Disturbed’s David Draiman On Nu Metal
Disturbed frontman David Draiman was recently asked the question “favorite nu metal band besides the one you are in?” via Twitter. You can find his interesting reply below:
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Holy fuck…
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
…… wow…… then what are you apart of.. dildo’s annonomys ??? ok sorry your apart of the animal grunting-metal genre…. OUUU AAHH AHH AHH AHHH.
lmfao
That’s weird, you’re bald, pierced, wear leather pants, sing songs about hating your parents, and you DON’T know you’re in a nu-metal band?
Their first album was DEFINITELY nu metal. Since then, they’ve changed their sound to a heavy metal/hard rock sound (with a little bit of alternative metal).
People seem to have forgotten what nu-metal even is. It isn’t misc generic ‘metal’ bands that everyone loves to hate.
It was originally coined for bands with quicker lyrical styles, that style that had a bit of ‘rap’ flavor to it, ala korn, deftones, and limp bizkit.
Are you saying Disturbed doesn’t fit that description?
The argument COULD be made that the stuff after the debut record don’t fit that description exactly, but I would still say its close enough to be considered nu-metal. Especially considering no other genre label fits quite as comfortably.
*Buzzer sound* WRONG!
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Let me clarify.
Yeah………………your a part of it…….
Their debut album featured songs about his “Abusive” Mother and an 80s cover, everything thing about it is Nu-metal.
Spineshank was better anyway
Word. I still rock me some ‘Shank every now and again.
Now it’s so trendy to bash on nu-metal and worship Maiden and Priest. In ten years time Korn and Deftones will be the new Maiden and Priest. Everything comes back around. And for the record, not only are Disturbed nu-metal, but they are second generation, band-wagon-jumping, cynical trend-chasing nu-metal. That’s why even they hate on nu-metal right now.
The difference is that Maiden and Priest never stopped being awesome.
Someone needs to go back to metal school!
Priest stopped being awesome after Painkiller, and have only been mediocre since Halford’s return.
Maiden was horrible during the Blaze Bayley era, and have since become pretty awesome again.
@Geor, I wasn’t referring to their entire discography, just in response to it ever being cool to bash either of those bands’ overall output, which is what the first post was referring to. I can safely say everything Korn has ever done is complete garbage. But great job totally missing the point.
No offense, zach, but it’s pretty obvious who’s missing the point. You said they never stopped being awesome, but you weren’t referring to their entire discography. You should look up ‘never’ in the dictionary and start writing stuff on the internet ‘after’ some thinking.
@mongolianchopsquad
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It’s obvious you meant that “The Number of the Beast” or “Screaming for Vengeance” never stopped being awesome as opposed to “Life is Peachy” or “Significant Other” not even being close to standing the test of time and that while Maiden can go get Bruce back on the mic and do a nostalgia Powerslave tour, Limp Bizkit can’t play bingo halls with their “classic” lineup almost intact. Some people would rather get hung up on a technicality than read between the lines, but I got you, brah!
I don’t think anyone, ever, will put Korn at the same status as Maiden or Priest.
You just continue to make horrible posts. Nobody EVER will put Korn on the same pedestal as Maiden or Priest (Personally I don’t put Priest on the same pedestal as Maiden, but that’s just me), and as for the Deftones, they are miles and miles ahead of Korn in genuine quality of music. In fact they’re so ahead of Korn, they don’t have to jump on the latest trend (Dubstep), to try and get some form of relevance. Deftones will be considers one of the best bands to have ever been formed, while Korn will be forgotten as anything, except the band that helped form the genre that has become one of the biggest jokes ever.
Look, I know this site is just riddled with Deftones fanboys, but Jesus Christ…”one of the best bands to have ever been formed?” Did you start listening to music in 2000? Wow.
Really? So please tell me what they are then. You are going to find more people that will agree with me, then you will with you on this subject. Lets hear who you consider some of the best bands to have formed. I would love to hear.
