Having heard rumours that The Darkness had been dissing his band (and lets face it, they've been dissing lots of bands recently), the frontman of heavy
metal outfit Disturbed has hit back. He has told Metal Edge magazine: "The
world wants rock bands to be idiots. The world wants rock bands to be these
bumbling buffoons, these morons who made fun of themselves and their music
and their art and don't take themselves seriously in any way. It's all supposed to be a joke. And it's funny. I heard that they have decided to start slinging shit in our direction and that we are an example of one of the bands that they're completely against. That to them we symbolise this whole wave of nu-metal that is near its death. Are you fucking kidding me. The irony is that they opened up for us in London at Brixton Academy and here they are talking shit about us. I like the single, it's a catchy song, but it's not metal. It's pop-rock. How dare they call themselves metal. That's not metal. It'll never be metal!"

Quick to add that he liked The Darkness for what they were, he advised: "Don't claim to be something you're not. Don't claim to be metal. Don't claim that you're authentic and we're not. Fuck you!"

From: CMU