During this tour run Disturbed has brough up a lot of fans on stage to share their stories about their battle with Depression. We have heard many stories from many fans and it lets us know we are not alone in our battles. Check out the video below that was posted to their official facebook page.

Falling In Reverse frontman, Ronnie Radke has recently taken to X to share his thoughts on the best rock bands.

When a fan expressed regret about missing a live performance featuring David Draiman of Disturbed and Radke in Knoxville, Ronnie responded with high praise for Disturbed, writing:

“Disturbed is the best band I’ve ever seen live. You’re in for a treat.”

This endorsement was warmly acknowledged by Draiman, who thanked Radke for the compliment. Then, a fan’s curiosity about Radke’s opinion on Pierce the Veil prompted a nostalgic reflection. The vocalist recalled a memory from 2007, saying:

“On tour in 2007, when I was in Escape the Fate, we stopped by a small ass venue to watch Pierce the Veil; we just walked right in the front where they were playing. I’ve known them for 16 years. They deserve their success. Hard workers.”

The conversation took a turn when discussing Sleeping with Sirens. The singer expressed less enthusiasm for their music with the following words:

“Don’t like their music as much. Wanted them to do the popular Monster offered them too much money, and everyone wanted to do it. However, their guitarist turned it down because he’s now a woke guy. It’s just funny cause I watched him snort coke in his front lounge years before and literally make racist jokes. All of a sudden, he’s a he/him white knighting the band into oblivion.”

Asked about Underøath, Radke ranked them among his top five bands. He noted:

“Underoath is one of the most influential bands of the 00s in hardcore metalcore. Inspired my band. A bunch of bands started copying them, adding synths and samples. All of a sudden, the devil wears Prada was a Christian band with a keyboardist that went crazy, etc. Underoath is top 5 for me.”

Radke frequently shares his views on music and other bands, not shying away from expressing both praise and criticism. He recently voiced his opinion on the current generation of metal bands in reaction to a tweet from Enterprise Earth’s Travis Worland. He criticized the juxtaposition of violent lyrical content with what he perceives as a lack of toughness in real life.

You can check out all his tweets below.

Disturbed is best band I’ve ever seen live. you’re in for a treat https://t.co/WgiL4VJBf8

— Ronnie (@RonnieRadke) February 4, 2024

Original Article: planetradio.co.uk

Country singer and rock music aficionado Carrie Underwood has accepted David Draiman’s open invitation to sing on stage with Disturbed – however, it won’t be at the band’s upcoming Nashville show.

Earlier this week, David Draiman took to social media to invite Carrie Underwood to sing Ann Wilson’s parts on ‘Don’t Tell Me’ at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Saturday 17th February 2024.

Draiman wrote: ‘Who’d like to see @carrieunderwood perform #DontTellMe with @Disturbed in #Nashville 🤘🏻??!! I know I sure as hell would! What do you say? Carrie? Shall we rock? #CarrieUnderwood #Disturbed #DontTellMe.’

Last night, Carrie Underwood responded to Draiman’s plea, and wrote: “Ahhhhh!!! Why am I not in town when you guys are playing here?”

Confirming that she’s up for a Disturbed collaboration, she added: “Our time will come…”

Ahhhhh!!! Why am I not in town when you guys are playing here? 😫 Our time will come… https://t.co/4T7o2RtcY0

— Carrie Underwood (@carrieunderwood) February 1, 2024

The emotionally charged ‘Don’t Tell Me’ featuring Heart’s Ann Wilson first appeared on Disturbed’s 2022 album ‘Divisive’, and it marked the first time a guest featured on a studio record by the Chicago band.

A keen rock music fan, Carrie Underwood supported Guns N’ Roses on three dates of their North American tour in August 2023, and she duly injected rock anthems into her setlist.

Alongside rockier versions of her own repertoire, Underwood belted out Motörhead’s seminal song ‘Ace of Spades’, Heart’s ‘Alone’, The Rolling Stones’ ‘Wild Horses’ and Joan Jett’s ‘Bad Reputation.’

Earlier in the summer, she also covered Ozzy Osbourne’s ‘Mama, I’m Coming Home’, which features lyrics penned by Motörhead’s Lemmy, during an appearance on The Howard Stern Show.

Carrie Underwood is good friends with Axl Rose, and she was joined on stage by the Guns N’ Roses rocker at Stagecoach Country Music Festival in April 2022 for renditions of ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’ and ‘Paradise City.’

