In a new job interview with Scott Penfold of Loaded Radio, DOWN guitarist Kirk Windstein spoke about the chance of him and his bandmates writing and recording new new music in the not-way too-distant future. The supergroup, which also features PANTERA singer Philip Anselmo, CORROSION OF CONFORMITY guitarist/vocalist Pepper Keenan (on guitar),EYEHATEGOD guitarist Jimmy Bower (on drums) and bassist Pat Bruders, hasn’t introduced just about anything because the arrival of the “Down IV – Element Two” EP in Might 2014. Windstein, who also plays guitar and sings in CROWBAR, reported (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.Internet): “I talked to Phil a really superior bit, and we are all gonna go out to his residence and his property later this month [October]… He type of does like a very little Halloween detail or whichever. So we’re gonna do that.
“Phil‘s mind-set is form of just like, ‘Look, fellas, I’m executing what I’m executing [with PANTERA]. I appreciate it. We’re killing it.’ And boy, are they. We [CROWBAR] experienced the pleasure of playing with PANTERA in Poland in early June. It was unbelievable. I imply, I laughed, I cried. My emotion was a little something else, since I was very restricted with [late PANTERA guitarist] Dimebag. It truly is actual — what they’re doing is actual. But what Phil reported, ‘Hey, gentleman, in the significant picture of items, dude, I definitely really don’t have a band. I’m doing a PANTERA reunion issue.’ And of system they’re gonna do it as extended as they can. I indicate, I never blame them. Who would? You do what you have gotta do. And they are killing it and accomplishing it heartfelt for the appropriate factors, and I appreciate it. But like he explained, ‘Look, you are the men.’ And I talked to Pepper about two or three times in the past. I imagine he is received a couple of reveals in early November with C.O.C. and he is off for a although. CROWBAR‘s subsequent gig is in Ireland in late February, so we’re off for a excellent little bit. And when you have five fellas — effectively, Phil, of study course, will be sort of out of the photograph for now but me, Pepper, Jimmy and Pat — in a place with each other, when you’ve got bought all these fellas composing riffs off of each individual other… And which is the way I like to generate — I like to publish spontaneously off the cuff. I don’t like to [go], ‘Okay, this is my new tune. Boom. Below y’all go,’ or whichever. I like to write off the cuff, on the location. I feel what the other men are supplying me vibe-clever and whatnot. And that, to me, is a successful formulation. It actually is.”
Questioned by Penfold if he is indicating that there could potentially be some new DOWN tunes coming out in 2024, Kirk replied: “I hope. To be honest, we talked about performing like a protect-track EP. But we threw about like a hundred tracks and we are unable to select and pick out any of them. So, to me, it’s simpler to just go, ‘Hey, fellas, let’s get in the fucking home and just publish some shit.’ Come out with six songs and do an EP. So I hope that that is what takes place.
“To be trustworthy, I really don’t know,” he ongoing. “And this is not from Phil or [PANTERA bassist] Rex [Brown] or everything. They can do [the PANTERA thing] for good. Like as far as festivals in South The united states, Europe and whatnot, they can — they can often go do a weekend or two in the summer right here and there involving Zakk [Wylde, PANTERA guitarist] and Charlie‘s [Benante, drums] [schedules]… what ever they’re up to with [their respective] bands. So I hope that they do. I hope they do it permanently.
“When we bought DOWN together in 1991, that was the very first demo tape,” Windstein included. “We wrote ‘Bury Me In Smoke’, ‘Temptation’s Wings’ and ‘Losing All’ in a day. We recorded it. Phil sang. We mixed it off on a four-monitor or some shit, and that was it. Phil flew again to Texas and Pepper flew again to North Carolina with C.O.C. So when we acquired jointly, we generally joked, but it is no extended a joke that this is the type of band we can expand aged with. It doesn’t matter what we search like. We can be unwanted fat. We can be bald. We are not attracting 18-year-old ladies. If they wanna be a enthusiast of the music, excellent. If you’re a [Taylor Swift] fan, hey, more electricity to you. It is all fantastic. Whatever. But that was not our intention. And it can be form of ironic or no matter what that it truly is kind of arrive comprehensive circle the place we see ourselves going, ‘Hey, men, we’re closing in on mid-50s to 60s. This is a band that we can basically do and kill it and then retire with it probably.’ So which is what I personally imagine is going to take place, and I hope that in the close to foreseeable future, which is what happens and we’re able to do additional DOWN in, say, ’24, ’25, whatsoever. But there’s no time restrict on anything at all. I indicate, Phil‘s doing what he is accomplishing and God bless him for that. And I’m so proud of him. I genuinely am.”
DOWN built a handful of scarce are living appearances in the spring and summertime of 2022. The band released a three-day U.S. run of reveals in May possibly 2022 at the Welcome To Rockville pageant in Daytona Seashore, Florida. Immediately after actively playing in Atlanta and Dallas right away right after Rockville, DOWN took a three-week split before regrouping for 3 European festival appearances in June. An visual appeal at final year’s Blue Ridge Rock Festival adopted in September 2022 in Alton, Virginia.
In August 2021, DOWN took aspect in a pretty distinctive in-person reside and virtual knowledge. “NOLA Town Throwdown” was held at the Fillmore in New Orleans, Louisiana and featured admirers attending the demonstrate in individual as nicely as seeing it in authentic time from the comfort and ease of their residing room.
In August 2020, DOWN celebrated the 25th anniversary of “NOLA” with a exclusive livestreamed event. Dubbed “The Quarter Century Throwdown”, the large-generation, multi-digicam occasion took location working with reducing-edge streaming engineering to produce a 1-of-a-kind virtual live performance knowledge.
A founding member of DOWN, Windstein still left the band in 2013 in order to target on CROWBAR and his loved ones lifestyle. He was replaced by Bobby Landgraf, DOWN‘s former guitar tech who was earlier in GAHDZILLA MOTOR Enterprise, a 1990s outfit also that includes Jason McMaster (Risky TOYS, WATCHTOWER),and HONKY.
Windstein announced his return to DOWN in 2019, with the band confirming a variety of competition appearances for 2020 to rejoice the 25th anniversary of “NOLA”, all of which were afterwards canceled or postponed thanks to the coronavirus pandemic which swept the world.
Prior to the August 2020 livestream, DOWN‘s previous are living physical appearance took put in August 2016 at the Psycho Las Vegas pageant in Las Vegas.
“Down IV – Element Two” offered about 10,000 copies in the United States in its 1st 7 days of release in May well 2014 to debut at position No. 23 on The Billboard 200 chart.
The band’s preceding EP, “Down IV Portion I – The Purple EP”, opened with all-around 12,000 models in September 2012 to land at No. 35.
“Down IV – Part Two” was recorded at Nodferatu’s Lair — Anselmo‘s home studio — and manufactured by Michael Thompson. It was produced via Down Documents/ADA Tunes.