“Our producer worked with Ozzy Osbourne, so I said, ‘What if Ozzy sang on this song?’ But then I said, ‘How about Rob Halford? The Metal God!’ They all went, ‘Nah, that’s a crazy dream’”: When the Judas Priest legend teamed up with Five Finger Death Punch

Ivan Moody and Rob Halford.

By 2012, Five Finger Death Punch had already become established as one of the biggest metal bands in America – but as guitarist Zoltan Bathory recalls to MusicRadar, they were still blown away when one of their heroes agreed to record a track with them.

The band’s rise had been rapid. Their debut album The Way Of The Fist topped out at No 107 on the Billboard 200, but in 2009 the follow-up War Is The Answer shot to No 7, and in 2011 their third album American Capitalist climbed all the way to No 3.