Metal Hammer Magazine took a ride in Zoltan’s orange Lamborghini and spent some time hanging out with Five Finger Death Punch in the studio in Las Vegas before getting down to buisness. and co-ordinating a Zoltan and Ivan led interview.
This interview originally appeared in the print Issue 310 of Metal Hammer Magazine released around July 2018 and has just become available online so if you missed this edition here is your chance to catch up.
Zoltan: Do you remember the first time you met me? What were your first impressions?
Ivan: “The first time I actually met you was when I came to LA to audition. You and I had been talking via email, on MySpace of all things. You’d sent me Salvation, The Bleeding and Meet The Monster, and I came out with no expectations, not really wanting anything to do with the music industry, and you just took me under your arm the second I came in.”
Zoltan: “You turned around and showed your back!”
Ivan: “Yeah, ’cos I was nervous. I remember you sitting there texting already, and I was like, ‘Oh, I blew this one! This is gonna suck!’ But you were already telling people that I was the guy. Then we went to the Rainbow and you bought me dinner.”
Zoltan: “[To Hammer] I’d already heard him sing, so I knew he was the guy. But it took some time to get him to LA. I actually bought him his plane ticket and cancelled the ticket back, so he was stuck with us! I always have to trick him into shit. By the time he realised he was a prisoner, we were seven songs in! We had great conversations. He’s a lunatic, which is something you can’t fake. I had a megaphone in my car and he was hanging out of the window, screaming at people in Hollywood.”
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