![]() ![]() But can you really call a band skilled if they only have enough of it to make four tracks on a twelve-track album worthwhile? Haven't you ever heard a CD that had potential to be good, but never really had a moment of power where you realized that the band could go somewhere? Disturbed concentrated the majority of their songwriting skill into the better tracks on their CD, crafting a number of awesome singles and neglecting the rest. To a certain extent, this is a good thing. Filler tracks like "Violence Fetish" and "Want" showed the band's inability to sustain their undeniable power for more than a few tracks, and "Droppin' Plates" was just a pitiful attempt by Disturbed to test the waters of rap-metal in case the fans liked it better. ![]() But it was hard to take Disturbed seriously as the brutally heavy juggernaut they were when they seemed incapable of writing enough such great material to sustain more than a third of an album. Tracks like "The Game" and "Down With The Sickness" are some of the best songs to come out of the nu-metal feeding frenzy following Korn's three-year hiatus, if not two of the best metal songs of the decade. Review Summary: Disturbed hasn't changed everything that made their first album so jarringly inconsistent, but in general the Chicago foursome has made a powerful, classic-metal inspired record that improves on the flaws of The Sickness.ĭisturbed's debut, The Sickness, sold plenty of copies, but musically it was very unsteady. ![]()
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