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These Chicago metalheads are nobody’s idea of a brainy rock band, so at first it’s disconcerting to hear them splice a sample of George W. Bush bloviating about freedom into "Deify," a cut from this their third studio album. Stick with the song, though, and you’ll recall that frontman David Draiman is best known for singing about "drowning deep in my sea of loathing," as he did in one of Disturbed’s first big hits, "Down with the Sickness." If the sound bite is any indication, "Deify" is a brutal takedown of the president in which Draiman insists he won’t let America "renew belief in some demented man"— strong stuff from a group expected to adhere to new metal’s psychological boilerplate. Draiman and his mates try to duplicate the social critique in an electronically enhanced cover of Genesis’s "Land of Confusion" — on their 2000 debut they did Tears for Fears’ "Shout" — but it’s not quite as effective. Blame Phil Collins, another demented man.
