“At first people thought, ‘Knucklehead Americans!’ and now they’re starting to figure it out”: How Five Finger Death Punch silenced the haters with The Wrong Side Of Heaven Volumes 1 and 2

Five Finger Death Punch posing for a photograph in 2013.

Five Finger Death Punch guitarist Zoltan Bathory may have been born in Eastern Europe, but his band are an American success story. In 2013, between the two volumes of that year’s The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell albums, we met up with Zoltan and singer Ivan Moody in their HQ to talk war, alcoholism and controversy.