DISTURBEDĀ has releasedĀ “Hey You”, the first single off the band’s upcoming studio album. The official music video for the song, directed byĀ Josiahx, can be seen below.
DISTURBEDĀ frontmanĀ David DraimanĀ stated about the track: “It’s a wake-up call. We’ve become our own worst enemies. Civil discourse has become the exception instead of the norm. People have lost themselves in outrage addiction.”
All four members of DISTURBEDĀ were in Los Angeles on June 14 to film theĀ “Hey You”Ā music video.
GuitaristĀ Dan DoneganĀ and bassistĀ John MoyerĀ both shared photos from before and during the shoot, withĀ DanĀ writing: “Time to make a music video! First single off the new album coming in the very near future.”Ā MoyerĀ added in a separate post: “Band performance about to go down! NewĀ DISTURBEDĀ coming soon!!”
Earlier last month, DraimanĀ said thatĀ DISTURBED‘s upcoming album, which is tentatively due in November, will contain a “surprise track” that will “blow [fans’] minds.”
On June 2, the 49-year-old frontman took to his TwitterĀ to write aboutĀ DISTURBED‘s follow-up to 2018’sĀ “Evolution”: “Listening back to the mixes. Amazing record. Very proud. (Also, there’s a surprise track on here that’s going to blow your minds)”.
In May,Ā DraimanĀ told the audience atĀ DISTURBED‘s concert in Camden, New Jersey that the band’s new LP will be released “soon.” He added: “It’s about 90 percent heavy as fuck. Now there’s still 10 percent of caring, loving goodness [laughs] ā 10 percent. Hey, for everybody that fell in love withĀ ‘The Sound Of Silence’Ā [SIMON & GARFUNKEL] cover, I figured, you know⦠But the rest of it?Ā ‘Sickness’-,Ā ‘Ten Thousand Fists’-eraĀ DISTURBED, for sure. You excited about that? ‘Cause I’ll tell you we’re really fucking excited about it.”
In April,Ā DISTURBEDĀ drummerĀ Mike WengrenĀ toldĀ “The Mistress Carrie Podcast”Ā that he and his bandmates are “definitely in the middle of the process” of making a new album. “WeĀ haveĀ been writing, weĀ haveĀ been recording,” he said. “I’m very excited about everything that we’re coming up with right now. It’s feeling great, it’s sounding great.”
He continued: “We don’t necessarily have a definitive time frame right now [for the album’s release]. Coming off two years of a pandemic, we just have been taking our time in trying to put out the best record of our careers and top everything that we’ve ever done before.
“I think people are gonna be pleasantly surprised when they finally get a chance to hear this,”Ā MikeĀ added.
Wengren‘s comments came just days afterĀ DraimanĀ confirmed thatĀ DISTURBEDĀ has completed recording the new LP. Prior to that,Ā DraimanĀ shared a since-deletedĀ InstagramĀ photo of a whiteboard ā which appeared to have been taken in a recording studio ā chartingĀ DISTURBED‘s progress with recording. On the board, 10 songs were listed, featuring such titles asĀ “Hey You”,Ā “Love To Hate”Ā andĀ “Part Of Me”.Ā DavidĀ captioned the picture: “And that’s a wrap people. #HolyShitIsThisGood #epic @disturbed”. Also included on the whiteboard was the guitar tuning for each track, with most of them using “Standard C#”, “Drop C#” or “Drop C” tuning. One track was also recorded in “Drop A#” tuning, while another is in “Drop B”.
DraimanĀ spoke about the progress of the songwriting sessions for the newĀ DISTURBEDĀ album during a recent appearance onĀ “Whiplash”, theĀ KLOSĀ radio show hosted byĀ Full Metal Jackie. Regarding what it has been like for him and his bandmates to regroup in person after such a long time apart and once again launch the creative process, he said: “There’s really nothing that replaces it. It was a continuing theme of conversation over the course of the week that we had together between our couple of shows we played in Indiana [in early November] and our performance over in Daytona for [the]Ā Welcome To RockvilleĀ [festival]. There really is no substitute. There isn’t. The energy and that realization when you’ve got something. Compare it to fishing, and you finally land a big one. [Laughs] It’sĀ incredibly, incredibly exciting. And we were on fire.”
