Ive been in music for 42 years as a performer, writer, recording artist and engineer and have to say that this is maybe the best live performance I have ever seen anywhere by anyone. Spectacular.

First let me congratulate you for NOT interrupting the song like so many often do to comment. Second..Disturbed's rendition of the song is so powerful that no matter how often I listen its gets me every time. It always gives and tears me up.

Draiman covers roughly two-and-a-half octaves from bottom to top. His vocals are so distinctive. Disturbed had been nominated for a GRAMMY for Best Rock Performance for their rendition of "The Sound of Silence" while appearing on Conan. -David Draiman : "The fact that I was sick as a dog (laughs). I remember I was definitely fighting something off, but it was a cool experience. It was cool performing with an actual orchestra. It was really vibing and the mood helped, I think, enhance the delivery. The stars just aligned that night and everything went right."

Without doubt the best cover of any song ever. Classical training always shows through.

David's voice. The instrumentals. The video. They all add so much together to deliver a complete emotional experience. I've spent about 2 days just watching people's reaction to this. I've never met a song that moved me the way this one does. Thanks David!

I love how he used the three verses to show the anger that builds in the song for people continuing to ignore the warnings. The song itself is a masterpiece but David really made it his own!

David has one of the most beautiful powerful voices ever. It’s haunting beautiful.

This man has a voice like no other! Octave to octave, Velvety to rasp on A DIME and BACK!! David has a timber no one else has!! Good job NOT interrupting him!

To have those kind of vocals while having the flu and sitting down to sing is badass. When he sings “and in the naked light I saw” and the orchestra blends in it touches my soul every time. What an incredible gift he was given. The way he made it his own by breaking up the word silence to silen-ce is unique

Tears and chills are my reaction to this song!!! He is effortless!! Just an amazingly awesome rendition!!! This song touches your soul!!! EPIC Performance!!! Instruments are also amazing!!!

First person to not pause in the middle of the "reaction" video to explain instead of reacting. Thank you for delivering what was advertised.

After paul simon heard this he said it was better than their version. He also won a grammy for the song.

Drainman has such a fantastic voice. He's every bit as good live. I've been in love with his voice since I saw them in 03 as they were supporting their second album.

People have pretty good voices, others have the ability to express the meanings of the words. David Draiman has all this. Power, sensitiviness. I discovered Disturbed by this song. You should watch the video because it's a real piece of art. Tranks to your comments.

Very few humans have the voice that can make others feel so emotionally with their singing. No matter how many times I watch this or listen, I get chills and emotional.

He is amazing! The band choose this song as they usually do one cover per album. They are a heavy metal band. This was completely different from their normal genre. I don’t particularly like their heavy metal but David, his voice, is just the best. Never do I see the band get credit for this. David is a member but the band picked the song and the arrangement gives many goosebumps. This is a song and rendition that at, even four years later, continues to amaze the world. Bravo! If they did an album like this instead of heavy metal, I’m so there. Conan has 1000,000 million views. The reaction videos probably doubles that. Classic, timeless and best rendition of a song ever. They owned it.

Thank you for not pausing a million times thru the song. It's amazing

Thank you for not interrupting the song. I bet David would do a kick-ass job singing Phantom of the Opera!

I appreciate as I'm sure many do, that you watched the song without interrupting it and commenting. Some reaction videos have the voice teacher talking half the time, without even appreciating how good the rendition is because they are too busy giving feedback. What a gift this song is for those who have not heard... today was the first time I'd heard, never imagined that Draiman could sing like this, never heard him outside of the Disturbed style that I was used to.

Voice on loan from God... perhaps the greatest cover ever and admired by the original artist, Paul Simon...

I love it that he didn't stop the video and listen complete until he reacts.👍 I am honestly no fan of cover versions but this one is really mindblowing. David's voice is everything from angelic to demonish and he's playing between soulful and sensible to bad ass rough. I love it this song is by far the best I heard since years and I know so so so much with my 60 years... Thank you so much David for this incredible song and your great music in general 🤘💖🌹💖🤘

I would love to hear this live , I get goose bumps every single time I hear them sing this song . Just totally amazing!!!!

I like that you just mainly listened and didn’t pause every 20 secs. I enjoy seeing professionals genuine reaction, not their critique the whole way through. If I want that then I go to certain streamers, but generally I like a true reaction, rather than an analysis, which interrupts the experience. My two cents anyway. Thank you for reacting to this. It gives me chills every time.

Most outstanding performance. I knew and liked the song for 50 years but never realised it was so beautiful till I heard this performance yesterday for the first time and I am now smitten.

Draiman comes from an orthodox Jewish background and trained as a cantor in his early life but luckily for all of us, he chose to go into the music business rather than stay within his religious musical circles (which didn't go down well with his family). Thank God he made the right choice eh? God what a voice.

God : David would you like the voice of an angel or of the devil ? David : YES !!!

