22 Years Ago: Disturbed Release 'The Sickness'
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The '90s were dominated by an alt rock explosion, but as the decade came to a close there was a shift in sound to a harder edge. One of the leaders of this heavier sound was a young band out of Chicago who called themselves Disturbed, and on March 7, 2000, they released their debut album, The Sickness. Over the next few years, The Sickness spread throughout the rock world and became a multiplatinum smash. "People think it was like this meteoric rise. It really wasn't," frontman David Draiman told us. He recalls, "We beat the hell out of ourselves for two or three years as a local band...