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This Limited version of BELIEVE is packaged in a leather-bound book, accompanied by a companion bonus DVD disc.
Taking the essence of classic metal and making it contemporary is a feat that Disturbed has accomplished with staggering results. While the band's debut only toyed with melodicism (much of THE SICKNESS was derivative of the growing stable of rap metal bands), BELIEVE is Disturbed's musical arrival. Razor-sharp syncopated riffing is melded with rock radio-friendly melodic vocals, making a jaw-dropping first impression with album-opener "Prayer." The track has the requisite elements to make it an instant metal classic. Disturbed's influences peek through their music, but not in a negative sense; it's clear that Pantera, Metallica and Queensryche were among the artists this band cut their teeth on.
"Intoxication" revisits the vocal style that broke the band with "Down With The Sickness," but vocalist David Draiman puts much more effort into a vocal approach that doesn't rely on gimmicks, especially with the big chorus in "Remember" and the splayed vocal harmonies in "Believe." Making the leap into rock balladry, the album closes on an emotional note with "Darkness." With BELIEVE, Disturbed show themselves to be much more than a one-trick pony; instead they carry the torch for metal in the new millennium.
Taking the essence of classic metal and making it contemporary is a feat that Disturbed has accomplished with staggering results. While the band's debut only toyed with melodicism (much of THE SICKNESS was derivative of the growing stable of rap-metal bands), BELIEVE is Disturbed's true musical arrival. Razor-sharp, syncopated riffing is melded with radio-friendly melodic vocals, making a jaw-dropping first impression with album-opener "Prayer." The track has the requisite elements to make it an instant metal classic. Disturbed's influences peek through their music, but not in a negative sense; it's clear that Pantera, Metallica, and Queensryche were among the artists this band cut their teeth on.
"Intoxication" revisits the vocal style that made the band popular, but vocalist David Draiman puts much more effort into a vocal approach that doesn't rely on gimmicks, especially with the big chorus in "Remember" and the splayed vocal harmonies in "Believe." Making the leap into rock balladry, the album closes on an emotional note with "Darkness." With BELIEVE, Disturbed show themselves to be much more than a one-trick pony--instead, they carry the torch for metal into a new millennium.
Disturbed: David Draiman (vocals); Dan Donegan (guitar, keyboards); Fuzz (bass); Mike Wengren (drums).
Additional personnel: Alison Chesley (cello).
This is an Enhanced CD, which contains both regular audio tracks and multimedia computer files.Rolling Stone (10/3/02, p.100) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Revealing more of their 80s roots...BELIEVE represents a skillful variation on the melodrama-meets-mayhem formula that has been driving successful new metal..."
Entertainment Weekly (9/20/02, p.106) - "...No nu-metal sounds on this solid second album, just old-fashioned drum bombs and MASTER OF PUPPETS-era guitar fuzz..." - Rating: B-
CMJ (10/7/02) - "...BELIEVE is a rock record in its truest sense....Disturbed focuses on stellar, solid songwriting bolstered by thick grooves and Dan Donegan's razor sharp riffs..." Believe Music Review Average Rating: (4.7 out of 5 stars)   List All Reviews A true classic
The Believe album is a classic, it really does feature some great songs with Disturbed's unique sound. Buy it!
Submitted by Ian (London, UK)
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 Perfect fusion
Disturbed is a great band with a superb fusion of head banging, open minded intellectualism, and a smooth, classic rock and roll feel.
Submitted by woodlandcritterchristmas (East Wenatchee, WA, USA)
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best metal band since godsmack
been a disturbed one since the sickness album came out luv them ever since saw them live so many times its amazing got my ten thousand fists album signed by all of them nice guys also
Submitted by Gravechild815 (wisconsin)
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Disturbed is the greatest hard core band there is. This isnt their best album,the SIckness is. The best song is Liberate. Its just awesome. GEt it. Stop reading this review and get it. Why are you still reading it? GO!
Submitted by kid metalhead (Surprise, AZ, USA)
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Darkness is the best ballad ive ever heard what can i say .... Disturbed Rock!
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Purchase Believe CD To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Disturbed Sickness CD (2000)
Believe
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Disturbed's debut found the band crawling through the mire of contemporary metal staples for a cohesive direction. The staccato primal scream that became the band's trademark helped break the single, "Down With The Sickness," in tandem with the song's Tool-meets-Pantera rhythmic complexities. From the rap metal grooves of "Voices" and "Stupify" to the neo-reggae vibe of "Violence Fetish," THE SICKNESS was a musical forecast of things to come for Disturbed. "Numb" found the band making a foray into more melodic and progressive territory, an approach they would ...
| | Disturbed Believe (not limited edition) CD (2002) Enhanced CD, NOT limited leather ed.
Believe
$11.75
This Limited version of BELIEVE is packaged in a leather-bound book, accompanied by a companion bonus DVD disc.
Taking the essence of classic metal and making it contemporary is a feat that Disturbed has accomplished with staggering results. While the band's debut only toyed with melodicism (much of THE SICKNESS was derivative of the growing stable of rap metal bands), BELIEVE is Disturbed's musical arrival. Razor-sharp syncopated riffing is melded with rock radio-friendly melodic vocals, making a jaw-dropping first impression with album-opener "Prayer." The track has the requisite elements to make it an instant metal classic. Disturbed's influences peek through their music, but not in a negative sense; it's clear that Pantera, Metallica and Queensryche were among the artists this band cut their teeth on.
