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DISTURBED's Belgian Show Cancelled Over DAVID DRAIMAN's Photo Signing IDF Missiles (metalinjection.net)
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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.

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[–] 165 points 1 year ago (21 children)

Welp, that's one band I'll never listen to again

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    sigh they made cool music...

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    OO AH AH AH AH

    The coolest.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    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.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    My hatred for them since high school is now validated.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I lost all respect after they released the steaming pile of shit that was the cover of Sound of Silence.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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.

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