Down - Down IV Part I: The Purple EP

Published September 22 2012

*=Staff's pick	Levitation Witchtripper* Open Coffins The Curse Is A Lie This Work Is Timeless Misfortune Teller*

Genre	Heavy/Groove Metal	Phil Anselmo	Vocals
Tracks	6	Pepper Keenan	Guitar
Running time	33 Min.	Kirk Windstein	Guitar
Label	Roadrunner	Pat Bruders	Bass
Release	19 September 2012	Jimmy Bower	Drums
Country	USA	-	Keyboard
Producer	-
Similar artists	---

Down's new release is planned to be the first EP in a series of four to be released over the next years. According to vocalist Phil Anselmo, we'll have to wait and see if this will be the case eventually and no promises are made yet.

Their heavy groove metal is still present to this day. The Purple EP contains six songs and thirty-three minutes of straight, raw Down music. A worn out expression would be that they are going back closer to their roots, but what else can someone say when that's a fact? It's heavy, direct and sometimes epic, doomy or dark. Not especially varied, yet without a feeling of lack of diversity.

My favorite song off this release is the last song, the nine minute epic and heavily Black Sabbath influenced track Misfortune Teller. Also somewhat of a favorite is the first video off the EP, the pumping, mysterious and arcane Witchtripper.

The Down elements are here, the groove, the feeling and if you dig their past efforts, I'm sure you'll find this EP interesting as well.

Performance	Originality	Production	Vocals	Songwriting
6	6	4	6	6

Summary
6 chalices of 10 - Tobbe