Thank you, this is what a reaction video is supposed to be, letting your emotions show your reaction, letting the song speak too you, not interrupting the song all of the time and giving your interruption of what the song means. Commentaries are for after the song is finished 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

"Should not be possible for a human to do" LOL....Words cant describe the beauty of that rendition. Awesome reaction video

I have listened to this cover all day every day and I'm still not tired of it. As so many others doesn't matter how many times I watch it I get goose pimples all the time. Thank you for not interrupting.

'Should not be possible'.. and yet it is. David is just that amazing :)

There’s a folkloric character in Africa called the “town crier”, which is someone who speaks to the village when danger is coming. The town crier doesn’t scream, he doesn’t yell. The town crier just walks through the village speaking, and he has such a powerful hypnotic authoritative voice that people can’t help but to stop anything they’re doing and just listen to this commanding voice. It raises over any other voice. And it's the voice that the town would rise up to hear, as if they were being called by some powerful force that tunes their minds and souls and shuts down any other thought. That’s David Draiman. His voice is pure soul and will, powerful and with such authority. He means every word, and he makes you feel it in your guts. He touches your deepest strings as soon as he opens his mouth. You feel like you're being called. And this version is outstanding. They say you can listen to the original song as many times as you want, but you never hear the song until you hear this version, and that’s when you hear the song for the first time.

Hi there: so nice that you didn't interrupt the video 20 times like most and disrupt the musical flow, there is always time to comment after. Take a listen to unchained melody, 1965, the Righteous Brothers, this solo is by Bobby Hatfield. No synthesizers, just raw talent. then, after this, listen the the Righteous Brothers together in " you lost that loving feeling" I hope you will be amazed. Music from my time G

When I heard David Draiman cover The Sound of silence, I was wowed just like you and curious who he was I also googled him and listen to some of his songs. The lyrics to his music made me wonder if he’d had a horrible upbringing. So I watched a couple of his interviews I must say I was impressed He is actually very smart and well educated man. His determination to succeed with his music is impressive and his fan base is huge. He’s lost some good friends to drug OD my only wish is that he would use his influence to encourage youngsters to kick the habit before the habit kicks them to the grave.

He was sick with the flu during this performance too.

The official video released of this cover version has almost 700 million views on KZfaq.. Probably the best cover version of any record ever released in the history of music. After hearing this version Paul Simon said on his Facebook page, "Disturbed now own this song".

Finally a reviewr who was as stunned as I was. I wont ever be the same. How revelent too. He meant every word

You should watch the official video. The imagery is amazing and poignant.

Nobody ever talks about what it must have been like to be there in that studio audience. That small hall. It must have been like heaven

This won a Grammy for its performance. Cudos for no interruptions, and a song you'll never forget.

I love that you intently watched the entire performance before you commented. It was great to see the effect it had on you :)

I grew up with Simon & Garfunkel and absolutely love this song. When I first heard heard this cover it brought tears to my eyes. I have never heard a cover as good as this one. Paul Simon got a Grammy for this song. Disturbed should get two! Wow!

Hold on to memories is another surprisingly insightful song, originsl...not cover, by this heavy metal band. They are exceptional, and, of course there is THAT voice.

This is my absolute favorite version of this song, warring for top spot with the original. They do it justice.

This song grabs your soul. It brings tears to my eyes.

David is probably the best singer ever!!!! He and his brother were classically trained and he planned on being a Cantor… Thank goodness he chose this path!!! So much passion, so much respect for lyrics - when he performed this on Conan - he had a terrible case of the flu, yet still pulled it off with phenomenal vocals!!! Yay!!!! We love you, David!!!!

He starts at F2 and runs to A4....!!! David Draiman is classically trained, and was also trained as a Cantor!

My interpretation of this song: Hello, darkness, my old friend I've come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence Hello, darkness, my old friend is about people that have been kept in the dark and they're telling the darkness that they are experiencing something new in their vision. They (the awakened/aware ones) planted the seeds of truth/Light, and they are just starting to become aware. In restless dreams I walked alone Narrow streets of cobblestone 'Neath the halo of a streetlamp I turned my collar to the cold and damp When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light That split the night And touched the sound of silence In the second verse they are getting flashes of Light/truths and they are becoming more aware/awakened to lies and there was a faint sound in the silence. And in the naked light I saw Ten thousand people, maybe more People talking without speaking People hearing without listening People writing songs that voices never share No one dared Disturb the sound of silence And in this moment they saw all of the light workers/star seeds telling those that were still asleep the truth/Light, through telepathy and those the were sleeping heard the message in a very subtle way, but yet they couldn't share this Light/truths with anyone for fear of being attacked by those that controlled the sound of silence. They wrote the truth in songs, the truth had to be give covertly as not to disturb the sound of silence. And when the people became aware of the Light/truth and realized that they had been in darkness the whole time, which really pissed them off. "Fools," said I, "You do not know Silence like a cancer grows Hear my words that I might teach you Take my arms that I might reach you." But my words like silent raindrops fell And echoed in the wells of silence They reached out to those still in slumber, trying to give them Light/truths, but they wouldn't open their minds to new truths, instead remained in the sound of silence. And the people bowed and prayed To the neon god they made And the sign flashed out its warning In the words that it was forming And the sign said, "The words of the prophets Are written on the subway walls And tenement halls And whispered in the sounds of silence." The people were so caught up in working hard to pay for all of the things, the boats, cars, electronics, all of the toys that they covet. They couldn't see or hear the truth, they were too distracted by consumerism. The awakened/prophets have been trying to tell them through their songs and poems, and that whisper of Light/truth awakened the people from their slumber and they became ONE. Did you notice the ship sailing into the Light at the end of the studio version?

