Review by illusionist for Disturbed - Immortalized (2015)

Sounds like a half-assed cash grab, not a five-year project

What a steaming pile of sameness. Not all terrible, but very dull. Disturbed's albums have always been a little repetitive, but I can usually pull out a few really great songs worth coming back to. Not the case here. Maybe my tastes have outgrown Disturbed completely, but I don't think that's the case because I was enjoying "Inside The Fire", "Stupify" and "Stricken" just yesterday. I think Immortalized just fails to be memorable...at all. I mean, it's not even catchy. Pop Metal that's not fun or catchy is just Crap Metal with no redeeming value. 

I count three non-cover songs maybe worth listening to again (Save Our Last Goodbye, The Vengeful One, Never Wrong). Three cringe-worthy bad ones cancel them out (The Light, What Are You Waiting For, Fire It Up) and the other seven are indistinguishable in their mediocrity. Well, that's 45 minutes of my life I'll never get back. When I feel my hankering for guilty-pleasure alt/nu metal coming on, I'll stick with the first four Disturbed albums and forget this one exists.

At least the cover of The Sound of Silence is aiight.