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.
Guy was famous for all the right reasons why do this…
Grotty. Guy probs got divorced because she didn’t understand the literal extent of the band’s name when marrying him and thought those tendancies were fixable.
Earlier this year, he divorced his wife of 12 years, Lena, and his dog, Gabriel, died.
There’s got to have been a better way to write this…
Kept reading and
As for rising antisemitism, Draiman is equally concerned. “How can you not be worried about it?” he says.
For real for real.
Referring to some Democrat politicians, he says: “They pretend to represent everyone when they don’t. It’s very scary how they keep on stirring the pot of antisemitism on a daily basis, …”
Hard agree. I don’t follow American poli too closely, but your Democrats sound super conservative.
under the guise of being social justice warriors, with no repercussions.”
???
As an American his very first statement is suspicious. The second statement basically proves he’s too far right. The last statement is naked maga. Obviously these are American shibboleths so it makes sense not to immediately get what he’s about.
For example, our conservative Democrats (neoliberal subset) are not the ones that are speaking out against the Israeli genocide of Palestine. The “antisemitic” politicians are more leftist. Maybe not left by classic European standards, but left by modern European standards.
But also, we have a long history of people hating Jews. We had people marching against “Jews replacing white people.” Jewish space lasers! Soros!! People fucking HATE Jews. I won’t even bother saying what party they are attracted to. I’ll leave it as an exercise for the non-American reader.
But… that’s not being played right now. Our fascists are saving the “anti Jews” card. We hate Mexicans right now. If an American says “antisemitism is on the rise” I’d strongly suspect they are simply pro Israel.
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.
Am i the only one disturbed by the fact that he is clearly signing 155mm artillery shells and not missiles, like the claim in the headline??? Like i get that people like to rage about shit but at least get the point right.
It’s kind of ironic too because missiles would be more accurate than firing artillery shells into a concentration camp.
Here’s the definition of a missile in case you’re confused.
An object or weapon that is fired, thrown, dropped, or otherwise projected at a target; a projectile.
noun noun: missile; plural noun: missiles
a self-propelled weapon that carries an explosive warhead and is directed by remote control or internal equipment, launched from the ground or by an aircraft or submarine.
Go argue with Merriam Webster over it… not me.
Yes, you are.
The point, that you ironically got wrong, is that he is signing munitions being used by a genocidal military force and that lost his band a gig.
To me it raises questions. Seems I’ll have to do some research about it. As one should do always because truth and context matter with these things.
I don’t know what you think the point of the post is but it isn’t about the distinction between artillery shells and missiles
Wtf
It’s like if Rage Against the Machine were actually very much on the side of the machine.
Their old Deify song is very on point now. Dude could’ve became the voice of despise about the current admin, but instead he got one (1.0, single, singular, SOLE, O N L Y) strong political opinion and it is that one. What the fuck.
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They are missiles in the sense of being flying projectiles but those look like 155 howitzer ammunition.
Still shitty but you’d think someone would check accuracy.
Ed: definitely are, that white writing tells you everything you need to know. They are Israeli 155.
It’s not the most important distinction, but I do agree that we gotta be smarter than that. Maybe we just teach people the word “munitions” and move on.
Is this the sickness they talked about being down with?
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Good thing they already sucked, but this is abysmally low.
Disturbed makes boring-ass mediocre metal anyway; his vocals are so dull. Good riddance.
I don’t get how their cover of Sound of Silence is a top video on Conans Youtube channel. It’s not that good.
Well shit. Another band out of my rotation now.
They sucked anyway.
I mostly enjoyed them as a teenager. The only song really left in my rotation was their sound of silence cover.
that was cringe AF
no u
Bobaflex did it first and WAY better!
Oh ducking hell no. Are you serious? God damn. Oofta ouch. Just wow. Damnit.
They can still play in Germany
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)
sigh they made cool music…
OO AH AH AH AH
The coolest.
Unforgettable, iconic and so impactful.
(Sarcasm)
Stepped on a lego?
Mentioning Tool in a thread about Disturbed feels sacrilegious.
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
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.
that’s… certainly an opinion…
Bobaflex did it first and WAY better!
It’s almost as bad as Limp Bizkit’s Behind Blue Eyes.
I do respect your opinion.
I’m disappointed to learn of his support for genocide.
Would you go so far as to say you were disturbed when you learned of his support for genocide?
staaaaap
No that’s Creed, we’re talking about Disturbed
Well done!!!
