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The Night by Disturbed
01 March 2009

Taken off the third consecutive number 1 album for the heavy metal band, The Night, being the first track completed off the album, Indestructible, is symbolic in title and delivery of the exceptionally dark material found in the band’s self-produced studio effort. So much so that the album was originally to be titled The Night.

The album is the first of the four albums that was not produced by Johnny K who masterminded Sickness among others, but Indestructible does feature some of the band’s work from the days of Sickness that were never included in that album (namely the tracks, Perfect Insanity and Divide).

The album is very sincere and close-to-the-band in terms of being influenced, particularly in terms of its lyrical content, by the bad luck that plagued vocalist David Draiman’s life – from bad relationships, to motorcycle accident and even suicide thoughts that flooded his mind as he discovered the body of his girlfriend who had just killed herself.

Draiman says the song "The Night" is, "just kind of meant to portray the night almost as like a living entity that sets you free. You're enveloped by it, enmasked by it."

Draiman screams, wails and taunts the cries of woodland animal (as termed by Q Magazine) in the track and hard hitting gigantic riffs that spat out screeching and thundering bouts of angst like in the days of Sickness. Some say that this makes the song part of heard-before set list, that doesn’t offer anything new. While others say, so what if the band still has the same angst they had ten years ago so long as it still has enough passion to emote a song.

In the end, this is a song that attacks with piercing resonance all Nu Metal syndrome and predictable rock rage that the band is usually pigeon-holed into.

FYI the song Inside the Fire was nominated at the Grammy’s for Best Hard Rock Performance.

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