by Zach Shaw | Jun 16, 2011 | Video
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvhrMVf9REQ[/youtube] Down has been playing a handful of club gigs and festivals over in Europe in the past few weeks. And fans that caught the New Orleans band during their Download Festival appearance and show in Brussels this...
by Zach Shaw | Jun 14, 2011 | Video
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWC0SB_Lbjg&t=5m1s[/youtube] Ok, so Phillip Anselmo and gang weren’t haunted by spooky ghosts during their set at the Download Festival this weekend. However, Down were joined by members of the Swedish psychedelic metal...
by Zach Shaw | Jun 14, 2011 | Award Show Battles
As most of you probably know, the UK’s Metal Hammer Magazine has been hosting their own Golden Gods metal award show across the pond for a couple of years now (way before Revolver Magazine started to hold their own in the States). We didn’t compare and contrast the...
by Zach Shaw | Jun 13, 2011 | Video
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn9ElN3VC88[/youtube] There’s been a lot of speculation regarding Rex Brown’s status in Down. The band has been touring with Crowbar’s Patrick Bruders while Brown has been visibly absent, while guitarist Pepper Keenan made it...
by Zach Shaw | May 3, 2011 | What A Downer
Yesterday, we reported how Rex Brown has hinted in interviews recently (for his new Kill Devil Hill project with drummer Vinnie Appice) that his “main focus” is no longer Down, leaving us to wonder if he is still indeed in Down. Well it would appear that...