by JimAbbott
Apr 9, 2009

Grammy recognition isn’t exactly a key to credibility when you’re headlining the Music As a Weapon Tour, but Disturbed frontman David Draiman is still honored that his band received its first nomination this year.

"Inside the Fire," a track off the band’s Indestructible album, didn’t win, but as the saying goes: "It’s a tremendous honor just to be nominated," Draiman says in a phone interview before a recent show in Utica, N.Y. (Disturbed tops the bill Saturday, April 11, when Music As a Weapon hits Amway Arena in Orlando.)

Even more important, the title of the new album also describes the longevity of Disturbed. Almost a decade after the emergence of nu-metal, the hybrid of rap and heavy metal, many of the genre’s bands have faded into obscurity.

Disturbed, however, is still a force.

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