But if we bring in some electronics, we’re not going to make it sound nicer and poppier It’ll be more like, ‘How do we use electronics to make the music even heavier?’ So there’s two possible directions we’re talking about, but everybody’s mindset is into, ‘Let’s make something more robust’ and figuring out what that’s going to be.Loudwire came up with the 40 Best Cover Songs by Rock Bands. “But we’re talking about maybe bringing in elements, bringing in sounds that are sort of new and unusual, so kind of making it an experimental album. “We have various ideas, song and bits and pieces around,” the guitarist says. New material is in motion, according to Bathory, who predicts it will blend the dark, heavy attack of FFDP’s early albums with some more contemporary touches. Behind-the-scenes footage from the making of the music video for FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCHs cover of 'Blue On Black', a blues rock song originally recorded by the KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD BAND in 1998, can be seen below.
dates, but the group isn’t entirely resting. The Pulse of Radio reports that FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH needed a song to fill out their live set back when they were headlining with just one album, so the band decided to cover the BAD COMPANY classic 'Bad Company'.But the tune became so popular with fans that the group finally decided to record it for its sophomore effort, 'War Is The Answer'. So with different artists from different genres we can also bring a unified awareness to this cause.”įFDP - including new drummer Charlie Engen, after an amicable split with Jeremy Spencer - is currently off the road until a short July run of U.S. These fire fighters and soldiers and first responders are out there risking theirs. “It’s a pretty heavy video we’re trying to portray their life,” Bathory says. The charity element of the single, meanwhile, is part of FFDP’s long-standing commitment to military and first responders, who are also saluted in the accompanying video. “There are songs you hear and go, ‘Oh, that’s a hit,’ and there are the sneaky ones, and this is one of the sneaky ones.”
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“The song is not typical It’s a kind of song that crawls under your skin and get stuck in your head,” Bathory says.
That it can still be a massive force to be reckoned with 20 years later is exactly what you want as a songwriter.”īathory says FFDP originally chose to record “Blue on Black” at the behest of frontman Ivan Moody, as one of his go-to karaoke songs. “My goal as a writer is to write songs that stand the test of time and have many different lives,” he explains. Shepherd, meanwhile, is flattered to have yet another rendition of “Blue on Black” in the world. The new version - whose proceeds go to the Gary Sinise Foundation benefitting first responders - came together when Chris Nilsson (10th Street Management, part of the management team for FFDP) brought in Gilbert through his relationship with Scott Borchetta Dan Waite (Eleven Seven Music, European managing director) brought in May and Jackie Kajzer & Konstanze Louden (10th Street Management, part of the management team for FFDP) brought Shepherd on board.”When (May’s) solo came in everyone just stopped and went, ‘That’s Brian May!'” Bathory says. Listen to both songs on WhoSampled, the ultimate database of sampled music, cover songs and remixes. FFDP had initially recorded Shepherd’s 1998 hit for its most recent album, last year’s And Justice For None. 'House of the Rising Sun' by Five Finger Death Punch is a cover of The Animalss 'House of the Rising Sun'.
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