Track Listing

1. Dying Breed
2. Hard To See
3. Bulletproof
4. No One Gets Left Behind
5. Crossing Over
6. Burn It Down
7. Far From Home
8. Falling In Hate
9. My Own Hell
10. Walk Away
11. Canto
12. Bad Company
13. War Is The Answer

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3239 in Music
• Released on: 2009-09-21
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Explicit Lyrics
• Dimensions: .23 pounds

CD Description
Five Finger Death Punch stormed US rock radio in 2007 with 'The Bleeding' (from debut album 'The Way of the Fist'), a powerful, emotionally tense track that matched vintage Metallica-style thrash with a throat-shredding chorus more typicalof late-aughts metalcore. The Los Angeles-based band's second album, 'War Is the Answer', mines much of the same territory as that breakout song, keeping the flame of the classic '80s Four Horsemen sound alive with snap-tight chugga-chuggaguitar rhythms, minor-key, classical music-inspired clean/acoustic passages, and vocals dripping with a James Hetfield-approved combination of sensitive angst and macho defiance. The first single 'Hard To See' is also featured.

Customer Reviews

Growing Old Disgracefully
An old Wolf should know better I hear you say
and you are very probably right in every respect.

This album came home from school today with Scatty
and Gritz (the cubs). They're going through a
somewhat edgy early-adolescent phase at the moment.
You know how it is...a bit intense, a tad garrulous
and given to a highly evolved and continually
changing dress sense. It's hard for parents to keep
up sometimes however young in spirit we try to be !

Five Finger Death Punch are a new band to me.
The name troubled me more than a little but having
listened to their new album 'War Is The Answer' I
have reassured myself that it is very likely that they
all have Mothers to whom they show love and kindness.

Despite the intense deluge of sound they create it is also
abundantly evident that they possess musical intelligence
and an ear for a good tune. A good kind of dark energy.

Singer Ian Moody comes on (full on !) like the Devil incarnate.
His roaring performance of 'Falling In Hate' made flakes of
paint flutter down from the ceiling in Mrs Wolf's kitchen
(she was not very impressed).
S & G, however, stormed and stomped around the Cave playing
air-guitar with wild abandon ( a desired effect I assume).

Mr Hook (guitar), Mr Bathory (guitar), Mr Snell (bass) and
Mr Spencer (drums), whip up a real storm of sound around their
leader but it is never less than well-judged and technically
proficient. Listen to the beautifully structured guitar solo on
'Walk Away' for clear evidence of their musicality.

Compositional structure is both satisfyingly complex ('Canto 34')
and rhythmically sound ('Dying Breed' and 'Bulletproof').

They can even manage a more than decent power-ballad, 'Crossing Over'.

I have been persuaded of their worth by my offspring's enthusiasm.

Sometimes even an Old Wolf can learn new tricks.

Recommended.

Another old Wolf!!
read the review below also!!
I read it 3 hours ago and downloaded this album solely on the words from the old wolf!
He was not joking!
This album has everything, believe me.
I grew up on Exodus, Slayer, Metallica and Anthrax.
This album makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, just like they did the first time i heard 'bonded by blood' by Exodus (When i was one of the pupps(18)).
Im now 40 and this has Echo's of Slipknot and Stone sour in places but does not need to be compared to them as it stands on its own!
As said below 'crossing over' is haunting in its darkness but i prefer the mayhem that is 'War is the Answer' with its Testament overtones!
Believe what you read, I have been Metal for 28years and I know must stuff.
Im now on my third listen in 3 1/2 Hours!!!!
Why are you still here? Go buy it!!!

Contender for Album of the Year
I don't need to write an in-depth review on this album - look at the other reviews and see why. This is a better album than their debut - which was exceptional. It sounds technically better, and vocally it is one of the best albums I have heard for a long time - Ivan Moody is sublime on this album, using far more clean vocals than he did on the debut, but even the 'gruff' vocals are excellent, and you can understand what he is saying without looking at the lyric booklet!

Stand out songs? You decide! Every one is brlliant, but my favorites are 'Hard to See', 'No One Gets Left Behind' (listen to the lyrics - total dig at government), 'Far From Home', and the stand out track (for me) 'Walk Away'.

With a bit of commercial radio airplay, this band could be huge - I am talking Linkin Park success here. It's just a shame the UK public seem to be obsessed with listening to awful reality stars.

A highly recommended album, and a strong contender for album of the year - but some stiff competition against Megadeth's 'Endgame' and Alice in Chains' 'Black Give Way to Blue', but this does tell you how good this album really is. 5/5