Disturbed

The debut album from Chicago's Disturbed, The Sickness blends fuzzed-out basslines, growling choruses, and pristine production. They take some musical cues from acts like Korn and Slipnot, but also flex a Techno/Industrial muscle that's uncommon in today's alt-metal landscape.

Heavy metal used to be pure daydream, a free-floating matrix of fantasy that any band
could plug into. Now, under the new guise of "heavy music," it is a recovered-memory
seminar, an egotistical mess, all about I, I, I. Common words pop up: numb, torture, enemy.
And the voice of the new metal is the Whine. The Whine is not quite singing and not
exactly screaming, but something a little less showy. It is a release of the least-li... More >