The wait for brand spanking new Down is sort of over! Effectively, “nearly” as in Down‘s first new launch since their Down IV, Pt. 2 EP in 2014 is coming someday throughout the subsequent yr. In accordance with Down guitarist Kirk Windstein in an interview with That Steel Interview, there are 10 new songs able to go and the writing course of must be carried out someday quickly.
“I have been in Down world, you understand, writing with Down and ending up the writing for the album that is out subsequent yr sooner or later” He later added: “I imply, we acquired 10 new songs, man. It is superior.”
Down in 2024 is Windstein (Crowbar) and fellow guitarist Pepper Keenan (Corrosion Of Conformity), vocalist Phil Anselmo (Pantera), bassist Patrick Bruders (Saint Vitus, ex-Crowbar), and drummer Jimmy Bower (Eyehategod). As for the brand new materials, Windstein beforehand stated in an interview with Concrete Spew that new Down is sounds quite a bit like previous Down. In order that’s excellent news.
“It simply feels like Down,” stated 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 blokes and carried out 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 rationale 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 jot down so many lyrics and issues. We simply type of acquired away — I hate to say ‘acquired away’, ‘trigger something we do is Down, however, to me, we type of acquired a bit bit… We would have liked to return and have 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’s totally magical. The concepts and the working collectively, simply bounce off of each other, it is a pure factor.”
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