Music as a Weapon Tour

"Music as a Weapon" is an alternative metal/nu metal/hard rock tour created by American band Disturbed. There have been three tours as of 2008, with a fourth tour coming in March 2009. Disturbed made a special Music as a Weapon tour for Australia and New Zealand with P.O.D. (the tour was from September 2-September 12 2008). Music as a Weapon II has been recorded into a live CD and live CD/DVD, released in 2004.

The name "Music as a Weapon" comes from a lyric line in the Disturbed song "Droppin' Plates", from their debut album, "The Sickness": "Gonna fight the war, and use my "music as a weapon".

Performers

Music as a Weapon:
*Disturbed
*Adema
*Drowning Pool
*Stereomud
*Systematic

Music as a Weapon II:
*Disturbed
*Chevelle
*Taproot
*Unloco

Music as a Weapon III:
*Disturbed
*Flyleaf
*Nonpoint
*Stone Sour

Music as a Weapon: Australian & New Zealand Tour:
*Disturbed
*P.O.D.
*Alter Bridge
*Redline
*Behind Crimson Eyes

Music as a Weapon IV:
*Disturbed

Music as a Weapon II

Infobox Album
Name = Music as a Weapon II
Type = live
Artist = Disturbed, Chevelle, Taproot & Unloco


Released = February 24 2004
Recorded = 2003
Genre = Alternative metal
Length =
Label = Reprise, Warner Bros.
Producer =
Reviews =
Last album =
This album =
Next album =
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = Disturbed
Type = live
Last album = "Believe"
2002
This album = "Music as a Weapon II"
2004
Next album = "Ten Thousand Fists"
2005 Extra chronology 2
Artist = Chevelle
Type = live
Last album = "Live from the Road"
2003
This album = "Music as a Weapon II"
2004
Next album = "This Type of Thinking (Could Do Us In)"
2004 Extra chronology 2
Artist = Taproot
Type = live
Last album = "Welcome"
2002
This album = "Music as a Weapon II"
2004
Next album = "Blue-Sky Research"
2005 Extra chronology 2
Artist = Unloco
Type = live
Last album = "Becoming i"
2003
This album = "Music as a Weapon II"
2004
Next album =

Music as a Weapon II was recorded as a live album and DVD, created by the band Disturbed. It was recorded on the tour in 2003 and released in 2004. It contains Disturbed's cover of Metallica's "Fade to Black" and the previously unreleased track "Dehumanized" (a studio version of the track later appeared as a B-side to one of the "Stricken" singles in 2005). The DVD also contains Disturbed's video for their single "Liberate".

Track listing

#Disturbed - "Loading the Weapon" - 2:33
#Disturbed - "Bound" - 3:54
#Taproot - "Myself" - 3:36
#Disturbed - "Dehumanized" - 3:44
#Chevelle - "Forfeit" - 4:06
#Disturbed - "Fade to Black" - 4:26
#Unloco - "Empty" - 4:03
#Taproot - "Sumtimes" - 4:42
#Disturbed - "Darkness" - 4:02
#Unloco - "Bruises" - 2:50
#Disturbed - "Prayer" - 3:49
#Chevelle - "The Red" - 3:46
#Taproot - "Poem" - 3:20
#Disturbed, Pete Loeffler, and Joey Duenas - "Stupify" - 4:28