The Animal

Album: Asylum (2010)
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Songfacts®:

  • This is the lightest track on Asylum, Disturbed's fifth studio album. The song is about someone who turns into a werewolf under the light of the full moon and was inspired by movies such as Underworld and The Wolfman.
  • Japanese-American model, actress and former WWE Diva Lena Yada appears in the song's music video. She married Disturbed's frontman David Draiman on September 25, 2011.

    In the clip, Lena, whose face is painted white with a blood cross in the center, portrays a mysterious figure who haunts the blue-tinged forest and sends the white wolves to do her bidding. Director Charlie Terrell (Nine Inch Nails' "Leaving Hope") was inspired by Kwaidan, a 1964 anthology horror film that contains a story about Yuki-onna, the snow witch of Japanese mythology who freeze people and steals their souls.

    "So my idea, was this woman haunts the woods, and controls these white wolves," he told AMFM Magazine. "The white wolves are an extension of her, and they hunt for her, and kill for her, and she feasts on the blood of the animals and that's how she gets her power. So it's a Japanese ghost story mixed with your typical fear of the woods story."

    The video was shot at Spiderwood Studios in Austin, Texas.
  • The album's third single, this peaked at #6 on both the Rock Airplay and the Hot Rock & Alternative Songs charts.

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  • Zero from Nowhere, NjLOVE this song! They played it when I saw them back in January (2011).
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