Imagine, you’re playing in a band in Dallas, Texas, have no record deal, yet solely on the power of you’re demo and live show, you get to tour with bands like Sevendust, Kittie and Hed(PE). Suddenly you’re demo hits the top ten in the charts of most played music on the biggest regional radio station, and before you know it, you in the studio recording you’re debut with Jay Baumgardner (Papa Roach, Orgy, Coal Chamber), and landed a spot on the Ozzfest-bill, second stage. Starting the tour, you built up more and more fans, and you’re album sales are going through the roof (platinum in six weeks!), causing you to be constantly rescheduled to better spots on the Ozz-bill, so in the end you’re actually the opening act on the main stage.
Impossible, you say? Not when you’re in a band called Drowning Pool! These Texas metal heads have just released their debut ‘Sinner’ in Europe, hoping to continue their Stateside success over here.

Well, listening to the album I think they might just succeed in this. Powerful, heavy, yet melodic music, that has enough diversity to keep interesting, and at the same time gets stuck in your head after only a couple of spins. The vocals by Dave Williams are like a pounding sledgehammer at one moment, and like a slicing stiletto the next. He reminds me a lot of Coal Chambers Dez Fafara, but with a bit more diversity. Musically Disturbed comes to mind. However, DP has enough to offer themselves, so simply comparing them to other great bands will do them short.
So go get their album, and when the band comes over to Holland for the first Ozzfest on the European mainland, make sure you go utterly insane when they play ‘Bodies’, the anthem for every metal maniac on this little planet!

‘Let the bodies hit the floor!!’