Five Finger Death Punch Live Stream For "Military Guys"

Five Finger Death Punch: Rockin' for the Troops
Yahoo Music
By Craig Rosen
13 hours ago

On Saturday, Oct. 11 at 6:35 p.m. PT/9:35 p.m. ET, Yahoo Live will live stream Five Finger Death Punch's show from the Arena at Gwinnett Center in Duluth, GA. Tune in HERE to watch!
For most, Veterans Day comes once a year. But for hard-rockers Five Finger Death Punch, concern for our troops and veterans is part of everyday life.

"Basically, with the band from the very beginning — I'm talking about before we even had a record deal — it just so happened that a lot of our fans were military guys," explains Five Finger Death Punch guitarist Zoltan Bathory. "We've always have had songs that have had military themes.

It's just something that's close to us. It's a special kind of person who signs up and does what these guys do, and we have a fight-for-yourself and stand-up-for-yourself attitude, because none of us was born with a silver spoon in our mouths. We have to fight for everything we have, so our lyrics our similar to their mindset. They can't run away. They have to do their job, so we're kindred spirits, so to speak."

With that sort of connection, it was only natural for the band — which also includes singer Ivan "Ghost" Moody, drummer Jeremy Spencer, and relatively new recruits guitarist Jason Hook and bassist Chris Kael — to begin playing gigs for the troops at military bases around the world, including Iraq. During those visits, the band began to form a special relationship with their brothers in arms. "It became a symbiosis," Bathory explains. "These guys are our fans and became sort of our families. We heard their stories and saw what was happening to them. And once we heard these stories, we started to research PTSD [Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder] and found out how common it is and how serious it is. There's staggering numbers and statistics. We figured the best way to deal with this is to help raise awareness."
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