It has been an eventful week for Five Finger Death Punch and their fans. Singer Ivan Moody made a surprise announcement at the band’s show in Denver that he planned to do one more record with the band and then retire.
“I wanted to tell you this,” Moody told the audience in Colorado. “And nobody else in the world knows, Denver, so this is where it’s going to start. And what you do with it is up to you. The last 15 years of my life I have toured the world, I have seen every country, every city on this planet at least twice. That’s a fact.”
He continued: “And through that time as many of you parents know … I have missed a lot of time with my kiddos. So I made them a deal today, and I’m going to stick to it. After this year, I am going to make one more Five Finger Death Punch album and then I am retiring from heavy metal.”
The band’s next show in West Valley City, Utah only got eight songs in before the show had to be scrapped. According to guitarist Zoltan Bathory, a drunk driver hit a transformer in the vicinity of the gig knocking out power.
“Salt Lake City started out as an incredible show with 20,000 fan,” he wrote on Twitter. “This was going off when a drunk driver hit a transformer down the road and knocked out the power for the whole area one more reason to not drink and drive… you screwed up 20,000 people’s day”
Five Finger Death Punch hasn’t formally commented yet on Moody’s decision to step away from the group after one more album. The band is set to tour with Megadeth throughout American starting in November.
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