“The Night” by Disturbed

"The Night" was the fourth single pulled from Disturbed's Indestructible, arriving in March 2009, but it was actually the first of the album's songs the band finished musically. The instrumental was so dark and textured that David Draiman dove straight in, wrote his vocal melody in three days, and for a while even thought about naming the whole record after it.

Draiman meant the lyric to treat the night as a living thing, something that wraps around you, hides you and sets you loose. Dan Donegan produced, with Draiman and drummer Mike Wengren as co-producers and John Moyer on bass, and Donegan's guitar work, the solo above all, drew near-universal praise. Neal Avron mixed it, and a video shot that January followed in late March.

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