LONDON, UK (Top40 Charts/ Mercenary Publicity) Five Finger Death Punch has announced they will release the lead single from the first of their forthcoming new studio albums on May 13th 2013 via all digital retailers. The track, "
Lift Me Up" (featuring Rob Halford of Judas Priest), debuted live at the
Revolver Golden Gods Awards Show last week where the band were joined on stage by Judas Priest's Rob Halford . Singer Ivan Moody said "First and foremost, just to work alongside an icon like Rob Halford, THE Metal God, was absolutely surreal. The song itself was originally written about overcoming everyday obstacles and less than perfect situations. Most of us weren't born with a silver spoon in our mouth but if life dealt you all the wrong cards, you still have to play. The song's intent is to inspire; if you play that hand right you might just come out on top anyway"
"
Lift Me Up" (featuring Rob Halford of Judas Priest) will be available online starting May 13 https://bit.ly/10kJNWX
Five Finger Death Punch will release The Wrong Side Of
Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell Volume 1 on July 22, while Volume 2 is scheduled for later this fall. Eleven
Seven will release the albums outside of North America.
Five Finger Death Punch guitarist Zoltan Bathory recently stated "We came off the road after a couple of great years of touring and were really amped up to write the 4th record. Everybody was in the right headspace and the band tighter than ever so it was a perfect storm. We jumped in head first and found ourselves 12-13 songs deep fairly quick but were still coming up with better and better material so we looked at each other and said…. ok why stop there? Let's keep going. Once we passed the 24th song we knew we're going to have to do two albums. We had this massive amount of music that's very dear to us, possibly the best material this band has ever created. At that point there was no way to decide which songs to leave off one album. So we made the decision to release them all."
In June,
Five Finger Death Punch will return to
Europe for a tour of major festivals including a slot on the main stage at Download Festival, Donington Park (June 16th) concluding the run with a performance at the Metal Hammer Golden Gods Ceremony in London.
Upon the band's return to the U.S., they will co-headline the 2013 Rockstar
Energy Drink Mayhem Festival alongside
Rob Zombie kicking off in San Bernadino, CA on June 29. The travelling festival will stage appearances in 26 markets, and the full itinerary can be viewed here: www.fivefingerdeathpunch.com/tour/
Five Finger Death Punch has released three consecutive RIAA gold certified albums through Prospect Park with sales exceeding 500,000 copies. The success of The Way of The Fist (2007), War Is The Answer (2009) and American Capitalist (2011), which debuted at number 3 on the Billboard charts in October 2011, exhibits the band as one of the few in the rock genre to consistently see significant sales both digitally and physically. The band's ten consecutive Top 10 radio hits - including 2012's #1 hit "Coming Down - have spawned cumulative single sales of over 4.2 million. Going back to 2008's "The Bleeding",
Five Finger Death Punch has consistently been one of the most heavily played bands at rock radio.
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