@ X103's Mayhem Festival - Klipsch Music Center - 08/07/11

Disturbed

This was one of Disturbed’s last performances before their current and indefinite hiatus. Heavy metal band Disturbed came together through the matching of a band with a singer. Longtime friends Dan, Mike, and Fuzz played together in Chicago for some time before hooking up with singer David around 1997. Draiman had grown up in a religious family against which he rebelled, being expelled from five boarding schools in his adolescence. His anger found an outlet in the thrashing sound of Disturbed, and the band built up a following on Chicago’s South Side before a demo tape led to their signing to Giant Records, which released their debut album, The Sickness, in March 2000. The band gained more fans and exposure playing the main stage of the 2001 Ozzfest, then broke away to do their own self-described “victory lap” around the U.S. that fall.