Five Finger Death Punch - American Capitalist

Published January 03 2012

*=Staff's pick	American Capitalist* Under And Over It* The Pride Coming Down Menace* Generation Dead Back For More* Remember Everything Wicked Ways If I Fall 100 Ways To Hate

Genre	Heavy Metal	Ivan Moody	Vocals
Tracks	11	Zoltan Bathory	Guitar
Running time	40 Min.	Jason Hook	Guitar
Label	Spinefarm	Chris Kael	Bass
Release	11 October 2011	Jeremy Spencer	Drums
Country	USA	-	Keyboard
Producer	Kevin Churko/FFDP
Similar artists	---

The third release from Los Angeles' Five Finger Death Punch. Since the release of the single Under And Over It last July, they get plenty of playing time on rock and metal radiostations. With their catchy choruses they reach the non-metal listener and also pleases metal fans.

American Capitalist follows a kind of strict pattern throughout the album. An aggressive vocalist in the verses, clean harmonic sung choruses who ends with the title being sung aggressively. Distorted guitars, double bass drums, but except from the drums most of the songs are played in mid-tempo, just produced harder and heavier. The structure of the songs are 3 heavy - 1 ballad - 3 heavy - 1 ballad - 3 heavy, which is not sheer coincidence and a brilliant move to keep the diversity and to give the listeners a couple of minutes of rest occasionally.

Two ballads on the album obviously. Coming Down is more of a semi-ballad actually and is a nice little piece of work, while Remember Everything has a good verse, but a soapy American rock chorus, which makes me feel like I'm eating a lemon. The other nine songs are all good to great with a steady flow and most of them sounds like described above.

This is indeed a very good album, even if most songs are similar to the next one. With only forty minutes of playing time, it's easy to put in on repeat and I'm glad that every album is not eighty minutes long, just because there are some space left on a compact disc. This band has only started their journey for stardom and I'm sure they will gain even more popularity the coming years.

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
7	6	8	8	8

Summary
8 chalices of 10 - Tobbe