Artist: DOWN
Album: II VINYL (180G 2LP BLACK)

Release date: 2002/ 2016
EAN/UPS: 0081227954246
Media type: LP

No rap-metal or nu-metal for the heavy dudes of Down. These guys learned their lessons from the Old Testament of heavy metal; Black Sabbath (there are enough doomy riffs here to fill several Ozzfests), Led Zeppelin (the album itself is named for a lyric from Zep's most requested song), and the like. Not that DOWN II finds these men of metal practicing musical necromancy; this is fully contemporary stuff at least as modern-sounding as anything being concurrently created by Metallica. it's just that the blues-rock influence on the guitar licks, and the willingness to immerse themselves in an epic like the intimidatingly titled "Landing on the Mountains of Meggido" (complete with tympani and acoustic guitar filigrees) puts them in line more with those who've influenced them than those who are likely to share a rock festival with them.

TRACKLIST 2LP:

1. Lysergik Funeral Procession
2. There's Something On My Side
3. Man That Follows Hell, The
4. Stained Glass Cross
5. Ghosts Along The Mississippi
6. Learn From This Mistake
7. Beautifully Depressed
8. Where I'm Going
9. Doobinterlude
10. New Orleans Is A Dying Whore
11. Seed, The
12. Lies, I Don't Know What They Say But...
13. Flambeaux's Jamming With St. Aug
14. Dog Tired
15. Landing On The Mountains Of Meggido

LINE-UP:

Philip Anselmo - vocals
Pepper Keenan - electric guitar, timpani
Kirk Windstein - guitar
Jim Bower - drums
Rex Brown - Farfisa organ, keyboards, bass

Also:
Wayne Lohr (Fender Rhodes piano)
Opal Anselmo (background vocals)