Jan 17

Disturbed Frontman Promises Bands Return

Posted by Chris Harris on January 17, 2013 in Gross, News

David Draiman

This is fucking weak sauce, man. The shit ones never stay down, do they?

Disturbed is one of those bands that should quit while it’s ahead.

But no. David Draiman and his merry band of false metal minstrels will return one day.

“The beast certainly is not dead — it’s just sleeping for a little while,” says Dave.

“Look, myself, Dan [Donegan], Mike [Wengren] and John [Moyer], we’ve given our lives to that band, but there’s more to us, each individually,” says Draiman.

“I think that it’s good for each of us to take some time away from something that’s been so all-encompassing in every part of our lives for 16 years,” says Dave, adding that the band’s on good terms.

“We continue to have a very, very huge mutual respect and admiration for another; we check in on each other’s families,” he says. “This was not a hiatus that was brought about by bad blood, this was not a hiatus that was brought about by any sort of legality or for me to decide to start a family or any of the rest of the nonsense that gets thrown out there. All the rest of the guys have families and we’ve been touring on the road with them the entire damn time. So one has nothing to do with the other.”

Quick, someone bludgeon me to death with a tire iron.

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Chris Harris is an internationally-published music journalist and writer whose work has appeared on the pages of Rolling Stone, IFC.com, Revolver, Alternative Press, and Radar. The former news editor for Noisecreep.com, AOL’s heavy metal blog, Harris also served as co-host for the site’s weekly podcast, “Creep Show." Harris spent four years as a reporter and on-air talent for MTV News.

  • disqus_6j5mPza6DC

    To bad Disturbed is actually really good you ignorant fuck.

  • What’s it to you

    This so called “journalist” does nothing but bash heavy metal bands and it’s fans. He is more aggressive towards the fans rather then he is towards the bands, actually. It’s easy to put on paper anything and get paid regardless if they agree or don’t agree as long as they get a pay cheque so I say fuck this idiot who is no different then a two faced politician. His opinion is irrelevant as long as we, the true metal fans show what true music is about and what it means to us. I figured out a long time ago why rap and pop music is so popular and that is because it can be used as means of selling products, clothing line, perfumes, jewellery, sex and image and whatever else they can get their hands on but in heavy metal the only thing that seems to be advertised is what the bands believe in and their experiences and that is what music about

    • http://www.facebook.com/daniel.demchuk Daniel Demchuk

      Or…because some people like pop and rap music. Nobody is metal 100% of the time, I listen to Rap and I think 90s skate punk like Pennywise and NOFX are the shit, yet my some of my favorite bands are Adversarial and Celtic Frost. Alot of rap is about their experiences and their life story, as is alot of punk music, whereas there are alot of metal bands (hello hair metal and asking alexandria/suicide silence esque bands) that are all about commercialism and selling a product. It’s an industry and we live in a capitalist world. Bands like Disturbed and Five Finger Death Punch are teenage rebellion/angst packaged up for every teen who thinks the world doesn’t understand him/her and carpet bombed into pop consciousness through tv spots, music videos and radio air play.

  • alex

    what I dont understand is why people keep reading what chris writes, I dont know why people get so offended with this, just dont fucking read it, when this guy starts bashing heavy metal then fuck him, but disturbed is not metal it whishes it were metal, disturbed is shit!

  • http://www.facebook.com/travispetersrbs Travis Gary Peters

    Disturbed may be one of the worst things to ever happen to music, period. And to call them “heavy metal” is like calling jello “cement” … so monkey down with that sickness.