The Vengeful One

"The Vengeful One"
Single by Disturbed
from the album Immortalized
ReleasedJune 23, 2015
GenreHeavy metal
Length4:11
LabelReprise
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Kevin Churko
Disturbed singles chronology
"Hell"
(2011) 		"The Vengeful One"
(2015) 		"Immortalized"
(2015)
Music video
"The Vengeful One" on YouTube

"The Vengeful One" is a song by heavy metal band Disturbed, from their sixth album Immortalized. It was released on June 23, 2015, and is the band's first released song in 4 years, since the release of The Lost Children.[1] The song is featured as the background music in the opening for Ferrall on the Bench, Scott Ferrall's CBS Sports Radio show.[citation needed]

Accolades

Region Year Publication Accolade Rank
United States 2015 Loudwire 20 Best Rock Songs of 2015[2] 8
10 Best Rock Videos of 2015[3] 2

Loudwire Music Awards

Year Nominee / work Award Result
2015 The Vengeful One Best Rock Song Nominated
2015 Best Rock Video Nominated

Track listing

Compact disc single
No.TitleLength
1."The Vengeful One"4:11
2."Immortalized"4:17
3."The Vengeful One" (Instrumental)4:11
4."Immortalized" (Instrumental)4:17
Total length:16:55
Digital download single
No.TitleLength
1."The Vengeful One"4:11
Total length:4:11

Music video

The animated, rotoscoping-heavy music video was directed by Phil Mucci and released on YouTube on June 23. It features the band's mascot The Guy, as "The Vengeful One" and "The Dark Messiah" embarking on a destructive crusade against hyperbolic representations of corruption and cultural toxicity in modern news media.

The video opens with The Guy monitoring television broadcasts from a void in deep space. Television screens depict war and destruction and flash the words like "HATE", "FEAR", and "OBEY"; while news broadcasts show combined line and bar graphs with the words "DEATH TOLL / STOCKS SOAR" and "POVERTY / PROFITS" delivered by cheery anchors. Fed up with what he sees, The Guy embarks toward the source of the violent broadcasts to stop them, discovering a towering building on the edge of a city labeled Global Warfare Manufacturing. The building is surrounded by ruins and vehicles in a desert, with decaying ships indicating the presence of a dried-up ocean. Inside, the news anchors are revealed to be robotic puppets, all media is controlled by a single businessman, and broadcast from a central location. The Guy destroys all the robotic anchors and proceeds to the Master Control room where he finds feral demonic workers cannibalizing an intern named Hope. The Guy kills the demonic workers, with the final demonic businessman being thrown out a window into a passing helicopter. Over the course of the video, a family is depicted watching television news and violent cartoons and changing into the same feral demons that were in the master control room. The Guy removes the large spherical camera rig from the center of the room and throws it into the sun, and destroys Global Warfare MFG's satellites as he departs. With the violent broadcasts stopped, the family returns to human form and appears to be at peace once again.

Personnel

Disturbed

Production

Charts

Certifications

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[9] Gold 35,000‡
Canada (Music Canada)[10] Platinum 80,000‡
New Zealand (RMNZ)[11] Gold 15,000‡
Poland (ZPAV)[12] Gold 25,000‡

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

The Vengeful One was released as a downloadable content for the video game, Rock Band 4, on January 12, 2016.

References

  1. ^ "New Disturbed Single Is Here; 'Immortalized' Album Due In August". Blabbermouth.net. June 23, 2015. Retrieved June 23, 2015.
  2. ^ "20 Best Rock Songs of 2015". Loudwire. December 7, 2015.
  3. ^ "10 Best Rock Videos of 2015". Loudwire. December 11, 2015.
  4. ^ "Disturbed Chart History (Canada Rock)". Billboard. Retrieved January 21, 2022.
  5. ^ "Disturbed Chart History (Hot Rock & Alternative Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved January 25, 2016.
  6. ^ "Disturbed Chart History (Rock Airplay)". Billboard. Retrieved January 25, 2015.
  7. ^ "Hot Rock Songs – Year-End 2015". Billboard. Retrieved June 2, 2020.
  8. ^ "Rock Airplay Songs – Year-End 2015". Billboard. Retrieved January 21, 2022.
  9. ^ "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2024 Singles" (PDF). Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved September 27, 2024.
  10. ^ "Canadian single certifications – Disturbed – The Vengeful One". Music Canada. Retrieved September 4, 2024.
  11. ^ "New Zealand single certifications – Disturbed – The Vengeful One". Radioscope. Retrieved December 24, 2024. Type The Vengeful One in the "Search:" field.
  12. ^ "OLiS - oficjalna lista wyróżnień" (in Polish). Polish Society of the Phonographic Industry. Retrieved November 20, 2024. Click "TYTUŁ" and enter The Vengeful One in the search box.