only scheduled U...

Talk about your slow news mornings...today takes the cake. After what's been a rather hectic week, which started out with Five Finger Death Punch misplaced their guitarist and was seemingly capped last night with Chiodos booting their frontman, things are slowing down a bit this morning...

In their music, Orange County, Calif. band Atreyu combine crushing riffs and harrowing howls with infectious hooks and sugar-sweet vocal melodies, conveying a wide range of emotional expression from pensive to furious. In conversation they're pretty much the same -- just without all the screaming...

Call off the search hounds! Five Finger Death Punch have found their guitarist Zoltan Bathory. On Sept. 21, Noisecreep reported that the Las Vegas-by-way-of-Los Angeles metallers Five Finger Death Punch had contacted authorities in Vegas about Bathory, and that they had reported him missing...

These days, bands will do just about anything to promote their new albums. Viral campaigns, intricate online treasure hunts, fake websites, fabricated stories ... the list goes on and on. That's why, when we woke up this morning, a story about Five Finger Death Punch gave us pause...

A cemetery? Tombstones? Dudes in fedoras and capes? Open graves? Guys with epic beards and dreads, rocking out like true badasses? Why it must be a metal video, right? Well, it's Five Finger Death Punch's new clip for 'Hard to See,' the lead single of the band's forthcoming LP, 'War is the Answer,' which bombards record stores Sept...

On Friday, we were in Camden, N.J., all afternoon, for the Rockstar Mayhem tour. But being members of the illustrious fourth estate, we spent much of our time backstage. While you were out there watching the bands slay, or perusing glass pipes and T-shirts with cuss words emblazoned across 'em, the real action was happening behind the scenes...

The one thing that sucks about being in Five Finger Death Punch is you don't get much sleep. See, on tour, the band's wild frontman Ivan "Ghost" Moody ensures no one catches any Zs, thanks to his inconvenient sleep schedule. "He lives in an alternate universe somehow," explains guitarist Zoltan Bathory...