The Vengeful One

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"The Vengeful One"
The Vengeful One.jpg
Single by Disturbed
from the album Immortalized
ReleasedJune 23, 2015
Genre Heavy metal
Length4:11
Label Reprise
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Kevin Churko
Disturbed singles chronology
"Hell"
(2011)
"The Vengeful One"
(2015)
"Immortalized"
(2015)
Music video
"The Vengeful One" on YouTube

"The Vengeful One" is a song by heavy metal band Disturbed, from their sixth album Immortalized . It was released on June 23, 2015, and is the band's first released song in 4 years, since the release of The Lost Children . [1] The song is featured as the background music in the opening for Ferrall on the Bench, Scott Ferrall's CBS Sports Radio show.[ citation needed ]

Contents

Accolades

RegionYearPublicationAccoladeRank
United States2015 Loudwire 20 Best Rock Songs of 2015 [2] 8
10 Best Rock Videos of 2015 [3] 2

Loudwire Music Awards

YearNominee / workAwardResult
2015The Vengeful OneBest Rock SongNominated
2015Best Rock VideoNominated

Track listing

Compact disc single
No.TitleLength
1."The Vengeful One"4:11
2."Immortalized"4:17
3."The Vengeful One" (Instrumental)4:11
4."Immortalized" (Instrumental)4:17
Total length:16:55
Digital download single
No.TitleLength
1."The Vengeful One"4:11
Total length:4:11

Music video

The animated, rotoscoping-heavy music video was directed by Phil Mucci and released on YouTube on June 23. It features the band's mascot The Guy, as "The Vengeful One" embarking on a destructive crusade against hyperbolic representations of corruption and cultural toxicity in modern news media.

Personnel

Disturbed

Production

Charts

The Vengeful One was released as a downloadable content for the video game, Rock Band 4, on January 12, 2016.

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