Sabbath, Zeppelin, Floyd, Metallica, Opeth, Cream, Pantera…to name a few. To put Deftones in that class is lolz city.
Good work on putting bands that are already in that field into the discussion. You brought absolutely nothing to the table. Also, Opeth aren’t in that field yet, but great work. We are talking about current bands, not bands of the bast. While you’re at, you should throw the The Beatles and Johnny Cash into it. Thumps up, buddy.
You’re the one that said “best EVER”. That’s a bold proclamation that includes every band EVER. Deftones aren’t in that class. If you want more modern bands, Opeth and Clutch are in there. Also, while we’re on topic w/ the Deftones, with how everyone wants to denounce nu-metal so much, I love how most of their fans refuse to admit that they were the epitome of nu-metal in the late 90s. Good stuff. Chino has a unique voice, congrats. That doesn’t mean the band will ever be considered a “great”.
Actually, I said “will be”, which means they aren’t right now, but down the road they will be. Clutch will not be. Clutch does not transcend genre’s. You either like Clutch or you hate them. The Deftones however have hardcore fans, people who enjoy them but aren’t nuts about them, and people who don’t mind a song or two. Sorry man. And as a Deftones fan I fully admit they we’re apart of the nu metal genre, but they figured a way to divide themselves from that genre. Which also helps make them a great band. We aren’t talking about coal Chamber here. We are talking about a band that has had critically acclaimed albums.
If Deftones are considered one of the best bands to have ever been formed then House of Payne is one of the greatest sitcoms EVER.
adamvsdonkey has set the bar for idiotic comments even higher once again.
And once again you limbo well under the bar of originality. Damn you’re flexible.
I think Deftones and Korn started off in the same place. Both decent with lots of potential. And while Deftones took their time making their albums and evolved their quality, Korn just wasted away with careless efforts for quick and easy money. Anyway, I think Deftones is a great band and arguing whether they’re one of the best or not is just pointless. It’s just a matter of individual opinion.
@adamvsdonkey: Atleast you tried a little bit more this time. Better then your normal comebacks, but still a giant fail.
Why thank you Relentless_Beating_Off
I’ll take the beating off, Vs the donkey sex you partake in. Hats off to you though. I like my ladies instead.
Yep, because that makes sense. Versus would not imply such an action, and the fact that you carry on an “insult” brought about by someone that clearly doesn’t speak English as their native tongue proves just how stupid of an individual you are.
Oh poor poor Adam. The fact that it’s over your head makes it even more enjoyable.
Yeah…………. no. Pitiful, you are.
People want to argue whether or not Deftones will or even can be considered one of the greatest bands. I agree with you that for their time they are. They continue to improve and even after some questionable releases when they were going through growing pains they came back with a vengeance. I think at the end of the day they have a growing fan base and those that have followed from the beginning (I picked up adrenaline in 96 and its history from there) continue to love em. That’s my opinion and when you ask me who I think are the greatest bands ever they’re close to the top of my list.
For the record and for the lulz I will post this for the fanbois “Music critic Piero Scaruffi includes Adrenaline at number 33, just after Deicide’s self-titled album and before Judas Priest’s Sad Wings of Destiny, in his classification of the best metal albums of all times.” Just for perspective
Piero Scaruffi also runs a website apparently built with GeoCities.
dude, news flash, people who like Metal, always hated Nu Metal.
Not true. I enjoyed some of it when I was younger. Granted some of the bands I liked shouldn’t have been in the genre, but they were. Snot comes to mind when I say that.
Derp.
This dude is super overrated and so is this GARBAGE band. Disturbed SUCKS BALLS. They were never part of nu-metal! Sevendust, Deftones, etc is nu-metal. Not these ass clowns with their cheese-y piercings and purple hair. GARBAGE. People that think they know metal LOVE these guys. TRUE STORY.
Surely, someone in the music industry, and more specifically someone in a band that is typically classified within part of the genre in question, should know how to define said genre in at least very basic and general terms.
Maybe he is being an arrogant prick as he is wont to do.
