FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH: New Audio Interview With DARRELL ROBERTS Available

April 4, 2008

Rock Is Life has posted a brand new audio interview with FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH guitarist Darrell Roberts (ex-W.A.S.P.). Download the MP3 file at this location.

Topics covered in the chat include:

* The surprising success of the FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH debut album
* The theatrical aspect of the band
* How the group name came to be
* How the band was formed
* Sharing the stage with KORN and HELLYEAH
* Upcoming slot on the Rockstar Energy Mayhem Tour
* Singer Ivan Moody's vocal problems
* Is Blackie Lawless of W.A.S.P. truly a pain to work with?
* Life in a METALLICA cover band during the Napster fallout
* New material
* A DVD on the way?

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH will join multi-platinum act DISTURBED on tour starting late April. Along with the DISTURBED dates, there will be several special headlining club shows and radio festivals starting April 18 in Sayreville, NJ.

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH's debut album, "The Way of the Fist", has sold 99,000 copies in the United States since coming out last summer.

FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH canceled all its tour dates through mid-April due to singer Ivan Moody developing calluses on his vocal chords. Doctors advised him to take two months off from singing and work on rehabilitating his voice.

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