In a brand new interview with Australia’s Jaimunji, DROWNING POOL singer Ryan McCombs was requested if there’s extra new music on the way in which, following the discharge of the band’s newest single, “Revolution (The Last Amen)”, in September. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “We launched ‘Revolution (The Last Amen)’, we launched that as a result of it was the primary music that got here collectively within the studio. And once I say got here collectively, I imply, completed.
“The demand for the band has been so nice, fortunately, that we have been so busy fulfilling reside appearances after which excursions and every thing that we have gotten so little time to truly file. At one level, on the final U.S. run we did, we really flew our producer out and he spent, like, 4 or 5 days on the street with us, simply so we might attempt to make some ahead progress with a few of these songs that we have got, as a result of we have had so little time outdoors of touring to truly… The little time that we have gotten, I wanna go house and sleep in my very own mattress for a day or two. So we have had such little time to truly get any recording completed that we have got a lot materials.”
Referencing the truth that “Revolution (The Last Amen)” marks the primary music he and DROWNING POOL guitarist C.J. Pierce, drummer Mike Luce and bassist Stevie Benton have labored on in 13 years, Ryan stated: “Alaina, C.J.‘s spouse, really stated to me shortly after us getting again collectively, she was, like, ‘Thanks a lot.’ She goes, ‘You guys getting again collectively, it is simply, like,’ she goes, ‘I received my husband again.’ She goes, ‘As , C.J., a lot of his existence is music,’ and she or he goes, ‘I do not know the final time I noticed him decide up his guitar.’ And this can be a man that all the time had a guitar in his hand doodling again within the day. And he or she goes, ‘Because you guys have gotten again collectively, he is simply strolling round the home along with his guitar on once more. He is up at three o’clock within the morning, writing music.’ She goes, ‘It is like I’ve received my husband again once more.’ And that is the way in which we have all been. We have all simply been on hearth. And the fabric is a good reflection of that.”
Outlining DROWNING POOL‘s plans to finish a few of its new materials, McCombs stated: “We have got some exhibits developing right here in Texas in December, and I am staying for a number of days afterwards to get some extra recordings completed. ‘Trigger the plan is true now, we’re gonna launch one other single or two between now and thru [our tour of] Australia [in February 2025] and earlier than the GODSMACK dates that we’ve with P.O.D. in Europe and in London [in late March and early April 2025]. However then, so, yeah, the plan is to launch a few extra singles in between from time to time, after which we’ll have a an album or an EP — relying on how a lot recording time we get — we’ll have an album or an EP prepared for launch in 2025.”
Earlier this month, McCombs was requested by Loud & Unfiltered if the “Revolution (The Last Amen)” title is a reference to it being DROWNING POOL‘s “final hurrah”. Ryan responded: “I want I’d have had the foresight to see what that will have learn, how individuals would have learn into that, since you’re not the primary [to ask that] and I am positive you will not be the final. No, it is from the band’s ultimate amen, ‘trigger we have a lot materials proper now. As quickly as we received again in… I flew into Dallas two or three days earlier than our first present [back] collectively, and we went straight from the airport to the rehearsal room. And it was, like, there was a bit bit extra white hair within the room, however aside from that … we did not miss a beat, man. It was simply instantaneous. C.J. and I and Stevie and Mike, we simply began writing music, and it simply begin flowing. It was like opening up the floodgates. So we have a lot materials. The issue we’ve proper now could be we do not have the time. We maintain attempting to schedule studio time after which one thing else show-wise comes up. So our producer, really, flew out and was on the street with us for a couple of days on this tour that we’re on now in order that we are able to get some stuff down and have the pre-production out of the way in which in order that as quickly because the tour’s over, I can run to [Las] Vegas and throw some vocals down earlier than we’ve a present in Mexico Metropolis. So in between there, I am going to run to Vegas actual fast and throw vocals. We’re simply attempting to make the most of time, however we simply do not [have] sufficient.”
