Immortalized
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August 21, 2015 |
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| Label (s) | Reprise Records | |||
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13 |
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53 min 10 s |
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Kevin Churko |
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Hideout Recordings, Las Vegas |
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Immortalized is the sixth studio album of American Metal - band Disturbed . It was released on August 21, 2015 via Reprise Records and reached number one on the US album charts . The album received in the United States platinum as well as in Germany , Austria , the United Kingdom and Canada each have a gold record .
Emergence
In the summer of 2011, the band announced that they wanted to take an indefinite break. According to guitarist Dan Donegan , the band wanted to take a break to give themselves and the fans a break. The band also wanted to break out of the routine of songwriting , recording, and touring so as not to feel like a machine.
“We were at the peak of our careers and it was a tough decision. But we felt that it was the right decision. "
The individual members used the band break for other projects. Singer David Draiman founded the band Device , guitarist Dan Donagan and drummer Mike Wengren founded the band Fight or Flight , while bassist John Moyer first joined Adrenaline Mob and later co-founded Art of Anarchy .
In the spring of 2014, Draiman, Donagan and Wengren met in Chicago to discuss the band's revival. These conversations were positive, so that the musicians met regularly in Chicago, Las Vegas and Austin and wrote new songs. The recordings took place in the recording studio Hideout Recordings in Las Vegas. For the first time since the album Ten Thousand Fists , released in 2005, the band worked with an outside producer. The choice fell on Kevin Churko.
The recordings took place in great secrecy. Only the management of the band, the families and some employees of Reprise Records knew that the band was recording a new studio album. David Draiman explained that it was difficult to maintain secrecy and had to use white lies to explain to friends why he was e.g. B. stayed in Las Vegas for four months. The musicians sneaked into the studio through different entrances each time at different times so as not to be seen together.
According to singer David Draiman, the band was writing new music as a group for the first time since 2001 when the musicians were working on their second studio album, Believe . Instrumentalists Donegan, Wengren and bassist John Moyer also contributed lyrics, while David Draiman made suggestions for the music. For the album, Disturbed played a cover version of the song The Sound of Silence by Simon & Garfunkel .
publication
In mid-June 2015 the band published a video on their Facebook page showing the band's mascot "The Guy". It lies on a belt and receives life support. A second video followed a few days later, showing "The Guy" getting up and sitting down. Finally, on June 23, 2015, a press release was published about the band's comeback and the announcement of the new album.
The album contains thirteen songs. A deluxe edition of the album includes the songs Tyrant , Legion of Monsters and The Brave and the Bold as a bonus . For the song The Vengeful One one was music video rotated. It was directed by Phil Mucci. A commercial for the album was withdrawn following the murder of journalists Alison Parker and Adam Ward on August 26, 2015. The spot featured scenes from The Vengeful One's music video , in which a monstrous creature shoots numerous people in a television station.
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The Vengeful One describes the Last Judgment , according to David Draiman . The person named in the title is the personification of the Angel of Death or the Archangel Gabriel , who speaks to the people. The Light addresses people's fear of the dark chapters of their lives. According to Draiman, these experiences are a necessity to find "the light" to experience better times. You're Mine wrote singer David Draiman for his wife Lena Yada . According to his own statement, the song was the first attempt in the band's history to write a love song .
The song Fire It Up is an ode to cannabis . At the beginning of the song, singer David Draiman can be heard smoking a bong . According to Draiman's own statement, about 95 percent of all the songs and texts he has written in his life were created while intoxicated . The song Save Our Last Goodbye is dedicated to a close friend of Dan Donegan's who died of cancer . At the beginning of the song you can hear a message from this person that he left on Donegan's answering machine .
Who Taught You How to Hate deals with the fact that newborn children are born without hatred and that this emotion is only taught later. The idea came to him when he was thinking about his own son. According to Draiman, children would play with each other in a playground without prejudice , regardless of what color they are, what religion they are, what part of the world they come from or how much money they have.
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Reviews
Dominik Winter from the German magazine Metal Hammer praised the "fat riffs , the fat groove and the fat production", but also stated that "the predictable recipe is wearing out, even if not as dramatically as with the previous albums Indestructible and Asylum ". Winter rated Immortalized five out of seven. According to Fabian Schneider from the online magazine Metal.de, Disturbed "neither wrote the best nor the worst album of their career". "Song structures heard a thousand times and missing highlights" would make the middle of the album "a disappointment", while The Vengeful One is "one of the best songs in the band's history". Schneider awarded six out of ten points.
Chart placements
Immortalized debuted at number one on the US album charts and sold 98,000 copies in the first week after its release. After Metallica and the Dave Matthews Band , Disturbed is only the third band to have entered the US album charts at number one with a new album five times in a row. The album also reached number one in Australia and Canada. The album reached number two in Germany, New Zealand and Austria. The album reached number five in Switzerland, number eight in the United Kingdom and number nine in Sweden .
Awards
The song The Sound of Silence was nominated for a Grammy in the category Best Rock Performance . However, the award went posthumously to David Bowie . At the 2017 German Echo Awards , the album received a nomination in the international band category , but the award went to Metallica .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d New Disturbed Returns After Four-Year Hiatus with New Album 'Immortalized': Exclusive Interview. Billboard , accessed June 25, 2015 .
- ^ Brian Mansfield: Ad for band Disturbed pulled after shooting. USA Today , accessed August 28, 2015 .
- ↑ DISTURBED's DAVID DRAIMAN On 'Immortalized': 'I Just Want People To Walk Away Feeling Powerful'. Blabbermouth.net , accessed June 30, 2015 .
- ^ Richard Bienstock: Disturbed's David Draiman Talks New Album, Getting Back Together and Marijuana. In: Revolver . Retrieved August 7, 2015 .
- ↑ Conny Schiffbauer: Smoke on the water. In: Rock Hard . September 2015, p. 58.
- ↑ DAVID DRAIMAN Says 'Immortalized' Includes DISTURBED's First Attempt At A Love Song. Blabbermouth.net, accessed June 28, 2015 .
- ↑ Disturbed. Federal Association of the Music Industry , accessed on February 28, 2016 .
- ↑ Disturbed in the Austrian charts. Hung Medien, accessed February 28, 2016 .
- ↑ Disturbed in the Swiss charts. Hitparade.ch, accessed on February 28, 2016 .
- ↑ Disturbed. Official Charts Company, accessed February 28, 2016 .
- ^ Disturbed - Chart history (Billboard 200). Billboard , accessed February 28, 2016 .
- ↑ Dominik Winter: Disturbed - Immortalized. In: Metal Hammer . September 2015, p. 105.
- ^ Fabian Schneider: Disturbed - Immortalized. Metal.de, accessed on August 15, 2015 .
- ↑ Keith Caulfield: Disturbed Scores Fifth No. 1 album on Billboard 200 Chart. Billboard, accessed June 25, 2015 .
- ↑ METALLICA, DISTURBED, KORN, MEGADETH, GOJIRA, BARONESS, PERIPHERY Among GRAMMY AWARDS Nominees. Blabbermouth.net, accessed December 7, 2016 .