Throwdown Frontman Issues Update

Dave Peters, frontman for Orange County, CA Metalcore heavyweights Throwdown has issued the following update and end of the year recap:

"Singing with Max Cavalera/Soulfy...Destroying South America...and actually they happened completely independently of each other in spite of the fact that Mr. Cavalera hails from a town only a couple hours from Sao Paulo, Brazil, where we just ended our South American run with our friends in It Dies Today.

About a week or two ago we went a few amazing places where it is actually still Summer (must be nice), including Argentina, Chile and Brazil, but before that, I had the opportunity to collaborate with the legendary Max Cavalera on a ridiculously brutal and thrashy song that will be appearing on the upcoming Soulfly record in 2008.

Some of you might have read the Revolver "Rebel Meets Rebel" with Max and I, which was a dream come true in itself, and if you did you might have read an official invite to sing on the Cavalera Conspiracy record that he and his brother Igor had planned after about a decade of doing their own and separate endeavors. Well, schedules did not permit the aforementioned, however, Max and Co flew me out to Orlando recently to be a part of an incredible collection of songs that I had the pleasure of previewing while in the studio, and...well...what can I say...the experience was completely surreal.

What I thought would be an hour or so of getting the right take on a few pre-written lines ended up being a full day of writing the lyrics and vocal patterns along side one of my heroes of metal and getting some amazing stories out of him during the downtime.

Can't say I'll ever forget that or top that one, but maybe we can fool Max into stumbling into a Throwdown session one of these days and give it a shot.

I'll say that I feel pretty damn lucky to have done that and then jumped on another plane a few days later and head down to South America for some killer shows.

It was our first experience in Argentina and Chile and our second in Brazil and it was all a fuckin blast. Just want to say thanks to everyone that came out to the shows in Buenos Aires, Santiago and Sao Paulo and made us and the It Dies Todayers feel real at home.

We rolled a hell of a lot into those 6 or 7 days across 3 countries, most of which I was too exhausted at the end of it all to recollect accurately, but here are some highlights. Photos to come soon...

~Andy Williams of Every Time I Die being present, bearded and amazing for the course of the entire tour

~Meeting Snoop Dogg in the airport, having him crip walk up to the ticketing counter and give Td a "sup nod"

~Ben stopping a purse robbery, and in the course of doing so, actually robbing the robber of his own backpack. Unfortunately, all dude had was a couple schoolbooks and 30 condoms. At least he's an educated and health conscious low life, right?

~Brutal concert dog that ate more Ruffles than I've ever seen and snarled every time you put your hand above her head to pet her

~Eating more meat than we ever could have dreamed. The manager of the Brazilian BBQ restaurant actually cut Andy off at one point, which is awesome considering it was all you can eat.

Like I said, photos to come soon. Just pulling em all together so we've got more for ya. Thanks again to South America and the legendary Max Cavalera for the goodtimes, and Happy Holidays to y'all."

Throwdown will embark on a North American Headlining tour entitled 'The Scum Of The Earth Tour' starting in late February 2008. Support on the tour will come from Swedish Melodic Death Thrashers Soilwork, Death Metal unit Through The Eyes Of The Dead, and War Of Ages.