As for the musical direction of the newĀ DISTURBEDĀ songs,Ā DraimanĀ said: “The material is somewhere betweenĀ ‘The Sickness’Ā andĀ ‘Ten Thousand Fists’Ā as far as where I would identify it as sonically. It’s rhythmic, it’s pummeling, it’s anthemic, it’s polysyncopated. It’s meat-and-potatoesĀ DISTURBED.”
DavidĀ also discussedĀ DISTURBED‘s apparent decision to pursue a more aggressive musical approach on its next LP compared toĀ “Evolution”, on which nearly half the songs were either acoustic or semi-acoustic.
“It’s a different sort of itch you’re scratching,” he said. “You can have the satisfaction that comes with, let’s say, playing with your children peacefully somewhere and you can have a different sort of satisfaction in engaging in full-contact football with your buddies. It’s just a different feel. They’re both equally as gratifying but sometimes you just get a little taste more for one than the other. And right now we are definitely ā we’ve got our teeth dug in to that style. We were dying to do the more aggressive stuff. We wanted to go back home. We wanted to go back to the ‘groove so hard that you can’t stop bobbing your head’ kind of stuff. So, we’re there, and we’re loving it.”
Prior toĀ DISTURBED‘s appearance at the 2021 edition ofĀ Welcome To RockvilleĀ last November,Ā DraimanĀ toldĀ Lou BrutusĀ ofĀ HardDrive RadioĀ that the band will likely do things slightly differently with the upcoming release. “The way that I see it happening is we’re probably not gonna put out something in the traditional full-length; we’re probably gonna be doing two separate releases,” he explained. “So we’ll probably have one geared for release ā if everything works as planned ā by the fall, and then maybe something the following year as well.” WhenĀ BrutusĀ askedĀ DraimanĀ to clarify if that means that the nextĀ DISTURBEDĀ release will be an EP,Ā DavidĀ said: “Define it what you want, but it would like five or six songs at a pop ā something like that.
“We live in an environment right now and in an age where people’s consumption of music has been very soundbitish and very track-driven and very single-driven,” he continued. “And there’s definitely some beauty towards continuing to try and [make] things like concept records and telling a long story over the duration of a series of songs ā there’s huge merit to that ā but I think that when you write 10 songs and three of them actually get worked at radio and maybe, if you’re lucky, the fans are really familiar with half the record and the rest ends up sitting on a shelf, and if you do end up pulling it out one day, it’s like an obscure, weird moment during the set, and it’s almost like gratuitous for yourself. I don’t wanna do that anymore. I wanna make everything count. I wanna make sure that we get the biggest bang for everything we’re putting out there. I think that that should be easily attainable. It seems to be where the environment is going, and it seems to be ā whether we like it or not ā what the digital age has funneled us into.”
DISTURBEDĀ performed live for the first time in nearly two years last September as one of the headliners of theĀ Louder Than LifeĀ festival in Louisville, Kentucky.
In March 2021,Ā DISTURBED‘sĀ “The Sickness 20th Anniversary Tour”Ā was officially canceled. The amphitheater tour, with very special guestĀ STAINDĀ andĀ BAD WOLVES, was originally slated to take place in the summer of 2020 but was rescheduled to 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic. It was eventually scrapped altogether.
“The Sickness 20th Anniversary Tour”Ā was supposed to celebrate the 20th anniversary ofĀ DISTURBED‘s seminal albumĀ “The Sickness”. On the tour, the band was expected to perform songs off the album, as well as tracks fromĀ “Evolution”Ā andĀ DISTURBED‘s extensive catalog.
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