Down - Roadrunner Records UK

Most typical southern band bios start with the cliché and overused phrase "from the murky swamps" or "bayou born and bred". Those sentiments, while holding some air of truth, are too redundant for Down. Down isn't your typical 'Southern' band. This is a band, however, molded and twisted by their environment. Passionate, focused, hanging on to their NOLA pride and upbringing, much like Louisiana's Spanish moss drifting and swaying from hurricane and termite damaged Magnolia trees.

The war torn history of the brotherhood is a tribute to stubbornness and retribution that belies all combined groups before and concerns an introspection in rock, blues and metal as an inspiration/instigation for the ages. Down has risen a certain flag high for every piss poor jealous fool to see. They wear their influences on their ragged sleeves as well as personify despair and display agony very accurately. Imagine early Southern Rock squeezing through a Geezer Butler strainer in these post punk modern days. There is no label for what Down does, as are there no labels for the "thousand miles from New York" bands that share members with them; Crowbar, Corrosion of Conformity, EyeHateGod, and Pantera. This is chemistry. This is the solution. This is the band people will lie about and say that they were into from the beginning.

I don't know if anyone remembers there's a war going on in Iraq, but there's a war going on here on the home front, in your head, with late night reconnaissance missions called "Temptation's Wings" and "Losing All". The southern hemisphere, primarily New Orleans, has much to offer by way of paralyzing roots music these days. In these dark times of cookie cutter paint-by-numbers wastes of recording contracts, an air of originality unseen anywhere else lives below the Mason-Dixon line. This is post-Katrina New Orleans.Through the wreckage and wretchedness, the third Down--Over The Under is poised fanatically on the edge.

