Five Finger Death Punch - And Justice for None Review

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Concise Summary: 

I've never been a huge Five Finger Death Punch fan, but I did buy their "Decade of Destruction album" and I think that the songs on there pretty well exemplify FFDP's best work. And Justice for None (as far as the two songs go that they didn't recycle from Decade of Destruction), however, is a steaming heap of garbage. It takes pretty much everything good about FFDP and throws it out, leaving pointless profanity, cookie-cutter riffs, shallow lyrics, and pathetic songwriting. Featuring lyrics such as "I'm not dead, I'm still alive You don't like it, you can go ahead and die" on Rock Bottom and "You're a fake mother****er, I hate you, mother****er I'll break you, mother****er, you're mine" on Fake, I think that Ivan Moody may have a mental age of 13. The rest of the lyrics on the album are also basically "edgy teen gets angry at the world" type garbage. The songwriting is literally less creative than a lot of pop music and it's just boring to listen to. Overall, not only is And Justice for None probably the worst FFDP album of all time, it may be one of the worst "metal" albums of all time. In fact, it's such a disgrace to everything that makes metal great that I would like to see the album re-branded as hardcore pop. 

My Rating: 2 out of 10


Highlights:
  • Basically none

Lowlights:
  • Pathetic, immature lyrics
  • Pointless profanity
  • Horrendous songwriting
  • General laziness (recycling two songs from the Decade of Destruction album and writing cookie-cutter songs)
  • No flow or point to the album - just a mush of angry, edgy lyrics and repetitive riffs with no story line
  • This album is a collection of radio-hopeful songs, but the only songs getting played on the radio are probably going to be Trouble and Gone Away which were already on the Decade of Destruction album. This album was delayed for a year, and they couldn't write two half decent extra songs to put up instead of re-using Trouble and Gone Away?

Favorite Songs:
  • I would say Trouble, but that's a recycled song to get the minute count up... 

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