Underwood also united with Guns N’ Roses at London’s Tottenham Hotspur Stadium to duet on ‘Sweet Child O’ Mine’, and in March 2023 Rose joined Underwood on stage again at the Los Angeles Crypto.com Arena for ‘Welcome to the Jungle.’

There are so many challenges in life that music enables us to overcome

It’s no secret Taylor Swift became even more of a massive superstar over the past year, eliciting passionate opinions from fans and naysayers alike. However, during a recent Disturbed concert, lead singer David Draiman sent a strong message to Swift’s haters—and the entire exchange was caught on camera.

During a Jan. 19 concert in Peoria, Ill., Draiman brought two dads and their 12-year-old daughters onstage for a special moment shared via TikTok.

“So I take it that you came to the Disturbed concert, as opposed to the Taylor Swift concert, means that your parents are raising you on rock and roll,” he said to the girls. “Hey, don’t forget: Taylor Swift still kicks a—.”

When some audience members booed, Draiman proceeded to expertly scold the haters.

“You know what? I will stand up and applaud any pop artist that gets up on stage and sings live and plays a guitar live in front of a whole group of [F-bomb]ing thousands of girls and guys, young fans,” he said.

Draiman continued: “Don’t talk s— about Taylor Swift. She is for real. And she’s making sure that an entire generation of new music fans understand what it means to actually play music live.”

TikTok user @goddesslunalou shared a shorter version of the exchange, captioning the video, “When you go to a @disturbe concert and they’re hyping up @Taylor Swift.”

In the comments, folks showed their support for both Disturbed and Swift. One person wrote, “@Taylor Swift these are the people that take care of your name when you’re not in the room,” along with a heart emoji.

Another TikTok user commented, “and suddenly the Swifties will stan Disturbed with their lives!”

Yet another person declared, “Taylor Swift and Disturbed is the collab I never knew I needed.”

Meanwhile, someone else shared, “Real artists and songwriters know how talented TS is. She is the most prolific songwriter since Springsteen and McCartney.”

Original Article: Blabbermouth.net

DISTURBED kicked off the 2024 leg of its “Take Back Your Life” tour last night (Friday, January 19) at the Peoria Civic Center in Peoria, Illinois. The band’s 21-song setlist included the live debut of the “Divisive” album track “Don’t Tell Me” featuring a guest appearance by Moriah Formica of the opening band PLUSH. Fan-filmed video of the performance can be seen below.

Earlier this month, DISTURBED released the Matt Mahurin-directed music video for “Don’t Tell Me”. The song, an epic emotionally charged duet with HEART’s Ann Wilson, marked the first time the band had included a guest feature on an LP.

Back in 2017, Formica was a contender on season 13 of “The Voice”. Her blind audition performance of “Crazy On You” by HEART got the attention of all four judges, ultimately earning her a coveted spot on Team Miley Cyrus.

“I chose to play HEART because it is classic rock,” Formica said at the time. “One of the reasons why I decided to go on to ‘The Voice’ is because of the lack of true rock singers. Ann Wilson is one of my favorite vocalists.”

Regarding how the collaboration with Wilson came about, DISTURBED drummer Mike Wengren told Terrie Carr of WDHA-FM 105.5 FM: “That was always supposed to be the ‘power ballad,’ per se. And as we were tracking it in the studio, David [Draiman, DISTURBED singer] just threw out the idea, ‘Hey, let’s do a duet on this song.’ We’ve tossed around the idea before, but there wasn’t ever either the right material or the right time. So in this particular case, we kind of said, ‘Well, who you’ve got in mind?’ And he didn’t even have a list; he just had one person, and that was Ann. It was a no-brainer. ‘Hey, let’s hit up Ann. Let’s see if she’d be into it.’ And she was on board right away; we didn’t have to convince her.”

Mike continued: “[David and Ann] sort of struck up a bit of a friendship, a little bit of a rapport. When [DISTURBED cover version of] ‘The Sound Of Silence’ came out years back and had its success, she was one of many artists and celebrities that took it up themselves to go on Twitter and praise the song and praise our version of it, which we couldn’t have been more honored. Iconic, legendary Ann Wilson thinks that we did a great job with a SIMON & GARFUNKEL cover. That’s pretty incredible, a pretty great honor. So when we reached out to her, she was more than willing to jump on board. And she came in and she killed it… And she’s super cool and down to earth too, and just incredibly talented. It’s such an honor to have her be on our record. And to me, the blending of her voice and David’s voice, they really, really work so well together. I’m so proud of David and just so honored to have her a part of our record.”

