DOWN Get Busy On New Album While Touring
November 11, 2008, 15 years ago
The following story is courtesy of Gary Graff from Billboard.com:
Fans of headbanging supergroup DOWN will not have to wait the usual few years between releases anymore.
Bassist Rex Brown - who, like Down frontman Philip Anselmo, hails from PANTERA - tells Billboard.com that the group "is all our priorities now," with plans for a full spate of touring in 2009 and to record a fourth album shortly after that. Down is currently on the road mixing opening dates with Metallica and its own headlining shows, and the new year will bring more North American concerts, a tour of South America and European festival dates.
"(Down) is gonna keep rolling," Brown says. "We're not getting any younger, and this is what we're kicking ass at. All that other stuff people were doing kind of cleansed itself out. There's no reason to take time off anymore. This is a band we can grow old in together, which is really cool."Brown says there's "a lot of material left over" from last year's Down III: Over The Under, which was recently released in a deluxe edition through Best Buy for Down's current live run. The outtakes will be considered for the fourth Down album, but Brown adds that the quintet is also "writing constantly on the road. We still have all these ideas, and we play a lot of new stuff at sound check, just to feel it out. Hopefully we can get back in the studio in the fall and work on something."
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