Metal Anarchy

During an interview with Concrete Spew, Down’s Kirk Windstein discussed the band’s new music. According to him, the material “sounds more [like] old-school Down.”

Windstein said the following:

“It just sounds like Down. 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 [Anselmo] 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.”

He also confirmed that the band have “seven songs” written. However, he has yet to hear the vocals:

“Phil and [his wife] Kate had [a get-together] over at the house and on the property where the studio is and all while [Crowbar] were on tour. And everybody got to hear it with vocals, except me, and I haven’t heard it. So I guess I’m gonna have to try to make a trip over there. But Pepper [Keenan] also built kind of a home studio thing in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi. He’s got like a beach house out there — well, really two that are next door to one another. And I talked to him about that right before we left. So we wanna do guitar solos, at least demo ’em or whatever, have ideas, and what we call sweetie tracks, which is little licks and things between vocal lines. So in order to do that, we’re gonna have to get have the vocals, ’cause nobody’s got the tracks with Phil’s vocals except Phil.”

[via Blabbermouth]