{"id":2150,"date":"2013-12-12T16:41:45","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T22:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/?p=2150"},"modified":"2015-06-10T15:06:22","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T20:06:22","slug":"chicago-artist-disturbed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/?p=2150","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Artist : Disturbed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Disturbed<\/b>\u00a0is an American\u00a0heavy metal<\/a>\u00a0band from\u00a0Chicago<\/a>,\u00a0Illinois<\/a>. The band’s members are vocalist\u00a0David Draiman<\/a>, guitarist\u00a0Dan Donegan<\/a>, bassist\u00a0John Moyer<\/a>, and drummer\u00a0Mike Wengren<\/a>. Former band members are bassist\u00a0Steve “Fuzz” Kmak<\/a>\u00a0and vocalist Erich Awalt.<\/p>\n

Formed in 1994 as Brawl, the band was renamed Disturbed in 1996 after Draiman was hired as the band’s new vocalist. The band has released five studio albums, four of which have consecutively debuted at number-one on theBillboard<\/i>\u00a0200<\/a>.[1]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Disturbed went into an indefinite hiatus in October 2011 and the band’s members are currently working on various side projects. The band members insist that they will regroup as Disturbed again sometime in the future.<\/p>\n

Before\u00a0David Draiman<\/a>\u00a0joined Disturbed, the lineup consisted of vocalist Erich Awalt, guitarist\u00a0Dan Donegan<\/a>, drummerMike Wengren<\/a>, and bassist\u00a0Steve “Fuzz” Kmak<\/a>. Before changing their name to “Brawl”, however, Donegan mentioned in the band’s DVD,\u00a0Decade of Disturbed<\/i>, that the name was originally going to be “Crawl”; they switched it to “Brawl”, due to the name already being used by another band. Awalt left the band shortly after the recording of a demo tape; the other three members advertised for a singer. They posted an advertisement in the local music publication in Chicago, Illinois, called the “Illinois Entertainer”.[2]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Draiman answered the advertisement after going to twenty other auditions that month.[2]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Guitarist Dan Donegan commented on Draiman: “You know, out of all the singers that we had talked to or auditioned, he [Draiman] was the only singer who was ready to go with originals. And that impressed me, just to attempt that”.[2]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

With regard to Draiman being the new singer for the band, Donegan said, “After a minute or two, he just starts banging out these melodies that were huge…I’m playing my guitar and I’m grinning from ear to ear, trying not to give it away that I like this guy, you know, because I don’t want to, you know…[say] ‘Yeah, we’ll give you a call back. We’ll, you know, discuss it.’ But I was so psyched. Chill up my spine. I’m like, ‘There is something here’.” As drummer Mike Wengren commented, “We clicked right off the bat.”[2]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0Draiman then joined the band in 1996 and the band was renamed Disturbed. When asked in an interview why he suggested to name the band Disturbed, Draiman said, “It had been a name I have been contemplating for a band for years. It just seems to symbolize everything we were feeling at the time. The level of conformity that people are forced into was disturbing to us and we were just trying to push the envelope and the name just sorta made sense.<\/p>\n

On February 8, 2012, it was announced that\u00a0John Moyer<\/a>\u00a0is Heavy Metal supergroup\u00a0Adrenaline Mob’s<\/a>\u00a0new bass player. John made his onstage debut with the group on March 12, at New York City\u2019s Hiro Ballroom, a day before the release of the band’s debut full-length album,\u00a0Omert\u00e1<\/i>.[56]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0On February 14, 2012, on his Twitter account David Draiman has confirmed that he will make an appearance on VH1’s\u00a0That Metal Show<\/a>\u00a010th Season airing sometime this year.[57]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0That episode was later moved to the 11th season and premiered on August 11, 2012.<\/p>\n

In May 2012 Draiman announced his new project, an\u00a0industrial metal<\/a>\u00a0band called\u00a0Device<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Draiman has released information regarding the future of Disturbed and his new project Device. He has stated that Device will release their\u00a0self-titled debut album<\/a>on April 9, 2013. The album will feature many guest musicians from various metal bands.<\/p>\n

On April 25, 2013, it was announced that guitarist Dan Donegan and drummer Mike Wengren had begun a new project with\u00a0Evans Blue<\/a>\u00a0singer Dan Chandler,\u00a0Fight or Flight<\/a>. Their debut album, “Life by Design?” was released on July 23, 2013.[58]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n

In January 2015, Moyer formed a new band with\u00a0Scott Weiland<\/a>,\u00a0Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal<\/a>, twins Jon and Vince Votta entitled\u00a0Art of Anarchy<\/a>, with an album set to release in Spring 2015.<\/p>\n

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Disturbed\u00a0is an American\u00a0heavy metal\u00a0band from\u00a0Chicago,\u00a0Illinois. The band’s members are vocalist\u00a0David Draiman, guitarist\u00a0Dan Donegan, bassist\u00a0John Moyer, and drummer\u00a0Mike Wengren. Former band members are bassist\u00a0Steve “Fuzz” Kmak\u00a0and vocalist Erich Awalt. Formed in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2151,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-loop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beintheloopchicago.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}