[ WP ] `` What is this sickness ? ''

David Draiman of Disturbed could n't believe what was happening. After constant struggle, months of battling it, he could no longer contain it. It was itching to break out, to explode into the world. Nothing could prepare everyone for what was next. 
 
 If you're lost, the best way to explain this is from the beginning. 
 
 David was a nice boy from Brooklyn who enjoyed normal 80's activities for 10 year old boys of which I know none of, maybe playing with slinky's or riding penny boards, or wearing tiny shorts or something. Anyways he loved being a kid, until one fateful day he was abducted in the middle of the night. To his avail this was n't an ordinary abduction, yes that day David was abducted by the gods of rock. He had previously listened to some Beatles and other popular rock artists of the past decades but music was something David ultimately dismissed as he frolicked through the 1980's doing 1980's things. 
 
 After this night everything changed for David Draiman of Disturbed. 
 
 David moved from city to city after that and began tuning out the observant Jewish tradition and tuning in his heavy guitar based music. He began `` rebelling against comformity'' to become a `` normal teenage kid'' started his own band in the different cities including L.A. and Milwaukee, and began practicing the religion of rock first and Judaism second. His parents were furious at times, but David was set to complete the voyage the rock gods sent him on all those years before. The 80's came and went, and all of his idols were becoming irrelevant as well. This sprung in the age of Heavy Metal. The first Metallica song David heard actually made him convulse due to the prolific nature and beauty of the intense rhythmic chords. The vocals, guitar, bass, and drums all created a wondrous symphony that David could not turn his ear from. 
 
 Over the following decade acts such as Nirvana, Sublime, and Red Hot Chili Peppers emerged as top contenders with hit singles and albums that inspired David Draiman to link up with a struggling band called Disturbed in 1996 after they had a falling out with their lead signer. 
 
 His destiny was almost complete, and rock gods sat there all this time patiently watching as he David scaled, nearing the top of the Rock Olympus. 
 
 It was then that they gave him the final gift. 
 
 David, did not know what was happening to him. He did not feel right. 
 
 He tried to fight it but his condition worsened and he did not know what to do to relieve himself of his ailment. 
 
 He was a medical mystery, stricken and cursed he was inflicted with the most awful of pains to ever touch. 
 
 He tried turning to music but any song he played would not play correctly. 
 
 A few chords sounded okay and with very specific patterns as well. 
 
 It was at this point he knew that he was being tested by the rock gods. 
 
 `` After constant struggle, months of battling it, he could no longer contain it. It was itching to break out, to explode into the world. Nothing could prepare everyone for what was next.'' 
 
 He did n't know what it it was and yelled to the skies, 
 
 `` WHAT IS THIS SICKNESS!'' 
 
 The skies thundered and clapped and struck a field near David Draiman's home near where had an amp and series of extension cables and microphones set up. The moon lit up this piece of Earth only, so David grabbed his Fender and set for the spotlight of the gods. 
 
 He played those chords he played all those months prior and knew what the sickness was. He knew all he had to do was embrace it and so would everyone else. People came, and surrounded as played a mild intro. Slowly the other Disturbed band members joined and knew what to play as well. 
 
 He asked the crowd if they could feel it as well as he described the reasons why they should stop resisting. 
 
 Then all fell quiet as David prepared and yelled as everyone embraced it just as the gods planned over 20 years before now sitting in the heavens above proud as they watch they're disciple accomplish what dreamed of. 
 
 Then David came on the mic and the reverb took over the world. 
 
 
 `` GET UP, COME ON GET DOWN WITH THE SICKNESS!'' 
 
 
 
 Fin. 
 
 [ Get Down With The Sickness by Disturbed ] ( http: //youtu.be/09LTT0xwdfw )
