They say they were inspired by Taylor Swift – Rock & Pop

The metal group, Five Finger Death Punch is in a situation similar to Taylor Swift’s Before recently acquiring your masters.

The rock band is doing what the Pop artist did by re -recording her previous material, due to problems with rights.

Metal band is inspired by Taylor Swift

At the beginning of his career, Five Finger Death Punch signed a record contract with Prospect Park. The owner of this seal, Jeff Kwatinetz, recently sold the band’s masters without their knowledgewhich led FFDP to re -record selected songs from its catalog.

Similarly, Taylor Swift re -recorded several of his albums after your former record label, Big Machinesell your masters to Scooter Braun. Last month, he paid approximately a millionaire sum to obtain the property of all his masters.

FFDP guitarist, Zoltan Bathory, commented that Taylor Swift “could have entered a expensive demand, or could have sorry for herself. Instead, simply simply He went into action and did what he had to do. So is life, and we will do whatever necessary and legally possible. “

The band manager, Allen Kovac said the case of Taylor Swift “made them reflect a little about what their rights were. They want to determine how they promote, market, license and visualize these songs. “

Kovac continued to say that Kwatinetz and Prospect Park signed with Five Finger Death Punch “The worst contract I have seen. ” And explained that The seal was left with 50% of the band’s income. Both for tours, publications and merchandising. The band “never had the property and believed they did.”

Although Kwatinetz did not identify who bought the Masters, Kovac identified the company as Spirit Music Group. Kovac insisted: “Kwatinetz never contacted the band to communicate that he sold them. He didn’t even give them the opportunity to go to the bank, get an advance and pay him with assets on his part. “

In response to the comments, Kwatinetz replied: “Allen’s accusations, as always, are completely false. We took a band that nobody else wanted to hire and we turned it into the most touched active rock band for more than a decade. The band earned millions and millions of dollars, had nine or ten gold or platinum records. Allen’s intention was always trying to break the contract to be able to publish it with his own seal. “

Five Death Punch’s Five Five Regrabations

Until now, Five Finger Death Punch has posted versions rewritten of “I refuse“(With Maria Brink by In This Moment),”Jeckyll and Hide“And his successful version of”Bad Company“Bad Company. The songs are included in the next compilation 20 Years of Five Finger Death Punch – Best of Volume 1which will be launched on July 18. The metal band collection includes 14 Songs Regrabted and Three Themes Live.

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The YouTube description of “I Refuse” says: “The first single in our next compilation 20 Years of Five Finger Death Punch – Best of Volume 1. In response to the recent sale of our original master recordings by our old seal, an action made without our knowledge or the opportunity to claim our work. The idea of ​​remixes or remastered editions was not enough, so We completely rewritten our songs to honor fans who have made them important by accompanying Five Finger Death Punch in every step of the road“

Regarding the re -record of the songs, Bathory declared Billboard: “This process is quite fast. Some of these songs have been reproduced by a million times. “