Target Audience recently caught up with DOWN drummer Jimmy Bower. An excerpt is available below:

TA: When’s the new Down record coming out?

Bower: "We finished last night (February 9th at time of interview) with the mixing and everything. So, all we have to do now is get it mastered and the artwork is all done. So I think maybe early May. It takes a while to get everything together; it took us a little longer with the recording process so it’s done. We finished it last night. It sounds killer."

TA: What does it sound like compared to your previous albums?

Bower: "We went for a really raw sound and went back to NOLA. The songs are really Sabbathed-out. I’m really happy the way it came out. It’s really aggressive and raw. All them rock n’ roll adjectives in there bro. It’s doomy!"

TA: Any songs similar to 'Stone The Crow' or 'Jail' or is it pretty much an all-out blitz?

Bower: "No, the idea is we’re doing four EPs and the first one is pretty much cut-throat. The third one is supposed to be the acoustic one. But we’re releasing four EPs within the next year and a half. They all coincide with one theme. Like the artwork and everything. It’s like a big story."

Go to this location for the complete interview.

As previously reported, the New Orleans-based supergroup featuring Bower on guitar, have scheduled a show, at 9:30 PM (CST) on February 17th at The Hangar, in New Orleans, LA.

Also on the bill for the show are SUPLECS and SOLID GIANT. Tickets for the 18+ show are available at this location.

The Mystick Krewe of Clearlight came together in 1996 as an instrumental side project led by guitarist Jimmy Bower and drummer Joe Lacaze of the New Orleans sludge metal group EYEHATEGOOD, along with members of CROWBAR and Down. Bower and Lacaze’s inspiration from the start was to get away from the pummeling nihilistic dirge metal of Eyehategod and use their new project as an outlet for the improvisational music that they had absorbed growing up in New Orleans, whether it be jazz, soul, funk, or rock.