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TAKE A LEAK: DISTURBED – “PERFECT INSANITY”

 Friday, March 7th, 2008 at 3:21pm by

Disturbed

“Perfect Insanity” — the first single from the new Disturbed album Indestructible, out June 3 — has leaked. If you have Google and a brain you can surely find an mp3, or you can head over to the official Disturbed website, give them your email address, then rip it. Or you can listen via this little handy-dandy player below, streamed directly from their site (see? we’re not pirates):

Disturbed – “Perfect Insanity”

You guys really came up with some great names when we asked you what the new nickname for Disturbed should be. My personal favorites were Briss-turbed (In honor of Draiman’s religious penis decapitation), Pissturbed, Pissturd, and devil’s entry “I’m hoping to eventually call them DISSOLVED,” (good one!).

As for the new song, well, Disturbed have gone and pulled a Linkin Park and re-wrote the same song, again. Truth be told, the song (or this band) isn’t that terrible, but they’re an easy target and we sure love making fun of ‘em.

-VN

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  • TJ

    I’m not listening to the song, because I don’t torture myself.

    But goddamn am I excited for some of the commenters who are going to come out of the woodwork here to defend their beloved David Draiman.
    I seem to remember a few great posts on your last Disturbed post.

    Are there any monkey noises on this song?

  • http://www.myspace.com/darkwavesequation Andre

    Same piece of mainstream shit that they are reserving to the people, sounds exactly like Ten Thousand Fists but reheated in the microwave.

  • http://www.aversionline.com Andrew @ AVERSIONLINE

    This is actually shockingly tolerable considering the source.

  • Tony

    Meh.

    It’s not horrible, but it’s not…well, anything. The band never expanded on the music from the first album. Instead, they just rehashed it a million different ways.

    It’s frustrating because they (for some reason) remain a major band in the industry and could make waves with a good sounding album.
    I guess that won’t be happening now…

  • hegster90

    Disturbed are successful because they are the face of a certian sound that certain people who listen to a certain media format LOVE.
    They’re not awful, but it would be nice to see some bands with radio play take some chances one in awhile. Avenged Sevenfold brags about how “ecclectic” their new album is, but their singles reflect stripped down radio metal. rather than flame bands, i think we need more to look at the audience listening to them. are these people really as afraid of change as they’re made out to be? or are they just happy with anything that comes out? idk, just a thought.

    i was listening to the title track of their last CD yesterday. the intro is the exact same formula as “The Sickness”.

  • TJ

    Hegster- it isn’t that people are afraid of change. There just happens to be a large part of the population who are willfully forcefed anything the big media companies throw at them.

    The reason why Disturbed and Nickelback sell so many records is the same reason giant cinematic turds like ‘Meet the Spartans’ and ‘Epic Movie’ rake in box office money.
    Some people are too afraid to broaden their horizons away from what’s popular.

  • chris

    “…Draiman’s religious penis decapitation”

    i’m sorry but i must have missed something along the way. anyone care to explain this (as i’m sure draiman did not cut off his own penis).

  • http://www.metalsucks.net Vince Neilstein

    @ hegster * TJ: you guys are both off the mark.

    it’s not that bands aren’t willing to take chances or fans are “willfully forcefed” what the media throws at them. it’s that some bands don’t care to take chances and are happy doing what they do, and many fans don’t really care about finding out what’s new and different or expanding their horizons. they’re happy with what they’re hearing, and frankly, probably wouldn’t like a lot of our favorite bands. likewise, it’s not that the bands who make this music are playing it safe — i do believe that they genuinely enjoy and believe in the music they’re making.

    you’re taking your own musical values and imposing them on others…

  • TJ

    Vince- I’m not trying to impose my musical tastes/values on people.

    I agree with your point that a lot of times bands get comfortable in simply releasing the same album year after year, with new song titles being the only update.

    Hell, I love Hatebreed, and will admit they’ve been doing the same thing for years.

