NewsMay 2, 2015 1:45 PM ET32,002 views

Five Finger Death Punch breaks up on stage?

Speculation is rampant that Five Finger Death Punch dissolved mid-show last night at the Beale Street Music Festival in Memphis, TN. A slew of confusing video clips have surfaced online showing the band stopping their set after roughly six songs and walking off stage. Only vocalist Ivan Moody remained, awkwardly talking to fans. Here's an account from one fan, which was published via thenewfury.com:
"Ivan held up Jeremy's book and asked the fans if they had this FFDP book. Then, still mic'd seemingly unknowingly, said "That I had nothing to do with", directed at Jeremy. Jeremy then threw his sticks and walked off stage, and the band shortly followed. Ivan talked for a minute, threw his mic, and marched off. A few minutes later, Ivan came back, rambled and talked to the fans, and attempted to play around on Jeremy's drumkit, trying to lead a song rather weakly. Jeremy and the rest of the band came back and played a song while sounding completely out of step with each other, while Ivan stayed really close to Jeremy, seeming to talk shit to him. Everyone left again, Ivan threw the mic again. This routine repeated a couple more times until they just ran out of stage time and walked off stage, not to return. As a whole, looked like Ivan was being a dick."
UPDATE: Moody has subsequently issued a statement explaining the incident, and also suggesting that the band fired some of their crew. Either way, they aren't breaking up. Here's what he had to say:
"There were a lot of technical problems last night that were seemingly unsolvable. We had to make a decision whether to hit the stage crippled, without being able to hear ourselves; or, delay the start of the show - possibly for hours. "We decided to proceed, but not being able to hear if I was in key, and just guessing where we were in the song frustrated me to the point that I lost my cool. "I'm not saying I handled it appropriately. Matter of fact I've never been so embarrassed before. I apologize for taking out my anger on stage. You guys know me and you know how I pride myself on my live performances. I'd never want this to boil over in to something that epically wrong ever again. "To some of our crew, good luck in your future endeavors we wish you the best - we also welcome our new monitor engineer Paul Weber. "To our fans in Memphis - we'll make it up to you I promise, Houston we we will see you tonight. The rest of the world - yes we are coming. "And to the haters... wipe that smirk off your face ...We are not going anywhere ... This "ain't my last dance!" "We GOT YOUR SIX"

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anonymous 5/2/2015 10:54:09 AM

Ivan has been a huge sucker since motograter days. I'm glad this happened and I hope he goes back to doing meth. Douche.

anonymous 5/2/2015 11:30:00 AM

Five finger Doug punch

anonymous 5/2/2015 11:33:57 AM

who actually likes this band outside of stupid white trash who pound bud heavy tall boys?

Crinn 5/2/2015 11:48:08 AM

this band turned into trash after their first two albums

anonymous 5/2/2015 12:00:49 PM

seth rudesill is not stoked

anonymous 5/2/2015 12:03:17 PM

who would burn brain cells reading his shit book to begin with?

Jemenez_Cricket 5/2/2015 12:21:08 PM

Wow no wonder you anonymous idiots in most news comments arent the least bit humorous or intelligent. You actually knew about this shit band before they were on TV lolololol, trash.

anonymous 5/2/2015 12:43:01 PM

cool no more of that music

anonymous 5/2/2015 12:49:14 PM

jemenez: so knowing things makes you LESS intelligent? nice logic fail, f@ggot

anonymous 5/2/2015 12:51:08 PM

U.S. Marines are not stoked

anonymous 5/2/2015 1:19:13 PM

two finger butt punch RIP

Jemenez_Cricket 5/2/2015 1:25:24 PM

Knowing anything of this abomination to music does yes, pssy.

anonymous 5/2/2015 1:30:43 PM

Five Finger gaaaayyyyeeee. And now we await them all to overdose and die.

anonymous 5/2/2015 2:52:22 PM

this band is full of queefs who can't play good music, so they rip off every other band on the radio and act like they are geniuses. fck this stupid band, they should have broken up before they got famous

anonymous 5/2/2015 3:11:22 PM

who actually likes this band outside of stupid white trash who pound bud heavy tall boys? No on, but there's a lot of dudes like that out there.

anonymous 5/2/2015 3:41:08 PM

Five Fingers in my butt hole

anonymous 5/2/2015 3:55:06 PM

Jemenez for the fail. I hear Jemenez gives good head...

anonymous 5/2/2015 4:28:53 PM

This would be more enjoyable to watch then seeing them play their shitty music.

anonymous 5/2/2015 5:20:01 PM

john cena in the form of a "metal band". surprised he didn't bring some kids on stage, prance around with them, and sign their elmo stuffed animals

Jemenez_Cricket 5/2/2015 5:22:45 PM

best head of the midwest, but lets just stay pushing these keyboards.

anonymous 5/2/2015 5:38:26 PM

Somebody forgot to take their midol.

anonymous 5/2/2015 5:43:35 PM

This band sucks the largest of monumental sized balls. I hope they die horrible, horrible deaths.

anonymous 5/2/2015 7:02:55 PM

jemenez ironically being a keyboard warrior himself, "XD XD so ironic bro haha dank *fistbump*"

anonymous 5/2/2015 7:13:18 PM

Dude doesn't own 1 pair of pants. Shorts with a down jacket, scarf, hat and gloves was never cool...trendsetter.

Jemenez_Cricket 5/2/2015 7:46:07 PM

Yeah that's why i said LETS dipshit, but yeah doug funny right, cool

anonymous 5/2/2015 8:03:33 PM

Motograter was stoked

anonymous 5/2/2015 8:10:10 PM

DOUG FUNNIE WILL SMASH YOU BRO, YEAH YOU JEMENZ. SUCK IT WET! - Al and Moo

anonymous 5/3/2015 6:27:37 AM

"I've never heard of these guys, or door knobs, or slayer, or females, or waffles, waffle irons and ESPN. I have heard of Dirtbike funnie, but only in the last 4 months while posting on this new lamb goat website." -Jemenez

anonymous 5/3/2015 8:09:51 AM

Let's fire/blame crew members when you also mention technical problems even before you went on stage, yet decided to chance it anyway. Did the disposed of crew members write the book you were so angry about? Take your ego to Walmart and buy a single pair of PANTS, ghost.

anonymous 5/3/2015 8:34:56 AM

"we got your six"...metal is fcking corny and laughable at best these days. boy bands with breakdowns.

anonymous 5/3/2015 9:07:42 PM

"I WANT YOU SE!!" -Ivan Moody

anonymous 5/3/2015 9:09:08 PM

"I WANT YOUR SEX!!!" - Ivan Moody Is how ya do it!

anonymous 5/4/2015 7:02:26 AM

Memphis, TX has plenty of music shops. Go buy a powered speaker for $500, have FOH feed you a mix, and point it at yourselves. There's your fcking monitor, you douchebags.

anonymous 5/4/2015 11:16:34 AM

Gimme back my six jerk!

anonymous 5/4/2015 5:54:33 PM

Damn metal would improve tenfold just by them breaking up

anonymous 5/5/2015 10:46:26 AM

Its not the band thats the problem its memphis thats the problem they need new sound groups i have been there many of times and their sound stage sucks makes good bands sound like crap i will never go back to memphis again

anonymous 5/5/2015 12:07:06 PM

Five Finger Pink Slip

pongo_pigmayis 5/5/2015 1:46:59 PM

Who is Jemenez_Cricket and why are they being so gay?

anonymous 5/6/2015 11:25:37 AM

five finger jack off dcks is the worst band in history, they suck ass, their fans all suck each other off

anonymous 5/6/2015 1:41:28 PM

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