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 DisturbedTen Thousand Fists Release Date 2005 09 20 Label Warner Elektra Atlantic Corp. Rating:  It started in 2000 with &"Down with the Sickness." Disturbed's thick, rhythmic take on alt-metal was perfect music for stalking bloody zombies, and vocalist David Draiman's jaw-snapping Pavlovian grunts made the trigger fingers of first-person shooters itch. There were threads of other groups in the sound -- Pantera's wrenching power, Slipknot, the ill-lighted parlor games of Tool -- but Disturbed held their own from the start. If 2002's Believe downplayed Draiman's guttural responses a little, that tact's long gone for 2005's Ten Thousand Fists. From Todd McFarlane's evocative wronged misfits artwork -- Suicide Girls stand fists upraised next to ghoulish fiends and disenfranchised truckers -- to the rousing staccato of the title track and the &"Sickness" rewrite &"Stricken," Disturbed solidify their stance as the black knights of gaming-console rock. Creepy electronics slither behind Dan Donegan's guitar, and he mostly forsakes soloing to concentrate on the visceral groove. When he's not hacking like a chained-up pit bull, Draiman emotes from the valley of reverb (that's next to the valley of death), and his moments of epic roar make the songs' choppier parts more effective. Now, &"Overburdened" takes the epic stuff a little too far. Draiman starts off the song in narration, muttering "Fate is so unkind" like a monster who's been given the power to feel. But even in its swirling pretentiousness, you can't deny his intensity. Luckily the majority of Fists sticks to mid-tempo punishers that pound back anger-gritted teeth and no anesthesia. (Remember, Disturbed's tours are underwritten by Jägermeister, the black licorice firewater that punches Saturday night in the face.) &"Deify" rails against blind devotion to political leaders and &"Sons of Plunder" stalks at a faster, more aggressive faster heart rate, while &"Decadence" and &"Sacred Lie" drop into the rhythmic grip that by mid- to late album is almost comfortable in its gloomy thump. (Disturbed's ill-advised cover of Genesis' &"Land of Confusion"? No comment.) Ten Thousand Fists does start to sound the same after a while. But those bloody zombies aren't going to stop pouring though the doorway, so it's a good thing it has at least 12 burly alt-metal rockers. Fire! Johnny Loftus, Rovi |
Tracks:
| Title | Composer | Time | |
| 1 | Ten Thousand Fists | Disturbed | 3:33 |
| 2 | Just Stop | Disturbed | 3:46 |
| 3 | Guarded | Disturbed | 3:22 |
| 4 | Deify | Disturbed | 4:18 |
| 5 | Stricken | Disturbed | 4:07 |
| 6 | I'm Alive | Disturbed | 4:42 |
| 7 | Sons of Plunder | Disturbed | 3:50 |
| 8 | Overburdened | Disturbed | 5:59 |
| 9 | Decadence | Disturbed | 3:27 |
| 10 | Forgiven | Disturbed | 4:15 |
| 11 | Land of Confusion | Banks, Collins, Rutherford | 4:50 |
| 12 | Sacred Lie | Disturbed | 3:08 |
| 13 | Pain Redefined | Disturbed | 4:09 |
| 14 | Avarice | Disturbed | 2:56 |
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