Five Finger Death Punch recently announced a tour starting in August that will feature Marilyn Manson as support. Guitarist Zoltan Bathory said Manson has been “sober and clean” for some time. “At one point he was one of the most iconic artists on planet earth,” Bathory said. “So he’s back on stage, back in the saddle. That’s gonna be amazing.”
In a new interview with June Archer via YouTube, Bathory explained how Five Finger Death Punch got their name. “Basically, I’m a martial artist since I was a little kid,” he said. “So all the Bruce Lee movies and all the martial arts movies were my favorites. I loved underground Hong Kong cinema, those old, old movies. And there was a movie of ‘Five Fingers Of Death’, so that was a a classic. And then when ‘Kill Bill’ came out, they had this five-finger exploding heart, whatever, technique. And so we were sitting in movie theater, I’m, like, ‘Man, that sounds so stupid, that should be a band name.’ And then pretty much here we go today. And, basically, we shortened this, because five-finger exploding lotus technique wouldn’t be a good-sounding name. So I ended up picking Five Finger Death Punch. It’s sort of like an ode to kung fu and martial arts and this old-school Hong Kong martial arts cinema, basically.”
He continued: “The world is really, really noisy — a lot of information coming at you — so you have to have a band name that both makes sense with who you are, so the look, the message, whatever you’re saying fits this, and also it has to stick out somewhat. It has to make you feel some kind of a way.”
Bathory’s full interview can be viewed below.
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