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If bassist Rex Brown doesn't stop drinking soon, his former Down and Pantera bandmate Phil Anselmo says, he could be headed for an early grave. In an video interview with High Times magazine, Anselmo reveals that booze was behind Brown's split with Down earlier this year...

Kill Devil Hill the new project featuring acclaimed drummer Vinny Appice (Black Sabbath, Heaven and Hell, Dio) and bassist Rex Brown (Pantera, Down) have signed with SPV/Steamhammer. The band is rounded out by guitar slinger Mark Savon and killer vocalist Dew Bragg...

Down aren't an incredibly prolific band, which goes with the territory when you are a supergroup featuring members of Pantera, Corrosion of Conformity and Eyehategod. Service in multiple bands means not a lot of 'Down time.' Fans have come to accept that Down release music when they're able...

Down may reside in the swampy bayou of New Orleans, but the band is coming up for air with the long-delayed 'Diary of a Mad Band' DVD, which was originally slated for a spring 2010 release and documents the band's first-ever overseas trek...

New Orleans sludge icons Crowbar have partnered up with E1 Music for the worldwide release of their next album, which is tentatively scheduled for release this fall. It will be the barge-like band's first album since 2005's 'Lifesblood for the Downtrodden...

Hatebreed's Jamey Jasta and Crowbat/Down guitarist Kirk Windstein are back as tandem in their side project Kingdom of Sorrow, which will release their second album, 'Behind the Blackest Tears,' on June 8 through Relapse Records. The album follows the band's debut, the white-knuckled, self-titled sludge fest that impacted the metal world in 2008...

Devildriver guitarist Jeffrey Kendrick has been given the honor of being nominated in the Best Shredder category for the eighth annual Metal Hammer Golden God awards. The axeman is in running against Zoltán Báthory (Five Finger Death Punch), Russ 'Satchel' Parrish (Steel Panther), Dino Cazares (Fear Factory) and Pepper Keenan (Corrosion of Conformity/Down). Who wins is ...

In the '70s and '80s there was a financial firm named EF Hutton (now part of Citigroup) that ran television commercials that took place in a noisy environment such as a conference room full of chattering people. One investor would be talking to a friend or colleague and say, "Well, my broker's EF Hutton, and EF Hutton says...

Phi Anselmo has had a genre-defining career, from his work in Pantera to Down to Superjoint Ritual to Arson Anthem. He's lived a life that most musicians and metal fans would kill to have and he has been a voice of a metal generation, but he hasn't been without his painful moments...

Pantera/Down frontman Phil Anselmo has been plagued by back pain for much of his adult life, dating back to the 1990s. Fans are well aware of his recurring back issues, but a bad spine isn't keeping this metal legend down and off his feet. "Yeah, my love, I have had major back surgery," Anselmo told Noisecreep...