Song · Five Finger Death Punch
“Sham Pain” by Five Finger Death Punch
From the album And Justice for None (2018)
“Sham Pain” by Five Finger Death Punch appears on 5 radio countdowns from 5 stations between 2018 and 2019. It was first released in 2018 on the album And Justice for None. Its best result is #6 on the 99Rock WFRD Top 99 of 2018. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #4 hard rock song of 2018 and #8 of the '10s.
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Five Finger Death Punch pulled "Sham Pain" from And Justice for None in 2018, the second single off their seventh studio album, and it catches the heavy metal band in a playful mood. Kevin Churko produced it with the band, recorded it and mixed it, with Kane Churko, Tristan Hardin and Shawn McGhee adding engineering.
Guitarist Zoltan Bathory framed the song and its video as a lesson in not taking yourself too seriously, and Rob Anderson's clip, out on May 10, 2018, plays it as slapstick: Ivan Moody spends the verses on the receiving end of one indignity after another, acting out the lyrics as he goes. Rock radio got the joke. It became the band's sixth number one there, and their fifth at the top of Billboard's Mainstream Rock Songs chart.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Hard Rock & Metal
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 11 | SiriusXM Octane National (SiriusXM satellite radio) | SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2018 | 30 |
| 2018 | 8 | 94.3 KILO Colorado Springs-Pueblo, CO | KILO 2018 Top 30 Kountdown | 30 |
| 2018 | 11 | 98KUPD Phoenix, AZ | 98KUPD Top 98 of 2018 | 98 |
| 2018 | 6 | 99 Rock Lebanon-Hanover-White River Junction, NH-VT | 99Rock WFRD Top 99 of 2018 | 99 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 59 | 93X | 93X Top 93 Songs of the Decade (2010s) | 93 |
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