It’s the Biggest Story in Rock Music. Hardly Anyone Is Talking About It.

Disturbed’s cover of “The Sound of Silence ” is the most popular hard rock song of the past 10 years .

The track appeared on the Hard Rock Digital Song Sales chart at No. 4 a decade ago , and hasn’t dropped lower than 25 since.

Since November of 2023 , it has rarely left the top five .

There simply aren’t many hard rock songs arriving in 2025 that move the needle.

The band reached its cultural saturation point in 2000 with the release of its debut record The Sickness .

Disturbed has always flexed a reverence for pop music that falls well outside the contours of its gray-and-black palette.

The most pressing legacy of Disturbed ’s historic run is that we’re all steadily getting older and have permanently lost our grasp on the levers of collective taste.

Surely it isn’t a good omen that the single most popular song in the genre was performed by a quartet of men now in their 50s and written by a man now in his 80s .