Down – currently guitarists Kirk Windstein (Crowbar) and Pepper Keenan (Corrosion Of Conformity), vocalist Phil Anselmo (Pantera), bassist Patrick Bruders (Saint Vitus, ex-Crowbar), and drummer Jimmy Bower (Eyehategod) – is finally in the studio recording their first full-length album since 2007's Down III: Over The Under.
As for how the new material might sound, Windstein previously said in an interview with Concrete Spew that new Down is sounds a lot like old Down. So that's good news.
"It just sounds like Down," said Windstein. "I mean, it sounds refreshing because we haven't done it in so long, gotten together with me and the guys and done it in — fuck — 12 years or something. So it sounds like Down, I think, to me, it sounds more old-school Down. And the reason I say that is I think we got to a point where… Like, the NOLA record is so simple, and it just wrote itself; it was so simple. And that's how this is coming about, which is great.
"We're not overthinking it. We're not trying to make things too complex. Phillip's not trying to write so many lyrics and things. We just kind of got away — I hate to say 'got away', 'cause anything we do is Down, but, to me, we kind of got a little bit… We needed to go back and look at each other and just go, 'Let's just get in a room and do it like we did from the beginning.' And that's what it feels like to me. It's very magical. The ideas and the working together, just bounce off of one another, it's a natural thing."
Down will also hit the road this March for a West Coast tour with Danzig, Abbath, and Cro-Mags. The tour kicks off on March 21 at The Virgin Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas in Las Vegas, NV, and wraps up about a week later on March 30 at the Arizona Financial Theatre in Phoenix, AZ. Tickets are available here.
3/21 Las Vegas, NV The Virgin Theater at Virgin Hotels Las Vegas
3/22 Lincoln, CA Thunder Valley Casino Resort
3/25 Seattle, WA Wamu Theater
3/26 Portland, OR Moda Center-Theatre of the Clouds
3/29 Los Angeles, CA Kia Forum
3/30 Phoenix, AZ Arizona Financial Theatre
