Quotes by Dan Donegan

“Whatever kind of vibe, whatever kind of mood Im in in the day, if I overthink it then I dont get anything good out of it,”

“At this point, we were together for just over two years,”

“Its always fun to play a lot of the more aggressive tracks, like the title track 10,000 Fists,Ÿ ... Its just a high energy song and its aggressive and theres some really cool double bass parts going on and an aggressive riff. Thats gonna be a good live song because it definitely gets the blood flowing.”

“I guess this album is a little bit more politically charged. Davids a very opinionated guy. He has strong opinions and strong beliefs. In no way are we forcing our opinions on people. Its his opportunity to express the way he feels about certain things. Besides, you know, religion and politics and world issues and relationship issues – these are usually the things that strike a nerve with him.”

“Our fan base is considerably wide-ranged. Its different walks of life and thats what we encourage.”

“When it comes down to vocals, I want to hear something thats going to be melodic. Davids always had those animalistic instincts of making those gut sounds, or whatever you want to call it. But hes developed a really strong singing voice.”

“I just think the whole message within the song fits with todays themes. It fits with the majority of stuff that David writes about.”

“When we started writing, we went back to the basics of just kind of jamming out riffs, ... That brought us back to some of our influences. It made the songs seem like some of them could use guitar solos. We just thought we would expand on that. Were trying to contribute in our way bringing this element back to rock music.”

“I think part of it is a tribute to Dimebag,”

“Probably. When we got together and started throwing around the ideas, I just started bringing out some old riffs I used to play. Guarded and Decadence are pretty much straight-up, aggressive tracks on the album. Those were the first two ideas I had come up with. That set the tone right off the bat of it being a little bit more aggressive at times. Out of 19 songs that we tracked — 14 going on the album — thats a lot of material. We try to give every song its own identity. We dont want to fall in the rut of being a repetitious-sounding band. We dont want every song to sound like Down with the Sickness or Prayer . Its got to be a creative mood. Its got to be its own thing.”

“Since they go stayed together by two more years, for when a return to Portugal for another Disturbed mega concert ?”