In a new interview with Liv Maddix of the 105.7 The Point radio station, DISTURBED guitarist Dan Donegan spoke about the band’s 34-date “The Sickness 25th Anniversary Tour”, which kicked 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 features 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 features support from special guests THREE DAYS GRACE, including the return of original singer Adam Gontier, and opener SEVENDUST, and the second half features special guests DAUGHTRY with opener NOTHING MORE.Regarding what it has been like to go back and perform some of the songs that he and his DISTURBED bandmates hadn’t played in a long time, Dan said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Yeah, it’s great. Half the album we probably hadn’t played in 15 years or something. It’s been a while. So to kind of go back and do it again, it was good. I had to go back and kind of relearn them a little bit, but then without overthinking it, just muscle memory came back and you just play it. So it’s fun to play these again ’cause it’s been so long. Because we have such a deep catalog now, there’s so many songs that we’ve left off throughout the years — not intentionally. It’s only ’cause — unless we’re gonna do a six-hour show. But, yeah, it’s been fun to do these songs again and just kind of relive it.”A few days prior to the launch of “The Sickness 25th Anniversary Tour”, DISTURBED singer David Draiman told the 100.3 The X Rocks radio station that getting ready for the trek was “a ton of work,” requiring “a ton of preparation. Lots of little Easter eggs, so to speak, [are] part of the performance. Definitely dipping heavily into the nostalgia. So, getting into it, it’s been a nice little trip down memory lane, it’s been sort of a humbling experience kind of, ’cause we’ve never actually played the first record front to back before. This is gonna be our first time doing it. Some of these songs we haven’t played in — I don’t know — 15, 20 years. So it’s been a while. It was nice running through everything with the guys last week. It’s like revisiting old friends. It’s really, really cool. I’m really looking forward to the whole entirety of it. There’s definitely lots of production-element surprises that are complex and theatrical, definitely hearkening back to the whole ‘Sickness’ era, but done in a new and modern way. So it’s definitely been a challenge, but one that we’ve been enjoying as we’ve been going along.”Asked how much fun he and his DISTURBED bandmates have in coming up with ideas and trying to push the limits of what they can make happen on the stage during a live show, Draiman said: “Well, that all depends. Unfortunately, things like that cost money [laughs], and a lot of it, and if we had an unlimited amount of money, it wouldn’t be a problem. Unfortunately, we do have a limited amount of money. And if we were able to do everything we wanted to, we would be accomplishing all of my dear guitar player’s wildest dreams and production fantasies coming to life. He’s definitely the mad scientist when it comes to that kind of stuff. He’s got a great vision for that sort of thing, and he’s been working closely with our production staff, and I’ve been kind of hanging back, seeing what he’s coming up with and what they’re coming up with… But it’s been challenging, because the environment is tough, and we wanna put on as big of a show as possible, but we don’t wanna have to pay from out of our pockets to do it. We’d like to actually make some revenue on it. So it’s been challenging, but I can pretty much guarantee everyone, from everything that I’ve seen over the course of the past couple of weeks, that it is going to be a huge-looking show. It’s going to be impressive as hell. And I think that everyone’s really going [to enjoy it].”Last month, DISTURBED announced the European leg of “The Sickness 25th Anniversary Tour” with support from MEGADETH.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. 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.On February 21, DISTURBED released a new single, “I Will Not Break”, via the band’s own label, Mother Culture Records.[embedded content][embedded content]