With that being said though, I’m not entirely convinced that he realizes that he is only confirming popular opinion that he is lacking in upper-level cognitive faculties. Furthermore…I am failing to understand why the term “nu-metal” needs to be used in such a negative connotation all the time like it is some sort of super-contagious disease. Sure, it was mostly just a phase that died out fairly rapidly and is now made fun of by self-professed music elitists that, no doubt, had a Limp Bizkit album or 2 in regular rotation once-upon-a-time…but just accept the fact that you’re a “Nu-Metal” band or can be classified as such.
To me, a band like this that can almost certainly be classified as “nu-metal” saying they are not nu-metal is like Skid Row saying they weren’t part of the “80′s Hair Metal” craze.
Also, to dispell any rumors that might come of this that I am an avid nu-metal basher, I would just like to throw it out there that I still listen to Switched, Relative Ash, Deftones, Drown, 20 Dead Flower Children, Dry Kill Logic, Rage Against the Machine and Mindset.
Distancing himself from nu-metal is a marketing move, bald and simple. There are people in this world, mostly teenagers, who might decide not to listen to Disturbed if they thought they were nu-metal (and thus=not cool). So he’s attempting to distance himself from a now uncool musical movement, in order to try to gain fans who might be easily swayed by such things. Same deal as when Robb Flynn says “what nu-metal album? That was only 30 seconds of rapping.”
Did you intend on typing “BALD and simple”? …Because if you did…bravo. I didn’t even have to read the rest of your post before I thumbs-up’ed it for that.
None the less, those poor teenagers who buy their album because they’re under the impression that Disturbed are not nu-metal will be in for a nasty surprise. Thus furthering their hatred for being lied to in the first place; or so I would think. Either way, I’m happy I don’t have to hear anymore new junk featuring the OH..OH… EWAAAHAHAHA. I’ll take my cookie monster metal over a hyena clearing it’s throat any day.
None the less, those poor teenagers who buy their album because they’re under the impression that Disturbed are not nu-metal will be in for a nasty surprise. Thus furthering their hatred for being lied to in the first place; or so I would think. Either way, I’m happy I don’t have to hear anymore new junk featuring the OH..OH… OOWAAAAHAHAHA. I’ll take my cookie monster metal over a hyena clearing it’s throat any day.
And screw my computer for posting that shit twice! Sorry.
I’ll back that. Nu Metal isn’t all bad, even though there is definitely some bad stuff in there. Thumbs up for mentioning Switched.
Switched, there’s a name I haven’t heard in a long time.
Disturbed is for FAGS.
Fags aren’t THAT gay, fag.
I have nothing against gay people. I use the term FAG to describe people I dislike, if that offends you, well too bad..
I have nothing against gay people, I’m just insensitive and I don’t give a shit about offending them. I have nothing against minorities or oppressed classes either, I just use racial epithets and other slurs to describe people I dislike. If that offends you, well, too bad….
I have nothing against you but stfu…
NdR23 must be a Emmure fan. IA just making that assumption on the fact that he used the word fag to attack people.
I have no idea who the fuck the band “Emmure” is.. I’m assuming you hold them to a high regard seeing as how you have a cute filipino boyfriend who keeps you warm at night while you live in your fucking moms house.
ive been reading your retarted ass comments all over this site, dude you really are just a know nothing individual, who gets off on stating their opinion like it matters.. dude your tatse in music is awful im sorry, but it isand taking jabs at people and bands based on their language is ridiculous, you know nothing about NdR23, so dont make assumptions about anyone, ok design the skyline??
The guys in Disturbed are not people.
@TheAngerResides2011 “A know nothing individual, really”? Shit I guess all my knowledge about business,marketing,politics, psychology, religion,music,sports,etc.that I don’t express on this site has no value. To be completely honest I don’t think you have an opinion of who I am or about the bands I like (QOTSA,Tool,Deftones,Ministry,DEP,Mike Patton,APC, etc.). Any if not most comments I leave on this site aren’t sincere, and in most cases aren’t meant to be taken seriously. As for me making assumptions, you just made one that is highly inaccurate. So I could really care less of what your opinion is. P.S. to those who were and are offended by the FAG comment, I will gladly give you the blood soaked underwear I borrowed from TheAngerResides2011 to wipe your tears with.
