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"It's not like nails on a chalkboard," David Draiman joked after snapping his first few photos of Playboy.com Cyber Girl Gina Patrone. The front man for the alt-metal deity Disturbed, now riding high after his band's new album Ten Thousand Fists debuted at number one on the charts, wore a sly smile over the two metal hooks that pierced his chin. But he wasn't always this jolly. Minutes before he was to become Playboy.com's latest celebrity photographer -- joining the likes of hip-hop giant Nelly, and bad boys Tommy Lee and Poison's Bret Michaels -- Draiman was having second thoughts. Citing his apprehension about using sex to sell his band's music, he nearly backed out of the session at Playboy's Chicago photo studios. Those doubts disappeared when he got a gander at his leggy muse.

"The butterflies are still in full effect," Draiman confessed, "but for different reasons." At first, Draiman kept his distance, barely uttering a word to his striking model as he took a combat stance and photographed Gina's gorgeous derriere against a sexy bathroom backdrop. "I gotta get another couple of these," he said, before popping off a few more photographs.

Draiman shed his shell-shocked demeanor gradually as Gina began to shed more clothing -- first her sheer negligee, then her panties. "I have blood rushing to all sorts of parts of my body," Draiman cautioned as Gina hovered over a warm bubble bath.


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