"Intoxication" revisits the vocal style that broke the band with "Down With The Sickness," but vocalist David Draiman puts much more effort into a vocal approach that doesn't rely on gimmicks, especially with the big chorus in "Remember" and the splayed vocal harmonies in "Believe." Making the leap into rock balladry, the album closes on an emotional note with "Darkness." With BELIEVE, Disturbed show themselves to be much more than a one-trick pony; instead they carry the torch for metal in the new millennium.
Taking the essence of classic metal and making it contemporary is a feat that Disturbed has accomplished with staggering results. While the band's debut only toyed with melodicism (much of THE SICKNESS was derivative of the ...
| | Godsmack Faceless CD (2003) Enhanced CD
Believe
$11.99
"Straight Out Of Line" was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance.
Godsmack first came to fame with a seamless blend of Metallica-like vocals and hooks and seemingly Tool-inspired prog-metal sensibilities all combined into an unrelentingly aggressive sonic attack. FACELESS continues in that tradition, delivering blow after aural blow via hellfire guitar riffs, devil's-anvil drums, and a gut-wrenching sense of dynamics. As implied above, singer Sully Erna alternates handily between James Hetfield-style lion growl and more vulnerable Maynard James Keenan tones, singing of all that's gone wrong both in himself and in the world that surrounds him, while the rest of the band does a fine job of representing the mayhem of modern society.
Unlike many other nu-metal types, Godsmack doesn't feel the need to leaven their attack with crossover-potential ballads and orchestral/electronic interludes. FACELESS provides one breathless bash after another without fail, never giving an inch until the very end, when the percussion-and-chanting strains of "The Awakening" give way to the largely acoustic, rather Alice in Chains-sounding closing tune "Serenity."
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| | Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists CD (2005)
Believe
$10.75
Five years after Disturbed's crushing debut, the Chicago nu-metal stalwarts offer their third full-length, TEN THOUSAND FISTS. Reunited with long-time producer Johnny K and new bassist John Moyer (Union Underground), Disturbed's return boasts a revitalized edge. TEN THOUSAND FISTS carries the metallic fire of THE SICKNESS, perfectly balanced with the melodic sensibility of ...
| | Hinder Extreme Behavior CD (2005)
Believe
$10.39
It's unclear precisely which definition of their name Hinder prefer: "to impede progress" or "the outdated midwestern slang term for the buttocks." Both fit, because Hinder is an unapologetic throwback to the post-Guns 'n' Roses era of hard rock, when dudes like Poison and Motley Crue ditched their glam look in favor of a grungier "street" vibe and a tougher-edged sound. Their unapologetically smirking ...
| | Disturbed Indestructible CD (2008)
Believe
$11.05
Disturbed is one of the few bands that can be uncompromisingly cynical and captivatingly inspirational at the same time. If 2005's TEN THOUSAND FISTS was a call to arms, then INDESTRUCTIBLE is a rampaging battle cry. Disturbed enters the melee with all guns blazing and refuses to grant mercy up until the very last track.The band seems to abhor the notion of "filler," so each ...
| | Best Of The Tams CD (1995) (Import) United Kingdom
Believe
$17.79
The Best of the Tams features 14 songs from singles that they recorded for ABC-Paramount between 1963 and 1969, their most productive era. The collection includes "What Kind of Fool (Do You Think I Am?)," "Be Young, Be Foolish, Be Happy," and a few late-'60s songs by Joe South. This is decent, somewhat retro-flavored (even for the time) soul with heavy pop and doo wop influences, sounding at times like a very unschooled variation of the early Impressions. Unfortunately, this doesn't include their early-'60s hit "Untie Me," which was recorded before the group joined ABC-Paramount. ~ Richie Unterberger
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| | Sokuho! Utano Daijiten Presents: 80S vs. 90S Ballads CD (2004) (Import) Japan
Believe
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| | Manes How The World Came To An End CD (2007) (Import) United Kingdom
Believe
$13.15
Evolution and abrupt change are two very different things in the music world. A band that might have sounded a certain way in 1995 and sounded much different in 2005 didn't necessarily get there overnight; in many cases, change is a process of gradual evolution over time. But when bands quickly give themselves a radical makeover, it is much more jolting. That was the case with Manes, who started out as a black metal band but abruptly switched to a more electronica-oriented approach on their second full-length album, Vilosophe. Nothing on How the World Came to an End (the Norwegian outfit's third full-length album) has anything whatsoever to do with black metal; there are metal influences at times (namely, industrial metal), but not once does this 2007 release offer any acknowledgement of black metal. Instead, How the World Came to an End flaunts its electronica orientation with pride, drawing heavily on trip-hop and also showing an appreciation of everything from alternative rap (there is rapping in both English and French) to world music to industrial agitators like Nine Inch Nails. But even during its more metallic and industrialized moments, How the World Came to an End is never terribly brutal. Much of the album, in fact, falls outside of metal altogether. A variety of comparisons come to mind when this CD is playing -- sometimes Dead Can Dance, sometimes Depeche Mode, sometimes even Sting -- but not once is Dark Funeral or Marduk a valid comparison, and anyone hoping for a return to black metal certainly won't find it here. Some black metal enthusiasts have vehemently lambasted Manes for their change of direction, but the fact is that How the World ...
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