Down DOWN II

This is a Hyper CD, which contains regular audio tracks and also provides a link to the artist's website with the help of a web browser.
Down: Philip Anselmo (vocals); Pepper Keenan (electric guitar, timpani); Kirk Windstein (guitar); Rex Brown (Farfisa organ, keyboards, bass); Jim Bower (drums).
Additional personnel includes: Wayne Lohr (Fender Rhodes piano); Opal Anselmo (background vocals).
Down: Philip Anselmo (vocals); Pepper Keenan (electric guitar, timpani); Kirk Windstein (guitar); Rex Brown (Farfisa organ, keyboards, bass); Jim Bower (drums).
Additional personnel includes: Wayne Lohr (Fender Rhodes piano); Opal Anselmo (background vocals).
Personnel: R. Brown (Farfisa, keyboards); Jimmy (drums).
Audio Mixer: Warren Riker.
Recording information: Nodferatu's Lair, North Shore Of Lake Pontchartrain, LA (11/2001).
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.

• Format: CD
• Genre: Pop