Down biography

When his main team had a pause between the albums "Far Beond Driven" and "The Great Southern Trendkill" He went to the New Orleans, where, with the help of several friends, he organized metal jams. No one then suspected that this venture would lead to the creation of the next side project. By the way, the main partners of Phil at that time were no less famous personalities than himself.

A little later, another member of Crown, guitarist Kirk Windstein, joined them. So, this whole company gathered in a small garage and began to jam. After some time, Pepper said that it was not interesting to play and offered to record a demo of three songs. Anselmo developed this idea and put forward the idea that then it was necessary to give some name to their team. The musicians managed to sketch three compositions in almost one weekend.

Nevertheless, the demo received a good resonance, and even when the group deigned to open their faces and appear in public, there was no limit to gleeing metallists. This was already enough to release a full -length album. Despite the fact that there was practically no promotion, no compositions did not spin on the radio and tour in support of Nola consisted of only thirteen concerts, the sales of the disk around the world approached the half -million.

But on this, the Down activity was suspended, since all the musicians had obligations and were forced to return to their main projects. The second chapter in the history of the group began only in the m year, when four fifths of original composition gathered. The team recorded the second album with the simple name "Down II", after which he held full -scale touring in his support.

The musicians performed at Ozzfest, and also attended the Beast Feast event, held in Japan. Meanwhile, the album itself made its debut in the Billboard charts on the th positions, and in the first week of sales, a copy of the copies were dispersed. The plate parted with a huge circulation and at the moment has become the top of the group’s work. The release of the album was accompanied by the world tour of the group and performances at many festivals, such as the main Stone-Fest Roadburn in Holland.

Now the musicians are graduating from a mini-tour in the United States The last concert will take place in their hometown and in Phil and Comparaffects promised to get hold of a new album, which, according to rumors, will already traditionally be called "Down IV" what are they discussing?