The new Disturbed is out. I think it's their best album since Indestructible. The quality overall is better than Immortalized and Asylum, which I thought were both mixed efforts with some great songs and then song that are forgettable. This one doesn't have really any that stand out like a must hear but their are less songs that I skip.
I feel like the talk of this being very different is a bit exaggerated. With the Deluxe Version, you get 14 songs but 1 is the well known live performance of The Sound of Silence where David duets with Miles Kennedy of Alter Bridge and the other is a strange remix of Are You Ready. The rest of the breakdown is 7 traditional Disturbed and about 5 acoustic/ballad songs. The classic Disturbed songs are all decent to good, I didn't really hear any that I thought were bad. This Venom is a deluxe track and its pretty awesome. The ballads; well I must say I was a bit skeptical about them going that route but they are all actually pretty good. DD can flat out sing. 2 of them sound like songs you could sing at a funeral and would be fitting. I think I actually may enjoy the acoustic more than the classic Disturbed songs.
If I had to compare it to another album of theirs, it's probably like a continuation of Believe. Not has heavy but overall more solid.