When Five Finger Death Punch Met Rob Halford | Louder - video Dailymotion

We were there when Five Finger Death Punch played 'Lift Me Up' live in Birmingham with Rob Halford.

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00:00Hey guys this is Zoltan Batry from Five Finger Death Punch and we are in Birmingham.

00:30This is Birmingham, this is the cradle of heavy metal, so you know, this is kind of

00:44like a, you're going to know where you're at if they're throwing piss at you in a bottle,

00:50then you know that it's not happening.

00:52It was awesome and you know, that was basically the idea, we wanted to do a surprise for Rob

00:58Hofford, he's from Birmingham, so we figured this is going to be a proper surprise, this

01:02is a lot shown this European tour and I think this is the best way to finish it, you know.

01:09Nobody knew, even our booking agent or management, nobody knew that we asked Rob if we would

01:15come down and again, he's in Birmingham, this is his hometown, so nobody knew, it was a

01:21complete surprise.

01:22The song that we did together went number one in the States, so it's a crown jewel of

01:28the whole thing.

01:46We knew that Rob was a fan of the band because he did an interview on television and we heard

01:52him saying that one of his favorite bands from the new crop is Five Finger Death Punch,

01:57so as we were recording this last album, there was a tune, basically the song that he ended

02:03up singing on, but we were talking about it in the studio and said, hey, this kind of

02:07has a little bit of that old school, metal, 80s vibe, a little bit Ozzy, a little bit

02:13Judas Priest maybe and we just had this wild idea, like hey, do you think if we would reach

02:18out, would he sing on this, and it's a long shot, he's a metal god, I'm pretty sure he's

02:25busy striking down the non-believers in somewhere, you know what I mean, throwing lightning and

02:29you know, whatever metal gods do, and our manager reached out and he actually listened

02:36to the song and he was like, oh my God, I love this song, I want to be involved and

02:39he flew into Las Vegas where we were recording, so actually he recorded this song right in

02:43front of us, so we were in the studio and he's singing in a booth, so I'm like, if I

02:46get striked down by lightning right now, I'm good, I did something good in life, you know,

02:53and it was pretty amazing, he was hanging out with us for a couple of days, the tour

02:59stories and what not he has, I mean, imagine, he's been doing it since the 70s, so...

03:04We are here like the third time this year, you know, and we keep coming back and pretty

03:26much 2014 we're gonna probably do about 2-3 tours here, it's in the works, so it is going

03:32to happen, you can pretty much say it's a fact, unless, you know, there is some situation

03:37going on in Kiev, so unless we never make it out of there, you know, there's gonna be

03:42a Europe tour in March.