Bringing The Revolution To Australia With RYAN McCOMBS From DROWNING POOL

Interview by Kris Peters
When CKY pulled out of the Australian leg of their Australian tour
with Alien Ant Farm towards the end of last year the collective
sighs from around the country could be heard far and wide, but when
Drowning Pool were named as their replacements those sighs turned
into boisterous cheers, especially when coupled with the recent
news that Ryan McCombs had rejoined the band.
Their fresh single Revolution emphatically proved this was more
than a nostalgic reunion run of shows, with McCombs - in fact the
whole band - sounding as ferocious and uncompromising as
ever.
For some the wait would seem like forever, and for those forever
has finally come with Drowning Pool set to join Alien Ant Farm and
Frankenbok for a series of co-headline shows kicking off in
Brisbane on February 7.
HEAVY spent some time with McCombs not long before he flew out to
join the rest of the band. One of the questions we asked related to
the fact lots of people will be coming out to see the show because
of one song - Bodies - but Drowning Pool are far from a one trick
pony.
"The song Revolution came out recently, (and) you've also got Step
Up from the Jason Jones era…" he measured. "The cool thing about
this band is it's very easy to separate the band into four
different eras. You can easily do that with Dave Williams, Jason
Jones, myself and Jason Morano, it's very easy to separate that.
You'll see… live-wise you'll see every flavor of the band through
those years because I think it's very important to always keep in
mind as a member of Drowning Pool that not only are we blessed and
lucky that people have kept us around this long, but you have to
have the realization and the reality of the fact that some people
out there… some people are old school, man. They were into the band
from dave Williams on. Some people maybe they didn't get introduced
to Drowning Pool until Desentsitized and Step Up and Hate, maybe
some of those songs were their favourite tracks. Maybe my era with
Feel Like I do or Enemy or one of those songs, maybe that's their
era. Or maybe some of the stuff with Jason Marano like Finger &
A Fist, or Redlight, maybe that's their flavor. So as a member of
the band you've gotta keep in mind that there's people out there in
the crowd who may be a fan of any one of those eras that may be
their favourite so you wanna incorporate pieces and parts of all
those times into the live show so everybody walks away and they
heard a track from their album. It's not only awesome to be kept
around this long, but it's awesome to have a discography like
Drowning Pool has that you're able to pull from such a vast variety
of music to make a killer set. Or what you hope is a killer set
(laughs)."
In the full interview, Ryan shared what we can expect from Drowning
Pool's shows, their relationship with Alien Ant Farm, rejoining the
band and how it came about, his first show back and how it felt,
new single Revolution, future new music and what to expect and
more.
ALIEN ANT FARM and DROWNING POOL February 2025 Australian Tour
Dates:
Friday, February 7 - BRISBANE, Princess Theatre
Saturday, February 8 - SYDNEY, Metro Theatre
Sunday, February 9 - MELBOURNE, Northcote Theatre
Tuesday, February 11 - ADELAIDE, Lion Arts Factory
Wednesday, February 12 - PERTH, Magnet House
Tix: www.thephoenix.au


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