Disturbed frontman David Draiman has confirmed that the band won't perform its 2000 debut album The Sickness in its entirety on the upcoming tour commemorating the 20th anniversary of the LP's release, which was on Saturday (March 7th).
Draiman explained to Billboard, “No, we won't do the entire album, but we're going to do a ton of Sickness material, deeper cuts, stuff people haven't heard us play off the record for a while, and definitely a huge portion of material will be Sickness-oriented.”
The singer continued, “As a band at our level, at this point of our career, you can't just go out and play one record because everybody came on board at different stations. They want to hear what they fell in love with.” Draiman did hint that the band may bring back “production elements” from the Sickness era in a “new and more provocative way.”
Draiman told us a while back that Disturbed is fiercely proud to be able to maintain its success years after releasing The Sickness: “In a genre which has faded from the limelight somewhat, where there aren't many bands of our ilk left out there doing what we do at the level that we do it, we're very proud to be able to be standing tall and still doing it and doing it as ferociously as we are.”
“The Sickness 20th Anniversary Tour” kicks off on July 15th in Maryland Heights, Missouri, hitting amphitheaters before wrapping up on September 12th in Auburn, Washington. Staind and Bad Wolves will serve as special guests on the tour.
