DISTURBED Guitarist Is Confident His Band Will Return

DISTURBED guitarist Dan Donegan spoke to Billboard.com about the open-ended hiatus that the band announced while it was headlining this summer's Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival. "We just decided not to have a game plan that's the first time in our career we've done that," Donegan explained. "We've always said, 'After this tour, let's do this...,' always something planning ahead. This is just the first time we're not having those discussions. We said, 'Let's finish this tour and go home.' We'll see where that takes us."

DISTURBED frontman David Draiman recently said that all four members of the group have other creative endeavors they'd like to pursue, with both he and Donegan interested in producing other acts. The guitarist, however, told Billboard.com, "We're not stopping to pursue other things at least I'm not. We're kind of looking to just go away for a bit, give the fans a little bit of a break, give ourselves a bit of a break. There's not some great game plan or design to all of this."

As to when the group will come together again, Donegan told Billboard.com, "I don't know if it will be six months or six years or whatever. I really don't. It's kind of scary to me to think, 'What if we don't return?' That part of it bothers me."

He added, "My hopes are if we're away from it long enough we're gonna want it that much more. I like to think that as much as we've done together and how good the chemistry has been in the band, there's going to come a time hopefully sooner than later that we're gonna turn around and say, 'Man, I fuckin' miss this. I want to get back there.' I'll be surprised if that doesn't happen, really."

DISTURBED's first-ever collection of B-sides and rarities, "The Lost Children", will be released on November 8. The set includes a previously unreleased track, "Mine", and "3", which was as a benefit track for the West Memphis Three. Other tracks on this B-side collection include "God Of The Mind" and "A Welcome Burden". which appeared on the 2010 reissue of the bands 2000 debut album, "The Sickness"; "Monster", "Two Worlds" and "Sickened", which were included as bonus tracks on the U.K. tour edition of "Ten Thousand Fists"; "Run", which was featured on a limited-edition version of 2008's "Indestructible"; and "Parasite", which appeared on the Japanese edition of "Indestructible".