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| CDcame out the 03 June 2008 - Reprise Records |
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1. Indestructible
2. Inside the Fire
3. Deceiver
4. The Night
5. Perfect Insanity
6. Haunted
7. Enough
8. The Curse
9. Torn
10. Criminal
11. Divide
12. Facade
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 20 / 20 |
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An absolutely awesome album, if I do say so myself. Disturbed's old albums were good, but Indestructible really takes their music to the next level. From the siren intro to Indestructible to the final notes of Facade, this album keeps you on the edge of your seat. It's kind of disappointing when it ends... could have used a few more tracks...
Anyways, all of the band members are at their best, and sound wonderful. Draiman's vocal are dark, yet inspiring, and the language content is just low enough that the album escapes a parental advisory warning. Donegan's guitar work is simply beyond belief, with rapid delivery, amazing riffs, and insane solos. Moyer's bass is a good backing to the guitar. And Wengren's drum work-especially on Perfect Insanity-is excellent.
Altogether, their best album yet. Some of the songs are better then others, (I won't go into my personal favorites) but, together, they are the excellent work that makes up Indestructible.
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| Mini-Review |
 11 / 20 |
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Disturbed's 2008 LP release "Indestructible" expands beyond the tried and true boundaries of nu metal to a more accessible and well rounded style of music. The best song on the album, "The Night" catches with a very well defined hook and affirming guitar solo. A couple other songs, "Torn" and "Divide" feature chorus lines that are soft around the edges, too, with "Divide" also benefiting from a highlighted solo. "Inside the Fire" is downright industrial with mechanical tones and a repetitive cadence. Nu metal staples such as alternating hard/soft and fast/slow songwriting is sparse; "Divide" being the only noticable exception. In general, the music is tempered with a stop/go style of rhythm guitar play that makes even the hardest and fastest parts soft to the touch. The guitar riffs, dominated by the rhythm lines with the lead parts relegated to the background ("Deciever" and "Perfect Insanity"), are simple, choppy, and repetitive. Although "Criminal" may boast Disturbed's signature sound better with it's discordant nu metal finish, it's lead/rhythm trade off at the end is more the exception than say, "Divide" with its fast, choppy rhythm riffs, trippy lead effects, and alternating hard/soft writing structure. "Haunted" is also a track that harks exception with is bass line introduction, a feature not heard anywhere else. On the whole, "Indestructible" is a well defined display of commanding drumming, hard but simple riffing, and vocal instrumentalization via parts spoken/rapped/and whispered ("Enough", "Criminal", and "Haunted" showcases those vocal strains very well). Lead vocalist David Draiman's rich tone is the anchor of Disturbed's sound, and as such each song lives and breathes through him. What makes "Indestructible" then a most pleasurable album is that cohesiveness between voice and music. "Indestructible" is therefore not only a well concieved record, but a well delivered one as well.
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| Mini-Review |
 10 / 20 |
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This is a Disturbed album right...?
This album is weak... The music is softer than before, and boring. Even the introduction of at least one guitar solo in every song can’t save it. The music is still ‘Disturbed’ in the way that you simply can’t tie a genre to it (or should that read, ‘tie it to a specific genre’ ?). Some people might call it ‘Alternative’, but, what the fuck does that mean ?
Dave Draiman’s vocals in this album are clean and soft. He seems to have lost his edge. I, personally, was quite disappointed at the lack of bizarre noises Draiman made that were common throughout a lot of Disturbeds songs. Each album had a song or two that were softer than the rest, and / or had cleaner vocals, (e.g. Believe – Darkness). To me, it seems as if the band has become a lot more serious. After ‘The Sickness’, Disturbeds lyrics became noticeably more involved (for lack of a better word), they started carrying a meaning, even if the lyrics didn’t obviously relate to anything in real life, they still had substance, as opposed to the comedic feel of ‘Meaning Of Life’ or ‘Dropping Plates’. The lyrics in this album are quite deep, but I’m not going to interpret all the songs in this review, and, everyone’s going to have their own interpretation of each song, so there is really no point here, perhaps in a forum discussion....
Even though their music is softer, and Draiman has slacked off in his vocal effects, the band have improved quite a lot in other directions, the songs are on average slightly longer, and, despite what I’ve said about Draiman, he has improved as a vocalist, he sings the lyrics, with less of a ‘rappy’ feel that was evident throughout the early stuff... With the exception of ‘Perfect Insanity’, which actually feels more like a Disturbed song, but really doesn’t suit the album... strange aye ?
All in all, this album, despite its flaws, and its less Disturbing feel than its predecessors, it isn’t a bad album. If I didn’t know of Disturbed, and this album was played to me, I think I’d be able to enjoy it more. As long as you don’t compare it to much to the older albums, ‘Indestructible’ is quite good as a stand alone album (Its not one of my faves though...) but I wouldn’t recommend it to someone who wants to start getting into Disturbed.
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