{{articleissues| {{More citations needed|date=December 2008}} {{notability|music|date=October 2025}} }} {{Infobox song | name = Perfect Insanity | cover = PI_Single002.JPG | alt = | type = single | artist = [[Disturbed (band)|Disturbed]] | album = [[Indestructible (Disturbed album)|Indestructible]] | released = May 6, 2008 | recorded = February 2007{{snd}}January 2008 at Groovemaster Studios in [[Chicago, Illinois|Chicago]], [[Illinois]] | studio = | venue = | genre = {{hlist|[[Heavy metal music|Heavy metal]]|[[hard rock]]|[[alternative metal]]}} | length = 3:57 | label = [[Reprise Records|Reprise]] | writer = {{hlist|Steve Kmak|[[Dan Donegan]]|[[Mike Wengren]]|[[David Draiman]]}} | producer = [[Dan Donegan]] | prev_title = [[Inside the Fire (song)|Inside the Fire]] | prev_year = 2008 | next_title = [[Indestructible (Disturbed song)|Indestructible]] | next_year = 2008 }}
"'''Perfect Insanity'''" is a song by American [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]] band [[Disturbed (band)|Disturbed]], released as a single from their fourth album ''[[Indestructible (Disturbed album)|Indestructible]]''. The song was originally written by the band prior to their debut album, ''[[The Sickness]]'', and was previously released on the band's documentary, ''[[M.O.L.]]'', as a demo track with a music video. The band re-recorded the song in 2007 and released it on ''Indestructible''. It is also featured in the video game ''[[WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009]]'' and is a downloadable track in the ''[[Rock Band]]'' series.
An alternate title for the song, as seen in the booklet for the ''Indestructible'' CD, is "Condemnation".
==Themes== According to vocalist David Draiman, the song's meaning is "toying with the idea of insanity. Coming at you from the perspective from the individual who is [insane] and warning people around him, particularly his love interests, about his psychotic tendencies."<ref name="daviddraimanpodcastinterview">{{cite web |url=https://hbbpodcast.blogspot.com/2008/04/interview-with-disturbed-frontman-david.html |title=David Draiman interview on Headbangers Ball Podcast |date=2008-10-23 |accessdate=2008-10-23 |publisher=[[Headbangers Ball]]}}</ref>
==Music video== [[File:PerfectInsanityDisturbedcomparisons.ogg|left|thumb|45 second sample comparing the 2008 ''Indestructible'' recording of "Perfect Insanity" and the 1998 demo version.]] No music video has been released for the re-recorded version of this song. However, on the band's home documentary, ''M.O.L.'', an old music video can be viewed, made in 1998. The video depicts vocalist David Draiman, locked inside of a room, in a straitjacket. As he tries to break free, the video shows the band playing variously on a stage, in between clips of Draiman trying to escape from the straitjacket. As the song finishes, the video switches to a scene of a graveyard, implying Draiman had died insane.
==Chart performance== {| class="wikitable" !Chart (2008) !Position |- |Hot Canadian Digital Singles<ref name="charthistory">{{cite magazine|title=Disturbed: Chart history - Perfect Insanity|url=https://www.billboard.com/artist/disturbed/chart-history/hot-canadian-digital-singles|year=2008|accessdate=2008-10-04|magazine=Billboard.com|archive-date=2021-11-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211121095224/https://www.billboard.com/artist/disturbed/chart-history/hot-canadian-digital-singles/|url-status=dead}}</ref> |align="center"|70 |}
==Personnel== * [[David Draiman]] – [[lead vocals]], [[backing vocals]], co-producer * [[Dan Donegan]] – [[guitar]]s, [[programming (music)|electronics]], producer * [[John Moyer]] – [[bass guitar]], [[backing vocals]] * [[Mike Wengren]] – [[drum kit|drums]], co-producer
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