Jason Hook is a Canadian guitarist, best known as the former lead guitarist of the American heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch. He is also the founder and guitarist of the Canadian/American heavy metal/hard rock band FLAT BLACK and was briefly a member of Alice Cooper’s touring band.
Career
Hook spent many years in Canada honing his craft and was eventually signed to Elektra with his band No Love Lost. The band recorded an album with producer Beau Hill in Los Angeles but the disc never saw the light of day. Now, on his own in Los Angeles as a session musician, Hook took a stint in the hard rock band BulletBoys. In 2000. Hook became a highly coveted session player in the L.A. circuit and went on to tour and record with acts like the Vince Neil Band and Alice Cooper.[2]
In 2007 Hook released his debut instrumental hard rock/metal album Safety Dunce which won best instrumental album at the LA Music awards.
In early 2009, it was announced that Hook was joining heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch, On September 22, 2009, Hook and his bandmates released War Is the Answer, which landed them a number 7 debut on the Billboard Top 200 album. Five Finger Death Punch had great success in the following years including 17 number one songs and a total of 14 million albums sold worldwide. Some of the bands more popular hits were co-written by Hook, including “A Little Bit Off“, “Wash It All Away“, “Coming Down” “Inside Out”, “Sham Pain“, “Lift Me Up”, “Battle Born”, and “Remember Everything“.
Hook produced and appeared in the documentary film Hired Gun (2016).
Hook left Five Finger Death Punch in February 2020. His departure was officially announced by the band in October
In 2023 Hook’s new heavy metal band FLAT BLACK emerged with new management (Carl Stubner and Dino Paredes / Shelter Music Group) In July of that year, the band signed to Concord Music / Fearless Records. The debut album was release July 2024