Ten Thousand Fists - Disturbed

Ten Thousand Fists released in 2005 was Disturbed's 3rd studio album, it was critically acclaimed and came almost a decade after the band's inception. The songs that I'm most familiar with here are the 5 songs that were released as singles and played repeatedly particularly on knac radio. Out of those, the title track is without doubt the worst to my ears - despite common opinion and indeed that of the band itself it's far too short and simple and doesn't really have the balls that you'd expect both the name of the track and the album cover convey, the oriental sounding opening is something that annoys me too - fortunately it gets better after that and really ...  Read the complete review

Disturbed is a quartet consisting of David Draiman who is the singer and song writer, Mike Wengren who plays drums, Dan Donegar who is the guitarist and Johh Moyer who is the bass guitarist and backup vocalist. Formed in 1996 they have been enthralling or of course irritating listeners (depending on your tastes) ever since. Well the album doesn't simply live up to my expectations, it smashes those expectations of mine. The first thing to note about this album is Draiman has added a much sharper edge to his vocals, while the vocals on the former album were slightly soft at times, this albums for his voice to have a much greater impact upon the music and allows ...  Read the complete review