It can lead to some aimless tracks, where the two fail to meet in the middle. “No One Gets Left Behind” is a solid song, but struggles with the same issue.Īs this continues, the album ends up being more scientific mixture than solution. Five Finger Death Punch gives it a serious effort, but in a song like "Dying Breed," the unceasing pounding of the razor-edged verses leads to a clunky, cumbersome transition to the arcing, melodic emotion of the choruses.
Part of the difficulty in trying to represent both the dramatic, orchestrated nature of European metal and the never-say-die hammering attitude of American metal is that it's terribly arduous to do both at once. This is a good album, but it falls short of those possibilities. There are circumstances under which that would logically produce the greatest album in the history of heavy metal. The end product is an album that endeavors to be layered like a European power metal band, but lands punches like a Western one. Zoltan Bathory, the band's organizer and guitar player, is born and bred in Hungary, and twists the American formula on heavy metal as a result. "War is the Answer" does have one important dichotomy, though. This is the album's most redeemable quality and its strongest cornerstone. This is pure, unadulterated American heavy metal, with no sidebars, no apologies and no layers. There is no dense allegory, no convoluted metaphor, nothing that makes the listener strain to understand the album's intent. The first and most important thing about Five Finger Death Punch's album "War is the Answer" is that it is steadfastly honest.
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