Hunted

Album: Device (2013)
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  • David Draiman formed Device with former Filter member Geno Lenardo in 2012, after Lenardo asked the Disturbed vocalist to contribute to "Hunted," a track he was working on for the Underworld: Awakening soundtrack. Contractual conflicts kept the song from being used in the film, but Draiman told Billboard magazine that it was the catalyst for "conversations between the two of us about writing some more together." Starting in March of 2012 at Draiman's Austin, Texas home the pair penned Device's eponymous album in two sessions. "'Hunted' was the only template we had, but if you listen to the whole (album) you notice that 'Hunted' is the most 'industrial' sounding song on the record," Draiman explained. "So it was a starting-off point. We wanted the kind of electronic saturation that exists on 'Hunted' to prevail on the rest of the material, but as you can hear on the record the songs go in very, very different and definitive directions and have very definitive and different styles and textures to them."
  • Draiman explained the song's meaning to Artist Direct: "Evil can be inviting when it's done in a fun, campy way, and you're not taking it seriously," he said. "It's meant for good storybooks. That song was written for that. If you read the lyric, it's very obvious that's what it's about. It's born of the same thing. I love the traditional vampire and werewolf mythology not the whole fu--ing glittering, shiny, and happy Twilight crap [Laughs]. I always loved that going back in the day. Even take things like An American Werewolf in London to the Lon Chaney days, I'm a fan of the mythology. I continue to be. It bugs me that it's been cheapened so much and turned into a soap opera. Vampires and werewolves are supposed to be scary."

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