In a brand new interview with Planet Rock‘s Wyatt Wendels carried out at this month’s Obtain competition in the UK, DISTURBED guitarist Dan Donegan was requested if the title of the group’s newest album, “Divisive”, is an statement of it’s a assertion of intent that he and his bandmates are attempting to be divisive. The 54-year-old Illinois-based musician, who prior to now had shared posts on his private Fb web page that amplified Republican speaking factors and that had been derogatory to Democrats, responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I often am possibly extra cryptic in my solutions ‘trigger I like to depart it up on your personal interpretation on the way you view it. However, yeah, it is simply the divisive nature of simply the state of the world and the trade and the way issues have been happening in America particularly. It has been fairly loopy, in case you’ve seen. I do not know the way the media and the information covers that over right here. So it has been a tough go. And I feel… I do not know what the hell occurred. We’re so divided, now greater than ever. You go on social media and all people’s there… It is, like, you get up within the morning prepared to begin… Who can I assault right this moment? We focus a lot on our variations and the issues that we dislike or disagree on or hate. And it is simply form of… When’s it gonna be over? It is similar to one huge mood tantrum from everybody.”

“Divisive” got here out final November. The LP was recorded earlier final yr with producer Drew Fulk (MOTIONLESS IN WHITE, LIL PEEP, HIGHLY SUSPECT) in Nashville, Tennessee.

Donegan‘s divorce impressed the “Divisive” music “Do not Inform Me”, which is a duet with HEART‘s Ann Wilson. In 20 years, it breaks floor because the first-ever visitor collaboration on a DISTURBED document.

In keeping with Billboard, “Divisive” bought 26,000 equal album models in its first week of launch, with 22,000 models through album gross sales.

On the all-format Billboard 200 chart, “Divisive” debuted at No. 13.

DISTURBED has had 5 No. 1s on the all-genre chart, starting with “Consider” in 2002.

Earlier this month, DISTURBED was pressured to cancel two exhibits on its ongoing European tour as a consequence of singer David Draiman‘s “vocal points.”

Final month, Draiman underwent on operation to have a benign tumor faraway from the radius in his proper arm.