Are you Disturbed yet?

The band disturbed consists of 4 members, each with a different religion. Their band is represented in their band symbol.

The band members are named Dan Donegan, Steve “Fuzz” Kmak, Mike Wengren, and lead singer David Draiman. They have sold over 13 million albums worldwide. One of their first songs, Down with the Sickness, is about the anger and hate of a child who is abused by his/her parents physically. It is meant to start people discussing the controversial idea of physically punishing kids and the feelings of them afterwards. Most of Disturbed’s songs start discussions controversial topics about anger and hatred. For example, their new song, Asylum, discusses the treatment of criminally insane and mentally insane people in Mental Hospitals. This was in response to the many death’s occurring in Mental Hospital’s during 2010 and 2011.

One of Disturbed’s older songs, Hell, describes the anger and hatred that can come from being betrayed. It talks about the sensational feeling for revenge, where your entire mind is stripped of all reason, replaced by the irresistible urge to destroy all that you’ve done and all that you’ve become, in order to fulfill your revenge. It describes how the betrayer should fear his actions, and fear the vengeance that is sure to come from the one he betrayed.

Disturbed’s music using disturbing lyrics to ask you if you really should support what is going on in the world. Should you hit your children when they could feel anger and vengeance to you afterwards? Should you allow criminally and mentally insane people to be treated so that they feel crazier than they did before? Although most of the music videos have incredibly disturbing and exaggerated images, the song causes you to question yourself and your beliefs. In Asylum, there are many images of people coming to get you, taking you away to a place of Fear and Misery, where all you want to do is run and hide. One such scene shows a man in a straight jacket running from the hospital people, with them close behind. They trap him on the roof, smirking devilishly, loving the pain the cause on others.
Link:(Disturbed: Down with the Sickness Lyrics)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wA5NmQESx8(Warning: This song contains explicit material in the form of words...)

Michael Cole
Period 3
9/23/11