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FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH – LEGACY – ALBUM REVIEW
For all of us the question of legacy will arise at some point. What am I leaving behind? How will my time on this planet be remembered? What did I achieve? For big bands and artists living their lives in the public eye, these questions burn even heavier.
Over two decades, Five Finger Death Punch have done a lot. They’ve become one of the biggest metal bands on this planet we all live on. They have played big shows, huge festival slots, had massive success across their nine albums and have done things 99.9% of bands only wish they could’ve achieved.
The band have also attracted their fair share of naysayers and haters however and have suffered with demons that 99.9% of bands are glad to avoid. As they celebrate their 20th anniversary and release their aptly titled tenth album, ‘Legacy’, many will naturally ponder those original questions in relation to this band.
A band seemingly destined to headline major festivals but one that still has not. A band who has created music cherished by many and despised by just as many. Their legacy may therefore be one of divisiveness.
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Funny then that this new album is clearly going to do the same thing – create mixed feelings. Lovers of the band will herald this as everything that makes the band their favourite. Those that hate the band will equally point to the tired metal tropes that make them so polarising.
There is no originality on this record. If you asked AI to create a new Five Finger Death Punch album, this wouldn’t be far off. Still for a tenth album, and looking back at their career this is probably exactly what their diehard fans will want to hear, so how can you call this anything but a success?
And there lies the essence of the problem. The band have made themselves into something that can never be universally loved. Division is part of their musical identity. The album offers nothing new, but it doesn’t pretend to be anything other than what it is. It’s modern metal at it’s biggest, but it’s modern metal at its most overdone. For every positive, there is a negative.
That’s all a long way of explaining that this is as predicted a true marmite album. Love the band and you’ll love this album. Hate the band and this is more fuel for your fire. Trying to be unbiased we keep coming back to the overarching word – generic. That pretty much sums it up.
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