I agree! Rock and metal.

You will find a lot if not all heavy metal Or screamo singers have amazing natural singing voices as they need to have amazing vocal range and control

Great idea!

There was a petition done by “Live Nation”….the largest concert promotion company in the worldddddd for not this years but last years Super Bowl to have him sing the anthem. Millions of people signed it……the NFL paid zero attention

@@nunya6874 Sadly, metal and rock will always be ignored. Megadeth and Testament would blow Mary J Blige off the stage any day.

Simon and Garfunkel's version tugs at different emotions, but is still very relevant... People are just wound up so much tighter today than back in 1965...We were really just starting to get a taste of how much the elitists hate us...By now, we've been screwed every which way that we are numb to the outrageous, which is why I believe Disturbed's cover of this song is more "today"...

Every single time!!

. . . And BJ, love your sweet and salty comebacks to your lady, Asia

I’m old school, however I dig Disturbed’s version a lot!

I feel nearly the same way as you except my father is soon to be 77, my mother would have been 72 may she rest in peace, and I'm going on 42. However, I have loved this song since the early to mid 80s... (84-88) since I was about 3-8 years old... Simon & Garfunkels harmonies as well as their talent on the guitar were so beautiful. I've heard others cover this song and fell short. I was already familiar with David from Disturbed's early days with their hits Down With the Sickness and Stupify and knew of them as being close to the genre of Heavy Metal, but when I heard him Sing this Song for the first time, I was in awe. Later on I found out that he personally took Opera lessons to help train his vocals to be able to sign with anger as opposed to scream without focus to not damage his vocal cords. And when I went back and listen to him sing it live, I seen the truth in it and for me, he Owns this Song. Not as in the art of writing and creating it, but as in the Execution of It. This is how the song was meant to be done! I love both versions equally, yet I find his version to be the better of the two and that's saying a lot because the original version was already a masterpiece to begin with. Oh and David was sick when he performed this, and he refused "auto tune"!

100% agree

yellow rose

great reaction from your audience, people! excellent in fact. I've been following the reactions ever since this came out, everyone is knocked out by it and full of admiration for that incredible performance. Thanks for being part of this.

Absolutely! And the fact he’s singing it live shows just how incredible his voice is.

I love S&G's version as it's one of my favorite songs, however, the way David sang this is how it was meant to be done!

I’m torn. I love the original slightly more but the impact of this version is powerful.

@@skilz8098 I saw someone else comment on another reaction video for this song, the original was the warning about where we were going to go to a bad place. This version is the anger as that warning was not headed by mankind.

I too prefer this cover over the original. That doesn’t happen too often.

Cant stand the autotune messing with his vibrato tbh. Would be perfect without

David Draiman is Jewish and he was trained as a Cantor(singer) in the Jewish faith

​@@mikeroth7080don't tell my ex that'

@@joshuatift4640 LOL

❤❤ his brother is an opera singer ❤❤

Have you listened to the version by Pentatonix? It is wonderful.

@@MariaGolay Yes it is, I love PTX, but just as much I love the original from S&G, however, from all whom I have heard done this song, David sang it the way it was meant to be done! Thank You S&G for writing and creating such a masterpiece and thank you David for executing it with perfection!

@@MariaGolay Paul Simon did not write the lyrics for this song. He found the words on a subway in NYC by an unnamed poet. He just added music to it.

@@hughjanus9557 You are mistaken or trolling. Either way, I found this for you: “In an interview with Terry Gross of National Public Radio (NPR), Paul Simon explained how he wrote the song while working at his first job in music: "It was just when I was coming out of college. My job was to take the songs that this huge publishing company owned and go around to record companies and see if any of their artists wanted to record the songs. I worked for them for about six months and never got a song placed, but I did give them a couple of my songs because I felt so guilty about taking their money. Then I got into an argument with them and said, 'Look, I quit, and I'm not giving you my new song.' And the song that I had just written was 'The Sound of Silence.' I thought, 'I'll just publish it myself,' and from that point on I owned my own songs, so that was a lucky argument. I think about songs that it's not just what the words say but what the melody says and what the sound says. My thinking is that if you don't have the right melody, it really doesn't matter what you have to say, people don't hear it. They only are available to hear when the sound entrances and makes people open to the thought. Really the key to 'The Sound of Silence' is the simplicity of the melody and the words, which are youthful alienation. It's a young lyric, but not bad for a 21-year-old. It's not a sophisticated thought, but a thought that I gathered from some college reading material or something. It wasn't something that I was experiencing at some deep, profound level - nobody's listening to me, nobody's listening to anyone - it was a post-adolescent angst, but it had some level of truth to it and it resonated with millions of people. Largely because it had a simple and singable melody."

Simon and Garfunkle were brilliant lyricists. Go back to anything they recorded, to appreciate their talent and intelligence.

Not only did he perform it like this while being sick, he also refused auto tune!

Yes! Haunting is the perfect word. His vocal ability is phenomenal 😱

Absolutely correct!

Absolutely!!!

Beautiful post.

Facts!

Land of confusion is my second favorite 😍 please react to this one! 🙏😍❤

Not opera, he was trained as a Cantor

@manuelruen he had started feeling sick about 1 hour before going on stage so he took some cold medicine to not sound sick. He ended up in the hospital early the next morning because of how sick he was. He was also having problems with acid reflux disease which was causing problems with his vocal cords.

I will add Johnny Cash's cover of 'Hurt' to the list to make it a top 3

@@markmyers6472 My bad for that oversight.... Thanx for the reminder!

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