1. Ivan Moody performed for several other bands including Motograter and Ghost Machine before joining FFDP.
18 Facts About Ivan Moody
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Ivan Moody said he spent a few summers with his grandmother in Wisconsin.
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Ivan Moody moved to Los Angeles in 2001, adopting the surname of Billy Ivan Moody, who had married his mother and was "like a father to me".
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Ivan Moody made songs with old roommates and family members, Ryan Morrow, Bill Stonebraker, and Jim "Dugan" Demongey, calling themselves Black Blood Orchestra.
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Ivan Moody joined the heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch and his side project Ghost Machine released their self-titled debut album in July 2005.
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Ivan Moody was interviewed for the book Full Metal: The 50 Most Influential Heavy Metal Songs of the 1980s and the True Stories Behind Their Lyrics.
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Ivan Moody discusses the impact of Metallica's "Fade to Black" on him as a lyricist in a chapter about the song that examines its social and cultural significance.
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In 2009, Ivan Moody starred in the horror film Bled, playing the role of Incubus.
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Ivan Moody co-starred alongside Shawn Crahan in Darren Lynn Bousman's short horror musical film The Devil's Carnival, which screened in April 2012.
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On June 12,2017, Ivan Moody stated during a concert in Tilburg, Netherlands, that it will be his last show with Five Finger Death Punch.
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Ivan Moody checked himself into rehab and was replaced for the remaining dates by vocalist Tommy Vext.
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Ivan Moody has two daughters, born in 1998 and around 2013.
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In 2012, Ivan Moody revealed that his alcoholism nearly got him fired from Five Finger Death Punch.
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Ivan Moody said he would perform drunk and not remember any of it the next day.
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In November 2016, Ivan Moody cut a concert short in Worcester, claiming that his mother was dying that night.
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In June 2017, Ivan Moody left a Five Finger Death Punch tour for rehab.
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Ivan Moody was arrested by the Australian Federal Police on February 22,2014, in Sydney, charged with drunkenly assaulting a female flight attendant on his Qantas flight from Brisbane.
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Dykes alleged that Ivan Moody has a "history of violence with women", and filed the restraining order after Ivan Moody accused her, his mother, and his daughter of stealing money from him.