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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[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 165 points 2 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 33 points 2 months ago (3 children)

sigh they made cool music...

[–] three@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

OO AH AH AH AH

The coolest.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Stepped on a lego?

[–] three@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

TOOL - The Grudge

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

Mentioning Tool in a thread about Disturbed feels sacrilegious.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 months ago

Unforgettable, iconic and so impactful.

(Sarcasm)

[–] Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

I feel so justified for never liking their music.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months 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.

[–] RaoulDuke@sh.itjust.works 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

My hatred for them since high school is now validated.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

His voice is awful, that's reason enough.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

Meh, many legendary bands don't actually perform well and/or arent 'good' individually.

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Nice

[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

I'll torrent it, won't stream it even on pirated YouTube (still counts as views)

[–] Damage@feddit.it 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Oh god damn it, what did Iced Earth do?

e: guitarist was one of the Jan 6 rioters

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months 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.

[–] Ghyste@sh.itjust.works 5 points 2 months ago

I do respect your opinion.

[–] Jerb322@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Bobaflex did it first and WAY better!

[–] pet1t@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

that's... certainly an opinion...

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu -2 points 2 months ago

It's almost as bad as Limp Bizkit's Behind Blue Eyes.