The wait for new Down is almost over! Well, "almost" as in Down's first new release since their Down IV, Pt. 2 EP in 2014 is coming sometime within the next year. According to Down guitarist Kirk Windstein in an interview with That Metal Interview, there are 10 new songs ready to go and the writing process should be done sometime soon.
"I've been in Down world, you know, writing with Down and finishing up the writing for the album that's out next year at some point" He later added: "I mean, we got 10 new songs, man. It's awesome."
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 new material, Windstein previously said in an interview with Concrete Spew that new Down is sounds a lot like old Down. So that's good news.
"It just sounds like Down," said Windstein. "I mean, it sounds refreshing because we haven't done it in so long, gotten together with me and the guys and done it in — fuck — 12 years or something. So it sounds like Down, I think, to me, it sounds more old-school Down. And the reason I say that is I think we got to a point where… Like, the NOLA record is so simple, and it just wrote itself; it was so simple. And that's how this is coming about, which is great.
"We're not overthinking it. We're not trying to make things too complex. Phillip's not trying to write so many lyrics and things. We just kind of got away — I hate to say 'got away', 'cause anything we do is Down, but, to me, we kind of got a little bit… We needed to go back and look at each other and just go, 'Let's just get in a room and do it like we did from the beginning.' And that's what it feels like to me. It's very magical. The ideas and the working together, just bounce off of one another, it's a natural thing."
