During Five Finger Death Punch’s return to Wembley at the end of January, frontman Ivan Moody declared that the next time we see them, they’ll be headlining Download. Was this arrogance? Madness? Or simply a grasp of his own band’s continuing momentum and inevitable rise to the top? According to the numbers, the Las Vegas sluggers are currently the third biggest hard rock band in the world in terms of total consumption, with only Metallica and AC/DC garnering more combined sales and streams. Let that sink in for a while. They’ve got to this point by picking a game plan and perfecting it. They’re not the heaviest band you’ll ever see. They’re not the most technical, the most experimental or the most creative. But they absolutely excel at being Five Finger Death Punch. That means stormi...
