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Review Summary: Keepin’ it PG this time now, are we? The first time I listened to a song off the album was a few months ago- “The Vengeful One.” It seemed like an okay song, but it didn’t strike me as anything great. I took another shot at listening to it a week ago and I liked it more this time around, so I thought I should give the album a listen. Oh boy, how ‘mortalized’ I felt after the first few listens.
The monotony of this album is paramount. This is hard for me to say as an avid Disturbed listener since “The Sickness.” I enjoyed all of their albums up until this one. Every time I thought a song off this album was taking the right turn, the band would take a sharp left into the safe zone. I was getting blue-balled on every listen. I really wanted to like this album, but I just could not feel any energy in the choruses and verses. The guitar work is borderline generic, but David Draiman definitely let me down. Where are the slashing vocals, the anger in his voice, the dark vocals that made Disturbed one of my favorite bands as a teenager? Well it’s all gone. It’s not all David’s fault, as the entire band failed to create a musical atmosphere in this album.
I’ve never cringed during a Disturbed song, but “Fire It Up” was god awful. “The Vengeful One” was very promising, but it was played way too safely and was punitively generic. In fact, I could describe almost all of the songs off this album in the same way. It seemed the band was hoping that any one of the songs would land on mainstream rock radio and become a success. Hopefully next time they bring more energy and focus to their album. “Immortalized” is just an abysmal effort.
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This review is a little too self-directed without delving too much on the specific negatives of the record - it's not badly written as such I just think it needs a little more vigorous description of the shortcomings rather than just reverting to it being boring.
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Where are the slashing vocals, the anger in his voice, the dark vocals that made Disturbed one of my favorite bands as a teenager?
This makes you sound like an entitled whiner and it shouldn't be in a review. Never make it self directed as Mercury said.
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// That sentence was poorly worded to begin with.
| | | Album Rating: 3.0
You gon' learn today
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Keepin’ it PG this time now, are we?
ok you shouldn't be complaining about that when
5.0 classic
Bullet for My Valentine The Poison
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory
Linkin Park Meteora
Linkin Park Reanimation
Story of the Year Page Avenue
Story of the Year The Black Swan
Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie
Three Days Grace One-X
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"blue balled on every listen"
Was it like blue balls in your heart?
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"ok you shouldn't be complaining about that when
5.0 classic
Bullet for My Valentine The Poison
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory
Linkin Park Meteora
Linkin Park Reanimation
Story of the Year Page Avenue
Story of the Year The Black Swan
Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie
Three Days Grace One-X"
http://giphy.com/gifs/rekt-12kwNiP8SSIUus
| | | Album Rating: 2.0
PG for Pretty Gruesomely terrible. I actually sat through the singles and two non-single songs but didn't finish any of them.
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how many weird grunting noises are on this album
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ok you shouldn't be complaining about that when
5.0 classic
Bullet for My Valentine The Poison
Linkin Park Hybrid Theory
Linkin Park Meteora
Linkin Park Reanimation
Story of the Year Page Avenue
Story of the Year The Black Swan
Thirty Seconds to Mars A Beautiful Lie
Three Days Grace One-X
Congrats, you've succeeded in reminding the user what some of his favourite albums are. Feel clever
| | | Album Rating: 1.5
I've been on Sputnik for quite a while now, and I've never created an album review before. After listening to Immortalized, it fueled me with so much disappointment that I just had to make one. Also, lol for pulling up my classics and reminding me that those are all albums from the first 5 bands I've ever listened to. No matter how many times I've listened to them, they still have not become stale so I'm pretty sure the nostalgia factor is OD persistent. I probably listened to those albums non-stop for like 2 years.....and I still do here and there. brb gotta trim down those ratings..
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Problem with this review is that it comes off as little more than a glorified blog post
Try to come off as more objective when reviewing.
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Yeah I get what you and others are saying. After reading the review again, a lot of it was subjective.
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Pardon my ignorance, but what does "PG" mean here?
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Pardon my ignorance, but what does "PG" mean here?
I'm still guessing it's like the motion picture rating system - it's in keeping with the review saying how boring the record is, although 'Fire It Up' is very non-PG even if it is desperately puerile.
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You got it right mercury. The record was just a muddle of bland shit. No risks taken at all, just an extremely monotonous version of their same ol' sound. Although that cover of "Sound of Silence" was amazing. I gotta give Disturbed credit for that.
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