Down II [Parental Advisory]

Rating

Album: Down II
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Lysergik Funeral Procession	More Info...	0:03
2)	There's Something On My Side	More Info...	0:05
3)	The Man That Follows Hell	More Info...	0:04
4)	Stained Glass Cross	More Info...	0:03
5)	Ghosts Along the Mississippi	More Info...	0:05
6)	Learn from This Mistake	More Info...	0:07
7)	Beautifully Depressed	More Info...	0:05
8)	Where I'm Going	More Info...	0:03
9)	Doob Interlude	More Info...	0:02
10)	New Orleans Is a Dying Whore	More Info...	0:04
11)	The Seed	More Info...	0:04
12)	Lies, I Don't Know What They Say But...	More Info...	0:06
13)	Flambe Aux's Jamming With St. Aug	More Info...	0:01
14)	Dog Tired	More Info...	0:03
15)	Landing On the Mountains of Meggido	More Info...	0:07

Album: Down II
#	Song Title		Time
1)	Lysergik Funeral Procession	More Info...	0:03
2)	There's Something On My Side	More Info...	0:05
3)	The Man That Follows Hell	More Info...	0:04
4)	Stained Glass Cross	More Info...	0:03
5)	Ghosts Along the Mississippi	More Info...	0:05
6)	Learn from This Mistake	More Info...	0:07
7)	Beautifully Depressed	More Info...	0:05
8)	Where I'm Going	More Info...	0:03
9)	Doob Interlude	More Info...	0:02
10)	New Orleans Is a Dying Whore	More Info...	0:04
11)	The Seed	More Info...	0:04
12)	Lies, I Don't Know What They Say But...	More Info...	0:06
13)	Flambe Aux's Jamming With St. Aug	More Info...	0:01
14)	Dog Tired	More Info...	0:03
15)	Landing On the Mountains of Meggido	More Info...	0:07

Performer Notes

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.

Professional Reviews

Rolling Stone (5/9/02, p.76) - 3.5 out of 5 stars - "...Familiar sources are grown into a unique species of subterranean math metal....it all adds up to an otherworldly backwoods sound..."

CMJ (4/1/2002, p.15) - "...DOWN II...is everything a supporter of kick-ass American rock music could desire....based on its superior sludge-ish riffs, dark melodies and unrelenting rock, DOWN II is bound to be a mainstay..."

CMJ (4/1/2002, p.15) - "...DOWN II...is everything a supporter of kick-ass American rock music could desire...based on its superior sludge-ish riffs, dark melodies and unrelenting rock, Down II is bound to be a mainstay..."

NME (Magazine) (4/6/02, p.35) - 8 out of 10 - "...A sludgy, doom-filled collision of black metal and stoner madness..."