Disturbed
Background information
Origin Chicago, Illinois
Genre(s) Alternative metal
Nu metal
Hard rock
Heavy metal
Years active 1996 – Present
Label(s) Giant/Warner Bros. Records
Reprise/Warner Bros. Records
Website www.disturbed1.com
Members
David Draiman
Dan Donegan
John Moyer
Mike Wengren
Former members
Steve "Fuzz" Kmak
Matt Konopinski
Disturbed is a rock band from Chicago, Illinois. The group was formed in
1996 when musicians Dan Donegan, Steve "Fuzz" Kmak, and Mike Wengren hired
singer David Draiman in Chicago, Illinois. [1] Originally classified as a nu
metal band,[1] Disturbed is now regarded by some music critics as hard rock
or heavy metal,[2] although others now regard them as alternative metal.[3]
However, the band's genre is still being debated. When asked about die-hard
metal fans not finding Disturbed heavy enough, frontman David Draiman
stated: "We probably have too much melody going on or we're not quite as
turbulent or caustic. While I really love that type of music, it's not what
we try to do. If we have to place things in context, we're more hard rock
than heavy metal these days."[4]
History
In its early years, around 1998, Disturbed recorded two separate demo EPs, "Stupify"
and "Perfect Insanity" which the band then sent out to different record
companies.[1] The band sent two to show the record companies that the band
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. The song "Down with the Sickness"
became extremely popular from the album and was later used in many film
soundtracks. Soon after, Disturbed released a revamped cover version of
"Stone Cold" Steve Austin's theme music for the WWE called "Glass Shatters."
Disturbed headlined Ozzy Osbourne's Ozzfest tour in 2001 alongside Black
Sabbath, Marilyn Manson, Slipknot, Papa Roach, Linkin Park, Black Label
Society, and Crazy Town. Afterwards, the band started their own tour, called
Music as a Weapon.
Before joining Marilyn Manson's 2001 European tour, former bassist Steve
"Fuzz" Kmak was unable to play with the band due to a shattered ankle. Fuzz
shattered his ankle by falling out of a fire escape outside Disturbed's
rehearsal hall in Chicago a few days before Christmas. He took the fire
escape to exit the building while the lift was being used to move their
equipment downstairs. After a successful operation, doctors highly
recommended that he skip the Manson tour to avoid more severe damage to his
foot. But he did perform with the band January 11th and 12th, 2001 at
Disturbed's show in Chicago. A bass player named Marty O'Brian was recruited
and filled Fuzz's spot until Fuzz was able to play again.
In September 2002, Disturbed released its second album titled Believe, which
debuted at #1. The songs "Prayer" and "Liberate" became very popular and
many fans were impressed with Disturbed's new album. Disturbed's frontman
David Draiman recorded the vocals for "Forsaken", a song written and
produced by Jonathan Davis of Korn for the Queen Of The Damned Soundtrack.
In 2003, the band participated once again in the Ozzfest tour and started
another one of their own tours named "Music as a Weapon II".
Fuzz left the band in early 2003; as singer David Draiman puts it, "When
Kmak was with the band, Disturbed wasn't totally clicking; musically or
personally." The band tells fans that he left for personal reasons.[5] He
was replaced with Matt Konopinski and then later with John Moyer.
Disturbed toured with 10 Years and Ill Niño in support of their third album
Ten Thousand Fists, released worldwide on September 20th, 2005, which also
debuted at #1 in the U.S. Ten Thousand Fists had five B-side tracks that
were not released on the album, but rather on various singles and other
albums. Currently the track "Hell" can be found on the "Stricken" single (a
second version of this single has the studio version of "Dehumanized", which
can be found on the live album Music as a Weapon II). The track can also be
heard on the band's Myspace page. The track "Monster" was originally
released as part of an iTunes pre-order package for the first people who
pre-orded the album Ten Thousand Fists. Afterwards, the track was extremely
hard to find. But, it can now be found on the "European Tour Edition" of Ten
Thousand Fists (along with the unreleased track "Two Worlds"). The track
"Sickened" can be found on the "Land of Confusion" single. The fifth and
final b-side track "Criminal" is currently unavailable to the public. A
month after the release of Ten Thousand Fists, Disturbed headlined the
Jägermeister tour.
Disturbed supplied the song "Stricken" for WWE's New Year's Revolution 2006.
In April 2006, the band completed an Australian tour supporting Korn and
sharing the tour with 10 Years and Hatebreed. In mid 2006, a European tour
was scheduled but had been moved twice due to the band's singer having
troubles with his voice. [6]
"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[7]
In late 2006, Draiman went to undergo surgery for his voice. It was
successful, and ever since then, Draiman has stopped drinking. Disturbed
headlined Ozzfest 2006 along with Ozzy Osbourne, System of a Down,
Dragonforce, Avenged Sevenfold, Lacuna Coil, and Hatebreed. The band also
went on the European tour that had been previously moved twice earlier in
2006. Afterwards, Disturbed headlined "Music as a Weapon III" with the bands
Flyleaf, Stone Sour, Bloodsimple and Nonpoint.
Disturbed's frontman recently became involved 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 [8]
Draiman 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
Disturbed's last event was completing the "Music as a Weapon III tour" in
late 2006. On their last stop of the tour, which was in Madison, WI., the
band stated that they are going off the road to start working on their
fourth album. As of July 7, 2007, their official website states that they
are currently in studio recording. The title and release date have yet to be
disclosed to the public. A song called "This Moment" was released on the
soundtrack to the movie Transformers. It is a brand new song recorded by the
band, although it's unknown if the song will be on their next album.
