Drowning Pool intend to mark the twenty fifth anniversary of their platinum-selling debut album “Sinner” subsequent yr. Whereas that album racked up its platinum standing in 2001 simply months after its launch, its hit single “Our bodies” wasn’t licensed platinum till January of 2019.
Talking lately with My Weekly Mixtape, the Texan nü-metal band’s guitarist C.J. Pierce revealed he has already begun combing the vaults for bonus content material for that reissue as a part of a broader initiative of kinds supposed to pay tribute to the group’s late frontman Dave Williams. The latter handed away whereas on tour again in 2002 from an undiagnosed coronary heart situation.
Pierce said of the band’s plans in the intervening time:
“We have now loads of stuff within the works and loads of issues that we’re working in direction of now, issues that we’re nonetheless placing collectively — loads of wonderful concepts. We wanna do all the things and something, at the beginning [as a] hats off to Dave Williams, who was part of the making of the ‘Sinner‘ document and type of the inspiration of our sound that you already know with ‘Our bodies‘. So, we’ve got loads of stuff, man.
I went to storage after I had a while off, cleaned out some stuff, and I’ve loads of music and cassette tapes and stuff we did that we didn’t end. We have now loads of songs with Dave that simply weren’t recorded professionally, if you’ll. So, we’ve been talks about possibly getting a few of these songs to place ’em on the market, ’trigger you will get his voice off the cassette tape now with all this cool, enjoyable know-how — nonetheless his voice, not this A.I. stuff.
However we’ve got songs, a couple of of them that we want to end. There’s songs that we haven’t performed stay. I don’t assume we performed ‘The Sport‘. ‘Break You‘ is one other one which we did. So all issues Dave Williams, man. We wanna make the present all about that. And once more, it’s simply enjoyable. I haven’t gone by way of all the things but, however I discovered loads of video and loads of music that we simply by no means obtained round to placing out but. We had been in tremendous writing mode earlier than we even did the ‘Sinner‘ document.”
As for the twenty fifth anniversary deluxe version of “Sinner“, Pierce shared:
“There’s positively gonna be that, with all these things on it. We’re simply type of narrowing it all the way down to what we wanna placed on it. I wanna put all the things out, particularly the video. I had a lot video again then. The Hi8 cameras got here out. And we did loads of stuff domestically — proper earlier than we obtained signed, we did some touring. Truly, with(hed)p.e. — we obtained to open up for them right here domestically. Identical factor with Sevendust. And with Kittie — [I] love Kittie, love that band. And so I’ve loads of stuff, so long as they’re cool with it, simply to get it on the market, simply us uncooked, all that stuff. Type of pre-‘Sinner‘ days, if you’ll, on the native scene…
So, yeah, there’s loads of stuff that we’ve got to place on the market… There’s positively video that I’ve that we haven’t launched, and [drummer] Mike [Luce] and [bassist] Stevie [Benton] as effectively. So I wanna get all that out, have an enormous package deal with that. However the enjoyable, thrilling stuff is only a handful of songs that I believe we may in all probability both simply clear off, preserve it how it’s on a cassette tape, or we will — us three, Mike, Stevie and myself — can redo the music and put the vocal on prime to type of polish it up. I’m cool both manner. We did a handful of canopy songs too.
We did ‘Day Tripper‘ from The Beatles, and I’ve that as effectively recorded that no one’s ever heard. That was enjoyable simply listening to Dave do it… I forgot we even did it till I heard the tape. And there’s additionally earlier variations of ‘Our bodies‘ and ‘Tear Away‘ which might be somewhat completely different. I believe a few of that is perhaps on the market, a few of the previous demo variations, but when not, I nonetheless have these. Simply stuff for the hardcore followers, man.
We have now stuff that’s nonetheless signed from Dave Williams in storage, a handful of issues. It’s gonna sit in storage and gather mud, man. I’d prefer to get that out to the hardcore followers. So we’ve got a bunch of posters which might be nonetheless signed and a few of the older CDs and stuff too, man.”
