The Sound Of Silence - Disturbed

[Bryce]

The other night while binge watching The Blacklist on Netflix, I heard a cover of The Sound Of Silence. This was one of the few instances where a cover blew me away. After a little "Google Research" I found the cover was done by a heavy metal band out of Chicago by the name of Disturbed.

Granted, I'm not a heavy metal maven, but was still surprised I had never heard of them before. After quite a few listens, I'm still haunted by their cover. Have I been living under a rock not to be aware of these guys? Anyone suggest other songs in their library worth a listen?

Thanks...

Oh here's the cover:

[km1125]

Don't like much of their other music, but they knocked this one out of the park. Look for the youtubes where they discuss the development and production of this song. Very interesting, along with some commentary from Paul Simon.

[Bryce]

Don't like much of their other music, but they knocked this one out of the park. Look for the youtubes where they discuss the development and production of this song. Very interesting, along with some commentary from Paul Simon.

Thanks for the head up on that. Was pretty interesting to see the guy developed his chops in part because his father was a Cantor. He also did some Operatic things in college.

[Realist]

The other night while binge watching The Blacklist on Netflix, I heard a cover of The Sound Of Silence. This was one of the few instances where a cover blew me away. After a little "Google Research" I found the cover was done by a heavy metal band out of Chicago by the name of Disturbed.

Granted, I'm not a heavy metal maven, but was still surprised I had never heard of them before. After quite a few listens, I'm still haunted by their cover. Have I been living under a rock not to be aware of these guys? Anyone suggest other songs in their library worth a listen?

Thanks...

Oh here's the cover:

With all due respect, yes, you’ve been living under a rock. Disturbed has been around for the past 20 years or so. Staple of active rock radio. They’ve done a couple of other covers but none as good as this one, which is my favorite song from them. They performed this song on “Conan” and it just exploded. Go on YouTube and search them for their other hits and covers