The Silver Tongue

New Orleans Underground came to Atlanta tonight.

The Down side project and has grown into a full juggernaut, consisting of members of Pantera, COC, Eyehategod and Crowbar. They got together to create this southern-fried, heavy-metal doom laden rock.

This is third time seeing this great band. And each time they have been better than the last show. The band seemed clean, sober and fresh for the show. They have a great chemistry on stage.

Phil Anselmo stole the show with in my opinion was his best performance vocally, switching from his screaming and growling and back to singing. Kurt and Pepper have merged as one with their colossal riffs, tight intertwined sound. You can feel the emotions of anger, loss and despair flowing out of their guitars.

They delivered old favorites like “Lifer”, “Ghost Along the Mississippi”, “Losing All” and songs off the latest release like “N.O.D”, “Nothing In Return (Walk Away)” and “The Path”.

Jimmy Bower laid down the thick foundation with Rex Brown temporarily replacement Danny Theriot. They finished the night with an encore of my favorites, “Stone the Crow” and “Bury Me In Smoke”.

The guys seemed to be inspired and enjoyed the night with lots of family and friends coming out on stage playing the last number and having one of their kids come out and pose on stage and scream out ‘Rock-n-Roll”.