Down III: Over The Under
New Orleans metal act, Down has released the name a date for their upcoming record entitled Down III:Over The Under. This is the third record for the Louisiana band, featuring former Pantera (Superjoint Ritual) front man Phil Anselmo, former Pantera Bass player Rex Brown, Drummer Jimmy Bower of Eye Hate God, C.O.C. guitar/vocals Pepper Keenan, and Crowbar Guitarist Kirk Windstien. Below is an excerpt of an Interview conducted by Full Metal Racket with Pepper Keenan.
Keenan: Our main goal was to try and take these ideas and all the things we had been through personally and collectively [including Hurricane Katrina and death of Dimebag] and really try and focus on trying to stay positive and not using these negative things to write songs. So we were really trying to take that attitude and trying to do something like that, and I think we really pulled it off. I think it’s a huge-sounding record, and the songs are big and the topics are big. I think it’s something… regardless of if it’s the hurricane or whatever you’re going through in your life, I think these songs as a unit I’m very proud of, and they stand up for what we’re trying to do. And I think it helps anybody who, like I did when I was younger, finds solace in music. I think it’s one of those records.
“One of our main issues on this album was that there wasn’t really that many places to record that were left in New Orleans. So we made the decision to go to Los Angeles to do it. Plus we kind of needed to get out of New Orleans for a while. That way we could just go somewhere different and just focus completely on the music and not be going home to destroyed houses or dealing with the daily grind of that. So we went to California and we did the record out there and we’ll be finished with the record in about a week and a half.”
You can read more of the interview and view a youtube video of Down performing the new song “I Scream, at Blabbermouth.net
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