Five Finger Death Punch are back with ‘Eye Of The Storm’, the first new song from their upcoming tenth studio album, and it hits hard with the weight of a band looking both backwards and forwards at the same time. Twenty years after their inception in Las Vegas, 5FDP aren’t easing into legacy mode just yet.

Timing is everything. The news follows the recent Best Of releases, where the band re-recorded their biggest songs after they were sold without the band’s knowledge. When Ivan Moody belts out, “Oh Father, please forgive us ’cause we know just what we’ve done,”  it doesn’t feel like an offhand comment, but more like a direct statement.

The Calm Inside The Collapse

Founder & Guitarist, Zoltan Bathory states;

The new music has been turning out heavier than anything we’ve done in years, with a cinematic undertone running beneath it. We had three years to write this record and really live with it. We started with nearly 30 songs and carved it down to 14 or 15, we even considered a double album at one point. This is our 10th studio album and our 20th anniversary as a band, we knew we had to hit it hard.

What excites me most is that I’m hearing the early era again, that grit, that bite, that aggression, while simultaneously exploring completely new territories. I wrote the music for the entire first album and most of the second, so that energy isn’t nostalgia for me, it’s where I come from. Those are my roots.

It feels like coming home at full speed, while my brother Ivan is bringing some incredible lyrics and melodies, and his voice sounds absolutely huge on this record. I am really looking forward to the next decade.

The band has always written for fans who feel pushed, cornered, betrayed or misunderstood, but here the enemy isn’t just outside the door, it’s also looking back at you… “Look straight in the mirror / And tell me what it is you fear” turns the song from a battlefield anthem to something more like a self-interrogation.

And beneath the imagery, there’s something more personal going on, as the song keeps shifting blame outward, then dragging it back towards the mirror.

Five Finger Death Punch – Eye Of The Storm Lyrics In Full

The Storm Was Always Within

So the meaning behind Five Finger Death Punch’s ‘Eye Of The Storm’ is about being in the middle of chaos and realising the storm isn’t just around you, it’s also happening inside you.

Whilst musically this very much sounds like 5FDP, it’s not your average song in the sense that it’s a statement of intent from a band now entering its 20th anniversary with old fire, new scars and a desire to prove the next chapter can still hit as hard as the first.

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