    I just personally don’t understand why a band like Disturbed gets as huge as they are. I can’t find anything remarkable about the band. So why do millions of people (well, maybe more like hundreds of thousands in today’s industry), buy their records?

  • http://www.metalsucks.net Axl Rosenberg

    I got exactly 29 seconds in – until Draiman started singing – and then I turned it off. Awful, awful, awful.

    Most people have bad taste. I truly believe that. Iann Robinson once wrote a “Thirsty & Miserable” column for Metal Sludge where he talked about how he didn’t care that he wasn’t part of the mainstream b/c the mainstream isn’t interesting – and I think he hit the nail on the head.

    Put more simply: I’m a square peg, and I learned a long time ago not to even bother trying to fit in the round hole…

  • http://www.metalsucks.net Vince Neilstein

    @ TJ, it’s quite simple; catchy songs. Songs sell records, always have, always will.

  • http://www.myspace.com/porkspam Porkpsam

    singing about how crazy you are is a) very nu metal and B0 will hit it off great will all the misunderstood 14 year olds at hot topic

  • Tony

    Vince – That formula works for Godsmack. Even as they’ve strayed from harder stuff to what they do now – it’s still the same basic formula.

    Disturbed on the other hand DID make an attempt to do more on the second album and due to their own inabilities – failed. The ballads are brutal.

    On top of that, and what sealed it for me, is that they SUCK live now. Prior to 2000 and while they supported the first album, they were all business on stage.
    Afterward, Draimen got the notion that they were the second coming of Metallica and used the stage to launch into long winded rants.

    It was also during this time that he began to do that horrifically gay dance.

    Oh and Axl, if you’ve listened to anything Iann Robinson has ever done musically, you’ll understand why most of us put ZERO stock into anything he says. He’s only deemed as being ‘cool’ because he was (very slightly) anti-MTV while on that miserable channel.

  • hegster90

    i wasn’t imposing my will on anyone either. i guess i’d just like to think there are some major label bands that would like to take a chance, but are too afraid of getting dropped from their label. and is that am entirely bad thing? i don’t think so. i’d imagine paying the bills is getting harder and harder to pay for musicians on major label and i can’t blame people for simply wanting to stay “employed”. however music by no circumstance be used soley to make money.

    and i still the think the listeners are still at the source of all this. if they liked change, record companies would catch on and tell their bands to change with every album. but they don’t. anything fresh or “out there” gets condemned on radio. so record companies play it safe, and so do the bands. not that any of this even matters that much any more. to me, radio and MTV are corpses stumbling around wondering while they smell so bad. they don’t get the fact they’re dying fast and are doing little to nothing to change things. video may have killed the radio star, but the internet slaughtered both of them, sodomized the remains, and ate whatever was left (or as i like to say “dahmered” them).

  • Ray

    not sure why you bash a band….if you don’t like them just don’t listen. personally i do like them and their music, but im not going to try to force them onto people

  • Sammy

    Nicely played, my fellow commentors. Reasoned, thought-out arguments and not the easy pot-shots.

    As for the reason radio/record labels do what they do, the answer lies right in front of you. Go to a bar sometime to see a cover band. What gets the crowd moving? The songs we’ve all heard thousands of times, ad nauseum. How many people will flock to Rocklahoma? Do they want to hear a band’s new material? No, they want to hear songs they remember.

    It was said best on one of the last Sopranos episodes. “‘Remember when’ is the lowest form of conversation.”

  • Seth

    Honestly, if disturbed “branched out” what would they sound like? They’re never going to be a prog band because they aren’t talented enough to be. They are, however, good at writing pop-nu-metal songs that make a majority of people in the midwest cream their pants. Why stray from that? What would be the motivation?

    I think the thing that frustrates serious fans of music is that in the music industry, talent is only one small portion of the equation that makes a musician/band successful. Its much easier to reconcile in a less subjective industry such as sports. The best/most talented athletes make all the money and get all the fame. Anything that requires OPINION is subject to the interpretation of the masses and big business, which is a recipe for disaster.

