A band calling themselves Pantera has been enjoying collectively once more for 2 years now, and the inevitable query all the time appears to come up: will they’ve the gall to file a brand new studio album beneath the Pantera title with out the late Abbott brothers? Effectively, it seems like a studio album isn’t on the horizon, however a dwell album isn’t fully out of the query.
In a latest interview with Brazilian music journalist Igor Miranda, present Pantera touring guitarist Zakk Wylde was requested about touring drummer Charlie Benante’s suggestion that the present model of Pantera would possibly launch a dwell album. Wylde didn’t appear to outright affirm the dwell album, however he definitely appeared open to the chance. Right here’s what Wylde needed to say, as transcribed by Blabbermouth:
“Yeah, regardless of the fellas wanna do, we knock it out. Let’s be actual — it’s a dwell album each night time. Folks with their telephones and all the things are recording it anyway, so it doesn’t [matter] to me. You go up there and also you play to win each night time.”
However as for the potential for any new songs popping out from the present lineup, that appears unlikely, in accordance with Wylde:
“No, we haven’t sat and talked about, like, ‘Oh, guys, let’s get collectively and write songs,’ or whatnot; there hasn’t been something like that. I imply, the one discussions we’ll have is simply what different new songs we wanna put within the setlist. Like after we put ‘Floods’ in after which we obtained collectively at rehearsals, obtained collectively over at Phil’s home, we simply rehearsed all the things. However no, nothing like… We haven’t been sitting round writing riffs and issues like that.”
However as for the ever burning query of whether or not the present lineup of Pantera is technically a tribute band, effectively, Wylde appears to suppose it’s:
“Yeah, that’s what I really feel it’s. It’s not even a tribute. It’s extra only a PANTERA celebration. Like every time we exit and do the ‘Expertise Hendrix’ [tours], which I all the time have a blast after I try this, it’s all of us going out and celebrating Jimi’s greatness. To me, that is [a] PANTERA celebration. We’re celebrating all of the mountains that PANTERA conquered. In order that’s what that is.”
That’s fairly opposite to what bassist Rex Brown needed to say again in March. Plainly not all of the members of Pantera are on the identical web page on that.
Try the tour dates beneath to take a look at the “Pantera celebration”:
Remaining Pantera 2024 Dates:
July 6 – Rock Fest – Barcelona, Spain
Aug. 2 – Gillette Stadium – Foxborough, MA (with Metallica)
Aug. 9 – Soldier Area – Chicago, IL (with Metallica)
Aug. 16 – US Financial institution Stadium – Minneapolis, MN (with Metallica)
Aug. 23 – Commonweath Stadium – Edmonton, AB (with Metallica)
Aug. 30 – Lumen Area – Seattle, WA (with Metallica)
Oct. 10 – Aftershock Competition – Sacramento, CA
European Pantera Tour Dates
Jan. 21 – Helsinki, Finland – Ice Corridor
Jan. 23 – Stockholm, Sweden – Hovet
Jan. 24 – Oslo, Norway – Spektrum
Jan. 26 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Royal Area
Jan. 28 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – AFAS Dwell
Jan. 31 – Ljubljana, Slovenia – Area Stožice
Feb. 1 – Ostrava, Czech Republic – Ostravar Aréna
Feb. 3 – Budapest, Hungary – Budapest Area
Feb. 4 – Kraków, Poland – Tauron Area
Feb. 6 – Hamburg, Germany – Sporthalle
Feb. 7 – Berlin, Germany – Max-Schmeling-Halle
Feb. 9 – Düsseldorf, Germany – Mitsubishi Electrical Halle
Feb. 10 – Brussels, Belgium – Forest Nationwide
Feb. 12 – Bologna, Italy – Unipol Area
Feb. 13 – Zürich, Switzerland – Hallenstadion
Feb. 15 – Paris, France – Adidas Area
Pantera U.Okay./Eire Dates:
Feb. 18 – Glasgow, UK @ OVO Hydro
Feb. 19 – Leeds, UK @ First Direct Area
Feb. 21 – Dublin, Eire @ 3Arena
Feb. 23 – Birmingham, UK @ BP Pulse Dwell
Feb. 25 – London, UK @ OVO Area Wembley
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