Immortalized by Disturbed

Immortalized, Disturbed's sixth studio album, came out on Reprise on August 21, 2015, ending the longest wait of the Chicago band's career: nothing new since Asylum in 2010, and a hiatus that ran from October 2011 until their return in June 2015. Kevin Churko produced, and the band made it as a trio, David Draiman singing, Mike Wengren on drums and Dan Donegan handling the guitars and every bass part too, with John Moyer off on other projects.

The bulk of it is what you'd expect, alternative metal with gritted teeth and Draiman's barking staccato, but the curveball is the one everyone remembers: a cover of Simon & Garfunkel's 1964 "The Sound of Silence", slowed to a funeral crawl and building to a towering, operatic howl. It became their biggest song since "Down with the Sickness". The album moved 98,000 units in its first week and debuted at number one, their fifth in a row, a streak only Metallica and Dave Matthews Band had pulled off before them.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.