    In music, oftentimes the luckiest SOB who happened to make a certain type of music at a certain time will succeed while the most talented, forward-thinking, original artists are left on the outside looking in. A lot of great music will never be made because some of the world’s great musicians have to work at a shoe-store for 45 hours a week just to have the opportunity to record a $500 demo album. Its just the way it is. Be happy that you are part of the minority who is smart enough to recognize all the great music out there and appreciate it as best you can.

    Also, support your local music scene. Everyone on this site complains about record labels and the mainstream yet when you get a chance to go see the true grinders working their asses off, you choose to sit on your ass and play guitar hero instead. Try bypassing the Taste of Chaos tour this year and spend the same amount of money to check out 5-7 local metal shows, meet some people, show some support, and get wasted.

  • hegster90

    Well played, gentlemen.

  • hegster90

    btw i just saw the banner above for PtH’s new album. Revolver: “Imagine Muse for metalheads”. oh revolver, you slick bastards.

  • Sammy

    The issue I have with a lot of opinions expressed here is the concept that unless music is “extreme” (not sure how that is exactly defined) it’s not worthy to listen to or somehow automatically qualifies as “sellout”. Or the idea that if a band writes music to reach a larger audience, thereby perpetuating their chosen profession, they are somehow doing a disservice to the music industry.

    I didn’t earn a finance degree so that I could go somewhere and NOT earn a good living.

    Also, liking Disturbed and Protest the Hero is not necessarily mutually exclusive.

    @Seth: Yes, support your local music scene. Best thing you can do to keep the music alive, regardless of your tastes. Except for pop music, that is where they ALL start. Even Nickelback started off in shitty bars in Vancouver. (No, Sammy doesn’t like Nickelback.)

  • FatNate

    Most of you guys are idiots. I love Disturbed, and yes there first album was the best. But what makes them so bad to you. Every album has been different from the one before it. The reason they do so well, is because they are good. And just cause you don’t like them doesnt mean that no one else does. Get a clue!! Your no going to like every band that comes along.

  • Seth

    I don’t think disturbed or Nickelback are as bad as most people think they are on this site–they are both bands I once listened to complete albums of. That being said, i was younger at the time and just exposed to less music. Now that I have a great resource like metalsucks to inform me of new bands, Disturbed and Nickelback just arent high on my list of music to listen to because they are both generic bands that I’ve already heard. There is a reason why those bands appeal to casual music fans, while a band like Sikth or BTBAM or PTH appeal more to musicians and intense music fans. Complexity is only one element of quality music, but it is one element generally devoid from pop music–I would characterize both Disturbed and Nickelback as pop music. Although the Beatles were also pop music…so maybe I should say, MODERN pop music to distinguish.

  • Jon

    I don’t see why people find the need to bash on Disturbed so much. Disturbed is one of my favorites. If you don’t like a band then don’t listen or pay any attention to them. If you haven’t noticed there are many many fans. So while you have a different taste of music, Disturbed fans have their own tastes in music. If you don’t like it just listen to whatever you like, but don’t go bashing on other bands just because you don’t like the way they sound

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  • Andrew

    I can’t believe you guys are wasting your time bashing on a band you don’t even listen to, what a bunch of god damn losers. Everything I’ve read on this blog is absolutely your opinion its not backed by any kind of solid evidence, and if you listen to ten thousand fists and their first two new singles “inside the fire” and “perfect insanity” they sound very little like their previous works. Very funny what Seth said about Nickleback and disturbed being pop music, get a fucking dictionary man. Sorry the fan base of disturbed doesn’t listen to complex music?? I would bet my money that the majority of you guys who have left posts on this topic, negative ones, just have it out for the majority because they are “conformists” or something right. Yep they got us, these millions of disturbed fans just Follow the trend…

