  
Drowning Pool have had the world’s worst
luck when it comes to holding onto a front man;
original singer Dave Williams tragically passing
away from undiagnosed cardiomyopathy in 2002 on
the bands tour bus, replacement singer Jason Jones
leaving with the explanation reading that he and
the band had “irreconcilable differences”,
third singer and longest standing vocalist to
date original SOiL vocalist Ryan McCombs who did
2 albums with the band (the most any of the predeceasing
front men did) left in 2011 to rejoin SOiL after
in what I think was a bit of a letdown in the
bands self titled album. Now we have Jasen Moreno
from the band The Suicide Hook taking over now
but whereas McCombs was already a well established
singer in his own right I’ve never heard
of this new lad or his band so there is the element
of complete surprise as to what we can expect
from the style of this new record, or whether
this one will stick around for long or not.
Now the thing that I notice the most is that they
are still pushing their more southern rock style
as opposed to their original extremely popular
dark metal material but not only that they’ve
took the musical styling of “Desensitised”
and mixed it with the type of structure of song
and some similar sounds to Papa Roach (“One
Finger and a Fist” is where I first got
that comparative reference from because that really
does sound just like something I would expect
from Papa Roach) it’s very good stuff I
must say but whether the fans that have stood
by them for a long time may be disappointed with
it due to the sheer difference from all their
other albums, I don’t think their last album
did as well as the rest have done.
So all in all there is hope for the band yet as
they have a strong line up – not as strong
as previous ones but not the weakest either –
it’s just all dependent on how long this
vocalist sticks around for long enough so that
the band can re-climb through the ranks to get
back the high selling metal machine they once
were, I say re-climb but as this material is good
and makes for an interesting listen it is not
the same high quality sound that they possessed
once upon a time, so they still may never get
back to that same point.
3.5/5
Review by James Webb
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