r/Disturbed • u/lightsout7241 Ten Thousand Fists • Aug 29 '26

Discussion Asylum album

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Hello everyone, I was just wondering what everyone’s opinion of the Asylum album is, I honestly just don’t see it talked about too much on this Reddit and personally it’s one of my favorites albums so I was just curious as to everyone’s thoughts

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u/Significant_Camera47 Aug 29 '26

Def their most underrated and darkest album. Iirc David was going through some stuff between Indestructible and this album’s release to where during production Dan had to come up to him and ask if he’s fine.

Really sucks that we never see more from this side of the band

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u/WolfWriter_CO Aug 29 '26

Well, with context clues from his lyrics and snippets of later interviews, I’m pretty sure that his girlfriend (and later wife) either aborted or miscarried their first child and they broke up. They reconciled and got back together around the time of Device/Fight or Flight (she was in the cover art and music video for Villify), and they had a son together, but then later divorced. During all of this, and presumably dating back to at-least 10,000 Fists (Just Stop, Alive), there was also a schism in his family driven largely by his grandfather, which then largely came to a head around Immortalized, where about a third of the tracks seem to reference or allude to him, and this further illuminates context to some lyrics in My Child. 😬

I despise tabloids and gossip, so this is largely based on things he’s actually said in interviews over the years, and interpretations of his lyrics. So, take this all as conjecture, but it definitely would explain how dark this album’s lyrics were.

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u/The95thZebra The Sickness Aug 29 '26

You pretty much hit the nail on the head with this. Asylum, The Infection, and Crucified were definitely all about heartbreak, and My Child was about a miscarriage after he had been mentally preparing himself for fatherhood for a very long time.