  • Justin

    What the fuck? Who gives yall the right to bash a band when you dont listen to them? I wouldnt call a band that has 3 albums that are all single to triple platinum winning albums a sucky band. Get your heads out of your asses and do some damn research. Disturbed and Nickelback pop? God yall suck, go learn to read and look them up MORE CLOSELY. Im not a Nickelback fan but I dont go around bashing at them just because I dont listen to them. And Disturbed doesent recreate the same music or w/e in every album. The Sickness had alot of growls in it. Believe had less. And Ten Thousand Fists had some but not as much. Sickness and Believe had no solos, 10k fists had solos. Go to google and look up Disturbed in a search query. Im proud to say I preordered the limited edition of indestructible and I dont care what anyone says.

    So just because you dont listen to a certain band, doesent mean they suck. And dont try to make people hate it if you hate it. You dont have a right to. If you dont like em, DONT LISTEN TO EM. And yeah yall dont have no solid evidence of your false opinions. Dont bash on something that you have no clue what it’s about.

  • Mike Foreman

    I sort of agree with Justin, but in only one way: I like their music. Everything else: not so much. Everyone has a right to their opinion whether good or bad. Plus he sounds like a super-hick, so plz don’t associate me with him. But I do like them, and I respect all of your opinions as to what you think of them.

  • disturbedrules

    thanx for the song ass holes

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  • ALEX!!

    Omg how many topics do u hav against DISTURBED???
    And how old ar u? making little nicknames for disturbed
    dude get a life and get lost

  • David

    I happen to like Disturbed, but I’m not actually here to comment on that, i just wanted to thank everyone who posted for giving me a good laugh, seeing people get bent out of shape over this makes me laugh.

  • disturbed

    Oh, I see I stumbled onto the douchbag website, sorry.

  • http://newgrounds.com sam jenks

    haha nice comment “disturbed”.

    anyway im one of those people who only likes music that stand out from the crowd, that have that extra oomf or drum solo ora catchy guitar solo or whatever. when i see the new disturbed album id go and get only the best songs.

    you shouldnt worry too much on how much a band sucks or how repetitive there music is because there the ones making millions, not you. and taking cheap shots at draiman’s circumcised penis is completely inappropriate but on the internet you can so what you like so i dont give a damn.

  • TheVoiceOfReason

    For those who have nothing to do with their time than make angry posts about bands they don’t like, I pity you.
    I personally like Disturbed (though I don’t like Perfect Insanity). They do have songs that are repetitive and dull, and I don’t listen to those ones.
    There are many bands that I don’t like, but I don’t spend my days blathering and trying to downgrade a group of people who have gone out and made millions by making music that some people DO like. Everyone has their own opinion of music. Save your time by posting good things about the bands you like and not attacking bands that others like, even if you don’t.

  • Some Dude

    I’d have to agree with “VoiceOfReason” (dumbass alias, btw). I’m sure some of you listen to stuff like Job For a Cowboy or Bring Me the Horizon?
    To me such things sound like a dentist drill running while some dude is scratching a chalkboard with a cheese grater and screaming at different pitches.
    The solution? I don’t listen to it. Brutally criticizing it on some badly-made web site isn’t going to do anything.

  • Chance Gentry

    You guys have no taste in music. I cant beleive you guys. I bet the majority of you retards listen to that shit knows as rap.

  • Richard

    was up

  • Michaela

    seriously? i came across this website called MetalSucks and i thought, well, i don’t hate or love metal. i just like Disturbed as the band. come on, guys. i am growing up in a Christian household, i wear glasses, i get straight As AND i’m a girl. and i still love them to death. OPEN YOUR HORIZONS!!!! well i can’t really talk, i HATE jazz…. but anyway. give at least Disturbed a chance. while you’re on, look up Warship or Where’s Your Leash by Warship. it’s really good but SUPER HEAVY. :-P