JUDAS PRIEST:DROWNING POOL Hopes To Release New Full-Length Album In 2025

In a new interview with Radioactive MikeZ, host of the 96.7 KCAL-FM program “Wired In The Empire”, founding DROWNING POOL guitarist C.J. Pierce spoke about the band’s new single, “Revolution (The Final Amen)”. The track was made available late last month via SBG Records. It marks the first piece of music Pierce and his longtime bandmates — drummer Mike Luce and bassist Stevie Benton — have completed with singer Ryan McCombs in 13 years. Asked if DROWNING POOL began working on new music right away after McCombs rejoined the group in early 2023, Pierce said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “He came in and we started writing stuff before we even talked about the first show, man. We sat out here. I have a big gazebo in my backyard, and I have the house set up… My house looks like Guitar Center out there, man. It’s a home studio, if you will, and it’s just a place of creativity, man. We just started working on stuff. There was one or two riffs and songs that we had worked on that we touched on that we were working on right before we took the hiatus, which is pretty cool. I’d like to finish those. But we’ve been through so much the last 13 years, so we have a lot of things to share and write about, especially what’s going on nowadays. So we’re that kind of band that writes what you feel at the time. So a lot of ideas on the plate.’

Regarding DROWNING POOL‘s plans to release a new full-length album, C.J. said: “We plan on finish up a couple more tracks in the next two weeks before we go out on this next tour. And then we have a little bit of break at the end of the year, and I wanna get back in there and try to finish up some more songs. So we do plan on putting out a record here at some point next year, and then leading into the 25th anniversary of [DROWNING POOL‘s debut album] ‘Sinner’ the year after that [in 2026], man. It’s pretty wild. We have a lot of stuff coming up.”

Asked if “Revolution (The Final Amen)” was the first new song he and McCombs worked on, Pierce said: “It’s the first thing that came up right away, man. I started jamming that riff literally out on my gazebo, and then Ryan started singing along to it. And then we went in the room, just rehearsing for the shows that were coming up with Ryan, and we just started jamming that riff like we do, man. We get a lot of stuff done. We’re still an organic band. We love to get in that rehearsal room and just hash it out together. Sometimes I’ll come up with ideas here at my house or Steve will come up ideas at his house, and once we bring them all together in a room, it really makes it a DROWNING POOL song. But that song, we spent a lot of time on it as well because we wanna come out with every song that sounds strong. We didn’t wanna just, ‘Oh, Ryan‘s back,’ and just shit out some song, man. We mean what we said. We put a lot of time and effort into our art and what we wanna say with the song, and I’m glad that we did that. It took a little longer just because we started touring so much… So it was just us getting into the studio to get it down. And here it is, man. Finally.”