LOL Anger and Nrd are both extremely slow as I’m sure most of you can tell from this.
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@NdR23: I will assume this is adamvsdonkey, as you just used one of his patented replies. But back to the fag/emmure connection. people who use the word fag like it’s something to just throw around on the internet are likened to the braindead fans and singer of Emmure. Also, good work on attack your boyfriend Anger, when he was trying to back you. I guess out of all your “knowledge” reading the English language isn’t one of them.
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@AngerResides: Sorry, I must have attacked one of your stupid posts at some point. I apologize, and hope you can forgive me for making you look stupid. But good work on backing people who use homophobic words cause they’re awesome.
@NdR: P.S. You leave my cutey pablo out of this. You meanie.
@ Ndr23 dude i was sticking up for you, My comment was aimed at that relentless beating asshole, But thanks for telling me off, much appreciated…
@TheAngerResides2011 I’m sorry I got too caught up and assumed you were attacking me haha. My apologies man, I was at work while replying and didn;’t read it all, agghh I feel stupid. AS for relentless dude you gotta stfu, you’re like a regular Russell Brand.
Don’t throw around the word fag like a braindead redneck, and I won’t attack your post. Easy enough.
@TheAngerResides2011 Dude I was super busy at work, I replied after reading two sentences and assumed you were attacking me , my apologiesx1,000,000. It is kinda funny lol. Once again, sorry. Drinks on me.
Relentless you have a point, I guess there are a thousand other hatefilled deuchbaggish words I could use to describe fans of the band disturbed, at the time I chose fag and well, I guess I’m going to stick with that.
He simply thinks that Disturbed are a melodic modern metal band. Which is fine. However, he is lying when he tweets that he doesn’t know what ‘nu-metal’ is, I’m sure of that. He probably is also aware of why one would classify Disturbed as ‘nu-metal.’
If he is aware of these things, then why the twitter bullshit? How can someone so famous be this attention starved? Is he also aware that “DEFINE NU METAL?” doesn’t require a question mark? Is he aware that typing in all caps is obnoxious? I’m going to go ahead and continue to believe that he’s simply a dolt with no sense of self-awareness.
Why the twitter bullshit? Because he actually thinks if he acts like if he doesnt know what nu-metal is, how can he possibly be associated with it? He is trying to save face, nu-metal is considered an insult these days, and he is so overly aware of that. Its an act! He’s more full of shit now than back in the early days when he tried claiming that Disturbed was a new religion he was preaching.
I love categories!
lets play another round: Name all the Christian Blackcore bands you know!
I STILL DON’T KNOW WHAT WE’RE YELLING ABOUT
LOUD NOISES!
Disturbed’s first album was undoubtedly nu-metal, but they jumped ship for a more ‘classic’ sound after they were finished cashing in on that trend.
I would happily answer him, unfortunately, I’m ill equiped to teach anything to the mentally disabled. You know, that’s me just being lazy. Here goes. “Dear Mr. Ohh ah ah ah ah: Hi! Thanks for asking for the definition of Nu-metal as taking from Urban Dictionary…Ahem “Corporatized, lobotomized, watered-down mainstream answer to the grind/death/crust music of the late 80s and early 90s crossed with elements of hip-hop, but lacking any of the things that made either form of music music great- i.e. guts, thoughts, belief, intensity, passion, speed, technical ability, a real reason to be angry. Nu-metal encourages kids to buy CDs at the mall, spend their money on stupid accessories at Hot Topic, and rebel against their parents when they should be rebelling against the system that built the mall they’re shopping at.”
