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) – is engaged on the follow-up to their 2014 EP Down IV – Half 2, for actual this time.
Down initially posted some pictures of themselves writing collectively again in January, which Bower stated in an interview with Laughingmonkeymusic produced seven songs.
“We bought collectively a couple of month or two in the past, and we had been working towards with simply me, Pat, Kirk and Pepper” stated Bower. “Phil lives [near the band in Louisiana]. We bought collectively over at his home for a weekend, and we’ve got seven songs, man. We’re presupposed to get collectively once more in April, after which speak about recording, making an attempt to get this factor out.”
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.
In the identical interview, Bower praised Anselmo‘s writing skills, noting that he is extra of an on-the-fly author fairly than planning for brand new Down.
“Phil‘s superb to write down with as a result of he is actually good with arranging, and he is simply actually witty along with his preparations and bridges and stuff like that, that, I would be, like, ‘Rattling, I’d have by no means considered that.’ And that is the gorgeous factor about Down — it is a room full of dudes which are witty with their songwriting and stuff like that.
“We are able to write all day with out Phil, however when he is there, it is that significantly better. It truly is. ‘Trigger he’d be, like, ‘Do that 4 occasions. Go into the bridge, then return to the verse, after which we’ll do a pre-chorus, and subsequent factor , you’ve got bought a killer track.”
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