Disturbed vocalist David Draiman told the crowd at a Camden, NJ show that the band's new record is indeed "heavy as fuck." Well, 90 percent of it anyway. The other 10 percent caters to "The Sound Of Silence" cover crowd, which is fair considering how massive that single ended up being. I mean seriously, the cover made it into a NASA video the French ice skating team used it during their 2017 ISU World Team Trophy routine (and so did the US gymnastics team in 2018 at the the 2018 World Acrobatic Gymnastics Championship). The was inescapable.
"And it's about 90 percent heavy as fuck. Now there's still 10 percent of caring, loving goodness — 10 percent. Hey, for everybody that fell in love with 'The Sound Of Silence' cover, I figured, you know… But the rest of it? Sickness, Ten Thousand Fists-era Disturbed, for sure. You excited about that? 'Cause I'll tell you we're really fucking excited about it."
Draiman recently compared the new material to The Sickness and Ten Thousand Fists (again), calling it "pummeling and rhythmic and aggressive and anthemic and poly-syncopated."
"We've come up with some unbelievable new material that is just pummeling and rhythmic and aggressive and anthemic and poly-syncopated — Disturbed 101, everything people fell in love with us for in the first place. It has really been a wonderful past couple of weeks, especially after two years of being apart, not being able to really create. You can create over Zoom or some shit like that but it's not the same, that inspiration in the moment in front of each other — the magic, energy and electricity that occurs — nothing really compares to it. It was a welcome rush back into the system. Fucking amazing. It's sounding somewhere between The Sickness and Ten Thousand Fists, for sure."
