Disturbed - Influences

So what's new and exciting in the Disturbed camp Just been writing. We've been real busy. I mean, everybody Kind of our personal lives have been busy as well, too You know, Mike, our drummer, just got married a couple weeks ago And I just had a baby boy about a little over a month ago So, you know, we're all just kind of balancing family life And trying to get back in writing mode Which we've been kind of hitting it pretty hard So I think before Mike's wedding and before the baby came We wanted to get, you know, a majority of the material written Which we seemed to be pretty successful at So we're just kind of fine-tuning a lot of stuff right now So what's the next album going to sound like compared to the others You got any surprises for us Definitely, as far as musically, it's a lot ballier than we've written I think there's going to be those signature things that are us Just because stylistically, that's the way we perform And, you know, David Vokely, it's always going to sound like him So, you know, he's got some big melodic moments But, you know, there's some still, you know, aggressive stuff It's a lot ballier than, I think, trying to get a good blend Of the elements of the past three CDs to try to You know, evolve into something a little bit fresh and new for us as well I see the heavy metal community received the last CD quite well, what do you think Yeah, it came out great. You know, there was a little bit longer time in between CDs that we had hoped for, between Believe and 10,000 Fists And there were a couple, you know, bumps in the road and a few things we had to get past And, you know, at that time my daughter was born During the break, you know, David was spending a little bit of time in L.A We were in search of a bass player at the time So there was, you know, besides writing the material We had to go through the whole bass player audition and Spend time and make sure that we were comfortable Before we came back out that we had our guy So, you know, it was just a little bit longer than we had hoped for But when 10,000 Fists came out, you know, it debuted at number one Beating out Bon Jovi that week. And, you know, it's pretty satisfying Even though, you know, in the long run it may not matter It's more of a bragging rights thing, but I think, you know, to us it feels good to know That we had time off, you know, to be able to come out and still have the fans You know, frantic about it and really anticipating what we had So hopefully it'll be the same way We're really excited about this material, probably more so than we have been in the past I think we're just anxious to get it going I thought when you guys came out, you were the band that kind of fused All the old school fans to the new school of metal, if you will I mean, do you get that vibe a lot from people Yeah, you know, it's so over the years, you know Ehen people try to categorize us And I don't know what you want to call it I mean, whatever you want, there's all different labels that come up You know, to us, we were, you know, we grew up on the old school metal bands Like you mentioned, you know, Iron Maiden and Priest and Sabbath and You know, Queensryche and all those bands were big influences on us And, you know, I just think the term, you know, heavy metal It's just kind of changed to what it is You know, what it is today is not what, you know, I remembered it as But, you know, putting that down, it's just, I don't know how that term changed So, you know, I don't care as far as what category we're lumped in But we've always been kind of, there's a type of band who likes to incorporate You know, melody and a message, you know, in our songs Much so like those metal bands from the 80s So I was chatting with your manager yesterday, and I just kind of randomly brought up I was going to ask you your opinion on the state of music And, you know, he started chuckling Are you opinionated on that, or what are your thoughts You know, I don't really, you know, unfortunately, I don't really pay attention to it You know, anymore, I mean, I'm a huge fan of music But there hasn't really been anything, you know, new and exciting And, you know, I just, I think that we just kind of continue You know, moving along, doing our own thing And there's not, it would be nice to have more bands That we can be kind of lumped in together to kind of make it a stronger scene I mean, with the exceptions of bands like, you know, Korn and Godsmack and You know, now System of a Down is gone You know, there's not enough of that, you know, so it would be nice to still You know, make a statement within the industry But, you know, like I said, there just hasn't been a whole lot of new stuff That has really caught my attention, I I mean, it kind of all, to me Kind of all sounds the same. I mean, I dig a few songs here and there From some of these bands, I think there's some good musicianship and there's some You know, as a guitar player, you know, there's some good guitar players That are kind of up and rising that, you know, I think are good players But I just haven't heard really strong anthemic songs, you know, in a long time Yeah, I hear that. What do you jam to when you're just kicking around the house You know, just doing your thing, you know, lately it's just been trying to You know, listen to kind of the old stuff that could inspire me You know, for what we're doing today, I mean Usually I like to try to listen to a little bit of everything To keep us sounding fresh and new and stay on top of it But I've been, lately it's been a lot more of going back to, you know Faith No More and Sabbath and Maiden and stuff like that, and Queensryche Just to kind of look for some more inspiration of those bands that You know, got me, you know going in the first place