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Nola

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Category: Heavy/Southern Metal

Year: 1995

Label: Elektra Records

Catalog Number: 61830-2

Average Rating: 91 / 100 (2 ratings)

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Personnel
Phil Anselmo vocals, guitars on track 11
Pepper Keenan guitars
Kirk Windstein guitars, bass
Jimmy Bower drums
Tracks
1.  Temptation's Wings  4:24
2.  Lifer  4:39
3.  Pillars of Eternity  3:56
4.  Rehab  4:03
5.  Hail the Leaf  3:28
6.  Underneath Everything  4:46
7.  Eyes of the South  5:14
8.  Jail  5:18
9.  Losing All  4:21
10.  Stone the Crow  4:43
11.  Pray for the Locust  1:08
12.  Swan Song  3:35
13.  Bury Me in Smoke  7:04
  
Total Running Time:  56:39

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From: Domenico Date: September 15, 2003 at 4:13
This band rules!A great Southern Doom/Stoner classic,but Down II is better.Support true music!Love Down!

From: Domenico Date: September 15, 2003 at 4:17
This is not NU METAL!This is stoner Doom whith Hard Rock influences, and it is great!

From: Zze Date: October 30, 2003 at 20:28
I only know one song from 'Nola' whcih actually impressed me A LOT since this is a project of members from Fear Factory and Pantera, 2 bands I basically donīt care for. Down is thousand times better than these bands sounding like a more progressive and heavy Black Sabbath for the song I heard. I want to check out the rest of the album

From: 3k Date: November 20, 2003 at 15:25
pantera rules down isnt nu metal phil anselmo kicks ass zze u fuhkkkin poser

From: Luke Date: January 31, 2004 at 0:16
Thi is not a nu-metal band and Fear Factory have fuck all to do with Down. The Members are: Phillip Anselom (Pantera) - Vocals), Kirk Windstein (Crowbar) - Guitars, Rex Brown (Pantera/Crowbar) - Bass, Pepper Keenan (Corrosion Of Conformity) - Guitars, Jimmy Bowers (EyeHateGod) - Drums...

From: down Date: March 23, 2004 at 17:59
down is not nu-metal ,its sabbathian riffage. not rap and kids on turntables. this is true-metal with sabbath/ledzeppelin influence.

From: matias Date: June 7, 2004 at 22:28
This is southern routs.....doom..stoner....tough fucking metal....right in youre face....a classic....true metal

From: matto Date: June 7, 2004 at 22:40
ok....you gott the weed...the buzz... and this record...play it on ten...and let the southern stoner flavor do the killing

From: Rockhead Date: June 28, 2004 at 12:13
Stone The Crows-worth the admission price alone. Heavy Sabbath riffage!! Rocks like a mutha

From: Metalhead66 Date: November 12, 2004 at 13:17
Phil did kick ass on this...I guess he wasn't doing a lot of smack at the time.This is a killer record..the 2nd one is okay,but I liked this a whole lot Better..Much,Much better than SuperCrap Bitchin'more. 9/10.

From: Fizz Date: April 6, 2005 at 15:59
What this album does best is create an atmosphere: like a steamy summer evening in the south, too hot to move, with air you could cut with a knife. Phil Anselmo is mostly a distraction here, as Kirk and Pepper are the main attractions. The intro to "Eyes of the South" is the very best thing here.

From: Fizz Date: April 6, 2005 at 16:01
The Fizz Picks: "Eyes of the South," "Pillars of Eternity," "Stone the Crow," the weird experiment of "jail" and "Bury Me In Smoke" (unlisted here).

From: Doghouse Reilly Date: January 2, 2013 at 18:35
Amazingly, I couldn't get into this disc at first. I guess I wanted it to be things that it isn't. I finally got out of the way and let it take me where it's headed, and NOLA has become one of my all-time favorite albums of any genre. Often slow and brooding, but never shoegazing or dreary, grooves galore, melodies hidden all over the place. It's like Crowbar's tune-low-play-slow aesthetic jazzed up with C.O.C.'s latter-day bluesy swagger, topped off with Phil Anselmo's emotive voice. It's just plain powerful stuff all around. Lots of bands have tried to imitate the sound, including Down themselves, but NOLA is the definite southern/stoner/sudge-metal disc. Every song is a highlight, but fo rme, the album really picks up steam in its second half. You go from the bluesy lurch of "Eyes Of The South" to the trippy, ethereal "Jail," to the sledgehammer of "Losing All," to the lighter melodies of "Stone The Crow" and on through the nasty crawl of 'Bury Me In Smoke." Whew! What an album!

From: Doghouse Reilly Date: May 5, 2025 at 6:25
Look, I love Pantera as much as anyone. But if we're doing "desert island discs," I would probably choose NOLA over any Pantera album, to say nothing of the other big-brother bands. NOLA just hits me harder, and speaks to me in a different way. Gone isPhil Anselmo's chest-beating stronger-than-all persona, replaced by weary ruminations on drugs and depression, both of which are reflected in the band's name. The production is bone-dry, almost like a demo, but absolutely clear. I remember seeing where Jimmy Bowers was selling the drum kit he used on this album—it was a three-piece, and he mostly ignores the one tom. The kick-drum is not very present, nor is the bass guitar, which was actually played by Kirk Windstein. And what you think are bongos on "Jail" are actually plastic pumpkins, played by Joey LaCaze from Eyehategod, who happened to be hanging out that day.

From: Doghouse Reilly Date: May 5, 2025 at 6:59
These and other bits of trivia can be found in Decibel magazine's retrospective on the album when it was inducted into their Hall of Fame. Anyway, this is a real lightning-in-a-bottle album; not even Down themselves were able to capture this magic again (though they've never released a bad record), and certainly none of the other New Orleans bands have either. The only album to come close is Acid Bath's second album. But while the lyrics on Paegan Terrorism Tactics come off as bad teenage goth poetry, Down's songs come from lessons learned (and re-learned) the hard way. When Phil sings of "a bout of deep depression, can't seem to move it forward," it's real. "Stone The Crow" should have been a hit in an alternate-universe 1995, but here on Planet Earth, it just barely made it into Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart. A video was filmed, heavy on local color, but who knows how many times it actually aired? The label was not interested in promoting this disc, wanting Phil to get his ass ba

From: Doghouse Reilly Date: May 5, 2025 at 7:04
... back in Pantera posthaste, and so they didn't tour much either. (I hate the way they play "Stone The Crow" live though, with full distortion all the way through.)


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