In September 2022, DISTURBED guitarist Dan Donegan, whose divorce inspired “Don’t Tell Me”, told Meltdown of Detroit’s WRIF radio station about the band’s collaboration with Wilson: “Early in our career, we wanted to really establish ourselves without having any guests. We didn’t really talk about it much, but just [felt], ‘This is the band.’ Not that we were ever against it, but this far along in our career… We’re always pushing ourselves, trying to do stuff that’s different musically. And there’s so much talent out there and so many people we would love to do collaborations with now or later in our career.

“Ann Wilson had mentioned before — she tweeted about us before,” he continued. “A few years back, somebody asked her in an interview or whatever if there’s anything new out there, or newer, musically that she’s heard that she’s fan of, and she mentioned she really loved our version of ‘The Sound Of Silence’. And that kind of opened the door to a social media friendship between her and David a bit. And then when we wrote this song, it just seemed like it would lend itself to Ann’s voice and then trying to see that merge between her and David’s voices together. She jumped on the opportunity. Immediately she responded, and we were, like, ‘Holy shit. She just said yes to this.'”

Asked by Meltdown if “Don’t Tell Me” is a more mellow track than the standard DISTURBED fare, Dan said: “I can’t give it away, but their voices, it’s like Fergie and Jesus — a little ‘Step Brothers’ [2008 movie] quote there… It was a pretty magical moment to be in the room and to hear the two of them harmonize together.

“We tracked David’s vocals in Nashville, and we wanted to make it easy and convenient for her, ’cause we were, like, she said yes, she’s gonna do it,” Donegan continued. “Let’s make it as easy as possible on her.’ We flew out to California to meet with her. We went into a studio out there for just a couple of hours, and she sang against David’s tracks. And he was there kind of going over the harmonies with her and stuff too. So it was kind of a really magical moment to see the two of them working on those harmonies together. It was pretty impressive. And she’s such a pro, and she’s so damn good. She’s a legend. So it was pretty exciting. And it’s not like she sits there and jumps on people’s albums either, so we take that as a badge of honor to think that there’s not many times where somebody as big a legend as she is that she would jump on any album. She doesn’t have to, and she chose to be on this one. And she loves the track. And it just came together great.”

Released in November 2022, “Divisive” was recorded earlier that year with producer Drew Fulk (MOTIONLESS IN WHITE, LIL PEEP, HIGHLY SUSPECT) in Nashville, Tennessee.

According to Billboard, “Divisive” sold 26,000 equivalent album units in its first week of release, with 22,000 units via album sales.

On the all-format Billboard 200 chart, “Divisive” debuted at No. 13.

DISTURBED has had five No. 1s on the all-genre chart, beginning with “Believe” in 2002.

On their late 2022 album, Divisive, Disturbed had the fortune of collaborating with Heart singer Ann Wilson on a track called “Don’t Tell Me.” The song features Wilson and Disturbed singer David Draiman dueting over moody ballad instrumentation, and now, over a year after its release, Disturbed have unveiled an official music video for the track.

The visual includes close-up shots of Draiman and Wilson singing their respective parts in between silhouetted images of a melancholy couple linking arms. Watch above via YouTube.

“I have tremendous respect for Ann,” Draiman wrote in an accompanying press statement. “In my humble opinion, she’s the greatest female rock voice of all time.

“I think she’s untouchable. I feel like we were very gifted to have her be a part of this.”

“I was honored when I got the call from David Draiman,” Wilson added. “Disturbed did a version of ‘The Sound of Silence’ that my husband and I both really dug. And so, when the opportunity came to sing a duet with him on a song that meant so much to David emotionally, I jumped at the chance.

“And then the video turned out great, which is yet another cherry on top. Hopefully we’ll find a time to perform ‘Don’t Tell Me’ live together at some point. If they call, I’m there.”

Maybe the opportunity will come on Disturbed’s upcoming tour. The band kick off their North American headlining run next week (January 19th) and will be treking throughout the country until early March. If Wilson makes it out to a stop, a live performance of “Don’t Tell Me” would be iconic.

Well, it appears David Draiman has found love again. The Disturbed frontman took to social media yesterday (Jan. 10) and shared his first photo with his new girlfriend.

Draiman revealed that he was going through a divorce with his ex-wife Lena Draiman in early 2023. The couple had been married for 11 years, and had a son together named Samuel, who’s now 10. According to Blabbermouth, the singer wrote that he felt “heartbroken” and “very lost,” but assured there was no bad blood between himself and Lena.

The divorce was finalized in the spring. But now, it seems that Draiman has been able to mend his heart a bit, as he posted a photo of himself with a woman on Instagram.

