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Drowning Pool - Full Circle
- “Full Circle,” from Drowning Pool, is the band’s third album but their first with Eleven Seven Music. With this record, they have undergone a change with the addition of a new lead vocalist in Ryan McCombs. He joins C.J. Pierce on guitar, Stevie Benton on bass and Mike Luce on drums. Altogether, this Texas heavy metal band shrieks their emotions, but not in a way that will dissuade listeners.
The title track begins the album with a frustrated bang as the vocalist literally screams the message that his love affair is over and he thinks his woman should make some vital modifications. “Feeling empty…Make a deal…Time is now…You think it’s over…You think it’s over. It’s time you rock the boat girl.” If listeners can get past the yelling, they will hear precise guitar work that is utterly exceptional.
On “Enemy” there is quick guitar work in the intro, which will catch listeners’ attention promptly. Then stomping drum play makes this song one that could be the theme song for the ruthless killer in the Rob Zombie remake of the horror classic “Halloween.” The vocalist belts out his piercing emotions with such lyrics as, “The word you used were mine. You used a thousand times…I hated you. I loathe you…Made me sick.”
With “Paralyzed” the tone of the album is altered totally as the guitar work snakes into listeners’ subconscious with its slow rhythm. Distant dew drops can be heard in the intro as the vocalist talks about feeling cold and lifeless now that his beloved has discarded him. “I can feel the raindrops runnin’ down my back. The words you used to ruin me. You ruined me and I remember the rain in my eyes the day you turned and ran away. You ruined me and I been paralyzed. You leave me broken.” It seems he is irate at the turn of events that have left him sterile of emotion now that his girl left him. This is a perfect song to play after an excruciating breakup.
Drowning Pool’s “Full Circle” has songs that sculpt every emotion, from love to hate and back again. In the true heavy metal formality, the band can squeal at times, but the superb instrumentation and introspective lyrics will overpower the roar and make this an album worth listening to even if you are not a heavy metal music enthusiast.
Reviewer: Sari N. Kent
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Reviewer's Rating: 9.5
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Added: 2-Sep-2007
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