DOWN (PANTERA, CROWBAR, And many others.) Broadcasts First Present Since 2022

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 accordance with Windstein in a current interview with Concrete Spew, new Down is beginning to sound quite a bit 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 appears like Down,” mentioned Windstein. “I imply, it sounds refreshing as a result of we have not carried out it in so lengthy, gotten along with me and the fellows and carried out it in — fuck — 12 years or one thing. So it appears like Down, I believe, to me, it sounds extra old-school Down. And the rationale I say that’s I believe we bought to a degree the place… Like, the NOLA report 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 making an attempt to make issues too advanced. Phillip‘s not making an attempt to write down so many lyrics and issues. We simply type of bought away — I hate to say ‘bought away’, ‘trigger something we do is Down, however, to me, we type of bought somewhat bit… We would have liked 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 prefer to me. It is very 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 Beneath in 2007 – earlier than dropping two EPs underneath the collective Down IV moniker in 2012 and 2014.