content: How does this CD contrast with the better ones from Tool, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, and other icons of heavy rock? Let me count the ways. Where the other ones can vary their style, up to and including the light and lyrical, this CD stays in the realm of the unduly loud. Where the other ones, even when heavy, offer interesting, unique riffs that entice repeated listenings, this CD provides nonstop noise that irritates more than it entertains. Where the other ones provide novel and even incisive lyrics, this CD's lyrics wander aimlessly and thrust at nothing I can recognize. I don't want to say that there's no talent here, but rather, that better vehicles for display of that talent might come along. Don't spend money on Disturbed until they do.