Dan Donegan
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"Dan Donegan" is an American musician and guitarist for Heavy metal music/heavy metal band Disturbed (band)/Disturbed. Donegan began playing guitar as a teenager and eventually formed a band called Vandal (band)/Vandal, which was an '80s-style glam metal/hair band. He also played with some of the members of Vandal in another band that was called Loudmouth. Donegan was added to the guitar show "Chop Shop's" list of "Top 100 Most Complete Guitar Players of All Time" at number 76. Donegan is currently pursuing a side project band, Fight or Flight (band)/Fight or Flight in collaboration with Disturbed band member Mike Wengren.

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

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I just think the whole message within the song fits with today's themes. It fits with the majority of stuff that David writes about.

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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. We're trying to contribute in our way bringing this element back to rock music.

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

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I think part of it is a tribute to Dimebag.

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Our fan base is considerably wide-ranged. It's different walks of life and that's what we encourage.

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I guess this album is a little bit more politically charged. David's a very opinionated guy. He has strong opinions and strong beliefs. In no way are we forcing our opinions on people. It's 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.

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When it comes down to vocals, I want to hear something that's going to be melodic. David's always had those animalistic instincts of making those gut sounds, or whatever you want to call it. But he's developed a really strong singing voice.

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