It’s incredibly boring and at this point carries no emotional weight whatsoever. “Darkness Settles In” just follows the same footsteps as the ballads on their other albums. There also these weird moments where they seem to be ripping off Slipknot’s live breakdowns, especially at the end of “Bottom of the Top.” Then the mandatory ballads come into play as they do on every album. “To Be Alone” features a chorus that is too similar to their hit “Coming Down” from American Capitalist. “Living the Dream” just gives the album another song to fill time nothing is memorable about it. “Inside Out” contains the same angry, loner-y lyrics that singer Ivan Moody writes all the time, with screamed verses and a big hook like all their big singles.
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There are a few songs that are heavier than the others, but they still don’ t stray away from the Five Finger Formula. There isn’t much to talk about on this album because there is nothing new, fresh, or interesting that it does. Instead, they made the same album for the eighth time. Unfortunately, on F8, they don’t do anything to change this formula. Also, good on them for getting so big that they can write the same album every two years and still remain relevant. Now don’t get me wrong every album has had a song or two that I find pretty good.
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Has atrocious, cringy lyrics that feature the same topics as the last album.Has a big ballad or two (including at least one crowd-pleasing, patriotic ballad).Before I get into the album, allow me to explain the Five Finger Formula. They found a formula, a never-changing recipe I like to call the Five Finger Formula. Got Your Six buried them deeper in the hole of not trying anything new, and And Justice for None further cemented them as one of the most boring bands in modern metal. After American Capitalist, their two-part Wrong Side of Heaven albums were an embarrassment and did nothing to differentiate from other artists and themselves. Unfortunately, with their third release American Capitalist, they start pandering to a specific audience, and started to fall into a repetition that continues with their eighth record F8.įrom American Capitalist to now, all their albums have followed the same flow, featured the same cringy lyrics, had the same guitar solos, and contained an overproduced metal sound with questionable musical choices. With the help of “Hard to See,” “Walk Away,” and their cover of “Bad Company,” the band was on every metal and hard rock radio station. Their next album, War is the Answer took those features to new heights. Songs like “The Bleeding,” “Ashes,” “Salvation,” and “Can’t Heal You” feature brutal screams, killer riffs, and fast tempos that still manage to fit in melodic choruses. The Way of the Fist is their first record that brought them some fame. Every time I see Five Finger Death Punch (FFDP) release something new, I remember a time when I enjoyed their music: I was a middle school teenager with pent-up rage and had three FFDP albums that channeled it.