FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH returned to Tilburg, The Netherlands Monday night (Monday, June 19) to play a free show for any ticket holders from the now-infamous 013 performance a week prior. Fan-filmed video footage of last night's entire concert can be seen below. In announcing this week's gig, FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH guitarist Zoltan Bathory said: "[The June 12] show was an avalanche of events largely out of our control. We could sit here all day and apologize, but our fans in the Netherlands deserve better than that. They've stuck with us all these years and helped get us to where we are today. So, we managed to re-route our tour and come back to Tilburg and play a free show on our day off — because actions speak louder than words." FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH announced last week that singer Ivan Moody will sit out the remainder of the band's European tour due to his battles with alcohol. Former DIVINE HERESY and current BAD WOLVES vocalist Tommy Vext is filling in for Moody, who threatened to quit the band onstage at the June 12 concert in Tilburg. Vext, who has been traveling with FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH on their current European tour, sang the first song of the band's June 12 set in Tilburg, because Moody arrived on stage several minutes late. As previously reported, FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH and IN FLAMES will join forces for a European co-headlining tour in November and December.
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