Ivan Moody ‘Retiring From Heavy Metal’ After One More FFDP Album

Ivan Moody experienced a shocking announcement for the crowd in attendance at 5 Finger Death Punch’s exhibit in Denver Friday night, Oct. 14: He is “retiring from weighty steel.” Even though not imminent, Moody stated this will be his past year to be the frontman of FFDP, right after earning one particular extra album with the band.

Moody, who hails from Denver, appeared with two of his little ones on phase to produce his speech, in which he shared:

“I needed to tell you this. And nobody else in the planet appreciates, Denver, so this is the place it is likely to begin. And what you do with it is up to you. The previous 15 decades of my daily life I have toured the earth, I have viewed every single state, every single metropolis on this planet at the very least 2 times. That’s a simple fact. And by means of that time as quite a few of you mom and dad know … I have skipped a large amount of time with my kiddos. So I produced them a deal right now, and I’m going to stick to it. Soon after this calendar year, I am going to make just one much more Five Finger Dying Punch album and then I am retiring from heavy metallic.” Moody then shakes every kids’ hand and jokes they can not have his mic stand.

He ongoing, “But I desired to start off that here and notify all of you, from working day one when I made a decision to be a singer playing places like … the Bluebird Theater, the Ogden, and we had been supposed to play Red Rocks, we’ll have to do that a single a lot more time. Can I enjoy Crimson Rocks one a lot more time? … I owe you everything, Colorado, Five Finger Dying Punch and each individual knucklehead on this planet, thank you.”

It should really be pointed out Moody did not say he was retiring from music for each se, but from major metallic. Some admirers looking at into his statement prompt Moody may possibly be relocating nearer to a place singer profession. And it would make perception. FFDP have teamed up with Canadian singers Brantley Gilbert and Cory Marks for their upcoming 22-day tour in November. Of course, Moody and Gilbert did a include of Kenny Wayne Shepherd’s “Blue on Black” collectively back again in 2019 whilst, that very same calendar year, Moody also guested on Marks’ song “Outlaws & Outsiders.”

However, Moody has built these kinds of statements before so time will explain to if this one retains legitimate. In June 2017, following a beleaguered present in the Netherlands, he declared onstage, “I’ll enable you know forward of time — this is my previous clearly show with Five Finger Demise Punch,” and then designed a throat-slit movement throughout his neck. However, by August of that year, he returned with the band at a display in Illinois following issuing a statement that he was “embarrassed and ashamed to acknowledge that I have fallen off the wagon yet again” and had entered treatment to help with his sobriety.

5 Finger Demise Punch wraps up today in Utah. Find tickets below.

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