Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. The mayor of Vorst, Belgium, has officially banned an upcoming Disturbed concert, citing public safety concerns stemming from frontman David Draiman’s outspoken support for the Israeli army – namely that one picture where he’s signing missiles that’ll kill people shortly thereafter.
Disturbed was scheduled to play Vorst Nationaal on Wednesday, October 15, but the plug has now been pulled following a police order issued by Mayor Charles Spapens (PS) according to De Standaard.
Even if I didn’t know the context, someone signing an instrument of war and killing is just weird. To put it mildly.
It wasn’t when we dropped bombs during WWII.
And during the Gulf War
If those hit the people they were addressing, sure. But in reality, both those bombs, if they actually hit someone, probably killed poor schmucks just trying to make their way through life.
Duh lol. It was the keyboard warrior position that had planes and bombs to back it up. And a morale booster, reminder of why you’re dropping them.
Writing on a bomb that’s about to blow up innocent civilians during a genocide is absolutely weird though.
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Looks like the only 2 CDs of them I have are gonna stay the only 2 I will ever own.
I didn’t even know they were still a thing.
Disturbed makes boring-ass mediocre metal anyway; his vocals are so dull. Good riddance.
I mean… At least thanks for letting us know, Mr Draiman.
Based move by Spapens, don’t know anything about him tho.
It turns out, he was down with the sickness all along
It also turns out they must think “The Guy” is actually the bad guy.
Jet Li?
https://disturbed.fandom.com/wiki/The_Guy
The Guy is the mascot of Disturbed. He has appeared in several albums as the “cloaked character” on the cover art, and in music videos as the “hero” that ends up defeating large corporations or armies alone.
A character consistently depicted as going against the rich and powerful commanding the media and armies to provide some semblance of justice and liberty to the masses… And the front man was all in on the IDF operations at least as late as second half of 2024. I might have seen it in October of 2023 when some might have assumed the IDF were going to be surgical, but indiscriminate bombing and famine inducing siege had already happened by summer of 2024…
I could maybe even give him the benefit of the doubt that he was in a bubble and oblivious to the wider issues, but after being booed and called on by the media to examine the situation closer to comment, he double downed at a point that should have been eye opening.
Disrupted
Ooooo wahahahah whatever bitch. Fuck him.
The Zionist religion ritual
Good thing they already sucked, but this is abysmally low.
I don’t get how their cover of Sound of Silence is a top video on Conans Youtube channel. It’s not that good.
Dude has always been an edgelord in some capacity. He probably thought it would be edgey to sign a bomb, regardless of who made it and who it would kill.
Though, I have zero doubts that David also has some questionable viewpoints on that stuff as well. I’m not aware of any, but I also haven’t really heard anything from that band since the late 90s/early 2000s.
Good job getting cancelled buddy. Enjoy obscurity.
He’s a hardcore Zionist who is openly outspoken in favor of Israel so this is more than just a bit of edge.
Fair enough.
He still hasn’t been relevant in a long time.
What a loser.
Welp, that’s one band I’ll never listen to again
I’ll torrent it, won’t stream it even on pirated YouTube (still counts as views)
I lost all respect after they released the steaming pile of shit that was the cover of Sound of Silence.
Look, I’m not going to support his recent actions, but imo that’s one of the best covers ever done. I legit prefer it to the original.
Bobaflex did it first and WAY better!
that’s… certainly an opinion…
I do respect your opinion.
sigh they made cool music…
OO AH AH AH AH
The coolest.
Stepped on a lego?
Mentioning Tool in a thread about Disturbed feels sacrilegious.
Unforgettable, iconic and so impactful.
(Sarcasm)
I feel so justified for never liking their music.
Past tense is important.
They made maybe one or two decent albums in the 90s, and then faded into obscurity.
“Decent” is also a matter of taste.
They were very angsty when angsty music was popular. Now they’re just old guys trying to hard to connect with a scene that is far too young for their music to be relevant for.
It barely mattered when it was released, but looking at everything else that was released in the 90s in similar genres, there was a lot of anger and angst that those Gen Xers were expressing that resonated with the early millennials, myself included.
My hatred for them since high school is now validated.
Nice
His voice is awful, that’s reason enough.
Meh, many legendary bands don’t actually perform well and/or arent ‘good’ individually.
I’ve been so fucking lucky in my music choice so far. Iced Earth was a real close miss, it’s my favorite genre but I never got into them.
Oh god damn it, what did Iced Earth do?
e: guitarist was one of the Jan 6 rioters
