When a band rocks as hard as Drowning Pool, when the music demands to be heard at maximum volume, and when the energy level surpasses the word intense, there’s only so much that a recording studio can capture. The solution: release a live album, the aptly titled Loudest Common Denominator, a limited edition treat for the loyal and growing fan base culled from time on the road and the radio.
“Nothing will ever compare to, or get into the groove of, a live show when we’re in the studio,” says Drowning Pool drummer Mike Luce. “Sweating in the clubs, traveling in a van or bus six to twelve hours to make it to load-in, that’s where it all comes from. That, and the interaction with the crowd when we’re onstage.”
It’s all there on Loudest Common Denominator, as Luce, vocalist Ryan McCombs, guitarist C.J. Pierce and bassist Stevie Benton give their all. “It’s not 45 minutes or an hour deadlocked without deviating,” says the drummer about Drowning Pool in concert. “Some bands are in that world, but this is live — the camaraderie between us, involving the crowd, the impromptu breakdowns in the songs and winging it on the fly. We don’t just run through the songs and get the hell out. We live for that hour onstage and that’s why we take it so personally. You can’t capture that in the studio.”
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wrote on July 6:
drowning pool ROCKS!!! I'm not a huge metal fan but these guys are awsome!!!