Disturbed - So Much Darkness

Did you also play Rock'n'Ring, Rock'n'Park, the German festivals They're pretty big, yeah, I did Rock'n'Ring, Rock'n'Park We played a show with Metallica in Berlin in the middle of the two It was a nice little three-day run and Rock'n'Ring was tremendous We played in front of 65,000 people, more people Than we've ever played to in front of in our lives It was, it was unbelievable I was to play, you can see Metallica every day play So it must be awesome when you heard it, to play with Metallica and that kind of stuff You could do worse, that's for sure They certainly are one of our favorite bands And we're just honored to be able to play with them Whenever the opportunity presents itself And you just put out, or just in last fall, you put out an OCD Believe How can you look back on that production, are you satisfied with the production We're satisfied with it, we think it's a wonderful record We think it's our strongest piece of work yet And we hope to be able to continue to grow You know here's certainly a lot left for us to do And a lot further for us to push ourselves, so we intend to do just that Was there also a kind of different working process than the previous one Or another was producer, Johnny Cage It's the same, we always rely on the four members of the band and our creative influences The records are always pretty much done by the time we're ready to walk into the studio There isn't a whole lot of pre-production, we go in there when we're ready to track Vocal-wise, did you experiment with some kind of stuff that you first see on the CD We got a little bit more melodic, opened things up a little bit It wasn't necessarily a conscious change, it was more subconscious It's just kind of how things develop naturally But we're very happy with the results of it Most beautiful things develop unconsciously, I guess But you guys are pretty big in the United States, did you expect that Or how was your reaction, because you sold millions Well, you never expect anything you hope But we continue to hope and we don't think it's enough And we never will, thank God we've sold about four and a half million records in the US Which is a wonderful accomplishment But we want to sell a hundred million over the course of the entire world We want to be able to touch everyone with our art To be able to spread our music and our message to as many people as possible Limitations should never be set You should always reach for the stars and try and grab them Lyric-wise, what kind of things do influence you lyric-wise Maybe I can pick one in the US, it was a pretty tense period A lot of tension going on with September 11th and the Cold War Was it of any influence on the record Certainly, life around us in every way, shape and form Influences the lyrical perspectives on every one of our records And September 11th certainly had a lot to do with that You can't close your eyes to the events of the world And that was part of the reason why Believe is a little bit more positive of a record from a lyrical perspective than The Sickness was, the Sickness was a little bit darker But there's only so much darkness that the world needs at this particular point in time And Metal has different sides to it, it isn't always meant to be dark It's also meant to be enlightening and empowering And that's what this record was all about Because it's also a very quote unquote positive Album title I guess It's a pretty simple belief, encouraging people to believe in something, anything In an age where people believe in nothing, to believe in themselves To believe in the future of humanity, to believe in the supernatural or Mother Nature Or God or whatever you want to call that external force you can't put your finger on To believe that when you enter a dark room That there could be something there waiting for you, to believe in something Okay, and you believe in your music, so Well, if nothing else in the world can touch you Then you can believe in the purity and the healing power of heavy metal Yeah, and how do you, is it also like the music, that the lyrics are very unconscious Just written down or you just have some words in your head No, it's always reflective of what the music speaks to me When the music is written and when we finalize that, that is what determines the lyrics It depends on the vibe of the song, of the melody, of the musicianship It's all dependent on that, the lyrics always come last, that's very nice What have you actually been up to since the release of the record You've just been touring, touring, I guess Touring our asses off, you know, that's what metal bands do We'll continue to do that, we'll probably tour We started out on the road last August And we'll probably continue through December