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When Disturbed first came on to the music scene
with their debut album ‘The Sickness’
back in the year 2000 everyone was blown away with
just how perfect, heavy and catchy the album was
and that was when the positive journey for Disturbed
started, I even remember watching them support Marilyn
Manson at Birmingham NEC back on the 21st January
2001 and being blown away by their amazing stage
show which opened with front man David Draiman being
electrocuted in an electric chair.
Over the years Disturbed have gone from strength
to strength and have released some of the most
solid metal albums of the 20th century with their
debut album ‘The Sickness’ and their
latest album ‘Asylum’ being favourites
amongst many Disturbed fans, the band have a ratio
of releasing an new album every 2 years and in-between
album’s they have always been busy on the
road touring across the world on headline tours
and festival appearances with their biggest ever
UK tour being back in 2010 when they headlined
the Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Tour.
There has been a lot of talk recently from Disturbed
and mainly front man David Draiman about the band
going on hiatus and quite possible never returning
to the music scene again so it is safe to say
that they have picked the correct time to release
‘The Lost Children’ which is the bands
b-sides and rarities collection which features
16 Disturbed songs that may or may not of been
heard before, and the best thing is the collection
is solid and easily beats the band releasing a
greatest hits collection.
The album opens with ‘Hell’ which
I am sure a lot of people have heard before as
it is the song that Disturbed have been using
to promote the album and also happens to be the
main single to be released from the album, the
song is about being in a relationship with someone
who keeps coming and going from your life and
basically getting you into a constant head fuck
and leaving you feeling like hell, the song was
written back in 2005 when the band released the
album ‘Ten Thousand Fists’.
The thing that I found best about ‘The
Lost Children’ is the fact that it is so
easily to guess at what time period each song
was written and which album or single it was written
to accompany, for example ‘A Welcome Burden’
has that heavy pace and feel that was first seen
during ‘The Sickness’ and not to forget
those fast flowing old signature Draiman vocals
which have been missing from their last couple
of albums, and the same can be said for ‘God
Of The Mind’ which has that ‘The Sickness’
era sound running right through it.
One of the most touching songs on the album has
to be ‘3’, the song was written during
the ‘Asylum’ album writing stages
and was released as a stand-a-lone back in April
with money from the release going towards the
Damien Echols Defense Fund, the song was not originally
going to be featured on ‘The Lost Children’
but after the recent positive result for the West
Memphis Three which saw Damien Echols, Jessie
Misskelley and Jason Baldwin being freed from
prison after serving 18 years from a crime they
did not comment it seemed like the right thing
to do, anyone who has supported the West Memphis
Three over the years will understand where Draiman
is coming from with his opening lyrics of “I
often wonder why I sit and wait to die, What have
I done to justify the sentence they gave? Too
many hours spent in darkness questioning... How
and why"?
The album closes with ‘Living After Midnight’
which happens to be a cover of the classic Judas
Priest song, now Disturbed are well known for
their killer covers after the superb job they
did of covering ‘Land Of Confusion’
by Genesis back in 2005 and same has been done
here with ‘Living After Midnight’,
they have taken a classic track and kept it close
to the original but making it their own song in
the process.
‘The Lost Children’ runs for just
over an hour and what an hour of music it provides,
I just really hope that this is not the last collection
of Disturbed songs that we ever hear as the hiatus
of Disturbed is going to create a massive hole
in metal scene and I am sure all Disturbed fans
have their fingers crossed in the hope that Disturbed
regroup in the future, even if it is as far as
10 years or so down the line.
4.5/5
Review by Trigger |
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David Draiman
Dan Donegan
John Moyer
Mike Wengren |
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1. Hell
2. A Welcome Burden
3. This Moment
4. Old Friend
5. Monster
6. Run
7. Leave It Alone
8. Two Worlds
9. God of The Mind
10. Sickened
11. Mine
12. Parasite
13. Dehumanized
14. 3
15. Midlife Crisis
16. Living After Midnight |
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- Top Cheese
- Brilliant
- Pretty damn good
- Ok I guess
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What Was That? |
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