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19 апр 2025 :	DISTURBED Is 'Always Talking' About Which Other Classic Songs To Cover In The Recording Studio
29 мар 2025 :	DISTURBED On Celebrating 'The Sickness' On 25th-Anniversary Tour: 'It's Very Therapeutic For Us'
24 мар 2025 :	Watch: DISTURBED Joined By THREE DAYS GRACE's ADAM GONTIER And MATT WALST For 'Land Of Confusion' Performance At MSG
21 мар 2025 :	DISTURBED's DAVID DRAIMAN Sues Former Landlord Over Mold That Allegedly Affected Singer's Health
20 мар 2025 :	DAN DONEGAN: 'We Have A Lot Of Stuff Recorded' For Next DISTURBED Album
13 мар 2025 :	See DISTURBED's Detroit Concert During 'The Sickness 25th Anniversary Tour'
11 мар 2025 :	Watch: DISTURBED Rejoined By Original Bassist STEVE 'FUZZ' KMAK For 'The Sickness' Performance At Chicago Concert
10 мар 2025 :	DISTURBED Is Having 'Fun' Reliving 'The Sickness' Album On 25th-Anniversary Tour
4 мар 2025 :	DISTURBED's DAVID DRAIMAN: 'We've Got A Lot Of Amazing New Material We're Gonna Be Releasing'
3 мар 2025 :	See DISTURBED's Entire Denver Concert During 'The Sickness 25th Anniversary Tour'
26 фев 2025 :	Watch: DISTURBED Kicks Off 'The Sickness 25th Anniversary Tour' In Nampa
25 фев 2025 :	DAN DONEGAN Wanted To Capture 'Spirit Of Old-School DISTURBED' On 'I Will Not Break' Single
24 фев 2025 :	DAVID DRAIMAN Wants DISTURBED To Collaborate With KENDRICK LAMAR: 'Let's Shock The World A Little Bit'
21 фев 2025 :	DISTURBED Launches New Era With 'I Will Not Break' Single
4 фев 2025 :	DISTURBED's DAN DONEGAN On Upcoming 'The Sickness 25th Anniversary Tour': 'The Songs Came Back To Me Rather Quick'
18 янв 2025 :	DISTURBED Announces 25th-Anniversary-Edition Release Of Debut Album 'The Sickness'
13 янв 2025 :	Watch: DISTURBED Drummer MIKE WENGREN's SEVEN Performs Covers Of MEGADETH, RATT, WHITE LION, TESLA Classics
13 янв 2025 :	DISTURBED's MIKE WENGREN Says Opening For IRON MAIDEN In Mexico Was 'A Bucket List' Experience
28 дек 2024 :	DAN DONEGAN Names His Favorite DISTURBED Song, Offers Advice To Aspiring Artists
17 дек 2024 :	Would DISTURBED's DAVID DRAIMAN Ever Use Backing Tracks During Live Shows? 'Never In A Million Years', He Says
29 окт 2024 :	DISTURBED's MIKE WENGREN On 'The Sickness' 25th-Anniversary Shows: It 'Will Be The Biggest Tour We've Ever Done'
20 июл 2024 :	DAN DONEGAN: 'There's Not Gonna Be' A New DISTURBED Album This Year, 'And I Don't Know If There's Gonna Be An Album Next Year'
19 июл 2024 :	DAN DONEGAN Confirms DISTURBED Is Working On New Material: 'I'm Very, Very Excited'
5 июл 2024 :	DISTURBED Appears To Be In The Studio Recording New Music
10 июн 2024 :	DAN DONEGAN Has 'Probably A Thousand Riffs' In His Phone For Possible New DISTURBED Album
6 июн 2024 :	DISTURBED's DAVID DRAIMAN Receives Award For Outstanding Contribution To Fight Against Antisemitism

15 фев 2023

DISTURBED's DAVID DRAIMAN Explains Why He Will Never Use His Platform To Push For One Political Candidate Or Another In Elections

DISTURBED frontman David Draiman was interviewed on the latest episode of the "Sarai Talk Show", hosted by Sarai Idan, an Iraqi-American activist, television host, musician, and beauty pageant titleholder who was crowned as Miss Universe Iraq 2017 and represented Iraq at the Miss Universe 2017 pageant. You can now watch the chat below.

Speaking about whether he and his bandmates ever voice their political views publicly in order to sway their fans one way or the other, Draiman said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): "I think it's okay to stand for something. I don't think it's okay to push it on other people. That's the difference to me.

"You can have an opinion. All of our songs are infused with very, very strong opinions, but they try to appeal to both sides of the spectrum," he explained. "I like to attack everybody. I don't wanna go ahead and go to one side or the other, because everybody's guilty. And so it needs to be universal; it needs to be something that people from any walk of life can find a connection to. That is incredibly important to me.

"People who try to use their platforms to push for one political candidate or another in elections and stuff like that? You'll never see me do anything like that," Draiman added. "That, I think, is overstepping. That, I think, I am in the Alice Cooper school of thought, where we're there to entertain. You can write about poignant stuff, about subject matter that means something, and you can even inspire people to feel passionately about a cause or whatever it may be, but at the end of the day, people come to a concert for an escape and they come for a way to come to terms with powerful emotions, to transcend things, to overcome things. So when musicians or comedians start to become too politicized and they become too partisan, it's annoying, because then all of a sudden they're not funny to the other half of the people anymore. I don't think it needs to be that way. I think that there can be common ground 99 percent of the time."

Back in 2015, Draiman, the son of Israelis and the grandson of Holocaust survivors, threw his support behind then-Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, writing on his personal Facebook page: "Well... Since it seems like the majority of the Republican voting base has fallen for [Donald] Trump's fear mongering, bigoted, racist, lunacy, and since no other Republican candidate (including mildly delusional Ben Carson) seems to have a chance against him, whether he goes independent or not... and since Hillary [Clinton] is hellspawn incarnate (best friend of the ‪terrorist-supporting Qataris, and just basically Obama part II),I feel that I have no choice (even though I wish he were stronger on Israel, and has plans for a social welfare state that could very well bankrupt our country; I guess I'd rather be financially bankrupt, then morally bankrupt) but to throw my support behind the venerable Bernie Sanders (much to the chagrin of my conservative/Republican friends, I'm sure). I just hope he remembers who he is and where he comes from (a Jew) and that he does whatever he can to protect both the American people and the State of Israel. He'll need a miracle...but who knows? The world is crazy enough these days that he just might get one."

Draiman had been outspoken about politics before, describing himself as fiscally on the conservative side but socially and culturally liberal.

He told The Pulse Of Radio a while back that he had problems with the candidates on both sides. "I have issues with everybody," he said. "I'm liberal about everything that is issue-based as far as ideology, but I'm also of the opinion of a very small government. I don't agree with the fiscal policies of the Democrats, but I certainly don't agree with the right-wing craziness of the Republicans."

Draiman has in the past battled with Twitter trolls who have harassed him about his sometimes-controversial views regarding Israel and its ongoing conflict with the Palestinians.

Both of Draiman's maternal grandparents were survivors of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, while many others on his mother's side were wiped out by the Nazis.

DISTURBED performed in Israel for the first time in July 2019.

Although David had visited the country many times, this was the first DISTURBED concert in the Jewish state.

In the past, Draiman's DISTURBED bandmate, guitarist Dan Donegan, had frequently shared posts on his personal Facebook page that amplified Republican talking points and that were derogatory to Democrats.

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