DOWN Is Getting Serious About Writing New Material

Seems like Down‘s first new music since their 2014 EP Down IV – Half 2 is definitely taking place, for actual this time. Down guitarist Kirk Windstein initially took to social media a number of weeks in the past to notice that the band was working on new music together, however now drummer Jimmy Bower has adopted as much as reveal that Down has been working at Phil Anselmo‘s Nodferatu’s Lair studio for the previous few days.

For these unaware, Down is Windstein (Crowbar, Eye Am) and fellow guitarist Pepper Keenan (Corrosion Of Conformity), Anselmo (Pantera), bassist Patrick Bruders (Saint Vitus, ex-Crowbar), and Bower (Eyehategod). Down launched three very influential albums between 1995 and 2007 – NOLA in 1995, Down II: A Bustle in Your Hedgerow… in 2002, and Down III: Over the Beneath in 2007 – earlier than dropping two EPs underneath the collective Down IV moniker in 2012 and 2014.

No timetable is ready for the discharge of Down, however hey – any new music from the stoner supergroup at this level is extraordinarily welcome.

In a latest interview with Scott Penfold of Loaded Radio earlier in October, Windstein expressed his hopes that the band may launch an EP of six new songs in 2024.

“We talked about doing like a cover-song EP. However we threw round like 100 songs and we won’t choose and select any of them. So, to me, it is simpler to simply go, ‘Hey, guys, let’s get within the fucking room and simply write some shit.’ Come out with six songs and do an EP. So I hope that that is what occurs.”

“To be sincere, I do not know,” he added. “And this isn’t from Phil or Rex or something. They will do the Pantera factor ceaselessly. Like so far as festivals in South America, Europe and whatnot, they’ll — they’ll at all times go do a weekend or two in the summertime right here and there between Zakk and Charlie‘s schedules… no matter they’re as much as with their respective bands. So I hope that they do. I hope they do it ceaselessly.”