Songfacts®:

• The lead single from Disturbed's sixth album Immortalized, "The Vengeful One" was the band's first released song following a four-year hiatus. "The idea was to leave when we were at our peak, which we were, and to come back when we felt reinvigorated," vocalist David Draiman asserted. "Everything was strategic. We wanted to give ourselves a chance to breathe, give the fans a chance to breathe, and give the culture a chance to evolve. Now is the time. The environment feels ready. The musical landscape feels ready. We're ready."
• Draiman explained the song's meaning: "Basically, 'The Vengeful One' is the personification of The Destroyer, the Angel of Death, Gabriel, or the Hand of God looking over humanity," he said. "In the song, it's the End of Days. Things are getting worse, and we're becoming more destructive. The media is playing everyone against one another and baiting the entire world. It's judgment day. This is that entity's voice speaking and passing judgment."
• The song's animated video was made by filmmaker Phil Mucci, whose clip for High On Fire's "Fertile Green" was named best video of 2012 by Revolver magazine. His other credits include Korn's "Oildale (Leave Me Alone)" and Stone Sour's "Do Me A Favor."
  
  The clip features Disturbed's "The Guy" mascot. "The Guy is the embodiment of the Archangel Gabriel the Destroyer," Draiman explained to Artist Direct. "You are seeing him do his 'unholy work' in the video."
• Unlike their previous two albums, Indestructible and Asylum, Immortalized was not produced by the band. Instead, they tapped producer Kevin Churko (Ozzy Osbourne, Papa Roach, Five Finger Death Punch) and recorded the album at his private studio, The Hideout, in Las Vegas.
  
  Dan Donegan, the band's guitarist, told The Pulse Of Radio why they decided to work with a new producer. "I think we needed… we wanted that," he explained. "We wanted, especially having this time off, and being off this long break, to come back with something that sounds a little bit more fresh. It's been five years between albums, so it was nice to have, kind of, a new production element to it and things that, kind of, pushed us and challenged us to raise the bar."
• This was a #1 hit on the Mainstream Rock chart.
• Scenes from the video, which show The Guy gunning down news anchors during a live broadcast, were featured in a promotional ad for the album. Because the killings bore too much of a similarity to the real-life murders of reporter Alison Parker and cameraman Adam Ward, who were fatally shot by a disgruntled ex-coworker during a live broadcast from Virginia in 2015, Warner Bros. decided to pull the offending ad.