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As a rock music fan, it’s rare that a band manages to rise to the top and stay there. The names that decorate that list are among legend: Metallica, Pearl Jam, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Nirvana (while they were around), and Disturbed.

Disturbed have released five albums to since their inception in the early 2000s. They blasted to the top of the charts on hits like “Stupefy” and “Down with the Sickness” and have remained there since. Unfortunately, lead singer David Draiman has issued a statement saying that the band will not be touring in 2012 and will go on an indefinite hiatus.

Going into their last tour, Disturbed was looking to amp up their production quality. With a busy summer schedule, their first ever dates in South America, and a new album to their name (Asylum), the heavy rock foursome opted for a more elaborate display. To do so, they enlisted digital artist Charlie Terrell.

Known for his macabre digital paintings and his sardonic country music, Terrell seemed the perfect candidate to create the stunning visuals for Disturbed’s final tour.

“My video is not my true voice, it is the residue of my ambition,” Terrell stated. “But when I’m working with a client, I like the challenge of trying to please them even though it’s not necessarily my own work. That’s the real challenge.”

Charlie and Disturbed worked together to create a crop of new visuals that represented the band’s new material on Asylum, but also included the band’s previous music and artwork.

“It’s hard for us as artists and as a band to give that creativity to someone else and trust their vision,” said Disturbed lead guitarist, Dan Donegan, “and [Charlie] had a nice sense of direction, some cool, dark images, and was pretty much on the same page as where we are with the imagery. A lot of stuff just really blew us away.”

Terrell had to contend with the band’s early career success and the various iconic figures that went along with it. Well known for their dark side, Disturbed’s official mascot, a sinister smiling hooded figure known as “The Guy” had been a part of their visual aesthetic from the start of their career.

“I like what he did with Stupefy, which was our first single from The Sickness,” Donegan said. “[Terrell] took images from our old video and just warped them and kind of turned them around, incorporated some of his new textures, and I thought that was a creative way to tie in that old look from 11 years ago. With our trademark art work, “The Guy”, to kind of bring those things in there was important to us because those images have become a big part of the band.”

As Disturbed’s reign as the most popular hard rock band of the last decade comes to close, they will tour it out in style.

“Everything is about matching the video to the song,” said Terrell.

Written by Daniel | Posted in Guest Post