Disturbed recently began working on a new EP, which vocalist David Draiman compared to The Sickness from 2000 and Ten Thousand Fists from 2005. Now in an interview with Revolver, Draiman called the new stuff "pummeling and rhythmic and aggressive and anthemic and poly-syncopated," later adding that the band wants to give old-school fans something to dig into.
"We've come up with some unbelievable new material that is just pummeling and rhythmic and aggressive and anthemic and poly-syncopated — Disturbed 101, everything people fell in love with us for in the first place. It has really been a wonderful past couple of weeks, especially after two years of being apart, not being able to really create. You can create over Zoom or some shit like that but it's not the same, that inspiration in the moment in front of each other — the magic, energy and electricity that occurs — nothing really compares to it. It was a welcome rush back into the system. Fucking amazing. It's sounding somewhere between The Sickness and Ten Thousand Fists, for sure."
Draiman later added that given how shitty the past two years have been, "We gotta go old school. We've got to go back to where we came from." Draiman also touched on the fact that the new material will absolutely be in the form of an EP, saying that putting out a full album feels like a waste of material.
"I'm determined to not put a full album out. We put all of our heart and soul into every single song we create. And to write 10 songs for three of them to get worked at radio and recognized and remembered by the fans, and then for the other seven to sit on a shelf collecting dust — why? There's no point in that anymore. So for the next couple, it'll be about five or six tracks at a time.
"We live in a society and environment now where people consume things bit by bit. You can't fight it. And as much as I selfishly appreciate the concept album or telling an entire story, I can't force that on people who don't want to accept it. I'm okay with each individual song telling its own story at this point, and just accepting things as they are."
