Drowning Pool
Resilience
Eleven Seven Music
2013
I don’t think that Drowning Pool need much of an introduction. Most of us have heard about them thanks to their 2001 single “Bodies” from the album “Sinner”. 12 years after that and with Jasen Moreno joining the band as lead vocalist, it was time for them to release their new album entitled “Resilience”. Once again, they stay true to the alternative metal and post-grunge style of music they’ve been playing with great success all those years.
The first three songs (“Anytime Anyplace”, “Die for Nothing” and “One Finger and a Fist”) are only there to show the world how bad-ass Drowning Pool really are. I am truly sorry, but there is no way that I can take two songs about how they beat up anyone that has the nerve to challenge them and a song to which the chorus is a direct quote from the movie “John Rambo” seriously. Anyway, once the “look at how big my balls are” songs are out of the way Drowning Pool seem to focus more on the music and less on their image. They start experimenting a little more with their sound giving us some really good songs, like the fun-loving “Saturday Night”, the progressive rock structured “Broken Again” and my personal favorite, the hyper-ballad “Bleed With You”. In this album, Drowning Pool seem to explore a more complicated sound than in their previous releases and they do a decent job.
All in all, this album is exactly what Drowning Pool fans would expect from the band. Angry, aggressive and gritty songs. So I’m sure that “Resilience” will be a big commercial hit for Drowning Pool (as it rightly should because it’s a good contemporary album), but I’m not that sure that it will be that resilient to the test of time.
The first three songs (“Anytime Anyplace”, “Die for Nothing” and “One Finger and a Fist”) are only there to show the world how bad-ass Drowning Pool really are. I am truly sorry, but there is no way that I can take two songs about how they beat up anyone that has the nerve to challenge them and a song to which the chorus is a direct quote from the movie “John Rambo” seriously. Anyway, once the “look at how big my balls are” songs are out of the way Drowning Pool seem to focus more on the music and less on their image. They start experimenting a little more with their sound giving us some really good songs, like the fun-loving “Saturday Night”, the progressive rock structured “Broken Again” and my personal favorite, the hyper-ballad “Bleed With You”. In this album, Drowning Pool seem to explore a more complicated sound than in their previous releases and they do a decent job.
All in all, this album is exactly what Drowning Pool fans would expect from the band. Angry, aggressive and gritty songs. So I’m sure that “Resilience” will be a big commercial hit for Drowning Pool (as it rightly should because it’s a good contemporary album), but I’m not that sure that it will be that resilient to the test of time.