Rex Brown of Pantera fame recently talked about his upcoming solo album to Loudwire. While the title still remains a mystery, he had much to say about the songs themselves and the motivation behind creating this album.
“There’s not a ballad on this f**king record,” promised Brown. “It’s a stoned-out groove record.”
On the style of the music, he added: “It’s got its rockers, it’s got that heavy blues tinge. It’s got some upbeat anthems that I brought in at the last minute, some I even had tucked away for a long time.”
Brown attributed some of the writing on the album to the tragic death of Vinnie Paul, legendary drummer of Pantera, who died a year ago of heart failure at the age of 54.
“This record is really introspective, but in the sense that it just came naturally,” he told Loudwire. “I think that anytime somebody close to you dies — even though Vinnie and I weren’t really close at the end — you have to go back and peel the onion, just go through the layers of what life really means.”
Recording proved to be an emotional process for the bass player. He stated that “the first four or five tracks that we did were really just — man, I swear to God, you hear about this stuff happening and it’s never happened to me before — but where the pen just starts going to the paper, and it just starts writing itself.”
All we’re missing now is a title and a release date!
