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 - Great New Heavy MetalMy nephew recommended this album to me when I was complaining that new Heavy Metal seemed almost dead (except for Godsmack when they manage to release a new album). I gave it a try and was richly rewarded with a really cool album by a group I hope will continue to produce new stuff! Rating:  - Their worst albumWhat the heck is this? This is pop music with a faint sound of rock in the background. This is NOT Metal like what we're used to hearing from Disturbed. In short, I am disturbed by what I'm listening to. Please, band, don't go on this path in the future. You will lose a lot of dedicated fans who've been with you from the beginning. I hate to say it, but David Draiman went soft. If you want an excellent Disturbed album, get the one that came out before this one, Ten Thousand Fists. Now THAT'S a Disturbed album. RAW METAL. I like Ten Thousand Fists as much as the Believe album. Every bit as good. Stick to these two, and if you want, Down With The Sickness. That's a good album as well. Certainly a heck of a lot better than this one. Even that album is metal. THIS ALBUM IS NOT METAL, PERIOD. Rating: - RedemptionI've been a disterbed fan from their first cd. Prayer and stricken were good from their other cds, but the rest was nothing special. This new CD Has elevated Disterbed to their music potential. It seems they found a nitch that they should have been in for a long time. This is one to get. Rating: - So this is what the lowest common denominator sounds like!I guess one should expect this from a mass of listeners who only know of 'metal' though this new (read 10 years) trend called 'nu-metal'. Ugh. Lyrically, vocally, even instrumentally these guys bring nothing, nothing nu (see what I did there?) to the table. There is such a bevy of talent available amongst the varied and wide number of genres out there, why elevate such a mediocre act? Look to bands like Porcupine Tree (although, admittedly, their last album was a tad derivative), RPWL, Symphony X, Amorphis, Amaseffer, Demians, Boom Boom Satellites, etc. for bands in which talent actually counts for something. Disturbed are just a small example of why populist music is becoming so boring, and dare I say it, undisturbed. We need some really radical changes. No more of this Hollywood-script-meeting-lets-gut-the-balls-off-this-for-the-mindless-masses music. Oh well, back to the drawing board. Rating:  - Guitar work is soo tight and getting better and better, but other than that, too much the same!I love Disturbed and love their live shows, but their new album is not what I thought it was going to be, especially after such a powerful album as "10,000 Fists". There is really nothing wrong with it but its just a little lackluster at times! David Draiman didn't offer much exciting vocal melodies or even screams as he usually does, but he still sounds good just too much the same! Mike Wengren, was decent in this album but he didnt top what he did in the past albums. Dan Donegan was the highlight of the album with some great guitar work. His guitar solos are really cool over these songs which is a newly added attribute with Disturbed. They really started the guitar solo thing from their last album, but this album has them all over the place, which is a great change for the band. I can't be too upset becuase I would probably be upset if they were to change too much but just a little more of experimentation with their music wouldn't hurt. At least they are on the right path with adding guitar solos. Lets hope they keep changing and come out with something great like "Believe" and "10,000 Fists".
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