About two days ago I got the new Disturbed album. Needless to say when I put it in for the first time and listened to it I nearly wet myself. Some people may call this album more of the same, but when this is referring to Disturbed it cannot be negatively construed

So now I shall commence writing a paragraph on each of the twelve tracks of the album Indestructible.

Well it starts off with the title track, Indestructible. And I have to say that this is a tank song. An absolute tank song. I will listen to it while I go around killing shit in MMOs and revelling in the glory of being a tank. I will listen to it while working out. I will listen to it before important examinations. I hear that there's a video in production and I cannot wait to see it.

Next song is Inside the Fire, which has been out a while now, and it's about suicide and stuff, so I had plenty time in which to react to this song and its video. Honestly speaking the video made me cry, and the song itself... wah. It's just so brooding and whatnot.

Deceiver was one I wasn't expecting to like since it's track 3 and third tracks on CDs are usually my least favourite ones. But that theory has since been disproved. This was the first track when I became impressed and curious about David Draiman's vocal range. The notes he hits in this one just seem... so high. And to be screaming them out, it really blows the mind. The lyrics are also very heavy, especially around the second verse. And as always, the bridge is excellent. I just love Disturbed's bridges; they're always so nice ^_^

And now we come to possibly my favourite song on the album, The Night. I have not yet exercised my brain in order to try and figure out what this song is really about. I've been too preoccupied with the beauty of the vocals... What do I do to be able to sing like that? Seriously, what do I do? The melodies are interesting, I've been loving the harmonies, and the lyrics, although somewhat confusing to me right at this present moment, are the usual brand of poetic (in a good way). So yeah. Favourite track :D

I thought it was really cool that they decided to re-record Perfect Insanity, cause I had heard the original and wondered what they might do to make it epic. Well it's pretty epic. You've got a nice guitar solo (that's another thing I like about this album; you get a lot of guitar solos. I can sort of hear the Soundgarden in them sometimes), you get pretty harmonies that I really like, and the entire song actually became a degree more tuneful. This re-recording is great.

Now it's time to get Haunted. The verses and such are very hard and heavy, but the chorus is unusually soulful-sounding. I think it's very singy-alongy. However, I don't really have that much to say about it... *shrug* Weird, huh? Also, this song had a grammatical error in it that kinda broke my heart.

Track sevens are usually my favourites on CDs, but that position was already taken up by track 4. However, Enough is a very close second favourite. Dear God. To look at it on a really superficial level, this is a "bring the troops home" song, and what a song it is. Wow. This song contains what I think is possibly the most powerful lyric on the entire album:

When your heart is broken a thousand times
With every moment, is that enough?

Now tell me that isn't a perfectly fitting description of the agony and loss of dignity and hope that happens when inconsiderate and silly men decide to go to war. Or rather, inconsiderate and silly men send optimistic young boys off to war. But this song is the shit; it is like the best anti-war anthem I've ever heard since And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda.*

The Curse is another of those songs that I probably don't have too much to say about. However, what I like most about this song is the kind of rhyme-play David employs in the pre-chorus bit. It fits in so well with the percussion and everything else. And there he goes with those high notes again here. And I also really like the rhythms in the verses.

I consider Torn to be the foreplay track of this album. Yes, the foreplay track. It's slow and lulling and relaxing, yet it seems that it's preparing you for something big. Soundgarden used to have tracks like this on their CDs. I love the chorus melodies, and the harmonies in the last chorus... they make me feel like... well yes.

Once I had a friend (yes "had", I've quite lost him now) who wrote a short story. I don't remember what it was called, but the main character was attacked by vampires and after using his new-found vampireness to slaughter his enemies, was so sad about his state that he asked his lover to kill him. This is what I think of immediately when I hear Criminal, and I think I want to get my ex-friend to listen to it. The way the last note in each of the first two chorus lines goes UP at the end raises my pores. As always it leaves me wondering what drugs or herbs I could possibly ingest to be able to sing like David Draiman.

The lyrics of Divide are funny. Not in a bad way at all. When I say funny, I mean Heath Ledger's Joker kind of funny. They're actually darkly funny. So I give it a thumbs up for lyrics. I haven't actually sat and listened to this song very much yet, so I can't really talk about the musicality and instrumentation too much for now.

Façade impressed me in that I think this is one of the few Disturbed songs I know that seems wholly sympathetic towards a woman and her plight. That's just what I think. I may be wrong. I may be saying something horrible without knowing it. But anyway. The lyrics of the first verse are actually, for want of a better word, quite disturbing. And in the pre-chorus line "I can't believe she's still with him", I heard *so much rage* in that single word "him" that it scared me. Façade is a great song about something that happens in our world far too often.

So yes, that's the album for you. I purchase albums I'm really excited about, and this one definitely warranted the expenditure of my hundred and forty dollars. Well, my brother's hundred and forty dollars, seeing as he didn't buy me a PRESENT for my very IMPORTANT eighteenth BIRTHDAY. But I love him for it. So now I can look forward to a good few more months of my boyfriend calling me "Jarhead" because the US Army and I have the same taste in music. Oh well... it's just love.

*And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda is the most depressing song in the universe in which a young roaming traveller goes off to fight a meaningless war and gets his legs blown the fuck off.