Defend the Indefensible: Five Finger Death Punch

I will do no such thing, fuck FFDP!

i find this video and song absolutely hysterical, so they have that going for them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKWdsnGuFUM

ugh

The only person I know IRL that loves this band is a friend from college, who is in the military (I understand they have a huge following there). She inexplicably went from being basically a hippie in college to a Punisher skull/blue line posting military lifer in the last two decades.

I watched a video for their track This Is War, from a month ago, it's kinda fascistic.

I am not watching their new video, however here is what Loudwire had to say about it:

New Five Finger Death Punch Video Depicts Mask-Wearers as CommunistsThe video opens with a Ralph Waldo Emerson quote, "Fiction reveals truth that reality obscures," before launching into the action. The clip, shot in Los Angeles, starts with a Nancy Pelosi-esque political figure praising mask-wearers for being "compliant," even presenting them with a button displaying the Communist sickle emblem. There's also nods to zombies hoarding toilet paper and a work camp for the "People's Republic of America."

But eventually an uprising takes place with people ripping off their masks to head into a violent battle carrying American flags in pursuit of the female leader.

There are plenty of other symbolic nods throughout the video, including "The Great Awakening" flashing during a newscast, which is a reference to QAnon. There are also black-clad figures on leashes that are held by the female leader. They break free to start destroying property, which appears to be a reference to Antifa.

Guitarist Zoltan Bathory, who conceptualized the video, states, "America is a beautiful idea that draws immigrants like myself from all over the world to the promised land of equality, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. This idea is now under siege and certain events are starting to remind me of the things many of us came here to escape."

He adds, "It’s not a 'left against right' problem but an evolutionary problem. The growing pains of a civilization that without the necessary spiritual enlightenment, arrived a bit early to a level of technology where everyone is connected. The good news is that now everyone has a voice. The bad news is that now everyone has a voice."

"So we are living in the manipulators’ paradise, where liars and hypocrites run unscathed, the news are just opinions, politics are a blood sport, and facts are determined by consensus instead of the truth. We as artists, however, have a unique opportunity to portray and ridicule the absurd to prevent it from becoming reality," concludes the guitarist.

"the bad news is that now everyone has a voice"

Relevant:

I know for a fact that a certain terrible nameless band who dropped a video today charged $250 for people to do karaoke with them lmao worry about that first

— halloween town concrete (@heckhammer) October 16, 2020

Makes me really happy that this band is so beloved by the military.

I was momentarily sad to discover that their new guitarist was in the rather godlike Fields of Nephilim but I checked and he was only in the band for a few years recently and didn't appear on any of their albums.

"we can't help but notice you can only play D5 chords - out you go"