David Draiman Claims He Has "Compassion" for Palestinians Despite the Bombs He Signed
https://www.metalsucks.net/2026/04/16/david-draiman-claims-he-has-compassion-for-palestinians-despite-the-bombs-he-signed/
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AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world · 70 pts · 125d
Someone is suddenly uncomfortable with his level of complicity.
I'm sure the Palestinians killed by his autograph feel much better now.
foggy@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 125d
Fucking piece of shit.
So frustrating when someone with an admirable skill is a moral pariah. The guy has genuinely studio perfect vocal compression. Every metal vocalist knows it. You don't need to like disturbed to hear it.
Joins the ranks of R Kelly and Kanye, Tim Lambesis, P Diddy, Ian Watkins, etc.
May AI bastardize their catalogues 🙏
FoxyFerengi@startrek.website · 8 pts · 125d
Holy crap. I did not know that about Tim. That fucking sucks, As I Lay Dying has been one of my favorite bands since I was a teenager
bunsley@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 125d
Piece of shit, not quite Ian Watkins. We all have trump fans in our familes somewhere, they aren't all infant abusing pedofiles
foggy@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 125d
If any of my trump family members signed a bomb and said they hoped the dead kids it killed would come to their show, I would 100% disown them the same.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 125d
Jon Schaffer lol
AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 124d
Fuck Jon Schaffer. Iced Earth was my favorite band back in the Barlow 1 / Ripper era. Traitorous fuck.
tiredofsametab@fedia.io · 27 pts · 125d
Disturbed are still around? Well, I'll continue nor buying their stuff, I guess
RaoulDuke25@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 125d
They sucked when I was in high school. Guess they still suck now, too.
BodePlotHole@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 125d
They did, and they still do, too.
a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 125d
No, Mommy, I'll be a good boy!
roguetrick@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 125d
This is the guy that wanted the dead children to come to his concert, right? You're never going to get anything approaching a straight answer from this asshole.
FE80@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 125d
This asshole got booed at the last Ozzy show.
fif-t@fedia.io · 14 pts · 125d
Fuck Draiman, and good that this article is calling him out.
But at the same time, it's in itself still both sides-ing a genocide and was a somewhat infuriating read.
1995ToyotaCorolla@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 125d
Funny how compassion always seems to manifest if your pocketbook might get hurt
massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 9 pts · 125d
Seldom I wished so much for an ordinance accident.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 125d
Ordnance*
massive_bereavement@fedia.io · 1 pts · 125d
Little happy accidents.
BodePlotHole@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 125d
As someone who spent his 20's working in the music industry, I think it's important to underline that success or talent for a person in music has literally nothing to do with that person's intelligence.
Doesn't mean they can't be smart, but it's far more likely than people think that the musicians you love are kinda dumb as fuck.
I think that lack of self analysis/awareness frees up the capacity to convey raw emotion or something...
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 124d
"Compassion bombs"
baeb66@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 125d
I have compassion for anyone who has ever paid to see one of his shows.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 125d
I knew he was a piece of shit when he ruined Simon & Garfunkel.
noxypaws@pawb.social · 4 pts · 124d
Fuck him for this.
Very very much smaller stakes here, but also fuck him for naming his shit band "Device" when Device was already an incredible (if obscure) 80s hair metal band, which included Holly Knight (who wrote Love Is A Battlefield among other songs).
Amusingly the music video for Device (the good one)'s "Who Says" (youtube link here, and I highly recommend at least listening to the song if not also watching the video, it's a BANGER) has a comment from Holly herself from ten years ago throwing shade at this shithead for taking the band name anyways after he asked her for it and she said no.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 125d
Who?
phoenixz@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 124d
Had he done this a day after that Hamas attack, I could have understood that behavior, somewhat at least.
A genocide later, you can't claim anything anymore, you are a genocide supporter, David.
heartpunk25@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 124d
I'm sorry he did what?
cholesterol@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 125d
Grabbing the fuse seems to track.
BygoneNeutrino@lemmy.world · -10 pts · 124d
This is ridiculous. It's hard to believe the guy who wrote "Let the Bodies Hit the Floor" is capable of this. Does he actually think his fan base in the death metal murder scene will tolerate this sort of behavior?
Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio · 7 pts · 124d
That was Drowning Pool.
Soulg@ani.social · 2 pts · 124d
That plus the death metal murder scene referring to Disturbed makes me think it was satire
Texas_Hangover@lemmy.radio · 1 pts · 124d
That's some obscure satire. More likely explanation is ignorance.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 124d
Are they part of the death metal murder scene?
BygoneNeutrino@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 124d
Down With the Sickness*.
...I got my songs mixed up. When I was in the death metal murder scene in highschool, these songs were on the same playlists. At this point I listen to Taylor Swift and electronica.
Regardless, it is outrageous that the person behind the "No mommy, don't do it again" song would do this. Unacceptable.