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-- by Jon Wiederhorn
Over the past couple of years, Disturbed frontman David Draiman has become quite the ladies' man. As much as he loves the thrill of performing onstage, he looks forward to the end of the show when he can handpick from amongst the gals he's won over during the evening for what can only be called after-hours entertainment.
But while Draiman enjoys the lustful perks of stardom, there's a very real part of him that just wants to find the right woman and fall madly in love.
"I'm haunted by the position I find myself in," he revealed from New York's Soundtracks recording studio during a break from mastering the band's new album, Believe. "My whole life I wanted to get to the point I've reached, and now that I'm here I'm very, very lonely."
He thumbed his chin and absentmindedly tugged at one of two metal tusks protruding from below his lower lip. For a moment he looked almost vulnerable. "It's difficult to find a girl who is willing to deal with who I am and what I've become and what I have to do in my life on any real level. It leaves me unsure of anything."
Draiman said that while he's willing to set aside his womanizing ways, preconceptions about rock stars in relationships are difficult to overcome.
"If I was tried and true and committed to one individual, everybody would be convinced that the exact opposite was true, and that makes people very, very defensive. I've had my heart torn apart so many times that there's just not much left to it."
The singer's inability to find love has left a black mark on his psyche and music, yet Believe isn't a confrontational slugfest of angry, misanthropic songs about wicked women and shattered lives. Instead, Draiman has used his experiences as a springboard to address larger issues including mortality, redemption and hypocrisy. Rather than simply rant, as on Disturbed's double-platinum 2000 debut, The Sickness, Draiman asks pointed questions, and though he rarely offers concrete answers, he raises provocative points that make Believe more mature and thought-out than most metal discs.
"All the songs on the record revolve around the theme of belief in oneself and in humanity's potential," he said, launching into one of his many lengthy discourses. "We live in a post-9/11 world and I had my grandfather pass away this past year, which affected me in a very strong way, so there are elements of life and death coming into play in the songs. And the right-wing reactions of religious leaders of the world to the events of 9/11 had a lot to do with the original impetus of where this record came from. It angered me beyond any way I could possibly explain. The whole album's about questioning your beliefs to determine what you really can believe in."
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