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April 1, 2025

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Disturbed is currently out celebrating 25 years of The Sickness.  They brought the celebration to the Rocket Arena along with Daughtry and Nothing More on Monday night to an enthusiastic audience. 

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Lead singer David Draiman, was wheeled out to center stage on a dolly while wearing a straight jacket and a Hannibal Lecter style mask.  Letting the crowd know that "the sickness" was about to begin.

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For the first set, the entire album The Sickness was played in it's entirety. The five times platinum selling album includes the songs "Stupify," "Voices" and the song that put them on the map, "Down With The Sickness."

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All songs were expertly performed and the band had high energy throughout the set.  Great lighting, fog machines and pyro helped set the tone for each song as the band members prowled around the stage.

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The second set consisted of their greatest hits which included "Ten Thousand Fists" and "Land of Confusion."  

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Things slowed down a bit as they brought out a piano and timpani to center stage for their great cover of Simon and Garfunkle's "Sound of Silence."

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The celebration came to a close with "The Light" and "Inside the Fire."

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Daughtry was the second act on the bill.  They played a lot of songs from their latest album, Shock to the System (Part One) which got a decent response from the crowd.  However, when they went into the familiar sounds of Journey's "Seperate Ways" the audience perked up and sang along.

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The American Idol alumni kept the energy up with the next song "It's Not Over" which was a double platinum selling single for Daughtry back in 2007.

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The band left the stage and Chris strapped on an acoustic guitar and asked the audience to get out their cell phones to light up the arena.  He said that he would not be here tonight without the next song and wanted fans to sing along to "Home."

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"Artificial" closed out their eleven song set.

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Nothing More opened up the show with a fun, high energy, hard rock show.  Front man Jonny Hawkins keeps the crowd engaged as he is all over the stage and catwalk throughout their set.

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The band is out supporting their newest album, Carnal which came out last year.  Two special guests appear on that album, Dave Draiman and Chris Daughtry.  As a nice surprise, Daughtry came out during their set and sang "FREEFALL" with the band.

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The high energy set came to an end with "This Is The Time (Ballast)" which featured every member of the band playing the drums.

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It was a great night of hard rock and heavy metal in the Rock and Roll capital of the world! 

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Photos and review by Greg Drugan

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