Drowning Pool
Fat riffs, sweeping grooves and powerful vocals are the means by which DROWNING POOL
Triumph over the tragedy, continuously develop without compromise and remain loyal to their fans with the same remarkable strength and attitude for over a decade. HELLELUJAH is exactly the album that die-hard fans have longed for and that the whole world of brutal heavy rock deserves.
The multi-platinum conquerors from the "Lone Star State" Texas perform deafening hymns of the hardest pace, which burn with adrenaline so that they set radios on fire and inspire the audience to passionately sing along. After the first few seconds of the album's first single, "By the Blood", it is clear that Hellelujah is the most aggressive and ambitious Drowning Pool album since Sinner, the platinum record that gave the world the top 20 rock radio hit " Tear Away ”and that brought extremely successful“ Bodies ”.
Snottier and more unruly than Drowning Pools Hellelujah hit "We Are the Devil", "Goddamn Vultures" or "Push" is not possible: pioneering, modern rock anthems with classic elements - brutal grooves and energetic melodies that never weaken. CJ Pierce's guitar work is devastatingly precise, yet extremely diverse in terms of dynamism. He always stays perfectly in sync with the thunderous rhythms of his two co-founders Stevie Benton on bass and Mike Luce on drums, while Jasen Moreno turns poison and gall into hooks with his vocals.
Drowning Pool have rocked the stage with the absolute who's who, but also with the most exciting newcomers in the genre, including Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe, Papa Roach, System Of A Down, Kiss, Korn, Sevendust, Seether, Hellyeah, POD, Five Finger Death Punch and Black Label Society, and played alongside Metallica, Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson at Ozzfest.
The last three Drowning Pool albums all landed in the top 5 of the Billboard Hard Rock Charts, cementing the legacy for which they paid homage to their legendary platinum debut, Sinner, to which the band paid homage to the 13th anniversary with a special edition and a tour who laid the foundation stone. Thanks to his considerable tube, Moreno was quickly able to own the extensive band catalog when he fronted Drowning Pool in 2012 - from his awesome rendition of the mosh-inviting lyrics of the late Dave Williams in their biggest and ubiquitous hit "Bodies" to his own powerful versions of top 5 rock hits like “Step Up” from Desensitized (2004), “37 Stitches” from Full Circle (2007) and “Feel Like I Do” from their self-titled album (2010). As Revolver Magazine noted in an extensive review of Resilience (2013), "Drowning Pool continue to release one killer album after another with a distinctive sound."
Hellelujah (2016) is unfiltered and uncompromising. It shows a band that, thanks to the tireless support of their fans, can say, play and do what they want. The result of the loyalty, determination and passion that bind them together is what Moreno describes as a “bad attitude record”, an album that never shrinks from an intelligent confrontation. No one could have captured the mix of metal origins, catchy choruses and riffs as well as ruthlessly aggressive lyrics better than producer Jason Suecof (All That Remains, Trivium, Demon Hunter).
Drowning Pool's songs conjure up emotions that are especially familiar to those who defy all odds and give everything to survive - be it a soldier on a foreign assignment or a working-class family who is somehow trying to make ends meet.
Her music doesn't care about races, classes or lifestyles and appeals to people of all walks of life who seek support from music in difficult times. With their Texas engaging, sociable and charismatic manner, the band rose to platinum in a flash in the early 2000s and a place in the hard rock Olympus alongside contemporaries like Disturbed, Godsmack and Slipknot. They have toured with Ozzy Osbourne and regularly give concerts for US troops, for whom they travel to the war zones in the Middle East and to the bases in Southeast Asia. With then Senator Barack Obama, they personally spoke out in favor of the Lane Evans Health Act, a law to improve health care for veterans.
Massive walls of sound that blow your mind, spiced with the dark melodies of post-grunge are still the trademark of Drowning Pool. In their music they celebrate the joys and sorrows of life without compromise and skilfully navigate their way through defiant resistance slogans. No epoch in the band's history is left out on stage when the band performs a whole arsenal of hymns, all of which are performed with precision and power. The songs on Hellelujah (in which all four band members contributed more than ever before) are bursting with the power of everything that has existed so far and a renewed greed for everything that may come. Drowning Pool pay homage to the past without ever losing sight of the present and thus steer towards a bright artistic future.