“My lady,” the vocalist wrote as the caption of the photo, followed by a heart emoji. He also tagged the woman, whose name is Sarah Uli. According to her Instagram profile, she’s a Miami-based model. She shared the same image of herself with Draiman last night as well, captioning it, “You,” with a heart emoji.

Several musicians commented on Draiman’s post expressing their happiness for his newfound relationship.

“David, you are such a beautiful soul. Im so glad u have found someone who makes you happy,” Halestorm‘s Lzzy Hale wrote.

I Prevail‘s Brian Burkheiser commented, “Happy for you brotha!”

See the post below.

It’s unclear how Draiman met Uli, but he did own a home in Miami for a time, though he sold it in late September for $5 million [via the New York Post]. In May of last year, the singer revealed that he’d made a Tinder profile after a fan posted a screenshot of his account on X. The fan assumed the account was fake, but the vocalist confirmed that it was real.

“You’d be surprised. It’s hard for a guy like me to meet the right woman. I’ll tell you, it’s been weird so far. Lots of scammers. Trying to figure out how to navigate this new terrain,” Draiman expanded.

His stint on the platform didn’t last long, though, and he deleted the account shortly after.

“Holy fucking dumpster fire Batman, Tinder was an absolute shitishow. Scammers, grifters, fakes and phonies abound. What a colossal fucking nightmare. Deleted it. Dear lord,” he wrote in another post on X.

We wish Draiman all the best.

 

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Original Article: Blabbermouth.com

Original Article by: loadedradio.com

DISTURBED singer David Draiman has explained how he ended up reuniting with his new puppy Charlotte, who went missing from this Florida home a few days ago

Earlier today (Tuesday, October 3), the 50-year-old singer, who resides in Miami, shared a new Instagram post in which he wrote: “Someone found her roaming around on my block (I figured out how she got out and have since remedied the problem…fool me once). She crossed the street and they got out of their car and grabbed her. They left signs all over the place about a lost dog. One of the people on social media told me about the signs.

“They emailed me a picture of one. I called the number. Asked if the dog was a 10 week old golden retriever pup, they said yes. They asked me what color her collar was. I said she didn’t have one. They said, ‘good, that was a trick question, you caught it.’

“They gave me their address, they lived maybe 10 minutes from me, and I showed up to their house and they opened the door and there was my baby. I asked if I could give them anything, they said all they wanted was maybe the couple hundred they spent on food and toys for her for the two days she had been with them, which I gladly reimbursed. I was overwhelmed.”]

He added in a caption: “Thanks so much to the selfless people who helped reunite us. There are still good people in this world”.

Just three weeks ago, David Draiman welcomed a 10-week-old golden retriever into his life and introduced her to the world with a heartwarming post: “Say hello to the newest member of the Draiman family…Charlotte!”

However, over the weekend, a distressing update followed as Draiman revealed that Charlotte had gone missing. He offered a reward for any information that could lead to her safe return, expressing his concern that “she was taken by someone/something while playing in the yard.”

Back in April, during an interview, Draiman shared the painful loss of his beloved Akita dog, Gabriel, whom he had cherished as his best friend for 14 years.

In September 2023, David Draiman sold his Pinecrest home in the Miami suburb for $5 million. He had purchased the modern Spanish-Moroccan villa for $5.22 million in March 2022 and initially listed it for $5.75 million in January 2023, ultimately settling on a final asking price of $5.19 million.

Further adding to the changes in his life, David Draiman confirmed his divorce from his wife of 11 years, Lena Draiman, in April.

DISTURBED‘s most recent album, “Divisive,” was released last November. The album was recorded earlier in the same year with producer Drew Fulk (known for his work with MOTIONLESS IN WHITE, LIL PEEP, HIGHLY SUSPECT) in Nashville, Tennessee.

Original Article By: 1057thepoint.com

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The Point’s LIV MADDIX catches up with DISTURBED guitarist, DAN DONEGAN before their Point BIG Summer Show with Breaking Benjamin on August 29th, 2023 at Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre. Dan and Liv discuss what a Disturbed live show is all about, bringing in a new generation of fans, and the rollercoaster of emotions that Disturbed brings with their music and shows. Dan announces that the next single from ‘Divisive’ will be the track “Don’t Tell Me” featuring the legendary Ann Wilson from Heart which sparks a conversation about Disturbed’s search for a female vocalist to tour with the band and perform Ann Wilson’s part of the song live. Thanks to Dan Donegan and @DisturbedMusic for spending some time with us!