The Disturbed Pours Out Vengeance In An Ice Cold Glass

The Disturbed isn't a band known to do anything half way. I remember "Liberate" well. There's no end to the chills that effort gave me. It feasted on rapid fire guitar licks and drumming slapping you around like a battering ram that hasn't found its limits yet. The brand new "The Vengeful One" has that chilling ethos running wild too. Only in this case the Illinois tribe gets teeth on edge by adopting a deliberate punishing crunching merciless tack. Vocalist David Draiman goes a few steps beyond growling. There aren't cookie monster effects to be had but you'd better believe his intensity borders on outright maniacal. Lyrics pull back the curtain to show David stepping into the shoes of unsympathetic vengeance. A world schooled in forgive and forget, at least in this parallel dimension lacks that redemption buying quality. The tormentors laugh heartlessly. Degradation has yanked on the throttle. Judgment Day rears its pulse halting head. Dan Donegan lets his guitar do all the justice dispensing one could ever hope for. It's a venomous little toy that's been yanked up to the nth degree in the name of being the soundtrack to what's likely to be many a nightmare. Mike Wengren makes chaos rise from the drum kit in such fashion that no mere quivering mortal could produce them. Bassist John Moyer keys up a similarly vicious attitude to white knuckle ride effect. When David utters his doomsday tale Dan's guitar matches the man snarl for snarl. David's pipes leap from blood curdling note to blood curdling note. Dan follows this unhinged so and so wherever the decimation leads. In verse two the Messiah emerges from the rubble to make we the people take note of what filthy folk we are becoming. You couldn't draw a clearer picture of what's eating Dan if you tried. The media televises Man at his darkest, most loathsome low point. War assumes the center ring and the media makes its bread and butter through the media circus that bubbles from the froth. It's not the stuff you'd want very young impressionable guys exposed to. Does the video give you heebie jeebies? Cool, then you;ve git functioning pulses. My sincere congrats to everybody. There's much over the top vivid breakdown of the human societal glue here. Again, "The Vengeful One" links the video in sync with the song amazingly. It's blessed (or cursed depending on your faith leanings) with cartoon styled overblown evil. But on to the music itself. At no juncture does the song speed through the anguish. Au contraire, each migraine inducing episode receives the maximum gut punch touch. The Disturbed gave itself the perfect moniker. It's out to disturb, and disturb mightily it does. "The Vengeful One" isn't for the faint of heart. If you like your metal armed for bear that's the best news around.