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The Sickness

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Released
  
March 7, 2000

Length
  
47:18

The Sickness(2000)
  
Believe(2002)

Release date
  
7 March 2000

Recorded
  
November–December 1999

Producer
  
Johnny K, Disturbed

Artist
  
Disturbed

Label
  
Giant Records

The Sickness httpsimgdiscogscomsC8CD3AIXVYu4H36qc10o4QVj

Genres
  
Nu metal, Alternative metal

Similar
  
Disturbed albums, Nu metal albums

Disturbed the sickness full album


The Sickness is the debut studio album by American metal band Disturbed. The album was released on March 7, 2000. The album peaked at number 29 on the Billboard 200 chart and it has spent a total of 103 weeks on that chart, as of June 2010. It is, to date, Disturbed's only album to not hit number one on the Billboard 200. The Sickness has been certified 4x platinum by the RIAA, with around 4,248,000 copies sold in the United States alone as of 2011, making it the band's most successful album.

Contents

Disturbed voices album the sickness track 1


2010 reissue

On March 23, 2010, a reissue of the album was released, which includes B-sides, new artwork, and exclusive online content. This reissue celebrates the tenth anniversary of the release of the album and is available for the first time in vinyl format. Disturbed's guitarist, Dan Donegan, commented on the reissue: "[...] it's the album that put us on the map and launched our career. So we went back into the studio and we remixed it, we're having it remastered, we're gonna put a couple of bonus tracks on there and touch up some of the packaging and the artwork. Just a little collector's item, a little tribute to that album for the fans".

The two songs included in the reissue, "God of the Mind" and "A Welcome Burden", are also included in a B-side compilation called The Lost Children.

Critical reception

The album received positive reviews upon release. Steve Huey from Allmusic commented " But even if it has a few less-than-compelling moments, The Sickness overall comes off as the work of a band who really doesn't have far to go to achieve total control of its sound and compositional skills, and that makes it a terrific debut album."

Accolades

In 2013, Loudwire featured The Sickness in their "Top 25 Debut Hard Rock Albums" list, placing the album at number 24.

Soundtrack appearances

  • "Voices" has appeared in one of the trailers for the horror film Jeepers Creepers.
  • "The Game" has appeared in the English adaptation of Dragon Ball Z: Cooler's Revenge.
  • "Stupify" and "Fear" has appeared in an English adaptation of Dragon Ball Z: Lord Slug.
  • "Down with the Sickness" has appeared in several films and video games including Queen of the Damned, The One, Green Street, the Dawn of the Dead remake, Rock Band 2, South Park, Guitar Hero Live, and other media. The 2009 Guitar Hero game (Guitar Hero 5) and Rock Band version have the "abuse" segment intact, however all curse words were removed. Guitar Hero Live also features this song in the GH On Demand feature of the game, however as the music video version of the song is the version that is used, the "abuse" segment is not featured.

    • Track listing

    All tracks written by Disturbed, except for "Shout 2000" composed by Ian Stanley and Roland Orzabal.

    Charts

    Album

    Singles

    Songs

    1Voices3:12
    2The Game3:47
    3Stupify4:34

    References

    The Sickness Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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