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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">DOWN’S ‘DOWN IV-PART 1’ DEBUTS ON TOP OF THE HARD MUSIC ALBUM CHART; CURRENTLY #1 ON METAL RADIO<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">FUSE WORLD-PREMIERES VIDEO FOR SINGLE “WITCHTRIPPER”</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">“…a typically aggressive Anselmo vocal against a twisting, grinding musical backdrop.”
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">“If the darkest corners of the New Orleans underground has an official sound, it is the gloriously bleak, punishing chug of Down.”
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">NEW YORK, NY October 3, 2012—</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Iconic metal collective
<b>DOWN </b>debuted at <b>#1</b> on the <b>Hard Music Album Chart </b>and<b> #1 </b>
on <b>Metal Radio </b>with their long-awaited EP, <b><i>Down IV-Part 1,</i> </b>released September 18 via Down Records/Independent Label Group. To keep the momentum,
<b>FUSE</b> also recently debuted the video for the first single off the EP, <b>“Witchtripper.”
</b>In case you missed it, </span><a href="http://www.fuse.tv/videos/2012/09/exclusive-watch-downs-frightening-video-for-witchtripper"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">PRESS HERE</span></b></a><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">
</span></i></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">to watch the video!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The video, shot in black and white and directed by Rio Hackford, who also directed the video for the band’s
<b>“On March The Saints”</b> off their previous record, <b><i>Over The Under</i></b>, depicts the tale of two religious-like men who fall under a spell from a group of witches. Pentagrams, chase scenes, curses, and even chicken feet are all visible throughout
the video to balance ominous visuals of the band’s front-man Phillip Anselmo. <o:p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="apple-style-span"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">“’Witchtripper’ is everything fans would hope for from a band that includes former Pantera frontman Phil Anselmo (as well as members from
Corrosion of Conformity </span></i></span><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">[Pepper Keenan]<i>, Crowbar
</i>[Kirk Windstein, Pat Bruders]<i> and Eyehategod</i> [Jimmy Bower]<i>: it’s sludgy, aggressive and charmingly dark,”</i> <b>FUSE</b> recently stated. </span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">After wrapping a U.S. tour in support of their EP last night in Charlotte, NC and a mind-blowing show at New York City’s Best Buy Theatre last week,
<span style="color:black">the band will continue their force on metal music by heading back into the studio for work on the second in the series of four EPs set for release.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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