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maxwasson
This album I'd say is pretty disappointing to me, I would consider it to be Disturbed's weakest album by far. Half the album is acoustic ballads trying to recapture success off of their Sound of Silence cover from Immortalized. The only songs that standout, are "Are You Ready" and "In Another Time" but even Are You Ready has a chorus stolen from Inside the Fire and In Another Time is just Vengeful One 2. However, I feel like since Immortalized came out, Disturbed has lost their touch, they had a solid streak with Ten Thousand Fists, Indestructible, and Asylum. But 5 years later, for whatever reason David lost his raspy power voice which had been Disturbed's main gimmick since their debut album; The Sickness which had the iconic "Ooh- Wah-ahh-ahh" and that gimmick was part of their discography all the way up until Asylum in 2010.
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maxwasson
This kinda reminds of a similar scenario which happened to one of my other favorite bands' RED who in 2013, released the album "Release the Panic" which was met with poor reception and it was a very experimental album and RED removed their iconic strings and symphonics and some of the songs felt like a more radio-friendly hard rock rather than RED. Luckily though, RED released a "recalibrated" version of the album that brought back the iconic strings a year later in 2014. The next year RED officially came back with my all time favorite album from them Of Beauty and Rage in 2015, which has the incredible single "Darkest Part". And then 5 years after Release the Panic...
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maxwasson
Disturbed is stuck in the same situation with Evolution and maybe Immortalized in some areas, although Immortalized did have "The Vengeful One" which is to me is still best post-hiatus song they've come out with. Evolution not only lacks Disturbed's main gimmick of unique growls and scats that have been there since the beginning, but also acoustic songs that I feel like don't really work for a band like Disturbed (they work for other bands like RED, Skillet, TDG because most of their music tends to be softer and they have been doing ballads for quite some time) and the album feeling a bit more radio rock friendly than I'd like it to, and the worst offender their mascot; the Guy was omitted from the album's cover he had been a mainstay since Ten Thousand Fists. At this point, I don't know if Disturbed will ever make a "true comeback album" but if they do, I would be looking forward to it.
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deividguitar
loved it! while they added 4 slower songs, the ballad etc theres still some crushing riffs and as a guitar player i appreciate that
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MegaDave89
I like it, but is typical Disturbed, they sounds monoton in lenght. But there is as you say good songs on this album and bad,
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