DISTURBED DEBUTS AT NUMBER ONE

Disturbed’s new album Asylum has debuted at Number One on the Billboard 200 chart, marking the 4th consecutive Number One, and Dan Donegan said they have the…

Disturbed has topped the Billboard Album Chart with the debut release of Ten Thousand Fists. The band sold just shy of 240,000 copies of the album in the U.S., making it the second consecutive time an album by the hard rock/heavy metal band has debuted at the top.

Ten Thousand Fists is the third album released by the band, and although their debut, The Sickness, didn’t debut at the top, it ended up selling three million copies. Vocalist David Draiman was asked if there was a different mindset in the making of Ten Thousand Fists.

“There wasn’t a specific mindset, you know. We just set out to write the best songs we possibly could. It’s not like there was any conscientious effort to steer them in any one particular direction. We all seemed to be a little angrier this record we all seem to be a little more… We’re obviously better at playing our own respective instruments by this point, having been a band now since, oh god, August of ’96.”

Disturbed is set to headline the Jagermeister tour, which kicks off November 4 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Meanwhile, across the pond Disturbed’s Fists made a respectable debut in the U.K.’s top 75 albums.