Down guitarist Kirk Windstein recently gave Metal Injection an update on the covers EP that they were working on over a year ago, and also talked a little bit about the possibility of a new full-length album of original material, which they haven't released since 2007's Down III: Over The Under. Over the last 15 years, the band have put out just two EPs: Down IV Part I - The Purple EP (2012) and Down IV - Part Two (2014).

When asked about the new covers record, Windstein said: "Yeah and that's what we intend on doing. At one point for a good number of years, 2006 through 2013 for me, Down was my priority. And then when we parted ways I started doing Crowbar full time. They kept doing a little bit with Down, but then it kind of came to a halt. But yeah, doing a covers EP makes the most sense because there's no stress. We can pick some obscure tunes that we can turn into our own and we'll technically be putting out Down music without having to bang our heads against the wall. And I mean, it's a difficult process writing and recording a Down record just because everyone writes. It's not like you got a main guy or whoever that does it. Everybody can write shit. A lot of times we have too many ideas and we don't know what the fuck to do, really. So I think the cover song EP thing is like a happy meeting point halfway. It's a happy medium of us being able to put out new music without the stress and everything of having to go into the studio and write and record it."

Source:	metalinjection.net
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