Ten Thousand Fists (2005)

While heavy metal band Disturbed displays all the expected aggression and angst of its peers, it has achieved a wildly successful, chart-busting popularity, bolstered by a melodic complexity and frontman Dave Draiman's persuasive swagger. Formed in Chicago in 1996, the band developed a passionate following in their hometown. Their first major label release in 2000 sold in the millions, and their 2002 follow-up BELIEVE topped the charts. Main-staging 2003's Ozzfest cemented their status as the reigning kings of nu-metal, so that their hotly anticipated 2005 release 10,000 FISTS debuted at number one on the Billboard Top 200.

Artist Influences
Anthrax | Biohazard | Black Sabbath | D.R.I. (Punk) | Danzig | Deftones | Hurt | Incubus | Kittie | Life of Agony | Marilyn Manson | Megadeth | Metallica | Ministry | Pro-Pain | Prong | Tool

Artist Contemporaries
?nloco | Adema | Blindside | Breaking Benjamin | Burn Season | Chevelle | Coheed and Cambria | Drowning Pool | Five Finger Death Punch | Full Scale | Godsmack | Korn | Lamb of God | Limp Bizkit | P.O.D. | Pantera | Rage Against the Machine | Saliva | Seether | Sevendust | Slipknot | SOiL | Soulfly | Staind | Stone Sour | System of a Down | Taproot | Three Days Grace