Zoltan Bathory
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Zoltán Báthory is a Hungarian-born musician. He is the founder and one of the main songwriters for the Los Angeles-based heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch.
Career
In 2004, Báthory joined the post-grunge band U.P.O. replacing bassist Ben Shirley. He left the band in 2005 and went on to form the Heavy Metal band Five Finger Death Punch.
Zoltan Bathory is the founder, guitarist and a main songwriter for the award winning LA metal band, Five Finger Death Punch. Their debut album, The Way of the Fist, was released in July 2007 and has sold over 430,000 copies. Their second album, titled War Is the Answer, was released in September 2009. The record sold over 44,000 copies on its first week of release and debuted #7 on the Billboard 200. All three singles off of the WITA cycle became top 10 hits, and the record sold over 340,000 copies in just 10 months. Further, Zoltan won the "Best Shredder" award at the 2010 Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards. This award was the third Golden God trophy the band collected having already won the 2009 Best New Artist and 2010 Breakthrough Artist awards. With 6 top 10 singles under his belt, Zoltan is rapidly becoming one of the most successful songwriter/producers of modern day heavy metal.