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 just 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 types 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’ve got plenty of stuff within the works and plenty of issues that we’re working in direction of now, issues that we’re nonetheless placing collectively — plenty of wonderful concepts. We wanna do all the pieces and something, at the start [as a] hats off to Dave Williams, who was part of the making of the ‘Sinner‘ document and form of the muse of our sound that you already know with ‘Our bodies‘. So, we have now plenty of stuff, man.
I went to storage once I had a while off, cleaned out some stuff, and I’ve plenty of music and cassette tapes and stuff we did that we didn’t end. We’ve got plenty 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 may 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 have now songs, a couple of of them that we want to end. There’s songs that we haven’t performed dwell. I don’t suppose 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 means of all the pieces but, however I discovered plenty of video and plenty of music that we simply by no means acquired round to placing out but. We have 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 items on it. We’re simply form of narrowing it all the way down to what we wanna placed on it. I wanna put all the pieces out, particularly the video. I had a lot video again then. The Hi8 cameras got here out. And we did plenty of stuff regionally — proper earlier than we acquired signed, we did some touring. Truly, with(hed)p.e. — we acquired to open up for them right here regionally. Identical factor with Sevendust. And with Kittie — [I] love Kittie, love that band. And so I’ve plenty 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 plenty of stuff that we have now 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 nicely. So I wanna get all that out, have a giant bundle with that. However the enjoyable, thrilling stuff is only a handful of songs that I feel we might in all probability both simply clear off, maintain 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 form of polish it up. I’m cool both approach. We did a handful of canopy songs too.
We did ‘Day Tripper‘ from The Beatles, and I’ve that as nicely recorded that no person’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 can be somewhat completely different. I feel a few of that may be on the market, among the outdated demo variations, but when not, I nonetheless have these. Simply stuff for the hardcore followers, man.
We’ve got 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 have now a bunch of posters which can be nonetheless signed and among the older CDs and stuff too, man.”
