PANTERA Reunion Rips Are living: 4K Fan Pictures Ignites the Moshpit
Calling all PANTERA lovers! Get able to crank it as much as 11. The primary high-octane, professionally filmed pictures of PANTERA‘s reunited lineup has landed on-line.
The electrifying 4K, 50fps video captures Philip Anselmo (vocals), Rex Brown (bass), Zakk Wylde (guitar), and Charlie Benante (drums) tearing via vintage PANTERA anthems like “A New Degree,” “This Love,” “Stroll,” and “Cowboys From Hell.”
Filmed reside ultimately 12 months’s Resurrection Fest in Viveiro, Lugo, Spain (June 29, 2023), the power is simple. Get ready to relive the PANTERA enjoy or witness it with the reformed lineup for the primary time. You’ll test it out under.
Simply ultimate month, Rex mentioned in-depth with Rolling Stone Australia what it was once like acting with PANTERA in 2024, pronouncing: “Two of our liked brothers that simply aren’t right here anymore guy, that’s existence, you already know? They’re simply no longer with us guy. That’s simply destiny; it’s the best way the ball rolls, dude.”
He added: “That is no tribute band — Philip and I am getting to play those songs of ours that we haven’t performed in 23 years. And in an effort to do this and hook up with the enormity of what’s came about is solely extremely fucking insane, you already know?”
Relating to the addition of Zakk and Charlie to the lineup, Rex stated: “We knew who would have compatibility and who wouldn’t. We knew what the hindrances had been in entrance people, and we knew after… I’ll put it this manner — Charlie and I got here down in September [2022] prior to we performed that [first] display in December [2022], and we’ve got most definitely 100 hours of tape people taking part in each and every fucking PANTERA music that I may take note.
“And so, you already know, me and Charlie lockin’ in like that… the drummer and the bass participant, that’s your basis. So when Zakk got here in, there have been sure issues we needed to move again and again and over, to get tight. And as of late, this band is set as tight and about as badass as I fucking need. You recognize what I imply, and that’s all I’m gonna say on that.”
“However, guy, this band is on fuckin’ fireplace, and I couldn’t be happier, guy,” he added. “I simply can’t provide an explanation for that up to I wish to, I may no longer be happier.”
Drummer Charlie Benante lately printed discussions a few doable reside album from the present lineup of the band.
Benante mentioned his participation in the gang‘s go back right through a chat with The Vinyl Information Podcast, pronouncing: “For me, the PANTERA factor is an overly particular factor. I believe it’s a kind of alternatives to a) honor your folks, b) play some songs that you just love, and c) give the target audience an opportunity to listen to those songs on this setting once more, some who had by no means observed PANTERA prior to. And sure, I do know this isn’t the unique PANTERA. I must be a fucking fool not to know that. This model of PANTERA is, in fact, with Zakk and myself, and we’re staying true to what the band was once.”
When requested if Vinnie ever mentioned the potential of taking part in as PANTERA once more whilst he was once nonetheless alive, Charlie stated: “I by no means had a complete dialog with him about it, as it was once by no means one thing that will be introduced up when I used to be in conjunction with him. After we had been in combination, we mentioned various things — by no means reforming the band once more. And that was once it. His brother wasn’t there. So, I don’t know. I did listen at one level Vinnie was once open to do it once more, however I don’t know if that was once actual or no longer. And that was once it.”
As for the potential of the brand new lineup freeing a reside recording from the present excursion, Benante stated: “Yeah. We mentioned that. We’ll see. We document so much, and it’s most definitely simply spending time with it and spot what presentations are excellent, or take a music from this display or a music from that display and bring together it for a reside document. I might find irresistible to do that.”
Billboard studies that the lineup won approval from the estates of the band’s founders, drummer Vincent “Vinnie Paul” Abbott and guitarist “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott.
Information of Anselmo and Brown becoming a member of forces with Wylde and Benante for a world excursion below the PANTERA moniker to start with surfaced in July 2022.
Recently, the band is headlining more than a few main fairs throughout North The united states and Europe, together with web hosting their headline presentations. Moreover, they’re set to accompany METALLICA on an intensive stadium excursion in 2024.
The tragic historical past of PANTERA involves the founding individuals, Vinnie Paul and Dimebag, who later shaped DAMAGEPLAN after the gang disbanded in 2003. Dimebag‘s existence was once tragically reduce brief on December 8, 2004, when he was once fatally shot onstage by means of a person who suffered from schizophrenia. Vinnie Paul kicked the bucket on June 22, 2018, in Las Vegas, because of dilated cardiomyopathy and critical coronary artery illness, stemming from power middle muscle weakening.
