Down – the band that includes guitarists Kirk Windstein (Crowbar, Eye Am) and fellow guitarist Pepper Keenan (Corrosion Of Conformity), vocalist Phil Anselmo (Pantera), bassist Patrick Bruders (Saint Vitus, ex-Crowbar), and drummer Jimmy Bower (Eyehategod) – will play their first present since 2022 on the Inn of the Mountain Gods Resort And On line casino in Mescalero, NM.
Along with Down‘s return to the stage, the band has additionally been engaged on their first new materials in a decade. In response to Windstein in a latest interview with Concrete Spew, new Down is beginning to sound lots like previous Down – particularly their 1995 debut album NOLA. Windstein later mentions that he hasn’t heard something Anselmo has been engaged on by way of vocals, however that there are seven songs within the works.
“It simply feels like Down,” mentioned Windstein. “I imply, it sounds refreshing as a result of we have not completed it in so lengthy, gotten along with me and the fellows and completed it in — fuck — 12 years or one thing. So it feels like Down, I believe, to me, it sounds extra old-school Down. And the explanation I say that’s I believe we acquired to some extent the place… Like, the NOLA document is so easy, and it simply wrote itself; it was so easy. And that is how that is coming about, which is nice.
“We’re not overthinking it. We’re not attempting to make issues too complicated. Phillip‘s not attempting to write down so many lyrics and issues. We simply sort of acquired away — I hate to say ‘acquired away’, ‘trigger something we do is Down, however, to me, we sort of acquired a bit of bit… We wanted to return and take a look at one another and simply go, ‘Let’s simply get in a room and do it like we did from the start.’ And that is what it feels wish to me. It’s totally magical. The concepts and the working collectively, simply bounce off of each other, it is a pure factor.”
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 Below in 2007 – earlier than dropping two EPs beneath the collective Down IV moniker in 2012 and 2014.
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