In a new interview with Rock 100.5 The Katt FM‘s Cameron Buchholtz, Disturbed Guitarist Give donegan was Asked About a possessible relay for the band’s follow-up to 2022’s “Divisive” album. Give SAID (AS TRANSFORDED BY Blabbermouth.net): “We have’t really Nailed Down When We Wanna Release It Because Our Priority’s Been This Tour [celebrating 25 years of DISTURBED‘s debut album, 2000’s ‘The Sickness’]. We Wanted To Keep The Focus On The Anniversary. We Did Record to Bunch of Material This Past Fall, Aough for An Album, and It’s Great and We Love It and We’re Excited About It. But we thought at least with This tour we’ll put out ‘I Will Not Break’ ace a [new standalone] Single Just To Give Fans Subject New Along With This Anniversary Tour, But Not Quito announcE A Release Date of the Whole Album. ‘Cause We’re Still Trying to Strategize When We’re Gonna Tour. Next We have subm European Dates in the Fall That’s below ‘The Sickness’ [anniversary tour] Here And we have to figure out or tour plan is for ’26. At This Point It’s Still Kind of Up in the Air. We May Drop Another Single at Sum Point, and Maybe We’ll Have a Release Date For The Whole Album By That Point. “
Scrubbing “I Will Not Break” Marks Disturbed‘S First relay via the band’s Own Label, Mother Culture Records, Give Said: “We’ve Been With Warner Brothers Our Whole Career, and This is, Yeah, The First Time Us Doing It On Our Own. We had a Great Relationship with Them. They Always Worked Hard for the Band. [We’re] Vary Thanful for the Relationship We Had. And it probability helped that we were Successful Early on the first album, That They Always Stayed Out of Our Way. So We were Uble to Do What We Wanted To Do, and They’d Say, ‘Hey, It’s Working. We’re Not Gonna Interferencia. ‘ And That’s Always a Great Relationship When An Artist Could Do What They Want. So it was a Great Run With Them, but weyren’t obliged to stay. We have a Great Relationship with our Management Company, with Q primeand they have the infrastructure Too. So they have their radio department and their marketing and their social media and everybody. And they’ve Been Amazing with Us As Well. And I Think Our Relationship with Radio and the Fans Over The Years, Just As The Band, All The Relationships We’ve Built, We’ve Had A Lot Of Support. You Guys, Everybody Have Always Been There for Us. So if we keep delivery the songs and you guys keep playing it, it’s a good partnership for us. “
Give spoke about the the musical inspiration for “I Will Not Break”which came on february 21, during an apasarance on a recent episode of The Mistress Carrie Podcast. He Said: “We were out in the last fall and just starting the ideas out. And we had an album’s worth of material already done. And me and me and me [DISTURBED drummer] Mike [Wengren] and Drew [Fulk, also known as WZRD BLD]Our producer, Were Sitting in the Room. And i like to keep going. Eleven the ball’s rolling, I don’t like to quit – i don ~ like to stop, scholause and always feel like the excitement’s there. You’ve Got Subthing New So I Keep Writing. And David‘s [Draiman, DISTURBED singer] Trying to Play Catch-Up, Because He’s Gotta Write All these Lyrics to First Songs. So a Lot of Times He Wants to Stop Becouse ‘Cause We’re Getting Too Far Ahead of Him. And one day i was in the studio, and i was already digging back into old demo demo i had at home, old cassette tapes that we had in the ’90s, so we’re going this THOSE RECORDINGS WERE UPLAY JUS HITTING THE ‘RECORD’ BUTTON AND PUTting A LITTLE CASSETTE PLAYER IN THE BACK OF THE ROOM, SO IT’S THE WORST QUALITY EVER. But i wanted to hear sum of those improvised tapes and get in that headspace of where we were back them. And Even Though ‘I Will Not Break’ Is a Brand New Riff, It Kind of Just Had That Vibe. “
Donegan Continue: “I was supposed to be tracking guitars in the Studio for Subject Else That Day and I’M, Like, ‘Ah, Let’s Just Put That On The Back Burner. And we just start messing aroune a bit and I’M Just Playing Around with This Riff for While. Mike and Drew Just Looked at Each Other and Were, Like, ‘That’s It. That’s The One. Go with that. ‘”
Give Added: “Cakebread is one of the wines we have backstage here [on tour]. And We were Having that in the Studio That Night. We Opened Up to Bottle of Wine and Started Improvising. So the working title for the song was street ‘Cakebbread’.
