Ever wonder what “Southern Fried Skynyrd Sabbath with a side of gravy” SOUNDS LIKE!? If you’ve ever heard DOWN’s debut album, NOLA (for New Orleans, LouisianA), you know exactly what this phrase means!

JOIN US as we talk about the album, the band/side project main band dichotomy with DOWN and it’s members and the ultra awesometastically heavy riffs (which surely caused Tony Iommi to shed a tear) and delve into the tracks (and suicide paneling) that makes up one of the most TIMELESS albums in the history of metal. If you do not own NOLA, you need to make a change in your life!!

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00.00: Intro/Suicide Paneling Part 2 (Wait WHAT?): The DOWN (NOLA) Album Dive (#SkynyrdFriedSabbath): Mix Corrosion of Conformity, Black Sabbath, Crowbar and Pantera to make a rifflicious Riff Casserole/Sludge Metal (Swamp Metal sounds more metal; #swampmetal): a modernized take on Black Sabbath

04.44: 09/19/1995 (aka Jimmy Bowers’ birthday)/The True Hell Hounds/PostSkynyrdFriedSabbathCore (WAY more accurate than “sludge” metal)/Marketing GENIUS!!!

08.52: Singles: Lifer, Stone the Crow, Temptation’s Wings (see also Saint Vitus “Ice Monkey”) and Bury Me in Smoke/Upcoming DOWN Festival Shows in Europe (Please provide feedback and photos if you go!)/Album Artwork/Clarence John Laughlin/Southern Skynyrd Fried Sabbath (+ a side of gravy)/Milley’s carb advisory (Qreator4Evah), and a long overdue explanation

14.44: Personnel/The Importance of Jimmy Bower in Metal (The Godfather of Southern Metal)/Swamp Metal Loincloth Design phase underway; check back at metalnerdery.com/merch for updates

19.50: Charted at #57 (Impressive!)/13 date tour/Down II (#foreshadowing)

22.40: The Tracks: (Rifftaculous Goodness) Temptation’s Wings (Crowbar’s heavy and C.O.C.’s melody blended to perfection)/A more soulful Phil Anslemo (Blind Dog Pterodactyl)

28.11: Lifer (later dedicated to Dimebag Darrell R.I.P.)/Can’t be loud enough Pt. 2/”Timeless” Riffs and Sound (just like Sabbath)

31.52: Pillars of Eternity (crawwwwwwlllllll): Hail to Tony Iommi!/Natural sound (like you’re really “there”…in the jam room)

36.02: Rehab: one of the signs of a classic album (listening with new ears)

38.38: Hail the Leaf (so I just…)/metal bong solo (so riffilicious!)

41.36: Underneath Everything (what’d he say?)

43.54: Eyes of the South (sold!)/With growing raunchiness and growing buildup in the air!!!!/Phil needs to say something… /Corrosion of Sabbath swagger

46.46: Jail (definitely a Planet Caravan nod, HAIL! Or rather: JAIL!)/Metal Nerdery Disclaimer regarding the underwater recording of vocals on this album/The Down ambiance and the “visual” component of their sound

49.59: Losing All (Fucking. Bad. Ass. Period)/Phil’s vocal range on this album (Metal Nerdery kudos and commendments… and condiments)/#powerjerk/losing all (composure)

53.19: Stone the Crow: The HIT Single!! (SkynyrdFried with a lighter Sabbathy crust)

55.08: a little ditty (Pray for the Locust): Black Sabbath feel (HAIL!)/Swan Song/#rifftaculous/nuanced vocals (Thanks. –No, Thank YOU!)/Phil Anselmo’s school of psychological counseling

59.45: The Closer: Bury me in Smoke (check Down live at Download!)/The Riff God (Tony Iommi) has blessed Down with the Power of Ultra Awesome Riffy Heavy Goodness (HAIL and RESPECT!)/Do you smell…something?/The outro (that RIFF, that SWAGGER!) and withstanding the test of time/The sign of a classic album: finding new things in the old (anachronicstic: devoid of time? Same but different?)/Support DOWN!!/CONTINUE TO SPREAD THE WORDERY ABOUT METAL NERDERY AND EVEN FEEL FREE TO DROP US SOME WORDERY!