Ten Thousand Fists

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Ten Thousand Fists

Studio album by Disturbed
Released	September 20, 2005
Recorded	December 2004 - April 2005
Genre	Heavy Metal
Length	56:12
Label	Reprise
Producer(s)	Johnny K & Disturbed
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Disturbed chronology
Believe (2002)	Ten Thousand Fists (2005)
Alternate cover

Standard Edition cover

Ten Thousand Fists is the third full album by Disturbed, released in stores on September 20, 2005 - three years and three days after the release of their previous album Believe. It became Disturbed's 2nd straight #1 debut on the Billboard 200 charts as well as their second #1 album in New Zealand. It also reached #2 in Canada, #11 in Australia, #21 in Germany,#37 in Austria, #59 in the UK, and #62 in Switzerland.The album was certified Platinum on January 6, 2006.

The track "Guarded" was released to rock and metal stations in late June as a teaser, and the fully promoted first single "Stricken" was released on July 20, 2005, and was the theme song for World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE)'s pay-per-view New Year's Revolution on January 8, 2006. The 2nd single from the album was "Just Stop." The album also features "Land of Confusion" which is a cover of the Genesis song. The song will be the third single from the album, and the band worked with Todd McFarlane and Greg Capullo on the video (renowned comic book artists responsible for Ten Thousand Fists album cover).

Interestingly, a restricted-release disc was apparently compromised, and the album became available on the BitTorrent network on July 27, 2005 at 11:47 AM, fifty-five days before the officially scheduled release. Most BitTorrent sites, however, have since blocked searches for the album after requests from the copyright holder, citing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. The disc had alternate spellings for some of the song titles: "Overburdend" and "Sacred Life" (as opposed to the actual track names, "Overburdened" and "Sacred Lie").

The widely known "fan club edition" of the album never existed. An error made by marketing and website staff enabled the posting of the information of a "fan club edition" that would supposedly contain two bonus tracks. This CD does not, in fact, exist due to the aforementioned errors.

A "Special Edition" of the album was published and came with the CD and a book of illustrations by McFarlane and Capullo (in the standard release the eight page CD booklet also featured their illustrations as well but not to the extent that the special edition book includes). The CD cover had a black background instead of the orange/brown gradient background on the cover of the standard release.

[edit] Track listing

"Ten Thousand Fists" – 3:33
"Just Stop" – 3:46
"Guarded" – 3:22
"Deify" – 4:18
"Stricken" – 4:07
"I'm Alive" – 4:42
"Son of a Plunder" – 3:50
"Overburdened" – 5:59
"Decadence" – 3:27
"Forgiven" – 4:15
"Land of Confusion" – 4:50
"Sacred Lie" – 3:08
"Pain Redefined" – 4:06
"Avarice" – 2:56

[edit] Singles

"Guarded" - Released as a radio teaser in June of 2005.
"Stricken" - The first official single, released in late July 2005. The video was filmed in an abandoned hospital, where parts of the film A Nightmare on Elm Street were filmed.
"Just Stop" - The second single. Had 2 video versions: Yahoo.com released a computer-generated video, and the official video was recorded live.
"Land of Confusion" - The third official single, a cover of Genesis' 1986 hit. The video was animated by Todd McFarlane and was released on July 7 on AOL.com