Roger Waters brands David Draiman a "psychotic racist Nazi pig"

Yeah, Horror Show was the last album I listened to. Liking their music and loving horror movies and literature, I really liked that album. When Glorious Burden came out, I tried to listen to a couple songs but I just can't stand Ripper's voice, so I never even made it through listening to a full song from that album, let alone examining the lyrics. Prior to that, I'd always enjoyed their incorporation of fantasy and horror themes as well as the general theme of being critical of religion and oppressive authority that ran through a lot of his lyrics. But as it turns out, he was just full of shit, and his bizarre interpretation of ideas like "patriotism" and "freedom" culminated in joining an attempted coup to overturn a legitimate election in favor of the world's biggest grifter and liar. I'd never looked into his personal life before, as I very usually don't with musicians (this post is the first I'm hearing about any of this stuff about Draiman as well). Finding out he was not only in but actually a founding member of one of the anti-government militias I've spent basically my whole life criticizing and railing against as dangerous lunatics was shocking to say the least. The things I liked in his music were not at all conservative values, and how he could possibly look at Trump and think he was any kind of advocate of freedom and liberty, let alone any other "American" value or general good principle, is so far beyond me it hurts my head. Given he converted to Christianity after Jan 6 and is now all Jesusy, I have to believe he actually changed a lot between when I liked his stuff and now, because otherwise I can't reconcile the themes in his music in the 90s and very early 2000s with what I know about him now. Even if I read him wrong from the start, the things I found for myself in his music were still valuable to me, but as a person, he can absolutely go f*** himself. Even if he had something new out, and even if *somehow* I liked it, I'd never knowingly give him another dime. Frankly, it would have been fine with me if he'd spent the rest of his life in prison. The fact that he was out before the mass traitor-pardon really pissed me off. I also liked Disturbed a lot since shortly before they released their first album, though I can't say I've really listened to anything new from them since The Lost Children, which would be 2011. It just all started to sound like the same thing so I quit bothering with the new stuff and just left my old favorites in rotation. Seeing this stuff about Draiman kind of makes me glad I didn't keep up with them either. I also liked a couple Lostprophets songs from their 2003 album but never followed them beyond that or knew anything about the band members, and I didn't hear about their singer until after he was killed in prison. So, another one I'm glad I didn't keep up with. Honestly, it feels like the more I learn about anybody who is behind something creative I like, the worse my life becomes because everybody just sucks.

We have to agree to disagree on this one, I guess. Mason’s drumming on The Wall was solid, and he was heavily involved with the sound effects as well.

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He doesn't need to be paid. He says stupid false shit on his own

They literally invited him to be a speaker for them at a un security council thing.  Just because it's he follows the current trend that doesn't mean Rodger waters history of being a piece of shit should be dismissed