DISTURBED’s DAN DONEGAN On Upcoming ‘The Sickness 25th Anniversary Tour’: ‘The Songs Came Back To Me Rather Quick’

In a new Instagram Live, DISTURBED guitarist Dan Donegan spoke about the band’s upcoming 34-date “The Sickness 25th Anniversary Tour”, which will kick off in Nampa, Idaho on February 25, 2025 and is produced by Live Nation. The tour celebrates 25 years of DISTURBED’s seminal debut album which launched the band into public consciousness and is one of the most important and influential heavy metal albums of all time. Each night will feature two sets of music, opening with DISTURBED playing the five times platinum “The Sickness” in full, followed by a full set of greatest hits. The first half of the tour will feature support from special guests THREE DAYS GRACE, featuring the return of original singer Adam Gontier, and opener SEVENDUST, and the second half will feature special guests DAUGHTRY with opener NOTHING MORE.Donegan said in part (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET):  ”We start the first leg of the tour in a few weeks in Idaho with SEVENDUST and THREE DAYS GRACE. Do that for a few weeks with those guys. Two of my favorites there. And then a few days off here and there. And then we will go to start the second leg with NOTHING MORE and DAUGHTRY. So it’s gonna be a great run on both these. I love all these bands, of course. Very inspirational, all of them. Amazing guys, amazing musicians. So hopefully you got your tickets coming out to see at least one of those, or if not both of those.”We will be playing all of ‘The Sickness’, the whole album, front to back, and some additional hits. So it’s kind of like a two-part set for us. And so it’ll be, besides the two support acts before us, we will play a couple hours as well. So it’ll be a nice, fun-filled night.”So we’re just diving into the rehearsal, start jamming through the songs again. [it’s] pretty exciting because some of these songs we haven’t played in many, many years. Mostly the ones from ‘The Sickness’ — songs like ‘Numb’, ‘Violence Fetish’, ‘Conflict’, a lot of these songs we haven’t played in a long time. So, pretty exciting to get back and work the rust off a bit, get back into it. I was jamming the songs at home a bit and it’s kind of nice because muscle memory came back real quick. Sometimes you don’t wanna overthink it. You just get back in that muscle memory and you just play, and so the songs came back to me rather quick. So it’ll be a good time.”Since “The Sickness” was released in 2000, the album was certified five times platinum by the RIAA, spent a total of 106 weeks on the US Billboard 200 chart, and Revolver named it one of “Top 25 Debut Hard Rock Albums.” Billboard said of the title track upon release: “‘Down With The Sickness’ is, of course, the quintessential DISTURBED song, harnessing all the band’s seethe and its now-famous tribal beat and guitar chug into three and a half minutes of alt-metal mayhem. It’s menacing, it’s rhythmic, it’s rebellious.”DISTURBED recently announced the 25th-anniversary edition release of “The Sickness”. To commemorate the anniversary, the band will reissue the five-times-platinum-certified LP on March 7, exactly 25 years to the date of their original release, in editions including:* A limited edition 1-LP (silver vinyl) and 3-CD box set. It includes the original album, B-sides, unreleased demos, and an unreleased 14-track concert from The Palladium in Los Angeles from April 2001 as well as songs recorded at Chicago’s Metro in March 2000 and the London Astoria in February 2001. The box includes a poster, cloth patch, backstage pass, and a set of guitar picks. It also includes a book featuring rare photos and memorabilia, and an extensive essay with new interviews with the members of DISTURBED, and producer Johnny K. An exclusive lithograph signed by the band is included with the limited-edition D2C format.* A 2-CD deluxe edition that includes the original album, plus a disc of B-sides, unreleased demos, and rarities. The booklet features an essay with new interviews with the members of DISTURBED and producer Johnny K.* Vinyl editions, including variants in limited edition green vinyl, limited edition orange vinyl (Germany/Central Europe exclusive),and limited edition milky clear vinyl (Spotify Fans First).* Digitally, which includes all 40 tracks included in the limited-edition box set.”The Sickness” 25th-anniversary edition is available to pre-order on all formats here. The deluxe box set will be available via the band’s web site and digitally on March 7, and via all retailers in North American on March 21.DISTURBED has become one of the most celebrated and commercially successful metal acts of all time. To date, DISTURBED has seen record-breaking success with sales of over 17 million units and 14 billion streams. It all began with “The Sickness”, which includes their songs “Down With The Sickness” (recently certified eight times platinum),”Stupify” (two times platinum),”Voices” (gold),and “The Game” (gold). The album peaked at No. 29 on the Billboard 200 chart and spent a total of 106 weeks on the chart. To date, “The Sickness” has been streamed 2.5 billion times worldwide. It was included as No. 24 on Loudwire’s “Top 25 Debut Hard Rock Albums” list, one of Metal Hammer’s “20 Best Albums Of 2000,” and was highlighted in Revolver magazine’s “20 Essential Nu Metal Albums” list. Billboard said of the title track upon release: “‘Down With The Sickness’ is, of course, the quintessential DISTURBED song, harnessing all the band’s seethe and its now-famous tribal beat and guitar chug into three and a half minutes of alt-metal mayhem. It’s menacing, it’s rhythmic, it’s rebellious.”Emerging out of Chicago at the turn of the century with an insidious, infectious, and inimitable vision without comparison, DISTURBED have quietly dominated hard rock on their own terms. They make the kind of music that pushes you to hold on tighter, fight harder, and persevere forever. It’s why they’ve claimed a place at the forefront of 21st century rock with record-breaking success, sales of over 17 million-plus units, nearly eight billion streams, and sold out shows around the globe. The band have six RIAA album certifications, and singles from all eight albums have reached the top ten of the Mainstream Rock chart.The two-time Grammy Award-nominated quartet have notched five consecutive No. 1 debuts on the Billboard Top 200 for “Believe”, “Ten Thousand Fists”, “Indestructible” and “Asylum”, occupying rarified air alongside METALLICA — the only other hard rock group to accomplish this feat. Since their influential five-times-platinum debut “The Sickness” in 2000, they have built a bulletproof catalog highlighted by a procession of smashes, including the platinum “Stupify”, “Inside The Fire” and “Land Of Confusion”, two-times-platinum “Stricken”, six-times-platinum “Down With The Sickness” and seven-times-platinum “The Sound Of Silence” to name a few. The latter notably received a Grammy Award nomination in the category of “Best Rock Performance” as the band earned “Best Rock Artist” at the 2017 iHeartRadioMusic Awards. Still, DISTURBED never stop, and their most recent 2022 album “Divisive” featured their 17th No. 1 at Rock Radio “Hey You”, “Unstoppable” and more.[embedded content]