Band: Disturbed
Album: The Sickness
Genre: Alternative Metal, Nu-Metal
Language: Strong
Without a doubt the best album Disturbed put out would be The Sickness. Believe was a solid album, and the others have all had their hits in them, but nothing quite brings it home like all the songs on The Sickness.
There were a lot of songs on the album that were really musically solid. It's one of the few albums where I think I can honestly say I like every song on it, and it's definitely the only Disturbed album that I feel that way about.
To rep the album though here's The Game. It's a fun little ditty.
If you want you can check out this live version from a few months ago. Draiman's harsh vocals aren't really that great for the parts that are supposed to be screamed, but the rest is fantastic. Their new (2003 till now) bassist really tears the song up during the chorus.
Disturbed is one of those bands I have a love hate relationship with. One one hand the music is really the generic angry sounds of everybody's middleschool highschool days. On the other, the guitarist is actually a really underrated player who's really good at being a busy yet simple enough to not sound busy. Draiman, the vocalist, is a fantastic singer who manages to bring an aspect of melody to a band that otherwise would just be another hardcore band.
For all this though they are still just kind of... Meh to me. Don't get me wrong, all the things I just said about them are true. I do think they are a really powerful group and have some great things going for them, I just don't think it always comes through.
That is, up until this song.
Disturbed has decided that, in addition to Draiman's usual preachy stance on literally everything from weed to the holocaust, they are going to show a softer side.
There are very few cover songs that I think are legitimately better than the original. All Along The Watchtower would be a good example of a cover song that's leaps and bounds above the original.
Well who would have figured that Disturbed would not only cover a Simon & Garfunkel song, but actually do it well? Nobody basically. The fact of the matter is though they managed to take a song and turn it into a power ballad that would make anybody proud. The message of the song manages to shine through much strong than it did in the original without actually taking away from it. The edge that Draiman's voice takes on when he get's more emotional in the song helps to drive in the point in a way that the original just wasn't able to.
Don't be scared by the fact that I labeled these guys as Heavy Metal. That's their general genre but it's not how the song sounds. They didn't speed it up and add a pile of guitars to it. Take a listen and enjoy it.
I can't remember if I've posted any Disturbed songs yet, but this is the side project of the singer, David Draiman. It's not too bad if you enjoy the vague style of Nine Inch Nails, though there are some things I feel like the group could do better.
I feel like they need an actual bass player personally, but hey, I'm not famous though so what do I know.
The more you listen to Device the more you'll realize that Draiman really needed Disturbed to hold him in place. He kind of goes all over the place on this album turning it into the "Draiman Show" in a way. Basically the group sounds like Disturbed but with more singing and less guitar riffs.
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