NOLA

Artist: Down
Label: Elektra / Wea
Category: Music

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Media: LP Record
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 075596183017
EAN: 0075596183017
ASIN: B000002HJQ

Release Date: 1995-09-19

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Tracks:

Temptation's Wings
Lifer
Pillars of Eternity
Rehab
Hail the Leaf
Underneath Everything
Eyes of the South
Jail
Losing All
Stone the Crows
Pray for the Locust
Swan Song
Bury Me in Smoke

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Customer Reviews:

A simple decision..........2007-01-31

Simply put, if you are a Pantera AND Corrosion Of Conformity fan, you might really want to pick this album up. I am a huge fan of both, and I was FAR from dissapointed.

This Album Is HUGE.......2007-01-13

This is monumental southern metal from a very talented group (call it a super group if you will) of musicians, combining their talents for, well, apparently...fun! What an excellent reason.

The leviathan band is comprised of Pepper Keenan (COC), Phil Anselmo (Pantera), Jimmy Bower (Eyehategod) and Kirk Windstein (Crowbar), so something of a who's-who of southern metal combining for the love of music. "NOLA" is the first offering from this outstanding group, and what an album it is.

"Temptation's Wings" kicks the album off in style, instantly setting the scene with its big idiosyncratic Keenan riffs, no-nonsense drumming and of course Anselmo's distinctive and powerful vocals. The song is a strong opening statement, and one that's continued with one of my album picks "Lifer", which showcases the redeeming skill of this band - their ability to write good song structures. The song eases its way through varying sections, altering in pace, style and aggression, leading to its ultimate climax of a rolling, sluggish Keenan riff. Solid tracks such as "Pillars of Eternity", "Rehab" and "Hail The Leaf" (which shows another passion of the band) continue the flow and style without a moment of weakness.

The second half of the album is what really does it for me though. "Eyes of the South" simply took my face off the first time I heard it, starting with a quiet and brooding bass line, slowly and patiently the whole band comes in with a flooring main riff. Combine this with some typical Anselmo aggression (with the fist-wielding yell of `god daaaaaam' when the main riff comes in) and an excellent outro riff that the band plays for a couple of minutes straight (which may seem like a long time, but with riffs this good, time flies), this is Down in full flight. The band is also slightly more experimental in the second part of the album, with songs such as "Jail" and to an extent "Stone the Crows" acting as subtle and needed breaks from the slogging, relentless attack of the previous songs.

All of this leads to "Bury Me In Smoke", which I think deserves its own little paragraph. This song is THE Down song. If you need proof that this band kicks the s*** out of 90% of metal acts out there, listen to this song. Starting with an infectious dirgy riff, the band slow things down with a chugging verse section and Anselmo singing in his loveable desperate style. Combine this with an excellent chorus, which sees the opening riff to good use and the powerful line of `when I die / bury me in smoke' you have a great song. But the band are not content with just great, they want more, and they deliver more by creating one of the biggest, heaviest, head-banging inducing riffs I have ever heard. Add some slick little solos from Keenan and you have one of the best metal songs ever, and definitely metal album closers of all time. This song is perfection.

And for that matter, this album is almost perfection. Never before have I heard such a thing from a supergroup. The understanding of each other's instruments and capabilities seems perfect, the balance and energy they fuse rivals, and maybe even betters, anything any of the members have done before. This is a modern classic in every sense of the word.

Better than Pantera.......2006-09-08

This is a real metal underground supergroup. Its got all the rage and power of Pantera but with more melody and a touch of the southern blues. One of the greatest CDs produced in the last 10-15 years. Best cuts: "Lifer", Temptations Wings" "Stone the Crow", "Jail" and "Bury Me in Smoke".

Lynyrd Skynyrd For The Metal Scene.......2006-08-31

Simply put if you like metal and you don't own this disc stop reading this review and buy it , I promise you it will be one of the best albums you'll ever own in your lifetime.

get this cd.......2006-05-25

one of my favorite albums of all time. every single song on this cd is worth listening to, one of the few cd's you don't end up skipping around on. "losing all" "rehab" and "bury me in smoke" are, in my opinon, the best songs on here. the whole sound is a lot different than pantera and superjoint. neither band has the melodic content this one has, really bluesy overall. it's got all the familar pentatonic passages you'd here on a blues album, the kind of playing popularized by black sabbath, led zepplin and hendrix, but it's amped and constructed like a metal album. much heavier than their second cd.

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