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Rock
Release Date: 06/03/2008
Disturbed's fourth full-length offering announces its arrival with an air-raid siren. It's an appropriate gesture for the popular Chicago-based metal collective, whose rapid ascension from buzzed-about
Ozzfest highlight to commercial hard rock juggernaut has been as divisive as it has been impressive. While
Indestructible doesn't meddle with the melodic hard-hitting
Pantera-inspired formula that fueled its predecessors, the dreaded nu-metal tag that followed the band out of the turn of the century seems wholly eradicated. If anything,
Disturbed owe more to early-'90s
Metallica and
Brian Johnson-era
AC/DC than they do
Tool or
Korn, as each staccato, tech-heavy riff is balanced out by some truly artful soloing and frontman
David Draiman's mean and melodious pipes. Standout cuts like
"Inside the Fire," "Deceiver, " "The Curse," and the skull-cracking title track, even though they could have appeared on any of the group's first three records, still manage to fire on every cylinder. Like its closest contemporary,
Godsmack, this is a band that favors reliability over experimentation, and each piece of
Indestructible, whether it's the pseudo-horror/fantasy artwork, the drop-D riffing, or the obligatory "shout-outs" in the liner notes to the purveyors of each member's gear endorsement deals, fits together like the world's most obvious puzzle. That said, there's a reason each of the group's previous albums bested the million mark, and with metal growing increasingly self-aware and divided between hardcore and hard rock, a new
Disturbed record seems like a solid foundation on which to duke it out.
~James Christopher Monger, All Music Guide
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worm
from Calumet, MI
Awesome
What a great CD. Wow that's all I can say
WILSON
from Elkhart, IN
A Great follow up album, but not perfect
I was anticipating this album ever since Ten Thousand Fists was released(mostly because I felt TTF was a disappointment) and to be honest, I was very surprised with some of the epic songs on this record. Indestructible is intense with David's lyrical touch in every song, yet some of the music seems flat and predictable. The highlights of the album would definiately have to be the songs, Indestructible, The Night, Criminal, and Enough. The chorus to "The Night" is enough to draw in any newcoming listener who has never listened to Disturbed. The artwork is supurb once again with "The Guy" being inked on the album's front cover, yet the back of the album case, is not as well thought out. Overall, this album gets a 4 from me and i'm a huge fan of theirs. Run through all the album's tracks and see what you think.
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