He continued: “However no, to your query, it is positively not the band’s ultimate amen. I imply, we have an excessive amount of stuff within the works. We have got too many superior alternatives which can be being offered to us for subsequent yr. And we have a variety of plans band-wise for the subsequent couple of years. So we’re positively not going anyplace. And fortunately, we’re not going anyplace as a result of the primary cause we ain’t is as a result of individuals enable us to be round. We’ll keep round so long as individuals are permitting us to. After which fortunately individuals are giving us the time of day and permitting us to do what we like to do. So we’re positively not going anyplace.”
Final month, Pierce advised Radioactive MikeZ, host of the 96.7 KCAL-FM program “Wired In The Empire”, that DROWNING POOL started engaged on new music immediately after McCombs rejoined the group in early 2023: “He got here in and we began writing stuff earlier than we even talked concerning the first present, man,” he stated. “We sat out right here. I’ve a giant gazebo in my yard, and I’ve the home arrange… My home appears like Guitar Heart on the market, man. It is a house studio, if you’ll, and it is only a place of creativity, man. We simply began engaged on stuff. There was one or two riffs and songs that we had labored on that we touched on that we have been engaged on proper earlier than we took the hiatus, which is fairly cool. I would like to complete these. However we have been by way of a lot the final 13 years, so we’ve a variety of issues to share and write about, particularly what is going on on these days. So we’re that sort of band that writes what you’re feeling on the time. So a variety of concepts on the plate.’
Relating to DROWNING POOL‘s plans to launch a brand new full-length album, C.J. stated: “We plan on end up a pair extra tracks within the subsequent two weeks earlier than we exit on this subsequent tour. After which we’ve a bit little bit of break on the finish of the yr, and I wanna get again in there and attempt to end up some extra songs. So we do plan on placing out a file right here in some unspecified time in the future subsequent yr, after which main into the twenty fifth anniversary of [DROWNING POOL‘s debut album] ‘Sinner’ the yr after that [in 2026], man. It is fairly wild. We have now a variety of stuff developing.”
Requested if “Revolution (The Last Amen)” was the primary new music he and McCombs labored on, Pierce stated: “It is the very first thing that got here up immediately, man. I began jamming that riff actually out on my gazebo, after which Ryan began singing alongside to it. After which we went within the room, simply rehearsing for the exhibits that have been developing with Ryan, and we simply began jamming that riff like we do, man. We get a variety of stuff completed. We’re nonetheless an natural band. We like to get in that rehearsal room and simply hash it out collectively. Typically I am going to give you concepts right here at my home or Steve will come up concepts at his home, and as soon as we deliver all of them collectively in a room, it actually makes it a DROWNING POOL music. However that music, we spent a variety of time on it as effectively as a result of we wanna come out with each music that sounds sturdy. We did not wanna simply, ‘Oh, Ryan‘s again,’ and simply shit out some music, man. We imply what we stated. We put a variety of effort and time into our artwork and what we wanna say with the music, and I am glad that we did that. It took a bit longer simply because we began touring a lot… So it was simply us stepping into the studio to get it down. And right here it’s, man. Lastly.”
The “Revolution (The Last Amen)” video was filmed at El Paso, Texas’s Talking Rock Leisure Heart and might be seen under.
In a separate interview with iHeart Radio character Debbie Sexxton, Pierce said about “Revolution (The Last Amen)”: “Yeah, it was nice engaged on the music collectively. It is the primary one with all of us again with Ryan, and we spent a variety of time on it. We began on it, really, starting of final yr. And simply between touring and stuff like that, we weren’t in a position to get it down but. However the entire course of, all of us working collectively, I imply, we actually sat down at a desk and all of us had completely different concepts and each one in all us sort of approached the music differently. After which we got here collectively as a band. It was simply wonderful. That appears like a DROWNING POOL music. That is what we wish it to sound like. It appears like us with Ryan.”
