Disturbed singer David Draiman said in a new interview with Philadelphia radio station WMMR that the next leg of the band's current touring cycle will focus on the 20th anniversary of the band's 2000 debut album, The Sickness.
Draiman revealed, “This entire touring cycle — this section of the touring cycle, if you will — is going to be celebrating the 20th anniversary of The Sickness, so you'll be getting a lot more material from the record. You'll be getting some surprises . . . We definitely want to pay tribute to what started it all for us, and we're looking forward to really digging deep.”
The Sickness was originally released in March 2000 and remains Disturbed's biggest-selling disc, with more than five million copies sold. The CD contained the singles “Stupify,” “Voices” and “Down With the Sickness.”
Guitarist Dan Donegan told us a while back that the band never expected the LP or its signature song to do as well as they did: “I think 'Down With The Sickness' was like the seventh most downloaded song that was recorded in the '90s. It was like in a list of like four Michael Jackson songs and Nirvana's 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' and we were in the Top 10 of those songs. And I was just blown away by those statistics. Those are big numbers there. I mean, we're just overwhelmed to think that we could go from a garage band in the south side of Chicago to selling a lot of albums and having a fan base and making a career out of it.”
Disturbed has been touring behind its latest album, Evolution, which came out in October of 2018. The band recently released a music video for the song “Hold On To Memories.”