Virtually precisely 22 years after PANTERA‘s basic lineup performed its remaining present, the reformed band returned to the city the place the legendary quartet fashioned again in 1981, Arlington, Texas, this time because the assist act for METALLICA.

On Friday (August 18),PANTERA‘s surviving members Philip Anselmo (vocals) and Rex Brown (bass),together with guitarist Zakk Wylde (BLACK LABEL SOCIETY, OZZY OSBOURNE) and drummer Charlie Benante (ANTHRAX),performed an 11-song set on the AT&T Stadium, which is positioned lower than three miles from the place PANTERA‘s founding members “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott (guitar) and his brother, Vinnie Paul Abbott (drums),are buried on the Moore Memorial Gardens Cemetery.

Dimebag and his Vinnie Paul fashioned PANTERA within the mid-eighties in Texas. The band recorded 4 unbiased albums earlier than their 1990 main label debut, “Cowboys From Hell”, launched a heavier sound and made them a favourite with steel followers. 1994’s “Far Past Pushed” debuted at No. 1 on The Billboard 200 with out advantage of a business hit single.

The group splintered in 2002 following the departure of Anselmo. Dime and Vinnie regrouped with DAMAGEPLAN, releasing the band’s debut album, “New Discovered Energy”, in February of 2004.

Dimebag, some of the beloved and revered musicians in exhausting rock, was shot onstage throughout a DAMAGEPLAN live performance on December 8, 2004 on the Alrosa Villa membership in Columbus, Ohio by a 25-year-old ex-Marine named Nathan Gale. Gale murdered a complete of 4 folks and wounded three others earlier than being killed himself by police officer James D. Niggemeyer, who arrived on the scene minutes after Gale started his rampage.

DAMAGEPLAN was touring in assist of “New Discovered Energy” on the time of the shootings.

Vinnie and Anselmo had not spoken since PANTERA cut up in 2003. However the relationship obtained much more acrimonious when Vinnie not directly blamed Philip for Dimebag‘s loss of life, suggesting that some remarks the vocalist had made about Dimebag in print simply weeks earlier might need incited Dimebag‘s killer.

Anselmo and Brown, together with Wylde and Benante, are headlining a lot of main festivals throughout South America, Asia, North America and Europe and staging a few of their very own headline live shows. They’re additionally supporting METALLICA on an enormous North American stadium tour in 2023 and 2024.

In accordance with Billboard, the lineup has been given a inexperienced mild by Dimebag and Vinnie Paul‘s estates.

Vinnie handed away on June 22, 2018 at his different house in Las Vegas on the age of 54. He died of dilated cardiomyopathy, an enlarged coronary heart, in addition to extreme coronary artery illness. His loss of life was the results of power weakening of the center muscle — principally which means his coronary heart could not pump blood in addition to a wholesome coronary heart.