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.
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.
That’ll show 'em!
I don’t think they care, it is for my peace of mind really. Each time I listen to one of their songs I will be bothered by what an asshole he turned out to be.
Oh ducking hell no. Are you serious? God damn. Oofta ouch. Just wow. Damnit.
why does everyone have to be awful fascists. and this entire vice signaling, signing missiles shit is gross.
it’s surreal we got to the point of celebrity endorsements for ethnic cleansing.
not to mention this will pop up on my mind every time i listen to them again.
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.
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.
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.
It’s kind of ironic too because missiles would be more accurate than firing artillery shells into a concentration camp.
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
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.
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.
Is this the sickness they talked about being down with?
I mean… At least thanks for letting us know, Mr Draiman.
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!!!
Good thing they already sucked, but this is abysmally low.
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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.
Another Kanye.
Why I never invest in celebrities because at anytime they can make a heel turn.
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.
Welp, that’s one band I’ll never listen to again
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…
I do respect your opinion.
It’s almost as bad as Limp Bizkit’s Behind Blue Eyes.
sigh they made cool music…
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.
OO AH AH AH AH
The coolest.
Stepped on a lego?
Mentioning Tool in a thread about Disturbed feels sacrilegious.
Unforgettable, iconic and so impactful.
(Sarcasm)
My hatred for them since high school is now validated.
Nice
His voice is awful, that’s reason enough.
I’ll torrent it, won’t stream it even on pirated YouTube (still counts as views)
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
DisturbedDisappointingThey can still play in Germany
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This is music i will only pirate from now on.
They have never sang anything I can’t delete without missing a thing.
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.
I have so much respect for you, stranger
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.
I grew up with Napster, you may be happy to hear it pretty much still exists as SoulSeek.
Use nicotine+, it’s a better client. I share 30TB of movies/music/tv on there.
Looks like theyre happy that Israel is giving Gaza another way to die.
