Dan Silver

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Disturbed’s David Draiman sitting in an electric chair in 2001

“A lot of bands, it’s nepotism that gets them anywhere – go to the right party and make the right friends. For us, that wasn’t an option”: How Disturbed defied the odds to become nu metal superstars with The Sickness

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Disturbed hit it out the park first time with debut album The Sickness

Metallica posing for a photograph in the mid 1990s

“I like to push some of those buttons. I like the fact that people have a problem with what we’re doing”: How Metallica kicked back against the 1990s haters with Reload

By Dan Silver published

Haters gonna hate – but with 1997’s Reload album, Metallica just didn’t care

Korn’s Jonathan Davis: “The way I was going I was gonna kill myself, dying from drinking”

By Dan Silver published

From The Archives From the Metal Hammer archives, this classic 1996 interview finds Korn singer Jonathan Davis ready to embrace stardom – if he can only keep his demons in check

SEPTEMBER 1998: American nu metal rock band Korn

Korn: “We blew the whole metal scene wide open”

By Dan Silver published

In 1998, Korn were already the biggest new noise around. When Metal Hammer joined them ahead of their third album Follow The Leader, things were about to get really crazy

Disturbed: We met Pantera, we saved our pennies to buy their albums!

By Dan Silver published

Overnight success was actually a long haul for Disturbed, Metal Hammer #30 sat down with the band in 2001 to talk about their landmark debut album, The Sickness