Disturbed

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Disturbed
Background information
Origin	Chicago, Illinois, United States
Genre(s)	Heavy Metal Nu metal Hard Rock Alternative Metal
Years active	1996 – Present
Label(s)	Giant Records
Members
David Draiman Dan Donegan John Moyer Mike Wengren
Former members
Steve "Fuzz" Kmak

Disturbed is a band from Chicago, Illinois. It was formed in 1996 when musicians Dan Donegan, Steve "Fuzz" Kmak, and Mike Wengren hired singer David Draiman in Chicago, Illinois. Disturbed was originally founded as a Nu Metal band, but are now regarded as Hard Rock, or Heavy Metal. [1] Other critics regard them as Alternative Metal.[2]

[edit] History

In its early years, Disturbed recorded two separate demo EPs which it then sent out to different record companies. The band sent two to show the record companies that it was dedicated to its music and that the first EP wasn't a fluke. The band broke out in 1999 with its single "Stupify" and subsequent album The Sickness. The album launched the band into stardom. It also released a completely revamped cover version of "Stone Cold" Steve Austin's theme music for the WWE/(WWF at the time), called "Glass Shatters." After participating in Ozzy Osbourne's Ozzfest tour in 2001, the band started the Music as a Weapon Tour.

In September 2002, Disturbed's second album Believe debuted at #1, and in 2003, the band participated again in the Ozzfest tour.

Kmak, A.K.A "Fuzz" left the band in early 2003; as singer David Draiman puts it "when Kmak was in the band, Disturbed wasn't totally clicking — personally or musically". The band tells fans that he left for personal reasons. He was replaced with John Moyer.

The group recently toured with 10 Years and Ill Niño in support of its third album Ten Thousand Fists, released worldwide on September 20th, 2005. It debuted at #1 in the U.S. In addition to Ten Thousand Fists the band has released the tracks Hell and Monster, although Monster is currently available to the public because it comes as a bonus track with the Ten Thousand Fists album tour edition. Hell is currently streamed on the band's MySpace website. Both of these songs are in high demand and illustrate the band's extremely loyal fan base. In the future, the band is considering creating a "B-side" compilation including those two tracks as well as others. There was a European tour scheduled which has been moved twice due to David Draiman having troubles with his voice.

"I had been taking Prevacid for about four years and my body built up a resistance to it, to the point where it wasn't doing anything anymore," he told MTV.com. "I had a night of drinking in London followed by a full day and night of drinking on a day off in Dublin, because what else is there to do in Ireland but drink? That, coupled with a show where I had monitor problems, and I pretty much trashed my voice." - David Draiman

Now David is off alcohol and has to watch what he eats.

Disturbed also headlined the Jägermeister tour in November 2005 and will headline "Music as a Weapon III" in 2006 with Flyleaf, Stone Sour, and Nonpoint. It supplied the song "Stricken" for WWE New Years Revolution 2006.

The band's singer recently became embroiled in the music filesharing controversy by publicly speaking out against the RIAA's lawsuits against filesharing individuals, despite the fact his record label is a member of the RIAA.

"This is not rocket science. Instead of spending all this money litigating against kids who are the people they're trying to sell things to in the first place, they have to learn how to effectively use the Internet. For the artists, my ass... I didn't ask them to protect me, and I don't want their protection." - David Draiman

David also told NYRock:

"[I'm] Very positive about the internet, Napster. I think it's a tremendous tool for reaching many more people than we ever could without it. When you release music you want it to be heard by people. Artists really want to have their music heard. They want to have their creation heard by people. Nothing is going to do that better than Napster. I can't tell you how many kids have come up to me and said, "I downloaded a couple of tunes off Napster and I went out and bought the album." Or they say, "I want to come see you play." I don't really make money off of record sales anyway." - David Draiman

On January 7 2006, Draiman said, on a radio show in Seattle, that it "looks" like Disturbed would be on this year's Ozzfest. However, he later said in an interview on January 30 2006 that he never said anything like that to anyone, contradicting his previous statement. Draiman's conflicting statements led to an uproar of criticism from a few fans on Disturbed's official messageboard. This resulted in the shut down of the online community by the band and their management. Although no official statement from the band or management has been made, it is reported by such sources as Blabbermouth.net that Draiman feels that the online community, which had grown to 8,000 has become a source of frustration for the band due to ongoing criticism and quarreling.

After all of this controversy, Disturbed was confirmed as an Ozzfest 2006 band, and headlined on the main stage along with System of a Down. In April 2006, the band completed an Australasian tour supporting Korn and sharing the tour with 10 Years and Hatebreed. Disturbed is currently on a European Tour, the bands official site only shows dates up to October 8, 2006 but says more dates are to come.

[edit] Discography

[edit] Studio albums

[edit] Other Contributions

• Music as a Weapon (2001)
• Music as a Weapon II (2004)
• Music as a Weapon III (2006)

[edit] Singles

[edit] Soundtracks

• 2001 - "Down with the Sickness" - Used in The One
• 2001 - "A Welcome Burden" - Used in Dracula 2000
• 2001 - "The Game" - Used in Cooler's Revenge (Dragon Ball Z Movie 5)
• 2001 - "Stupify" (remix) - Used in Little Nicky
• 2001 - "God of the Mind" - Used in Valentine
• 2001 - "Stupify" - Used in Lord Slug (Dragon Ball Z Movie 4)
• 2001 - "Fear" - Lord Slug (Dragon Ball Z Movie 4)
• 2002 - "Forsaken" - Used in Queen of the Damned
• 2002 - "Down With the Sickness" - Used in Queen of the Damned
• 2004 - "Down with the Sickness" - Used in Dawn of the Dead
• 2004 - "Liberate" - Used in Tony Hawk's Underground 2
• 2005 - "Prayer" - Used in House of Wax
• 2005 - "Decadence" - Used in Need for Speed: Most Wanted
• 2005 - "Ten Thousand Fists" - Used in Madden 06
• 2006 - "The Sickness" Poster in Dracula 2000
• 2006 - "Guarded" - Used in Saw 3

[edit] TV Shows

• 1998 - Charmed - Disturbed poster regularly seen at P3
• 2000 - Friends - Banner saying 'Disturbed' in musicshop
• 2002 - "Glass Shatters" - WWF Forceable Entry
• 2004 - Floorfiller - Songs 'Down with the Sickness' and 'Meaning of Life'
• 2005 - Homewrecker - A huge banner in the background of the Ten Thousand Fists album
• 2006 - MTV Cribs - Tour of David's house
• 2006 - The Tonight Show with Jay Leno - Ozzfest special

[edit] External links

• Official site
• Official Polish fansite
• Disturbed's MySpace
• Disturbed at MusicBrainz
• Disturbed Singer Blasts RIAA Lawsuits
• Interview with Disturbed on The BackStage Pass internet radio show
• David Draiman's Interview with NYRock