Pantera
Pantera’s Surviving Members Planning 2023 Reunion Tour
The two surviving members of Pantera’s classic-era lineup will reunite for a 2023 tour, SPIN can confirm. The legendary hard rock group disbanded in acrimony in 2003, and founding members/brothers “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott and drummer Vincent “Vinnie Paul” Abbott died in 2004 and 2018, respectively, but vocalist Phil Anselmo and bassist Rex Brown will carry the torch forward with as-yet-unnamed other musicians. Formed in 1981 by the Abbotts when they were teenagers in Texas, Pantera honed its chops for years as a bar band playing Judas Priest and Van Halen covers before settling on its unique, thrash- and metal-driven sound in the early 1990s. Anselmo, who joined in 1987, described Pantera in a 1992 SPIN profile as “the heaviest band in the world.” Thanks to 1992’s Vulgar Display of Power a...
99 Metal Musicians Join Forces to Cover ’99 Bottles of Beer’
If 99 metal musicians teamed up to sing “99 Bottles of Beer,” you’d think it was a joke, right? Well, it’s 2020, so nothing is not insane, and that’s exactly what happened. The project was put together by Scour’s Derek Engemann and Nest’s John Jarvis. All proceeds from the song will benefit the Old Dog Haven, a charity that helps old dogs find homes. Assembling the track literally took years. “This has been an epically fun project involving the entire Metal scene, and even a few Ska bands! This project originally began back in 2013, but was brought back to life once we discovered Old Dog Haven,” Engemann said on a GoFundMe page for the charity. “The ’99 Bottles’ has truly shown the good side of humanity during these wild times that we are in. I was amazed at all of the peopl...
