NOLA (album)

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NOLA
Studio album from Down

Publication
(s)

September 19, 1995

admission

August 29, 1994 - January 22, 1995

Label (s) Elektra Records , EastWest Records

Genre (s)

Metal , stoner sludge

Title (number)

13

running time

56:33

occupation


  • Todd Strange - whistle at the beginning of Lifer & Bass (indicated but not played)

production

Down, Matt Thomas

Studio (s)

Ultrasonic Studios, New Orleans , Louisiana

chronology
- NOLA Down II: A Bustle in Your Hedgerow
(2002)

NOLA (English abbreviation for New Orleans , Louisiana ) is the debut album by the American band Down . It was published by Elektra / EastWest in September 1995 .

Origin and style

The album was written mainly by Pepper Keenan ( Corrosion of Conformity ) and Phil Anselmo from 1990-95 . In the early 1990s, three demos were initially released. Eventually the band was signed by Elektra after performing in their hometown. The album was created in the summer of 1994 in the Ultrasonic Studios in New Orleans. Contrary to the advance expectations of some who started out from the music of the bands of the four members, NOLA contains less hard metal elements, but is influenced by classic rock and bands like Black Sabbath .

reception

The album peaked at number 57 on the Billboard 200 . Allmusic's David Reamer called Down a supergroup that plays like one on NOLA . The album is a landmark that should be included in every metal music collection. It awarded 4.5 out of five stars and the “AMG Album Pick” award. Eike Schmitz from Powermetal.de wrote about NOLA that it was “a chunk of Southern Metal that sounds so tough and monumental, as if Satan had personally thrown up a lump of tar from which the band then formed a hearty piece of metal in the marsh fever of New Orleans, Louisiana Has."

Track list

  1. Temptation's Wings - 4:24 - (Anselmo / Keenan)
  2. Lifer - 4:36 - (Anselmo / Keenan)
  3. Pillars of Eternity - 3:57 - (Anselmo)
  4. Rehab - 4:03 - (Anselmo / Keenan / Windstein)
  5. Hail the Leaf - 3:28 - (Anselmo)
  6. Underneath Everything - 4:46 - (Anselmo / Keenan)
  7. Eyes of the South - 5:13 - (Anselmo / Keenan)
  8. Jail - 5:17 - (Anselmo / Keenan / Strange / Windstein)
  9. Losing All - 4:21 - (Anselmo / Keenan)
  10. Stone the Crow - 4:42 - (Anselmo / Keenan)
  11. Pray for the Locust - 1:07 - (Anselmo)
  12. Swan Song - 3:35 - (Anselmo / Bower / Keenan)
  13. Bury Me in Smoke - 7:04 - (Anselmo / Keenan)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ www.allmusic.com: Biography Down
  2. ↑ www.allmusic.com: Review NOLA by David Reamer
  3. ↑ www.powermetal.de: NOLA review by Eike Schmitz

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