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 10 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] synapse1278@lemmy.world 33 points 10 months ago (3 children)

sigh they made cool music...

[–] three@lemmy.zip 12 points 10 months ago (2 children)

OO AH AH AH AH

The coolest.

[–] FooBarrington@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Stepped on a lego?

[–] three@lemmy.zip 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

TOOL - The Grudge

[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago

Mentioning Tool in a thread about Disturbed feels sacrilegious.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca -1 points 10 months ago

Unforgettable, iconic and so impactful.

(Sarcasm)

[–] Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

I feel so justified for never liking their music.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 3 points 10 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 10 months ago (2 children)

My hatred for them since high school is now validated.

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

His voice is awful, that's reason enough.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 1 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Dasus@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Nice

[–] Railcar8095@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

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

[–] Damage@feddit.it 6 points 10 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 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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 10 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 10 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 10 months ago

I do respect your opinion.

[–] Jerb322@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Bobaflex did it first and WAY better!

[–] pet1t@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

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

[–] SomethingBurger@jlai.lu -2 points 10 months ago

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