DISTURBED Members Talk BP Oil Spill, Global Warming

July 6, 2010

Guitarist Dan Donegan and bassist John Moyer of Chicago heavy rockers DISTURBED recently spoke to the Artisan News Service about their new single, "Another Way To Die", which deals with the issues of global warming and environmental disaster. Watch the clip below.

According to The Pulse of Radio, DISTURBED frontman David Draiman has been very vocal in recent interviews about the BP oil leak catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico. He told Noisecreep about the crisis, "I think it is an embarrassment and it is unforgivable. We should have sent every available resource the minute it occurred . . . We left it to BP, who did not take accurate measurements of oil and who lied all along. All they are concerned about is diverting and saving the constantly leaking orifice instead of damming it up and losing the oil. They aren't worried about saving an ecosystem and way of life of fisherman along the Gulf Coast."

DISTURBED has pushed back the release date of its new album, "Asylum", by one week. The album will now arrive on August 31 instead of August 24 as originally scheduled. The record's first single, "Another Way To Die", entered the Active Rock radio chart at No. 5, the highest entry position the band has ever scored and the best debut on the chart since LINKIN PARK's "What I've Done" in 2007.

Draiman told The Pulse of Radio that the band chose "Asylum" as the new record's title because it has a dual meaning. "People are always gonna have that connotation, especially with a band called DISTURBED, that this is, 'Oh, it's an insane asylum.' But asylum is also a haven — when you grant someone asylum, for example," he said. "Much of the subject matter spoken about on this record, it is talking about many of the troubled aspects of the world in which we live and all those things can push you to the brink of insanity. Yet it is the world that we live in, which is our home."

"Another Way To Die" is only the 15th song to debut in the Top 5 since 1997.

"Asylum" will follow up the group's 2008 release, "Indestructible", their fourth million-seller in a row and third No. 1 album.

DISTURBED will hit the road ahead of the album's release, anchoring this summer's new Uproar Tour with AVENGED SEVENFOLD and STONE SOUR.

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