Here’s hoping this helps!!!
i had no where to put this.. at least this is better news. http://www.metalsucks.net/2011/09/06/cynic-will-release-a-new-ep-in-november/
Draiman is quoted as saying, “the first record I ever bought was Kiss’ Destroyer. And those classic bands like Black Sabbath were my first loves…I focused on the seminal metal bands like Metallica, Iron Maiden, Pantera and Queensrÿche.”[2]
Draiman continues, “But I could also appreciate the hair metal bands – When you hear Whitesnake, you can’t deny their greatness. Then I went in the direction of punk and new wave, groups like the Sex Pistols, The Ramones, The Misfits and later The Smiths and The Cure – that was my ’80s.”[2]
“And then when the grunge revolution happened, it was like a wakeup call. I’ll never forget getting my first Nirvana, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains records.” Wiki.
He’s got good taste in music and i am SURE he was just being sarcastic about nu-metal. What’s so bad about nu-metal anyways? It paved the way for melodic metal for one thing, it also paved the way for all the “breakdowns” you hear in EVERY damn band that is out now. So why bash nu-metal? Retarded if you ask me and just something else for people to jump on the haters bandwagon about.
I don’t hate, i question why YOU hate.
I believe hardcore paved the way for breakdowns.
i believe black sabbath paved the way for breakdowns
I believe old black blue’s men who sold their soul to the devil paved the was for Black Sabbath.
i believe slavery paved the way for old black blue’s men to sell their souls.
Ah, you win.
true, i didn’t think about hardcore at the time of writing that post. Probably becuase I never muched liked hardcore with the exception of Hatebreed and Reach the Sky, THUMB was good too if you consider them hardcore. I myself hate the term hardcore.
what the, paved the way for breakdowns? you really think “satisfaction is the death of desire” was infulenced by “the sickness”?
If Draiman was so keen on getting a definition of “Nu-Metal”, I would have defined it as : Bands that made way too much money for the quality of music they put out during the late ’90s early ’00s. Then see if he still denies Disturbed was apart of that.
If hard rock and early metal style music would have never evolved into the “nu-metal” genre, then you would never have gotten the metal that you have today. I am a fan of all variations of metal and everyone should just appreciate the history of metal as a whole and enjoy everything that we have had and everything that we now listen to as a result. Nu-Metal wasn’t necessarily a bad thing, there was a major amount of satisfaction we ALL got from the genre, no one can deny that. It may not be what’s considered ‘cool’ these days, but it was at one time, and took us to the next level musically. We can appreciate it for that if nothing else.
I’ll tell you a story…
Once upon a time there was this great shit called METAL, which, since it came about dominated the world. Then one day in the early 90′s this awful shit came along called, “Alternative”. METAL was like, “WTF”, and Alternative said, “I don’t have very much talent, but I wanna have a message too”. Then METAL went 2 different ways, some went underground and kept doing what they always did, and the more popular METAL bands took it a little easier(Megadeth, Metallica amirite?) Then some Alternative guys said, “Oh hey, we those cool metal guys, but we also like rap, and some other stuff. Let’s be Alt-Metal. Then some protested and said no way, if anything we are the New METAL. The wise old ones would never allow this, dubbing them Nu-Metal instead. Because they did not METAL like old METAL, but they sure gave it a try. Then one miraculous day Sept. 11th, 2001, SLAYER released God Hates us All, and the world fuckin exploded, terrorists destroyed world trade centers trying everything they could to stop the mighty SLAYER from exposing the shitty Nu-Metal for what it really was, but failed. America stood up from tragedy and said, “WTF have we been listening to?” Limp Bizkit? …are you shitting me. Anthrax releases, “We have come for you all”, Headbangers Ball comes back, and shit tons of Metal bands blow up everywhere. A few bands tried to make the move from Nu-Metal, to real METAL, only to achieve Hard Rock(Godsmack, Sevendust, Disturbed). We saw it, we know it, so yeah, Disturbed = Nu-Metal. Thumbs up if you agree, thumbs down if you like Green Day.
