"Jekyll & Hyde," on the other hand, is a perfect example of a song that sounds pretty groovy and yet the lyrics are just quite cheesy ("I just wanna be Jekyll but I'm always fighting Hyde").Įssentially, what songs like that come down to is if you're willing to put the lyrics behind you and just enjoy the music. The opening title track beings with "Charge!" and then it just goes from there in a pretty poor attempt to be a war-cry song. As hard as it is to believe, Got Your Six may actually be a new low for them. On a lyrical level, FFDP's lyrics have never been particularly good. But man, does the music sound good (most of the time). Both of them being egotistical punks who have a serious problem with writing uninspired lyrics-often about how they think they're all that and they'll blow anyone's brains out who says otherwise. But what makes them both infamous in the eyes of many? Their vocalists.
On a musical level, they're actually quite talented (even if unoriginal) and both have strong guitarists and FFDP has a good drummer as well.
On a musical level, however, it continues to deliver for the most part.įive Finger Death Punch can almost be considered as another Limp Bizkit in a couple of senses. I have no doubt that Five Finger Death Punch diehards will enjoy this album, but the risk for the band to sell its soul is now not so unimaginable.Review Summary: Lyrically, it may actually be their worst yet (and that's saying a lot). If you managed to figure out how that album would sound, then you already know what to expect from The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell - Volume 1. They decide to turn to a more radio friendly sound and to water down the good songs with a sea of fillers, just to record two albums instead of one, just to please their friends and to make a buck. And so, all the brutality and rebellion which the band once displayed, suddenly disappears. One of the band members also asks his 14 years old emo brother to write down the lyrics for the album, but they turn out so childish and uselessly vulgar that using them is almost impossible.Īlright, some friends of theirs are asking about news of the album, promising that they would pay to have it. But in the end the result is so below the usual standards of the band they admire that the album turns out sounding like a parody of the original band. The guitarist writes down a couple of good solos, some songs are actually enjoyable and they ask some friends of theirs to help them diversifying the album.
"What about if we make a bunch of songs using their style?"Īnd so they did since they are somewhat talented. To better understand what happened, let's make a brief example. The problem is not that this album lacks the features that have made Five Finger Death Punch famous, on the contrary, these are shamelessly exaggerated and distorted. The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell - Volume 1 continues in that way or, at least, tries to do that.
Their first three albums, until American Capitalist, were seriously fun to listen too, enriched by some features that had become their trademarks: easy but effective riffing, traditional hard rock song structure, non-exactly Shakespearian lyrics and Moody's iconic mix of clean and harsh vocals. The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell - Volume 1Ġ7.
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