New DOWN Album Due In Mid-2010 ; Video Footage From Spain's Sonisphere Festival Available
July 14, 2009, 15 years ago
DOWN - the New Orleans-based act featuring CORROSION OF CONFORMITY guitarist/vocalist Pepper Keenan, drummer Jimmy Bower (EYEHATEGOD, SUPERJOINT RITUAL guitarist), bassist Rex Brown (ex-PANTERA), guitarist Kirk Windstein (CROWBAR), and vocalist Philip Anselmo (SUPERJOINT RITUAL, ex-PANTERA) - performed at the Sonisphere Festival in Barcelona, Spain on July 11th at Forum.
Video footage from the band's performance can be viewed below.
Meanwhile, Pepper Keenan and Jimmy Bower spoke to the Sonisphere team, the following from sonispherefestival.net:
The new Down album is likely to be the heavy soundtrack of next summer after they confirmed to Sonisphere that Down IV will be out by the middle of next year.
“I’d say probably late spring or early summer 2010,” explains guitarist Pepper Keenan, while he’s lounging around backstage. A report in Ultimate Guitar last year that six songs for the new album are already recorded is wide of the mark.“We have six songs left over from the last session. Whether we use them for the album or not, we don’t know,” says one of the nicest drummers thrashing the skins in heavy metal today, Jimmy Bower. “Probably not, maybe some parts.”
So, what’s it going to sound like?
“I think we’re going backwards. It’ll be like the first record,” says Pepper. “The last two records have been pretty grandiose with a lot of parts and bigger things. This time we’re going to go back and have some fun. Two guitar tracks, keep it nice and dry, and focus on simple song writing like the first album, which still works so well.”Jimmy describes it more succinctly: “Go for the throat dude.”
Team Sonisphere’s entire exclusive interview with Pepper and Jimmy will appear on the site later next week. The deep south duo discuss their favourite sounds, cover songs and what it’s like to run a bar in New Orleans that supports the local music scene.