Relating to the lyrical themes coated within the new DROWNING POOL single, Pierce stated: “We spent a variety of time attempting various things out to ensure all of the bases have been coated and we got here throughout with the message lyric-wise too. We had a few completely different rewrites and redrafts simply to ensure the circulate is true to get the purpose throughout. It is extra of a common factor about what is going on on now. We positively want a giant change — not particular to any nation or authorities or faith as a lot as simply as a complete. It is extra [about] planet earth.”
In August, Pierce advised the “Thunder Underground” podcast concerning the musical course of the brand new DROWNING POOL music: “I am so excited, man. It simply got here out naturally. We by no means tried to jot down like a ‘Our bodies Half Two’ or a ‘Tear Away Half Two’. We simply write what we really feel on the time, and the thrill that we had and the power we’ve with Ryan being again within the band, the music positively has that vibe to it. It is in drop C [tuning], and I received a brand new wah pedal within the studio once I was doing the music. So I am wah-pedaling throughout identical to on [DROWNING POOL‘s] ‘Sinner’ file. So it has that old-school vibe to it. The folks that have heard it to this point, that is what they relate it to. It is received that very same kind of power. It is its personal music and entity. However yeah, it is intense, man. It is a banger.”
In July, McCombs was requested by 94 Rocks KFML‘s “The Darkish” rock music program if the sound of the brand new DROWNING POOL materials harkens again to what Ryan did with the band previously, McCombs stated: “It is C.J. It is Stevie. It is Mike. It is myself. We did a few actually — to not toot our personal horn — I feel we did a pair actually good albums again within the day. And we decide up proper the place we left off.
“I feel the best factor about DROWNING POOL is it is very easy with DROWNING POOL to separate issues with the singers, so far as eras go, however there’s all the time been the DROWNING POOL sound,” Ryan continued. “There’s all the time been a sure side of simply the tones and every thing. So it is nonetheless identical to it all the time has been — DROWNING POOL.”
In June, Pierce advised Scott Penfold of Loaded Radio that he and his DROWNING POOL bandmates are as soon as once more working with producer Shawn McGhee. “He has his personal studio,” C.J. defined. “We did the final file with him as effectively. We did [2022’s] ‘Strike A Nerve’ [with him]. And he is only a nice man to work with. He is on the identical web page as us and an amazing pal and an amazing musician and a killer producer and mixer. So, we love working with Shawn. He actually is aware of the right way to seize what we’re attempting to do, man. That is the sort of producer you need. We put him in a driver’s seat and any individual you’ll be able to belief to have that outdoors ear to take what we’ve already and elevate it.”
McCombs performed his first exhibits again with DROWNING POOL in March 2023 at Membership L.A. in Destin, Florida and on the inaugural Throwdown At The Campground competition in Fruitland Park, Florida.
The longtime SOIL frontman, who has lived in Swindon, England since 2018, initially joined DROWNING POOL in 2005 and appeared on two of the band’s studio albums, “Full Circle” (2007) and “Drowning Pool” (2010),in addition to a reside album, 2009’s “Loudest Frequent Denominator”. He rejoined SOIL after exiting DROWNING POOL in 2011.
McCombs is constant to entrance SOIL and can keep on recording and performing with each bands.
DROWNING POOL‘s debut album, “Sinner”, was licensed platinum inside six weeks of its launch in 2001, whereas the CD’s first single, “Our bodies”, was some of the steadily aired movies on MTV by a brand new band. DROWNING POOL reached out to an ever-greater viewers with dynamic performances at Wrestlemania XVIII and Ozzfest through the summers of 2001 and 2002. Sadly, their streak of success was to not final. Shortly after rousing the gang at Ozzfest in Indianapolis, Indiana, on August 3, 2002, vocalist Dave “Stage” Williams was discovered useless of pure causes on the tour bus.
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