Drowning Pool’s 2001 debut CD, “Sinner”, featured Dave Williams, who died in 2002 of heart failure, just a day after performing at Ozzfest. The band’s music has appeared in films like “Saw III”, “The Punisher”, and “The One”, starring Jet Li. Drowning Pool stopped by the VOA studios to introduce its new lead vocalist and talk about its latest tour. VOA’s Larry London sat down with the band. Downing Pool’s latest CD cover It took only six months for “Sinner” to sell a million copies in the U.S.

Drowning Pool is back with its third CD, “Full Circle.” The album features new lead singer Ryan McCombs, formerly of Soil. “The band was based around a family feel. When Davy (Williams) was part of the band, it was that family, that cohesiveness of a family. I have heard the guys say it, so hopefully I’m not stepping on anybody’s toes. We feel like that family feel is back again. We were just a bunch of brothers out there having a good time.

Now we are actually able to have a good time for a good cause,” said McCombs. Drowning Pool in a VOA studio Drowning Pool’s current tour is called “This Is For The Soldiers.” From every ticket sold, 50 cents goes to the United Service Organization or U.S.O., a non-profit corporation that provides welfare and recreation activities for U.S. servicemen and servicewomen, and 50 cents goes to the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America to help them re-acclimate to life after war.

Todd Bowers, of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, tells us, “It allows us to build up our database to let all Iraq and Afghanistan veterans know to join us … to basically push forward. We are the first and the largest Iraq and Afghanistan veterans’ organization. We are the ones here on Capitol Hill with groups like Drowning Pool trying to implement change. We are not here to give you a membership card or a cool DVD or anything.