| Product Summary | | Label: Wea/warner Bros. | | UPC: 00075992473828 | | Release Date: 3/7/2000 | | Buy.com Sku: 60390872 | | Item#: MVYMLC | | Buy.com Sales Rank: 24281 | Format:  CD |
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| A Chicago metal quartet, Disturbed has been driving fans in the Midwest wild with their frenetic, theatrical live show. On their debut album, The Sickness, the band combines an over-the-top metal groove appealing to the underground with radio-friendly melodic hooks that grab hold of mainstream rock fans. Disturbed is that rare hard group with street credibility and musical chops. Now that is truly disturbing.
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Notes & Personnel Info |  | Disturbed: David Draiman (vocals); Dan Donegan (guitar); Fuzz (bass); Mike Wengren (drums, programming). | | Additional personnel: Frank De Lamora, Enrique Santiago (programming). | | Recorded at Groovemaster Studios, Chicago, Illinois. | | Disturbed's debut found the band crawling through the mire of contemporary metal staples for a cohesive direction. The staccato primal scream that became the band's trademark helped break the single, "Down With The Sickness," in tandem with the song's Tool-meets-Pantera rhythmic complexities. From the rap metal grooves of "Voices" and "Stupify" to the neo-reggae vibe of "Violence Fetish," THE SICKNESS was a musical forecast of things to come for Disturbed. "Numb" found the band making a foray into more melodic and progressive territory, an approach they would further develop with 2002's BELIEVE. |
Producer: Johnny K; Disturbed |
Engineer: Johnny K; Tadpole; Steve Sisco |
| | Artist Overview | | While heavy metal band Disturbed displays all the expected aggression and angst of its peers, it has achieved a wildly successful, chart-busting popularity, bolstered by a melodic complexity and frontman Dave Draiman's persuasive swagger. Formed in Chicago in 1996, the band developed a passionate following in their hometown. Their first major label release in 2000 sold in the millions, and their 2002 follow-up BELIEVE topped the charts. Main-staging 2003's Ozzfest cemented their status as the reigning kings of nu-metal, so that their hotly anticipated 2005 release 10,000 FISTS debuted at number one on the Billboard Top 200. |
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| | Technical Info | | Release Date : 03/07/2000 | | Original Release Date : 2000 | | Catalog ID : 24738 | | Label : Giant (USA) | | Number of Discs : 1 | | Studio/Live : Studio | | Mono/Stereo : Stereo | | SPAR Code : n/a | | UPC : 00075992473828 |
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| | Professional Reviews | | Rolling Stone (9/28/00, pp.53-4)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...Follows the same trajectory of their 1st album [going from] tranquil emotional tenderness into fuzzed-out, white-knuckle anger....with banging beats..."Alternative Press (5/00, pp.84-5)
- 4 out of 5 - "...A resuscitating jolt of unwholesome tweaked soundage....This satisfying slab is just anthem after anthem of maximum decibels that -miraculously - never gets samey..." CMJ (1/08/01, p.26)
- Included in CMJ's "Best Loud Rock Albums" of 2000. CMJ (3/27/00, p.28)
- "...catchy, addictive, and ultimately forward-thinking...leaving a permanent impression..." Melody Maker (7/4/00, p.65)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...Rather entertaining in a turn-off-brain cheap-thrills kinda way....Absolute unreasoning misanthropy of a frankly adolescent nature." |
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| Customer Reviews | ![]() | | Production |  5 | | Performance | 5 | | Composition | 5 | | Overall Satisfaction | 5 |
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1 of 1 customers found this review helpful.
5 of 5 Disturbed- The Sickness Friday, March 28, 2003
Sam Lerman from Bethesda, MD
The debut album of Disturbed, The Sickness is one of the greatest breakthroughs ever made in the metal genre. David Draiman, the founding member and vocalist of Disturbed, pours his life out into his music. An educated man with three bachelors degrees (Buisness Manegment, Political Science, and Philosophy), he sings (and screams) his feelings of frustration and insanity that have comprised his life. The music is punctuated by the Draimans trademark unique vocal noises and occasional hebrew in the backround (Draiman was groomed from birth to be a Rabbi). Disturbed makes for great listening and is not only able to scream lyrics, more evidenced by their second CD, Believe, in which many songs are far softer including one slow song which most would not believe was the same band unless told so. This band is truly revolutionary and will definitly keep producing great music. Was this review helpful?  
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