Metal Anarchy

During a recent interview with Harley Roxx, Drowning Pool guitarist C.J. Pierce discussed the new material that the band have been working on as of late. According to him, the music has a “very, very ‘Sinner’ foundation to it.”

Pierce said the following:

“I do electrical work on the side when I’m not touring, because we spent a very long, good, awesome 20 years of being able to get by and pay the bills playing music, which is not easy to do anyway because it’s the music business and it’s horrible… So yeah, I do electrical work, and it’s great to separate my mind. It has its own art and its own thing to it. And I love all the dudes I work with.

Mike and I, when we moved to Dallas and we were doing electrical work and listening to like late ’90s music, and that’s some of the influence that I had during the writing process of the ‘Sinner’ record. And now here I am doing electrical work again, and the dudes I work with, they like to listen to late ’90s kind of stuff, so I’m in the exact same mindframe I was in. And then Ryan’s staying in my house, in my studio and writing songs. So the stuff that’s coming out now naturally has very, very ‘Sinner’ foundation to it. I know I’ve said that before in the past, but this time around, I’m not trying to write a ‘Bodies Part 2’ or ‘Tear Away Part 2’, but it’s just coming out like that. So we have these new ideas that [sound like that], but with Ryan included on it. So it’s, it’s been a cool mix. The new stuff, the little bit that we played for the people that are around us that have seen it or heard it, the reaction has been really, really cool. You can tell — they’re, like, ‘Oh my God.’ So I’m excited about it.”

He continued:

“I’m just being honest with you. I’m not trying to pump myself up. You never know what people are gonna expect. And you play a little bit and you just see their eyes light up like they do when they hear ‘Bodies’. So I’m, like, ‘All right, we’re on to something good.’ So I can’t wait to get new stuff out.”

He also added:

“We wanna get new music out before the SALIVA tour in a few weeks. I just don’t know if we have time to actually record it then, but before the end of the year, for sure — get some new stuff out with Ryan.”

[via Blabbermouth]