Genre: Alternative Metal
label Number: 411132-2
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© 2008 Reprise Records
AllMusic Review by James Christopher Monger
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.
.FLAC via Florenfile
.AAC 256 kbps via Florenfile
AllMusic Review by James Christopher Monger
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.
tags: disturbed, indestructible, 2008, flac,
so this one got the double pick huh? i would have thought "the sickness" would have gotten that honor :O ever disturbed fan i know goes back to that one or "asylum"
ReplyDeleteThis one got the double pick by a technicality. In other words, we both love this album but if you're asking me which is my favorite Disturbed album... that honor goes to "Asylum" It was heavier in my opinion and they haven't been able to surpass it. Sentinel doesn't see it that way. "Indestructible" is by far his favorite Disturbed album. He adores it and he believes that the band hasn't been able to surpass this. I would still highly recommend "Indestructible" It is one of their best albums. This is where they finally began to take more risks musically, especially in the guitar solo department. As far as "The Sickness" is concerned, we've never liked that album. It just hasn't aged well. "Stupify" is still very good, we've always hated "Down With The Sickness" and the other songs were never memorable or enjoyable. It does have some of David Draiman's best singing to date but that's all I can say about it. The same goes for Sentinel. To him this is just "the album that has Down With The Sickness and Stupify in it"
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