We were there when Five Finger Death Punch played 'Lift Me Up' live in Birmingham with Rob Halford.
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00:00Hey guys, this is Zoltan Battery from 5 Finger Dead Punch and we are in Birmingham.
00:30This is Birmingham. This is the cradle of heavy metal. You're going to know where you're at if they're throwing piss at you in a bottle.
00:50Then you know it's not happening. It was awesome and that was basically the idea.
00:55We wanted to do a surprise. Rob Halford is from Birmingham.
01:00So we figured this is going to be a proper surprise. This is a last show on this European tour.
01:05And I think this is the best way to finish it.
01:08Nobody knew. Even our booking agent or management, nobody knew that we asked Rob if we would come down.
01:16And again, he's in Birmingham. This is his hometown. So nobody knew. It was a complete surprise.
01:22The song that we did together went number one in the States. So it's a crown jewel in the whole thing.
01:29We knew that Rob was a fan of the band because he did an interview on television and we heard him saying that one of his favorite bands from the new crop is 5 Finger Dead Punch.
01:56So as we were recording this last album, there was a tune where basically the song that he ended up singing on.
02:04But we were talking about it in the studio and said, hey, this kind of have a little bit of that old school metal, you know, 80s vibe a little bit.
02:12A little bit Ozzy, a little bit Judas Priest maybe. And we just had this wild idea like, hey, do you think, you know, if we would reach out, would he sing on this?
02:19And then it's a long, long shot. Like, it's, you know, it's his metal god. You know, I'm pretty sure he's busy striking down the non-believers in somewhere.
02:27You know what I mean? Throwing lightning and, you know, whatever metal gods do. And our manager, you know, reached out and he actually listened to the song.
02:36And he was like, oh my God, I love this song. I want to be involved. And he flew into Las Vegas where we were recording.
02:41So actually he recorded this song right front of us. So we were in the studio and he's singing in a booth.
02:46So I'm like, if I get strike down by lightning right now, I'm good. I did something good in life, you know.
02:53And it was pretty amazing. He was hanging out with us for a couple of days, you know, it was the tour stories and whatnot.
03:00Now that he has, I mean, imagine, he's been doing it since the seventies, so.
03:04We are here like the third time this year, you know, and we keep coming back and pretty much 2014, we're going to probably do about two, three tours here.
03:31It's in the world, so it is going to happen. You can pretty much say it's a fact unless, you know, there is some situation going on in Kyiv.
03:38So unless we never make it out of there, you know, there's going to be a Europe tour in March.
03:44Lift me up above this. The broken, the empty. Lift me up and help me to fly away. To fly away. To fly away. Lift me up. To fly away. Lift me up.
04:05Give it up! Give it up to the beautiful God! Jeff Marshall.
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