Five Finger Death Punch vocalist Ivan Moody has fronted the group since their 2007 debut. Prior to that, he also fronted Motograter and Ghost Machine.
At FFDP’s Oct. 14 show in Denver, Colorado, Moody shockingly told the crowd that he plans to do one more record with the band and then call it a career.
“I wanted to tell you this,” Moody said. “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. 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.”
“But I wanted to start that here and tell all of you, from day one when I decided to be a singer playing places like … the Bluebird Theater, the Ogden, and we were supposed to play Red Rocks, we’ll have to do that one more time. Can I play Red Rocks one more time? … I owe you everything, Colorado, Five Finger Death Punch and every knucklehead on this planet, thank you.”
Earlier this year, Moody told Metal Hammer that he was p*ssed off about the band’s 2020 video for “Living The Dream.” The clip featured a good deal of anti-mask sentiment, which was a hot button topic at the time. Moody said the video was the brainchild of guitarist Zoltan Bathory and that as the face of the band, he wasn’t pleased with having to answer questions about its message. “I showed up for two days and Zo told me to run across the grass, screaming and holding the American flag, so I was curious to see it,” Moody said.
“Then when he released it, I called him, like, ‘You implemented your own platform into Five Finger Death Punch, and now I’m gonna have to answer for it, because I’m the singer.’ And it ended up going down like a fart in church!”
“There was the mask thing and the awkwardness of the whole thing. That’s what he visualized, but it’s not what I had in mind when I wrote it. For those who understood it, great. And for those who didn’t, I’m sorry, I didn’t agree with it either. I love Zoltan to death, that’s his opinion, but it won’t ever be done with my name on it again.”
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