03/07/2009 - THIS WEEKS TOP NEWS AND MEDIA Its been another busy week here on the news front here at Roadrunner HQ! We released The AMANDA PALMER DVD and the brand new offering ... 03/07/2009 - MADINA LAKE KYTE UPDATE FROM WARPED TOUR They're only a few days in to their stint on Warped Tour, but as well as leaving thier voicemails and tweeting like crazy over at ... 02/07/2009 - LOUD AND PROUD'S NEWEST SIGNING COLLECTIVE SOUL ANNOUNCE RELEASE Newest signings to Roadrunner imprint Loud & Proud- COLLECTIVE SOUL -are set to release new album COLLECTIVE SOUL (RABBIT) on AUGUST 24th. Hailing from Stockbridge, ... 02/07/2009 - ASK THE ARTIST- DEZ (DEVILDRIVER)- THE ANSWERS We recently gave you the opportunity to put YOUR questions to Dez Fafara from DEVILDRIVER and we got a ruck of emails in with some ... 02/07/2009 - MIKE FROM STAIND SPEAKS TO MARSHALL AT DOWNLOAD When the STAIND guys were in the UK playing Download Festival, Marshall Amps caught up with guitarist Mike to chat gear and about 02/07/2009 - RR UK BLOG UPDATE There is another blog update from the RR UK office that has just been posted for those of you who follow us there! Web Ed ... 01/07/2009 - SLIPKNOT'S SELF TITLED DEBUT CELEBRATES TENTH ANNIVERSARY June 29th saw the 10th Anniversary of the release of SLIPKNOT'S self titled debut album. The band have gone from strength to strength over the ... 01/07/2009 - MEGADETH TO RELEASE BRAND NEW TRACK JULY 7TH On Tuesday 7th July MEGADETH will reveal a BRAND NEW track from their upcoming album ENDGAME, which is currently being finished off in the studio ... 30/06/2009 - ASK THE ARTIST- HERMAN FROM DRAGONFORCE He's the God of Shred! He's a martial arts expert! He's Herman Li from the legendary DRAGONFORCE! And he as said he is more than ... 30/06/2009 - RR UK SPEAK TO DEZ AND JON FROM DEVILDRIVER The day after the Metal Hammer Golden Gods, DEVILDRIVER played Oxford Academy, and so we took the opportunity to sit down with them, post all ... 30/06/2009 - CHECK OUT LIVE FOOTAGE OF KSE, SLIPKNOT AND DOWN FROM DOWNLOAD 09 Did you fancy re-living some of the best moments of the Download festival? Or did you not get to go and would like to check ... 30/06/2009 - PAOLO CAM!!! THIS IS TRIVIUM AT DOWNLOAD 2009! TRIVIUM'S Paolo set up his cam when he was on stage at this years Download festival, headling the second stage, and he got some great ... 30/06/2009 - AMANDA PALMER COVER'S MICHAEL JACKSON'S 'BILLIE JEAN' The footage is a little shakey, but persevere. This is awesome! AMANDA PALMER performed on the very day that Michael jackson passed away, and so ... 29/06/2009 - NEW KILLSWITCH ENGAGE ALBUM- OUT NOW!!! The waiting is over. The new album from the mighty KILLSWITCH ENGAGE is on a store near you NOW!. The blistering self titled album, which ... 26/06/2009 - DEVILDRIVER ANNOUNCE PRE-RELEASE ONLINE ALBUM PREMIER DEVILDRIVER will premier their new album PRAY FOR VILLAINS in a UK online exclusive with GET CLOSER the week prior to the albums 26/06/2009 - WHAT'S ON YOUR IPOD- DAVE PYBUS (CRADLE OF FILTH) We have set another band member the weekly iPod shuffle challenge in an effort to uncover some guilty pleasures, and we think this time we ... 25/06/2009 - CALL THAT A CIRCLE PIT? NA DUDE- *THIS* IS A CIRCLE PIT! DEVILDRIVER. Download 2009. Circle pits to end ALL circle pits. Nothing more to say really. A picture (or in this case a video) paints a ... 25/06/2009 - RECKONING- KILLSWITCH ENGAGE SPEAK The first track to be taken from the upcoming self titled album from RR faves KILLSWITCH ENGAGE was the crushing RECKONING. In this latest snippet ... 24/06/2009 - RR UK CHATS TO ALEXISONFIRE ALEXISONFIRE were in the UK recently to play 3 sold out shows at London's The Borderline, we sat down with George and Dallas to have ... 24/06/2009 - MIKE PORTOY TAKES THE PROG QUIZ Cast your mind back. A fair ole while. When OPETH released their current album, Watershed. Classic Rock / Metal Hammer sat down with vocalist Mikael ... 16/06/2009PORCUPINE TREE REVEAL DETAILS OF NEW ALBUM 'THE INCIDENT' Grammy-nominated UK recording artist PORCUPINE TREE have confirmed the title of their tenth studio album: The Incident. The captivating new record is set to be ... 01/07/2009MEGADETH TO RELEASE BRAND NEW TRACK JULY 7TH On Tuesday 7th July MEGADETH will reveal a BRAND NEW track from their upcoming album ENDGAME, which is currently being finished off in the studio ... 24/06/2009MIKE PORTOY TAKES THE PROG QUIZ Cast your mind back. A fair ole while. When OPETH released their current album, Watershed. Classic Rock / Metal Hammer sat down with vocalist Mikael ... 01/07/2009SLIPKNOT'S SELF TITLED DEBUT CELEBRATES TENTH ANNIVERSARY June 29th saw the 10th Anniversary of the release of SLIPKNOT'S self titled debut album. The band have gone from strength to strength over the ... 08/05/2009CHECK OUT DREAM THEATER'S NEW VIDEO FOR 'A RITE OF PASSAGE' HERE NOW!!! DREAM THEATER have revealed the first video from upcoming album BLACK CLOUDS & SLIVER LININGS. The video, which is for the track A RITE OF ... 22/06/2009RR UK INTERVIEWS DREAM THEATER'S MIKE PORTNOY- PT1 When he was in the UK recently, we sat down DREAM THEATER'S Mike Portnoy for a chat about what the band have been up to ... 30/06/2009ASK THE ARTIST- HERMAN FROM DRAGONFORCE He's the God of Shred! He's a martial arts expert! He's Herman Li from the legendary DRAGONFORCE! And he as said he is more than ... 30/06/2009RR UK SPEAK TO DEZ AND JON FROM DEVILDRIVER The day after the Metal Hammer Golden Gods, DEVILDRIVER played Oxford Academy, and so we took the opportunity to sit down with them, post all ... 30/06/2009CHECK OUT LIVE FOOTAGE OF KSE, SLIPKNOT AND DOWN FROM DOWNLOAD 09 Did you fancy re-living some of the best moments of the Download festival? Or did you not get to go and would like to check ... 02/07/2009ASK THE ARTIST- DEZ (DEVILDRIVER)- THE ANSWERS We recently gave you the opportunity to put YOUR questions to Dez Fafara from DEVILDRIVER and we got a ruck of emails in with some ... 03/07/2009THIS WEEKS TOP NEWS AND MEDIA Its been another busy week here on the news front here at Roadrunner HQ! We released The AMANDA PALMER DVD and the brand new offering ... 26/06/2009WHAT'S ON YOUR IPOD- DAVE PYBUS (CRADLE OF FILTH) We have set another band member the weekly iPod shuffle challenge in an effort to uncover some guilty pleasures, and we think this time we ... 30/06/2009AMANDA PALMER COVER'S MICHAEL JACKSON'S 'BILLIE JEAN' The footage is a little shakey, but persevere. This is awesome! AMANDA PALMER performed on the very day that Michael jackson passed away, and so ... 30/06/2009PAOLO CAM!!! THIS IS TRIVIUM AT DOWNLOAD 2009! TRIVIUM'S Paolo set up his cam when he was on stage at this years Download festival, headling the second stage, and he got some great ... 03/07/2009MADINA LAKE KYTE UPDATE FROM WARPED TOUR They're only a few days in to their stint on Warped Tour, but as well as leaving thier voicemails and tweeting like crazy over at ... 02/07/2009MIKE FROM STAIND SPEAKS TO MARSHALL AT DOWNLOAD When the STAIND guys were in the UK playing Download Festival, Marshall Amps caught up with guitarist Mike to chat gear and about 24/06/2009RR UK CHATS TO ALEXISONFIRE ALEXISONFIRE were in the UK recently to play 3 sold out shows at London's The Borderline, we sat down with George and Dallas to have ... 26/06/2009DEVILDRIVER ANNOUNCE PRE-RELEASE ONLINE ALBUM PREMIER DEVILDRIVER will premier their new album PRAY FOR VILLAINS in a UK online exclusive with GET CLOSER the week prior to the albums 02/07/2009LOUD AND PROUD'S NEWEST SIGNING COLLECTIVE SOUL ANNOUNCE RELEASE Newest signings to Roadrunner imprint Loud & Proud- COLLECTIVE SOUL -are set to release new album COLLECTIVE SOUL (RABBIT) on AUGUST 24th. Hailing from Stockbridge, ... 02/07/2009RR UK BLOG UPDATE There is another blog update from the RR UK office that has just been posted for those of you who follow us there! Web Ed ... Over The Under Over The Under