Any given time, when requested to list my favorite death metal albums of all time, Benediction’s “The Grand Leveller “always finds its way on the list. With typically scrappy British gusto, it shoulders its way in among the heavyweights like Morbid Angel, Death and Suffocation. The singer on that album and the four subsequent Benediction albums was no other than Dave Ingram.

New Orleans based “supergroup” Down is back – finally. I won’t lie, I’m a huge fan so maybe I’m a bit biased in their favor, but this new EP is rad. Sticking with the Led Zeppelin/Van Halen styled numbered album titles, The Purple EP is supposedly the first of four installments of their fourth chapter, […]

  DOWN TO RELEASE ‘DIARY OF A MAD BAND’ 3 DISC (2 CD/1 DVD) SET ON OCTOBER 5TH 2010, MULTIPLE PRE-ORDER BUNDLES AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE NOW!  180 GRAM TRIPLE VINYL WITH BONUS DVD VERSION TO BE RELEASED ON OCTOBER 26TH, 2010  New Orleans, LA’s DOWN is pleased to announce three killer pre-order bundles, available for […]

I’ll admit it took me a little longer to come around to New Orleans supergroup Down’s latest record than it did for their first two. Initially, I missed those big hooks from their second record (the ones that some fans thought were a little too commercial.) Then, there was the mix on this record, which […]