Down - Nola

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8.6 | 395 votes |
Band
Down
Style
Heavy metal, Sludge metal, Stoner metal
Release date
19 September 1995
Owners
519 have it
42 want it
Tracklist
01. Temptation's Wings
02. Lifer
03. Pillars Of Eternity
04. Rehab
05. Hail The Leaf
06. Underneath Everything
07. Eyes Of The South
08. Jail
09. Losing All
10. Stone The Crow
11. Pray For The Locust
12. Swan Song
13. Bury Me In Smoke
Top 20 albums of 1995: 16
Guest review Lyrics (13)
Additional info
Line-up:
Philip Anselmo - Vocals
Pepper Keenan - Guitar
Kirk Windstein - Guitar and Bass
Jimmy Bower - Drums

The title NOLA comes from the name of the band members' favourite place - New Orleans, Louisiana.

Guest musicians:
Ross Karpelman - Additional keyboards on "Jail."
Lil' Daddy and Sid Montz - Additional percussion on "Jail."
Lil' Daddy - Water pipe solo on "Hail the Leaf."

Todd Strange was originally credited as bass player on this album. It has since been confirmed that Kirk recorded the bass parts.
Guest review by
musclassia
Rating:
9.3
Rating:
9.3 		The late 80s and early 90s saw the founding and popularisation of a number of major Southern American metal bands, including the likes of Corrosion Of Conformity, Crowbar and Eyehategod. Members from each of these groups joined forces with Pantera vocalist Phil Anselmo, and this unholy union was titled Down. Their debut, NOLA, dropped in 1995, offering one of the most outstanding demonstrations of Southern-style metal riffing ever put together in one package.

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published 16.11.2014 | Comments ( 5 )
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qlacs
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25.05.2011 - 14:20
Rating: 9
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Holy hell this album is awesome.
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16.01.2012 - 02:59
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Probably my favorite out of the whole Louisiana sludge scene. The infusion of bluesy southern rock with sludge metal misery is heavenly in a perverse sort of way.
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27.11.2012 - 22:34
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Written by [user id=136417] on 21.11.2012 at 15:11

Excellent album from the supergroup Down. Down took everything to their sound, from Lynyrd Skynyrd to Black Sabbath.

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Metropolis_Dream
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03.04.2013 - 19:46
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Perfect work! Sludge and Stoner metal at their absolute finest. Full of genious riffs. I also think that Anselmos vocals here are the best ever.
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21.04.2014 - 18:08
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Anselmo's best work. Classic stuff.
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02.07.2014 - 13:31
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Excellent debut for the band. I love the consistent heaviness and groove here, though a few songs can get repetitive towards the end. My personal highlights surprisingly enough are the "mellower" ones (which still have a it of guitar-driven aggression at time), namely 'Jail' and 'Stone the Crow'.
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03.07.2014 - 17:46
Rating: 8

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Written by deadone on 03.07.2014 at 01:58

Written by musicalkaratekid on 02.07.2014 at 13:31

Excellent debut for the band. I love the consistent heaviness and groove here, though a few songs can get repetitive towards the end. My personal highlights surprisingly enough are the "mellower" ones (which still have a it of guitar-driven aggression at time), namely 'Jail' and 'Stone the Crow'.

Good assessment. I still prefer Down II over this one - every song a winner and the vibe is so angry and sludgy and beyond cynical. I can almost taste the sweat and the smell of the bayou swamp rising over a filthy New Orleans.

Up until now this is the only Down album I've given proper focus and time to let it grow on me. I'm planning the same with the other albums, so this may or may not turn out to be my favourite album from the band.
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Maco
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Jamming this for the first time, the only album from them I listened was Over The Under and it's pretty good.
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The Witchfinder
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12.02.2020 - 08:16
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Gawddamm I love this album.
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08.04.2020 - 18:54
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Pure badassery, groovy riffs and raw power enough to rip your balls off with bare hands. Phil's vocals have never sounded better.
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You've got a lot of guts. Let's see what they look like!
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Tage Westerlund

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24.04.2020 - 15:28
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Tage Westerlund

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I never likes Aneslmo, and was such stoner or what we call southen metal fan. Swomps and southern life is not my shit.
I listened it and well, not bad, and well I wont be big fan of it, but time to time it can go to spin such things
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07.06.2021 - 16:45
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AndyMetalFreak
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18.05.2022 - 09:10
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AndyMetalFreak
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This album sounds great, it's a hell if a trip, it's like Pantera had a jamming session with Lynyrd Skynyrd whilst stoned

"Temptation's Wings", "Lifer", "Stone The Crow", "Bury Me In Smoke", "Swan Song" and "Jail" are all top quality songs
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