Disturbed & Megadeth Join Forces for The Sickness 25th-Anniversary Tour

The tour spans 17 cities across Europe and the UK, bringing two legendary metal bands together for a powerful live experience.

By Magnus Ferreira
Disturbed band members posing under dramatic lighting, showcasing their signature heavy metal aesthetic.
Did you know? Before Disturbed was called Disturbed, they were originally known as Brawl—which sounds more like a lost WWE faction than a band that would go on to sell over 17 million albums. When David Draiman joined in 1996, the group ditched the old name because it didn’t capture the intensity they wanted. And, well… given their music, Disturbed turned out to be a pretty fitting choice.—Image: Reproduction / Press Release / Travis Shinn
Summary
  • Disturbed is bringing back The Sickness—but now with Megadeth as support. The 25th-anniversary tour storms through Europe and the UK, hitting 17 cities between September 28 and October 28, 2025.
  • A massive 25th-anniversary edition of The Sickness drops March 7, 2025—featuring B-sides, unreleased demos, and a live show from 2001 (aka peak nu-metal chaos). Special vinyl variants available for collectors (and hoarders).
  • Tickets go on sale February 28—but pre-sales start February 25 for those who can click faster than a caffeinated raccoon. VIP packages include meet-and-greets, signed merch, and backstage passes to awkwardly hover near the band.

Okay—stop what you’re doing—pause Love Island, put down the ghost pepper challenge, mute your ex’s chaotic MySpace playlist from 2008 (yes, it still plays in your head)—because we need to talk about DISTURBED and MEGADETH teaming up for a European tour in 2025… and frankly, the timeline has collapsed in on itself.

If you ever screamed OHH-WAH-AH-AH-AH into your Motorola Razr while wearing JNCOs and thinking about what color your Nokia faceplate should be, this is YOUR MOMENT.

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This tour? This is the infinity gauntlet of early 2000s rock energy—Disturbed, the kings of nu-metal “therapy session music,” are bringing their seminal debut album The Sickness back from the depths (or the discount CD bin at FYE), and they’re dragging Dave Mustaine with them. Yes. Megadeth. The band that, statistically speaking, has fired more members than there are actual members in the band.

Anyway. This unholy marriage of alt-metal gym music and conspiracy-theory thrash is rampaging across Europe and the UK, and if your knees can still handle a mosh pit, congratulations—you’re built different.

here’s the snapshot, complete with a dramatic soundtrack

The chaotic nostalgia roadshow kicks off September 28, 2025, in Copenhagen, Denmark, where Vikings once roamed and now? It’s just Danish metalheads trying not to spill their Carlsberg while headbanging. From there, it violently careens through Germany, Switzerland, Hungary, Poland, France, the Netherlands, Belgium, and the UK, before wrapping up on October 28, 2025, in Glasgow, where someone WILL get into a shirtless fistfight in the rain outside a kebab shop—FACT.

Let’s teleport to this moment where you’re frantically trying to book tickets while pretending to work:

  • Sep. 28 – Copenhagen, Denmark @ Royal Arena
  • Oct. 01 – Dusseldorf, Germany @ PSD Bank Dome
  • Oct. 03 – Stuttgart, Germany @ Hanns-Martin-Schleyer-Halle
  • Oct. 04 – Zurich, Switzerland @ Hallenstadion
  • Oct. 06 – Budapest, Hungary @ Arena
  • Oct. 07 – Prague, Czech Republic @ O2 Arena
  • Oct. 10 – Krakow, Poland @ Tauron Arena
  • Oct. 12 – Paris, France @ Zenith
  • Oct. 14 – Amsterdam, Netherlands @ Ziggo Dome
  • Oct. 15 – Brussels, Belgium @ Forest National Arena
  • Oct. 17 – Munich, Germany @ Olympiahalle
  • Oct. 18 – Berlin, Germany @ Velodrome
  • Oct. 20 – Birmingham, UK @ Utilita Arena
  • Oct. 22 – Dublin, Ireland @ 3Arena
  • Oct. 24 – Manchester, UK @ AO Arena
  • Oct. 26 – London, UK @ The O2
  • Oct. 28 – Glasgow, UK @ OVO Hydro

Yes. It’s happening.

ticket chaos, vip nonsense, and exclusive merch for those who want to flex

Right—so tickets go on sale February 28 at 10 a.m. local time. BUT, if you have the speed of a caffeinated raccoon, you can snag pre-sale tickets on February 25 by signing up at Disturbed.live (which sounds like a paranormal ghost-hunting site but is actually just a ticket portal).

VIP packages? Oh, they got ‘em.

Meet-and-greets, signed lithographs, backstage passes (for when you want to awkwardly hover near the band while pretending you belong there), and—probably—a limited-edition set of guitar picks that will immediately get lost in your couch cushions.

absolute marketing power move…

OH WAIT—BEFORE YOU THINK YOU’RE DONE—DISTURBED HAS A 25TH-ANNIVERSARY BOX SET.

Because if there’s one thing capitalism loves more than overpriced concert beer, it’s selling you your own nostalgia back to you.

Dropping March 7, 2025—EXACTLY 25 YEARS AFTER THE SICKNESS FIRST DESTROYED OUR EARDRUMS—this edition includes:

  • 🔥 A 3-CD box set (because apparently some people still own CD players?)
  • 🔥 B-sides, unreleased demos, and a live show from 2001 (where someone, somewhere, was definitely wearing a studded belt)
  • 🔥 A limited-edition silver vinyl (classy)
  • 🔥 A book with never-before-seen photos and a brand new essay featuring Disturbed and producer Johnny K, reminiscing on how this album was literally everywhere in the early 2000s

But wait. There’s MORE (obviously).

The album will be available in multiple “collector” variants because you people are absolute fiends for limited-edition vinyl:

  • 🟢 Green vinyl (because green is… sickness?)
  • 🟠 Orange vinyl (only available in Germany for reasons unknown)
  • ⚪ Milky clear vinyl (exclusive to Spotify Fans First aka people who make “Disturbed 4ever” playlists)

“brand new single” moment

Of course, they didn’t just stop at the reissue—no, no, no. DISTURBED DROPPED A BRAND NEW SONG called “I Will Not Break”, and it sounds exactly how you’d expect: loud, defiant, and basically tailor-made for “badass” TikTok workout montages.

Disturbed is back with another bone-crushing track, "I Will Not Break", and let’s be honest—David Draiman’s voice alone could probably bend steel. This song comes as part of the celebration for The Sickness' 25th Anniversary, a reminder that it’s been a quarter-century since people first started trying (and mostly failing) to replicate Draiman’s iconic “OOH WAH AH AH AH” scream in their bedrooms.

megadeth

What’s Megadeth doing here? No one knows. But Dave Mustaine is somehow still alive, still shredding, and still muttering vaguely apocalyptic things into a microphone—so let’s roll with it.

Expect thrash metal classics like Holy Wars, Peace Sells, and Symphony of Destruction, plus a few moments where Mustaine stares off into the distance like he just remembered a government secret he shouldn’t have read.

Ok, i’m done…

This tour? It’s the most 2000s thing since flip phones, chain wallets, and Hot Topic band tees that disintegrated after one wash.

So if you still have functioning knees, a deep love for nu-metal, or just want to scream “OHH-WAH-AH-AH-AH” in a stadium full of like-minded degenerates, SEE YOU IN THE PIT.

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