Five Finger Death Punch UPDATE & Funny Stories From The Road - Beardo&Weirdo Ep.80

Chris Kael, bassist of Five Finger Death Punch, reveals that the band's upcoming Legacy album will have two singles out before the tour launches, confirms new songs will be added to the live setlist for the first time, and explains why he chose to stop dating entirely to focus on music, therapy, and channeling what he calls a "simmering rage" into songwriting. Craig Gass and Kael break down the emotional mechanics of being a working musician who still carries anger despite years of sobriety and professional success — a conversation that extends into Phil Labonté's viral comments about men and therapy, with Kael offering a pointed rebuttal from personal experience.

The episode covers how Craig Gass built an unlikely network of touring industry professionals starting at age fourteen by sneaking back into concert venues after security clocked out, a hustle that has now come full circle with crew veterans reaching out to him for job referrals. Kael matches that story with his own — the tale of how he cold-messaged a stranger on a Spector bass owners group on Facebook to borrow a five-string bass for the Five Finger Death Punch "Under and Over It" music video, and how that same stranger is now his full-time bass tech on the current touring cycle.

The conversation detours into Frank Bello of Anthrax discussing musical angst across generations, Robert and Chloe Trujillo watching their son play bass for Suicidal Tendencies from a private balcony in Melbourne, Sebastian Bach's move from Las Vegas to Los Angeles, and Chris Jericho's legendary method of staging fake candid photos with professional wrestlers as a teenager in Winnipeg. Craig also recounts performing standup at a Times Square comedy club where audience members mistook him for someone from King of Queens, and Kael shares the time he mistook Lakers fans at his hotel for Five Finger Death Punch fans waiting for autographs.

Beardo and Weirdo continues to sit at the intersection of heavy metal touring life and standup comedy road stories, with Kael and Criag trading the kind of unfiltered moments that only happen between a working bassist and a working comedian who share a Las Vegas zip code.