Drowning Pool & Saliva in Houston

Drowning Pool is an American metal band formed in Dallas in 1996. Their debut album, Sinner, introduced the signature song “Bodies” alongside “Tear Away”; later records produced tracks including “Step Up” and “37 Stitches.” Drowning Pool joined Disturbed’s first Music as a Weapon tour in 2001 and performed on Ozzfest that summer. In March 2002, the band played “Tear Away” and Triple H’s entrance theme “The Game” at WrestleMania X8 in Toronto’s SkyDome.

Saliva is an American hard-rock band formed in Memphis in 1996. Its mix of hard rock, nu metal and rap metal became widely known through the album Every Six Seconds and the songs “Click Click Boom” and “Your Disease”; “Always,” from Back into Your System, is another signature track. Saliva played the main stage at Ozzfest in 2001 during the touring cycle for Every Six Seconds. In 2003, the band joined Aerosmith and Kiss for dates on the Rocksimus Maximus Tour.