The multi-platinum conquerors from the "Lone Star State" Texas perform deafening hymns of the hardest pace, which burn with adrenaline so that they set radios on fire and inspire the audience to passionately sing along. After the first few seconds of the album's first single, "By the Blood", it is clear that Hellelujah is the most aggressive and ambitious Drowning Pool album since Sinner, the platinum record that gave the world the top 20 rock radio hit " Tear Away ”and that brought extremely successful“ Bodies ”.
Snottier and more unruly than Drowning Pools Hellelujah hit "We Are the Devil", "Goddamn Vultures" or "Push" is not possible: pioneering, modern rock anthems with classic elements - brutal grooves and energetic melodies that never weaken. CJ Pierce's guitar work is devastatingly precise, yet extremely diverse in terms of dynamism. He always stays perfectly in sync with the thunderous rhythms of his two co-founders Stevie Benton on bass and Mike Luce on drums, while Jasen Moreno turns poison and gall into hooks with his vocals.
Drowning Pool have rocked the stage with the absolute who's who, but also with the most exciting newcomers in the genre, including Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe, Papa Roach, System Of A Down, Kiss, Korn, Sevendust, Seether, Hellyeah, POD, Five Finger Death Punch and Black Label Society, and played alongside Metallica, Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson at Ozzfest.
The last three Drowning Pool albums all landed in the top 5 of the Billboard Hard Rock Charts, cementing the legacy for which they paid homage to their legendary platinum debut, Sinner, to which the band paid homage to the 13th anniversary with a special edition and a tour who laid the foundation stone. Thanks to his considerable tube, Moreno was quickly able to own the extensive band catalog when he fronted Drowning Pool in 2012 - from his awesome rendition of the mosh-inviting lyrics of the late Dave Williams in their biggest and ubiquitous hit "Bodies" to his own powerful versions of top 5 rock hits like “Step Up” from Desensitized (2004), “37 Stitches” from Full Circle (2007) and “Feel Like I Do” from their self-titled album (2010). As Revolver Magazine noted in an extensive review of Resilience (2013), "Drowning Pool continue to release one killer album after another with a distinctive sound."
Hellelujah (2016) is unfiltered and uncompromising. It shows a band that, thanks to the tireless support of their fans, can say, play and do what they want. The result of the loyalty, determination and passion that bind them together is what Moreno describes as a “bad attitude record”, an album that never shrinks from an intelligent confrontation. No one could have captured the mix of metal origins, catchy choruses and riffs as well as ruthlessly aggressive lyrics better than producer Jason Suecof (All That Remains, Trivium, Demon Hunter).
Drowning Pool's songs conjure up emotions that are especially familiar to those who defy all odds and give everything to survive - be it a soldier on a foreign assignment or a working-class family who is somehow trying to make ends meet.
Her music doesn't care about races, classes or lifestyles and appeals to people of all walks of life who seek support from music in difficult times. With their Texas engaging, sociable and charismatic manner, the band rose to platinum in a flash in the early 2000s and a place in the hard rock Olympus alongside contemporaries like Disturbed, Godsmack and Slipknot. They have toured with Ozzy Osbourne and regularly give concerts for US troops, for whom they travel to the war zones in the Middle East and to the bases in Southeast Asia. With then Senator Barack Obama, they personally spoke out in favor of the Lane Evans Health Act, a law to improve health care for veterans.
Massive walls of sound that blow your mind, spiced with the dark melodies of post-grunge are still the trademark of Drowning Pool. In their music they celebrate the joys and sorrows of life without compromise and skilfully navigate their way through defiant resistance slogans. No epoch in the band's history is left out on stage when the band performs a whole arsenal of hymns, all of which are performed with precision and power. The songs on Hellelujah (in which all four band members contributed more than ever before) are bursting with the power of everything that has existed so far and a renewed greed for everything that may come. Drowning Pool pay homage to the past without ever losing sight of the present and thus steer towards a bright artistic future.