David Michael Draiman (born March 13, 1973)[citation needed] is an American singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of heavy metal band Disturbed. He has a distorted, operatic baritone voice and percussive singing style. In 2006, Draiman was voted number 42 on the Hit Parader’s “Top 100 Metal Vocalists of All Time”. He has written some of Disturbed’s most successful singles, such as “Stupify”, “Down with the Sickness”, “Indestructible”, and “Inside the Fire”.
In 2011, Disturbed went on hiatus, and Draiman worked on an industrial metal project with Geno Lenardo, which was later named Device. They released one album in 2013. In 2015, Disturbed returned with a single and a new album, Immortalized. In 2018, Disturbed released Evolution.