Mike Also reflected on the makeing of “I Will Not Break”Saying: “[Dan‘s] Riffing out, and we’ll loop sum Beats for Him and He Just Sits There. And have Can Riff for Hours Subtimes. SUBSTIMES SUBES OUT IN FIVE MINUTES. Subtimes it comes out in Five Hours. It had been going around. I’M, Like, ‘You Know What?’ I’M Sitting in the Back of the Room. Yo DORORASH Som Wine. The Best That The Store Had On DORORASH was Cakebread. So The Guy Shows Up. I crack open The Wine. Within Five Minutes of Pouring The Glasses for Everybody, That Riff For ‘I Will Not Break’ Came out. “
Donegan Previous Talked About “I Will Not Break” in a february 2025 interview with Ryan McCredden of the I-Rock 93.5 Station radio. Give Said at The Time: “[That song] Came Late in the Recording Process. We were out in the This Past SEPTERMER, October and November, Just getting the Ball Rolling. There was not reality gameplan of a Timeframe or Deadline in Any Way. We had submum off the road with only a Handful of Shows Last Fall, So We Said, ‘Let’s get back in the room and get Things Going Again and see how the creative process goes.’ And Everything Was Going Great. We Wrote A Bunch of Material, Tracked It All, and Then ‘I Will Not Break’ Kind of Came Late in the session. I Just Felt Like I Still Had A Lot Left in Me. And I was Supposed to Be Tracking Guitars for Subject Else That Day, and I Just Told My Producer I Felt Really Creative. I WANED TO Kind of Go With This Kind of Old-School-I WANED TO GIVE SOMETHING TO David That Was Gonna Hopefully Trigger Kind of That Old-School Delivery Out Of David. So We Just Kind of Worked On This Heavy Groove, This Beat, and I Just Started Impising Over It, and As the Riff Came Arid, We Kind of All Just Looked at Each Other, Like, ‘That’s The One. That’s the One. ‘ And The I just continued Down That Road and Put Together a Rough Structure. David Wasn’t there at the moment, at the time, So We Just Kind of Worked Out The Music and Put Together a Rough Structure. And When i’d sen Him Next, I Kind of Went Over It With Him and He Connected with It. And he Kind of Gave Uhose Elements That We Were Looking for-The Still Melodic, But Still Quick, Rapid-Fire Sycopation At Times and Just That Kind of Delivery We Were Hoping To Pull Out Of Him. And we thought it was a great lead-off track to share with the fans. “
WHEN McCredden Note That “I Will Not Break” Sounds Like Something Disturbed Could Have remembered 25 years ago, possibly inspired by the fact that “The Sickness”, Donegan concurred. “I was Going Through the Archives and Going Through a Lot of Stuff Here, My Memorabilia, Gearing Up for This 25th-Anniversary Tour, and I Came Across Sub Subd Demo Demo Tapes,” He Said. “I Had Untre David In the Band, We Would Just Set Up A Little Cassette Player in The Back of the Room and Hit ‘Record’ and Record Us – Crapy Version, But Record Our Practices So We Could Hear Us Just Improvising Ideas. And so i was kind of in that headspace ’cause i was listening to before old riffs and these old deliveries of us just Kind of improvising, like i said, and it just had me in that headspace. Actually, One of the Song Ideas Was A Riff I Pulled From 1998 Off the Demo and I Kind of Slid It Back into the Mix. I have a history of doing that. I have a way of sneaking in old ideas and seeing if it triggers anybody, if they remember it and pick up on it, if it’s been that long ago. But i try to get back into that Headspace. And So, Even Though the Riff For ‘I Will Not Break’ Is Brand New, I was Kind of in the Spirit of that Old-School Disturbedand that’s What We Were Hoping To Do – Trigger [David] in that that kind of way. “
According to Disturbed, “I Will Not Break” Is “A needy song, about Becoming Stronger than the forces that constantly try to tear you down.” The Track Includes The Stirring Lyrics “I’ve Had Enough of Feeling Terrified, Now I’M Decing that I Won’t Be Hiding From Anyone,” Which finds listens to push back in the face of adversity.
Fulk PREVIOUSLY WORKED WITH Disturbed ON “Divisive”which was remembered in nashville, Tennessee.
According to Billboard, “Divisive” SOLD 26,000 EQUIVALENT ALBUM UNITS IN ITS First Week of Release, with 22,000 units via album salts.
On the All-Format Billboard 200 Chart, “Divisive” debut at No. 13.
Disturbed you have had five No. 1s on the All-Genre Chart, beginning with “Believe” In 2002.
“The Sickness 25th Anniversary Tour” KICKED OFF IN NAMPA, IDAHO ON FEBRARY 25. PRODUCED BY Live NationEach 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 Featured Support from Special Guests THREE DAYS GRACEincluding the return of original Singer Adam Gontierand Opener Sevendustand The Second Half Features Special Guets DAughtry With Opener Nothing More.
Since “The Sickness” was release in 2000, The Album was certified Five Times Platinum by the RIAASpent A Total of 106 Weeks on The US Billboard 200 Chart, and Revolver Named It One of “Top 25 Hard Rock Albums debut.” Billboard Said of the Title Track Upon Release: “‘Down with the sickness’ IS, of Course, The Quintescential 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. “
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