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Disturbed |
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David Draiman - Vocals
Dan Donegan - Guitar
Mike Wengren - Drums
John Moyer - Bass
Nearly a decade after the release of their groundbreaking debut, The
Sickness, Disturbed have become one of the most passionate and
well-respected bands in the hard-rock universe, a dependable source
not only of pummeling riffs and jackhammer beats, but of personal
and political insights into our troubled times. Yet success (in the
form of three platinum-plus albums, with both Believe and Ten
Thousand Fists topping Billboard's album chart and over nine million
albums sold) hasn't dulled this Chicago-based foursome's taste for
adventure. If anything, Disturbed's loyal fanbase has pushed the
band to newer heights of self-expression. So it makes sense that on
the occasion of their fourth album, Indestructible, that frontman
David Draiman, guitarist Dan Donegan and drummer Mike Wengren
decided to take the reins and produce themselves in the studio.
"Doing three records with Johnny K taught us a tremendous amount,"
Draiman says of the industry veteran who helmed The Sickness,
Believe and Ten Thousand Fists. "We're always trying to evolve and
try new things and experiment," adds Donegan. "So this time we
wanted to do things a little bit differently." Wengren says that
Indestructible—which the band tracked over three months in Fall 2007
at Chicago's Groovemaster Recording—afforded the band the
"opportunity to prove to ourselves and to everybody else that we
could do it." The result of Disturbed's experimentation in the
studio is the group's darkest, angriest outing yet. Inspired by two
and a half years' worth of challenging experiences, Draiman told the
rest of the band that he was in the mood to purge. Fortunately, they
were right there with him.
"We wanted to get back to some of the elements that were maybe
lacking on the last two records," says Donegan. "David's got a great
ability to sing really melodically, but we wanted him to get back to
the rhythmic, animalistic, rapid-fire delivery he's known for. He's
very hard to touch when he does that, and we wanted to give him
music to provoke that."
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