Throwback: 10 Best Metal Albums Of 2000
1. Disturbed - "The Sickness"
"The Sickness" is Disturbed's debut album, released in March 2000 and being outstandingly their only album to not hit number one on the US Billboard 200 until their seventh album debuted at number four, 18 years later.
Having said that, megafans hail"The Sickness" as the best work that Disturbed have ever produced. Although heralding themselves in the present day as alternative metal, hard rock or even just classic metal, "The Sickness" is an outstanding nu-metal effort. The riffs, whilst repetitive, are memorable and chunky and there's even a decent percentage of rapping present throughout.
Numb showcases the first instant of vocalist David Draiman's ability to be really quite melodic, a sound he developed further over the next 20 years until the striking cover of The Sound of Silence a few years back. Yes, "The Sickness" isn't polished, preened and professional, but metal rarely is. The fight is on between "The Sickness" and subsequent album "Believe" for the title of Disturbed's best album, but it's an incredibly close call.
With bangers such as Stupify and the instantly recognisable by any metalhead anywhere ever, Down With The Sickness, this album was Disturbed's way of showing they were here to stay, and as it turns out, they were right.