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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[–] 112 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It turns out, he was down with the sickness all along

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

    It also turns out they must think "The Guy" is actually the bad guy.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    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.

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

    I'm disappointed to learn of his support for genocide.

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

    Would you go so far as to say you were disturbed when you learned of his support for genocide?

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Another Kanye.

    Why I never invest in celebrities because at anytime they can make a heel turn.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Almost accurate. It's often not that they made a heel-turn but that you (we) simply don't know them well enough.
    Many have been shitbags all along and we didn't have enough information.

    Never worship celebrities.

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  • [+] 24 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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    [–] 23 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Well shit. Another band out of my rotation now.

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    I mostly enjoyed them as a teenager. The only song really left in my rotation was their sound of silence cover.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    It's like if Rage Against the Machine were actually very much on the side of the machine.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

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

    🤢

    🤮

    This is music i will only pirate from now on.

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

    I have all Chris browns songs shared, but they whisper "Fuck Chris Brown" over the song LMAO. Maybe I'll do the same here. Get hundreds of thousands of copies out there.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Back when Napster was a thing, I shared "Somewhere I Belong" by Linkin Park and after the lyrics "I have nothing to say" all the vocals were removed by a shitty winamp plugin. Kid me thought that was hilarious.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    I mean... At least thanks for letting us know, Mr Draiman.

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

    Even if I didn't know the context, someone signing an instrument of war and killing is just weird. To put it mildly.

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    It wasn't when we dropped bombs during WWII.

    And during the Gulf War

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago*

    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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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Oh ducking hell no. Are you serious? God damn. Oofta ouch. Just wow. Damnit.

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

    Even if he wasn't pro genocide, which is obviously revolting enough, the act of signing any missile or something meant to kill / maim is cringe as fuck anyway. Why even pursue doing that at all?? There's so many ways to promote your brand/label/views without literally signing something used directly to cause death. Whole thing is fucking stupid and gross.

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

    They are religious, Zionists believe God is on their side, I see it sort of like a form of prayer. People have written on their weapons for centuries.

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

    There's a gargantuan difference between naming a weapon you're using yourself and doing some performative shit and signing a bomb that you'll never see the repercussions of. At least there's a bit of logic behind soldiers naming their swords or guns because those items are directly responsible for their own survival in a shitty situation they may or may not have directly volunteered for. My agreement or disagreement with that entirely separate subject aside: Fuck any wannabe badass who does shit like this thinking it's some sort of flex. Murdering someone over political or religious reasons is fucking stupid every day of the god damned year. Period. Full fucking stop.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Good thing they already sucked, but this is abysmally low.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago* (2 children)

    The guy defended himself by saying he wrote "fuck Hamas" on it. Is he really that delusional? Anyways removed all their songs from my lists and blocked them.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Is this the sickness they talked about being down with?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Looks like the only 2 CDs of them I have are gonna stay the only 2 I will ever own.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    The Zionist religion ritual

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

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Looks like theyre happy that Israel is giving Gaza another way to die.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I didn't even know they were still a thing.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I don't get how their cover of Sound of Silence is a top video on Conans Youtube channel. It's not that good.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Disturbed makes boring-ass mediocre metal anyway; his vocals are so dull. Good riddance.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Ooooo wahahahah whatever bitch. Fuck him.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Dude's to be immortalized as the second Anselmo. I'm pissed at these dudes.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Well, that's disturbing...

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    Some months (years?) ago there was a disturbed meme and people were saying he would love it, that's he's such a funny and all around great guy.

    Now it seems lot of people knew he was a fascist all along.

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    Guy was famous for all the right reasons why do this...

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    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.”

    ?????

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Based move by Spapens, don't know anything about him tho.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    May he get the Ian Watkins treatment

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