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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With drum tracks for their upcoming album Welcome Home already recorded, the band decided to go ahead with recording and releasing the album. Hellyeah guitarist Christian Brady spoke to Metal Injection about their upcoming album Welcome Home and his memories of Vinnie.

“It was touch and go for a while, figuring out what we were going to do,” said Brady about the hectic time following Vinnie’s death. “We definitely knew, no matter what, we had to finish the record. I guess it would have been a different story if his drum parts weren’t finished or if we were just getting started, but because we were at the point we were at with the record where all the drum tracks and guitars and bass had been laid down we were able to finish it.”

“It was fortunate that that was the case because at least we got one more record to be able to give to the fans that Vinnie was a part of,” he went on to explain.

On a more personal note, Brady reflected on his time together with Vinnie: “[He] always used to say when we were hanging out late at night, ‘Man, I wish my brother would have known you, man. He would’ve loved you.’ And that always made me feel sad but great as well. Just to hear that from him was always such an honor, but you know a little sad too.”

Vinnie’s brother, Dimebag Darrel, was shot on stage by a deranged fan in 2004. 

Welcome Home is set to be released on September 27, 2019.

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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.

With drum tracks for their upcoming album Welcome Home already recorded, the band decided to go ahead with recording and releasing the album. Hellyeah guitarist Christian Brady spoke to Metal Injection about their upcoming album Welcome Home and his memories of Vinnie.

“It was touch and go for a while, figuring out what we were going to do,” said Brady about the hectic time following Vinnie’s death. “We definitely knew, no matter what, we had to finish the record. I guess it would have been a different story if his drum parts weren’t finished or if we were just getting started, but because we were at the point we were at with the record where all the drum tracks and guitars and bass had been laid down we were able to finish it.”

“It was fortunate that that was the case because at least we got one more record to be able to give to the fans that Vinnie was a part of,” he went on to explain.

On a more personal note, Brady reflected on his time together with Vinnie: “[He] always used to say when we were hanging out late at night, ‘Man, I wish my brother would have known you, man. He would’ve loved you.’ And that always made me feel sad but great as well. Just to hear that from him was always such an honor, but you know a little sad too.”

Vinnie’s brother, Dimebag Darrel, was shot on stage by a deranged fan in 2004. 

Welcome Home is set to be released on September 27, 2019.

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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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