While Five Finger Death Punch dominate on a European arena tour, last night (December 5th) Rob Halford, legendary frontman for Judas Priest, joined the rock group on stage surprising fans with an epic performance of the group’s Lift Me Up, a number one U.S. Active Rock Radio chart hit off the band’s The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell-Volume 1 album.
Watch a clip below from last night’s show in front of Halford’s hometown crowd in Birmingham, U.K. while 5FDP guitarist Zoltan Bathory gives the background on how the song collaboration came about and what it meant to the band to have a metal god like Rob Halford join them on stage.
Five Finger Death Punch continue to soar with the release of their second top two album within four months, The Wrong Side Of Heaven And The Righteous Side Of Hell-Volume 2 which entered the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart at number two. Battle Born the first single off the new album is number one at Active Rock Radio for the second week in a row. The video for Battle Born premiered on USAToday.com (10/1) and can be seen below.
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Photo:Robert Lawrence