Thank you for not interrupting the song as it allowed me to enjoy it with you while watching your Expressions as high points of the song reached that I could see touched you in the same areas that it touched me! That is a true reaction video I see your facial expressions as a reaction during the song and get your commentary at the end! Excellent! thank you!

He has such an amazing voice..

Thank you for not stopping the video.

Truly incredible voice. A joy to listen to.

This Guy KICKED ASS !!! Excellent Cover !!!

This is how you should perfectly do a reaction video. Keep the interruptions to a minimum and then comment at the end. Brilliant.

Bless you for actually listening all the way through and THEN reacting. Very refreshing. I just subbed to you bc of this.

Everybody gets chills with this song

What a voice!

Thank you for not pausing to speak over the music. You rock!

Finally a first reaction video that doesn’t stop multiple times. This gives the performance the respect it deserves. Don’t get me wrong, I love the song and love seeing first reactions to it.....but leave the commenting till the end. Well done!

Jonny Cash covering Nine Inch Nails Hurt is another great cover.

excellent version, perfect .... the best !!!!!

I've watched alot of these Sound of Silence reactions and I loved how you watched it all the way through without stopping to comment. Loved it!

I so appreciate you waiting until the end of the song for your imput. Very refreshing.

I was born in 64. I listened to the original over and over in college...82 to 86. Wow!

Gives me. Chills .his voice and the words.

Listening to disturbed's normal music and songs helps to give more appreciation to how they do this song.

I’d love a double reaction: The Cranberries:Zombie and Bad Wolves: Zombie Both great interpretations and soulfully devastating.

Imagine him finding the ooh wa a a ah after this, down with the sickness 😂

I'm so glad you knew the original, it's style. You were able to appreciate the difference. It's the best cover of ANY song

Watch the official video, the imagery magnifies the impact.

As emotional as this performance was, the video adds so much

Immense. Yet to hear this without shedding a tear it two.

Always get goosebumps when I hear this song!!

this takes me to a holy place

I love watching peoples reaction to this song, as long as they don't stop it.

You have to watch the official video....perfection. The people that were in charge of video deserve awards

Freaking awesome!!! And he was sick when he did this

You want suggestions try "The Hu" their songs "Wolf Totem" "Yuve Yuve Yu" and also some of their collaborations

Congratulations on appreciating the song. You walked the journey like the song deserves 👏👏

Disturb's Reason to Fight (our addictions?) and Hold on to Memory are among my faves. This song speaks to our human voices, our creative impetus, our message to each others that must not be drowned out by power, by ignorance or apathy. You are important, one person can change the world. Just do it. Talking without speaking, hearing without listening.... this is the internet and media blasts.... worshipping our iphones.... hard times but be a creator, make your life count.

Awesome reaction. I love the fact that you let the song play and enjoyed it to the fullest before commenting. So many others make a lot of stops to comment on the vocals, techniques used, etc. I get that it adds to the video, especially since many doing this are vocal teachers, but in my opinion the initial reaction should be of the whole song undisturbed, no pun intended, and then if need be, go back and comment on various snipets.

You have to do the music video of this, it’s amazing with this

Bless you!! Finally a reaction without stopping every other minute!! David Draiman, trained as a Cantor!

They are my favorite band. I strongly recommend "The Light" or "Hold on to Memories".

Absolutely fantastic!

Goosebumps. Wow.

Amazing! Love it 😍

What makes David a great singer is that his voice was classical trained for a cantor.... What makes this performance special, he totally nailed the vocals and he was sick when they were on Conan....

Please find the official video, put on some headphones, close your eyes and listen. It is so moving.

What a Range !!!

WOW!!!!! WHAT A GREAT REACTION!!!

Brilliant song by a brilliant artist, so glad you didn't stop it every few seconds to tell us nothing we don't already know.

First listened to this on the blacklist, a very moving scene wuth an awesome song

Such a beautiful and powerful song

Like your genuine reaction 🔥 i like coaches really appreciating great singers and music 😎 whatever the genre is 👌🏻

I became a fan of his when I heard this song. His voice is absolutely amazing. At the time he did this song he was actually quite sick. I don't even like heavy metal but I got the Evolution CD for this song and a few others. This was his ballad CD and it is great.

DOWN WITH THE SICKNESS! This song is an amazing contrast to The Sound of Silence!

"Should not be possible for a human being to do." lol

he doesn't need to comment --his expression does it perfectly.

Awesome reaction!👍🏼🤗🎼

THANK YOU for your response!! It was awesome because you didn't pause every 20 seconds. I really enjoyed your response. :D