On June 13, 2007, the band was honored as "Ballsiest Band" at the 2007 Spike
TV Guys' Choice Awards, defeating the other finalist, Lamb of God, via a
nationwide vote. They accepted the award live and dedicated it to members of
the United States military. Specifically to a unit which has used
Disturbed's music to get pumped up going into battle. [1].
Discography
Studio albums
Album information
The Sickness
* Released: March 7, 2000 (U.S.)
* Label: Giant Records
* RIAA Certification: 3x Platinum
Believe
* Released: September 17, 2002 (U.S.)
* Label: Reprise Records
* RIAA Certification: Platinum
Ten Thousand Fists
* Released: September 20, 2005 (U.S.)
* Label: Reprise Records
* RIAA Certification: 2x Platinum
B-sides
* A Welcome Burden - Dracula 2000 soundtrack, MOL DVD (played live), ECW
Anarchy Rocks
* God of the Mind - Valentine soundtrack, Import Versions of The Sickness
* Dehumanized (studio version) - Stricken Single
* Hell - Stricken single
* Sickened - Land of Confusion Single
* Monster - Ten Thousand Fists European Tour Edition
* Two Worlds - Ten Thousand Fists European Tour Edition
* Criminal - Currently unreleased
* Perfect Insanity - MOL DVD; Played In Early Live Shows
* Forsaken - Written by Jonathan Davis, Queen of the Damned soundtrack
* Glass Shatters - WWE Forceable Entry
* This Moment - Transformers - The Album
Cover songs
Studio
* Shout 2000 - Originally performed by Tears for Fears (The Sickness)
* Land of Confusion - Originally performed by Genesis (Ten Thousand Fists)
Live
* Fade to Black - From Music as a Weapon Tour II originally performed by
Metallica
* Cold Gin - Originally performed by KISS
* Walk - Originally performed by Pantera; it was sung as a tribute for a
Dimebag Darrell (of Pantera) benefit show that Disturbed helped make shortly
after Dimebag's death. Also performed at Ozzfest 2001 with Chester
Bennington of Linkin Park.
* Black - Originally performed by Sevendust
Other contributions
* Music as a Weapon Tours
* Music as a Weapon (2001)
* Music as a Weapon II (2004)
* Music as a Weapon III (2006)
Singles
Year Title Chart Positions
US Billboard Hot 100 US Mainstream Rock US Modern Rock US Pop 100 Canadian
Singles Chart
2000 "Stupify"[9] #12 #10
2000 "Voices"[9] #16 #18
2001 "Down with the Sickness"[9] #5 #8
2001 "The Game"[9] #34
2002 "Prayer"[10] #58 #3 #3 #14
2002 "Remember"[10] #6 #22
2003 "Liberate"[10] #4 #22
2005 "Guarded"[11] #7 #28
2005 "Stricken"[11] #95 #2 #13 #89
2006 "Just Stop"[11] #4 #24
2006 "Land of Confusion"[11] #1 #18
2006 "Ten Thousand Fists"[11] #7 #37
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 - "Stupify" - Used in Lord Slug (Dragon Ball Z Movie 4)
* 2001 - "Fear" - Lord Slug (Dragon Ball Z Movie 4) Ozzfest 2001
* 2001 - "God of the Mind" - Used in Valentine
* 2002 - "Forsaken" - Used in Queen of the Damned
* 2002 - "Down with the Sickness" - Used in Queen of the Damned
* 2002 - "Down with the Sickness" - Used in xXx
* 2004 - "Intoxication" - Used in MTX Mototrax
* 2004 - "Down with the Sickness (Richard Cheese cover) " - Used in Dawn of
the Dead
* 2004 - "Liberate" - Used in Tony Hawk's Underground 2
* 2005 - "Down with the Sickness" - Used In Green Street
* 2005 - "Prayer" - Used in House of Wax
* 2005 - "Fear" - Used in House of Wax
* 2005 - "Decadence" - Used in Need for Speed: Most Wanted
* 2005 - "Ten Thousand Fists" - Used in Madden 06
* 2006 - "Guarded" - Used in Saw III
* 2007 - "This Moment" - Used in Transformers
Reviews
* Live Review of May 2006 Calgary, AB, Canada Concert by Chris Andrade on
June 1, 2006 for kMNR...Music News Weekly
References
1. ^ a b c VH1 biography.
2. ^ Hiatt, Brian (October 6, 2005). Disturbed Get Revenge. RollingStone.com.
Retrieved on 2006-08-31.
3. ^ Loftus, Johnny. Ten Thousand Fists Overview. AllMusic.com. Retrieved on
2006-11-10.
4. ^ Magner, Howie (November 24, 2006). Disturbed See Themselves 'As Being A
Three-Decade Spanning Band'. UltimateGuitar.com. Retrieved on 2006-12-29.
5. ^ Disturbed about departure of bassist Kmak. on mtv.com
6. ^ Tour gets postponed because of Draiman having trouble with his voice..
7. ^ Draiman statement about voice problems. on mtv.com
8. ^ Draiman on illegal downloading.
9. ^ a b c d The Sickness - Billboard Singles. All Music Guide. Retrieved on
2007-05-02.
10. ^ a b c Believe - Billboard Singles. All Music Guide. Retrieved on
2007-05-02.
11. ^ a b c d e Ten Thousand Fists - Billboard Singles. All Music Guide.
Retrieved on 2007-05-02.
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