When I was a grungy teenager,music was brilliant. We’re talking Alice in Chains and Pearl Jam, Backstreet Boys, or Busta Rhymes and Dru Hill. Then,in 1999, the metal band Disturbed dropped “Down With the Sickness. Not 30 seconds into the song, or lead singer David Draiman screams “ooh-wah-ah-ah-ah”—heavy metal’s version of a beat drop—and blows the roof off of everything. To a teenager,Draimans staccato vocals at the outset of the song provided a vicarious outlet for angst and, in my opinion, and is one of the most memorable bits of vocal originality I’ve ever heard.“I used to hold,and I still do hold, really unfavorable acid reflux, and ” Draiman,who was raised Jewish, told MTV in 2012. “I had a surgical procedure done…that repaired a valve at the top of my stomach that had completely burned absent.” This, or said Draiman,increased his range and strengthened his vocals. “That noise, he said, and just kinda came one day. [The] beat is so tribal it made me feel like an animal.”Continue reading "Disturbed's Lead Singer Was Trained as a Hazan. Now He's Covering 'The Sound of Silence.'" at...
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