Cool story, bro.
please tell us another
Another time perhaps. I’ve had many drinks, work was shitty last night.
lol wow, this guy sucks. PKEmusic[]com
Don’t you numetal haters realize that you are on theprp? It stands for pimp rock palace. This site and metal of today would not be what it is without numetal. I was young when korns debut came out, 13 I believe, and it got me started into my real metal journey. From korn, I got into sepulturas roots, and than kept on digging deeper. I am sorry for the crap that came along with it like durst and draiman, but numetal was not a total lost cause. It. Was good at first, but got weak and died away, so rip. Two last things, some of these posts are hilarious, like the 9/11 one and the laughing hyena. Also if my post says numeral anywhere instead of numetal , I apologize because iPads are shit.
hey phil collins
One thing I left out, most ppl who seem to hate numetal are a little older than me and were introduced to metal by good bands like slayer and old Metallica. So I can understand their disdain for numetal, because that’s how I feel about some new scenes here today. With that said, I keep an open ear and try not to get too down on new bands, because metal as a genre always weeds out the crap to leave behind the better bands that were always there. Ooo wah ah ah ah!
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Disturbed is “small penis metal.” Careful, it’s contagious! Almost all their fans have caught the same thing.
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come on guys we all know nu metal is the starting point into the genre of metal if you came across it on your own.
wtf? really? come on david i know your smarter than that!
Can we all agree that Disturbed going on indefinite hiatus was the best thing to happen to ‘metal’ in the last 20 years?
mmmm….if you had DJ scratch samples on ur debut album,…..and u wore a orange jumpsuit on stage….sorry YOU ARE NU-METAL.
oh and if ur 40 yr old guitar player has random purple braids in his hair….
YOU ARE NU-METAL..
ONLY LEGIT BAND IS SYSTEM OF A DOWN
I have trouble with System being lumped into “nu-metal”… I don’t like it, dammit!
SOAD is definitely nu metal, and like half a dozen of the previous posters said it’s not “bad” being labeled nu metal. Disturbed just ripped off a bunch of the original nu metal bands, and they couldn’t write a good song to save their lives so only people who enjoy Nickelback and Saliva listen to Disturbed.
I like disturbed and hate saliva and nickel back…theory shot down music guru
the comments are so negative it’s impossible to call it trolling and I’m not a big fan of disturbed besides their first album, everything else was mainstream bull crap, I love other nu metal bands like soad, slipknot, korn, never bothered to listen to deftones tho, Staying ON TOPIC I think this is very funny
I got into metal like Deicide, Chimiaria, Slayer, etc… because of nu-metal, that is enough for me to justify it’s existence.
DAMN!! you all take music too seriously…chill out. You like what you like and you hate what you hate! I like DMB, but i also like The Yellow Sign…that is a huge range, there are little things in each genre that people like. MUSIC is MUSIC chill the fuck out
Hey guys, from overseas (france) your comments sound pretty funny…
I mean I don’t know what’s up with americans hating or spitting on nu-metal. It’s just an evolution of metal, some people like, liked or will like it, some people play, played or will play some, and some bands were influenced, are influenced or will be influenced by nu-metal. OK ? It’s a part of metal.
I mean if you want to jump while listening to music, why would you damn put on a Maiden or Priest CD ? Go straight to the Bizkit or early Soulfly ! At least nu-metal bands, original or fakes, changed us from the leather fagets singing so high, or shredding so fast, or from bad-ass guys growling their hate of everything.
To me nu-metal is to metal what grunge was to punk-rock.
Some band isn’t necessary better than another one, some guys out there are so bossy that’s pathetic… There are so many ingredients in music you can’t define a good band or a good taste in music. Technicality, groove, speed, melodies, production, agressivity, dollars… Screw that guys.
At least nu-metal allowed french metal musicians to sound almost as good as american bands eheh….
Hey, man, you guys have Pleymo and Pleymo has always been my jam!
Hey just to let u know mr France, not everyone on here is from America homie… Take part in some more discussions and you’ll soon see the plethra of nationalities and races going on here… Ps- gojira fuckin rules, fucker… Haha
just go away!!!!!!! next band please
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