Rumors started flying when Anselmo began performing Pantera songs with his band Phil Anselmo and the Illegals. “I wouldn’t do it with Down. I wouldn’t do it with Superjoint,” Anselmo said to Chilean magazine Humo Negro, naming his other bands.

“So I went to [The Illegals] and I said, ‘What do you think?’ And they said, ‘Let’s try.’ And as we went on, I realized this is pretty good; they play the songs very well. I mean, we had about a week to get ready for anything, man. So with each gig, it’s got better and better and better and better.”

When asked directly about the possibility of touring with Rex, the only other surviving member of Pantera, Anselmo replied: “I’m open for anything. And Rex and I, we are in touch and we talk. We’re friends and everything’s cool. So, I keep an open mind — I keep an open mind. We’ll see in the future.”

We’re definitely keeping our fingers crossed!

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“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!

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Rumors started flying when Anselmo began performing Pantera songs with his band Phil Anselmo and the Illegals. “I wouldn’t do it with Down. I wouldn’t do it with Superjoint,” Anselmo said to Chilean magazine Humo Negro, naming his other bands.

“So I went to [The Illegals] and I said, ‘What do you think?’ And they said, ‘Let’s try.’ And as we went on, I realized this is pretty good; they play the songs very well. I mean, we had about a week to get ready for anything, man. So with each gig, it’s got better and better and better and better.”

When asked directly about the possibility of touring with Rex, the only other surviving member of Pantera, Anselmo replied: “I’m open for anything. And Rex and I, we are in touch and we talk. We’re friends and everything’s cool. So, I keep an open mind — I keep an open mind. We’ll see in the future.”

We’re definitely keeping our fingers crossed!

The post A Pantera Reunion?! Phil Anselmo Says it’s Possible appeared first on Hot Pop Today.

“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!

The post Rex Brown Promises a New Solo Album Without a Single Ballad appeared first on Hot Pop Today.