For those unaware, Drowning Pool have long been hailed as champions of blue-collar hard rock and metal, not just because of their consistently incendiary live shows and vastly impressive catalog, but because of the trials and tribulations that have marked their career.

They aren’t unique in that regard. What they are is resilient, their everyman, working-class ethos and stubborn perseverance creating a bond few bands ever realize.

Drowning Pool’s seventh album, Strike A Nerve, will be released via T-Boy Records and UMe on September 30th, 2022. With over 1 billion streams and over 1 million in album sales, the alternative metal band delivers a headbanging, whiplash-causing collection of songs, two of which ("Strike A Nerve," "Hate Against Hate") have been served up to fans on recent live dates with a massive positive response.

Side A:
1. Doing Time in Hell
2. Hate Against Hate
3. Stay and Bleed
4. Strike a Nerve
5. Racing to a Red Light
6. Choke

This genuinely pulsating new album opens on the melodic Doing Time in Hell and the heavy, yet canorous Hate Against Hate and follows those up with the thunderous Stay and Bleed, the rhythmically excellent titular Strike a Nerve, and then the first side rounds out with the foot-pounding Racing to a Red Light and the free flowing Choke.

Side B:
7. Everything But You
8. Down in the Dirt
9. Rope
10. A Devil More Damned
11. Mind Right

Next up is their rock balladry in the form of Everything But You and that is itself backed seamlessly by the dark metal of Down in the Dirt, and then comes the cavernous Rope, the album coming to a close on the nu metal-imbibed A Devil More Damned and a drum-led, alt-metal dive into Mind Right.

Their heaviest record to date, Strike A Nerve was inspired by wearing life’s battle scars on their sleeves. Those bumps and bruises got magnified during the worldwide COVID lockdowns; lockdowns that started mere months after Drowning Pool completed recording, mixing and mastering Strike A Nerve, an 11-song tour-de-force through the torn and battered psyche of a band.

Written and recorded before the pandemic that halted the world in its tracks for more than two years, Strike A Nerve became more poignant with its time on the shelf.

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