Full Circle

Drowning Pool | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 7, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Eleven Seven Music
• ASIN: B000RGSOH8
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (33 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #72,992 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Formed in Dallas Texas in 1996, Drowning Pool broke onto the national scene in 2001 with their debut album Sinner. The record went on to sell over 1 million copies behind the hit single Bodies. The band's second album Desensitized was released on April 20, 2004. The first single, Step Up reached #5 on the Active Rock Charts. Drowning Pool's music has been featured on WWE Wrestlemania, Tony Hawk: Pro Skater 3 and EA Sports: Arena Football. After selling over 300,000 concert tickets worldwide and multiple appearances on the OzzFest tour, the band will be out on the road supporting the new album Full Circle in 2007.

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WOW., August 7, 2007

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Wiseguy 945 (Cedar Rapids, IA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Full Circle (Audio CD)

This is a great album. Yes, since dave died, they have never quite recovered, until now as they are given new life, reborn with the help of soils' former lead singer Ryan Mccombs. Great metal, and power vocals. Its to bad this conglomeration didn't happen earlier, but Soil was solid as well at that time, riding high on the Scars album. Soil and Drowning pool were close, toured the nation together at the time of Dave's death, in fact Ryan and Dave use to sing with eachothers groups periodically. So thank goodness this happened. I can just say its solid from start to finish, can't pick any favorites yet, but full circle and Soldier are awesome. This is a must have for metal fans, just a great power album. This will get your blood flowing. Check it out.

14 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Soil Pool, August 13, 2007

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Sky (New York) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Full Circle (Audio CD)

Full Circle indeed....Soil and Drowning Pool are road buddies at the beginning of this decade; then Dave Williams (Drowning Pool's original, one-of-a-kind singer) tragically passes in 2002. Ryan McCombs writes Remember for Dave Williams and records it with Soil on their awesome 2004 release Redefine Redefine . Jason 'Gong' Jones joins Drowning Pool with a new sound...growling, unlistenable vocals Desensitized . Ryan leaves Soil for "family reasons", and AJ Cavalier joins Soil with a new sound...growling, unlistenable vocals True Self . Jason Jones leaves Drowning Pool in 2004 almost as fast as he joined, and Ryan McCombs joins Drowning Pool in the summer of 2005 almost as fast as he departed ways with Soil. Six years after it all began we have a "Full Circle". Whew!

Full Circle is a good CD. Is Full Circle a classic like Drowning Pool's 2001 debut Sinner Sinner ?...No. Is it as good as Soil's Redefine?...Not even. Is it better than Drowning Pool's Desensitized or Soil's True Self?...Way better than both. Full Circle is just not great...like I wanted it to be.

Full Circle gets off to a very promising start with a couple of really hard rockers. Track 1 (Full Circle) and Track 2 (Enemy--the best track on the CD) are fist pumpin', foot stompers. Track 6 is the radio-played Soldiers, and most reminiscent of the anthem rockers that both Soil and Drowning Pool built their fan base from. And Tracks 10 (No More) and 11 (Love X2) are a couple of good stand out rockers. But as I gave the disk repeat listens, I became a bit less impressed with Full Circle...not many of the other tracks were really "sticking" with me.

The track (Reason I'm Alive) that Nikki Sixx and DJ Ashba The Heroin Diaries contributed to is fair at best, and even the cover of Billy Idol's Rebel Yell doesn't pack the energy that the original Rebel Yell held.

Perhaps I built Full Circle up in my mind too much after two long years of anticipation? Full Circle just doesn't reach out of your player and grab you by the neck like DP's Sinner did and Soil's Redefine did. When band members with two great Hard Rock CDs under their belts team up I expect great (classic) things, but I think that I may have set the bar too high.

What you have with Full Circle is a very talented singer joining three very talented musicians to try to recreate some magic that was made with their respective original brothers. Of course it works sometimes (Iron Maiden, AC/DC...even Van Hagar), but it mostly fails. Full Circle is by far not a failure. It's good stuff. There were just some very big footsteps to follow leading to some very high expectations.

Overall, hard rockers that like clearly sung lyrics and melodic rhythms should give Full Circle a chance.

Final word: I'm surprised that CJ Pierce (guitar), Mike Luce (drums) and Stevie Benton (bass) never changed the name of the band (like Rage Against The Machine did when Zack de la Rocha left and Chris Cornell joined). Let's face it...Dave Williams WAS Drowning Pool. Okay, I can see that Soil Pool would definitely not have worked. But after Dave, you really had a brand new band. The problem with Full Circle is it's not really Drowning Pool. So maybe that's part of my problem; they tell me I bought a Drowning Pool CD...but did I really?

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Welcoming back Drowning Pool, August 8, 2007

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S. Saviola "CrazyNinjaMunky" (LG, Wisconsin) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Full Circle (Audio CD)

I remember the day I heard about Dave passing on a few days after I saw him at Ozzfest and I was truly a bit sad over it. DP was just coming onto the scene and building up a nice fan base around the country, I mean, who didn't love hearing Bodies come on the radio? I was not a huge fan of the desensitized album, however still enjoyed the fact that despite the sub-par vocalist, the musical aspect was still quite good. I'd have to say I hold DP in pretty high regard for the fact that they have weathered the things that have come their way and they are still willing to come out and play music for us. Onto their 3rd vocalist, Ryan McCombs, well what can I say, he is definitely one of the better sounding vocalists of this day and age and his foray with Soil was amazing. So when I heard that he was going to be fronting for DP I was simply elated.

And that elation has come to fruition in Full Circle.
An absolutely amazing 3rd outing from a band who truly has in their own right come Full Circle