yea i didnt stutter i read dimes statement in my new guitar world a couple weeks ago, and just now posting it. if someone else has brought this up close me down for being a moron. ill post the statement later on tonight if yall want to read it. but no fear dime and vinnie are gonna relese an album soon. details later.

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Yeah it was brought up in the Pantera thread. Here ya go.

http://www.metaltabs.com/forum/show...10&pagenumber=1

Sad really, afterall, this place probably wouldn't be here if it wasn't for this band! can't help but mourn their passing!

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It's true, all of this was born out of a bunch of people who love Pantera and Napalm Death.

Yeah, if it wasn't for Pantera, I never would have gone to atmetal and joined, and thus wouldn't be here today. And I know how much you all like me being around here...cocksuckers.




I think Pantera's done, but personally, it doesn't bother me all that much. I usually only listen to Pantera now when I want something angry and emotional, and I doubt they'll ever top TGSTK or FBD.

yea im a complete and utter moron i found the thread about 2 seconds after i posted it..but yea its sad about pantera, but i cant wait to hear dime and vinnies shit.

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Yea, actually the first REALLY cool place I found in internet was the almighty Pantera forum at ATmetal sites... We wouldnt be here without them, I completely agree...

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Did you post back at atmetal before it was shut down?

This is not fun, when i first heard them i wuz thinking, i can't die before seeing this band live on stage. That probably will not ever happen. Unless they do a decent farewelltour.

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that fuckin band brought me here too. kinda.
it's sad hearin' that statement.
and let us all have a silence for tampora.
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but let us all check out dime and vinnie's new band
A NEW POWER. cuz i know it's probably gonna be a sweet fucking band.
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fucking pantera man.
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but we'll always keep keep it FUCKING HOSTILE, we will dominate, we will respect, we will shed our fuckin' skin, and become. we will take the 13 steps, and never sandblast our fucking skin. cuz my fucking name is revolution, and we're all hollow motherfuckers. But the fact is, PanterA will always cast a motherfucking shadow, cuz they're the most fucking honest fucking band there has EVER been, , so mother fuckers THE TREND IS DEAD, it's all good friends and a bottle of pills.............................................
and this shit is all ....... GODDAMN ELECTRIC!



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r.i.p. TamporA

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preach it trendkill lol

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Check this shit out, they re-launched the Official site at http://www.officialpantera.com

No official mention of a split, it's just updating on what the four are up to.

MOTHER FUCKIN BEAUTIFULL





HAIL

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FROM BLABBERMOUTH.NET

PHILIP ANSELMO: Done With PANTERA, Sticking With SUPERJOINT RITUAL - May 14, 2003

Vocalist Phil Anselmo says that he is done with PANTERA and he intends to focus all his time and energy on SUPERJOINT RITUAL. "There was a lot of business with Warner Bros. and this and that DOWN and PANTERA and this and that, and etc. etc." Anselmo was quoted as saying by MetalIndex.com. "Whatever. Pretty much what I'm doing here is I'm sticking with SUPERJOINT, and I'm not doing fuckin' anything else. This is where I'm most comfortable and this it the type of music that I wanna do, you know?"

Anselmo says that he is proud of what PANTERA achieved and is also proud that they pulled the plug rather than faded away. "If you think about it, PANTERA never went away until we personally said, 'Fuck it'."

Asked if he sees patching up differences and rejoining DOWN or PANTERA, Anselmo said, "Never say never... [but] not right now."

SUPERJOINT RITUAL's sophomore album, "A Lethal Dose Of American Hatred", is due on July 22 through Sanctuary Records


OUCH...!!!!! THAT HURT


GODDAMN FUCKIN SHIT

FEEL LIKE I WANT TO SHOOT SOMEONE
YEAH I LIKE SUPERJOINT RITUAL AND DOWN BUT IT AIN'T GOOD OLD PANTERA

WELL...ONLY THING TO DO IS TO WAIT FOR THE NEW FOUND POWER ALBUM
ANYBODY HAVE INFORMATION ABOUT IT?

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Phil can now officially eat my ass.

Yeah I read that earlier, it sucks.

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GOOD! *hides*

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Hold it!!! You guys are jumping ahead a litttle bit...maybe Pantera is gone forever I don't know. People have been saying all sorts of crap...I even heard somewhere that Pantera disbanded 'cause Phil and Dime got in a fight. But you can't always believe everything you hear. I'm going to see Superjoint live next week which I'm really excited about, but I have never seen Pantera live (I came close to seeing Extreme Steel...long story) The cowboys from hell (espically Phil 'cause this is all his damn fault) owe it to those of us who have never seen them live at least one last shot!! And if that does not happen, I will get revenge on Phil and Rex!! But for now, I don't think we should keep making threads about this...we should just wait and see what happens and never think for a moment that Pantera is gone for good

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We all know that but
Here it is from the mouth of the man itself.
Damn it!!!! What the fuck is wrong with that dickhead Ass-elmo???!!!

DIMEBAG DARRELL: 'PANTERA Is Officially Over' - Nov. 24, 2003

Former PANTERA guitarist Dimebag Darrell recently spoke to the U.K.'s Rock Sound magazine about the current status of the band that is widely considered to be one of the most influential American metal acts of the '90s.

When asked point-blank if PANTERA is officially over, Dimebag said, "Oh yeah, it's been officially over since our lead singer [Philip Anselmo] started announcing it from stages across the United States." Dimebag went on to explain that "[Anselmo] threatened it before but when he started announcing it in the press and from onstage, that was when it became official. He never had the decency to talk to us about it. Nobody would return our calls so me and [PANTERA drummer] Vinnie [Paul] just sat at home not knowing what the fuck was going on."

Despite all the obvious bad blood, Dimebag admited "we're not ashamed of a fuckin' thing we've done. It was a great ride and we wanted it to last forever. It didn't but we're back with [our new band] DAMAGEPLAN and we're ready to kick some muthafuckin' dick!"

DAMAGEPLAN, which features Darrell, Vinnie, singer Patrick Lachman (former HALFORD/DIESEL MACHINE guitarist) and bassist Bobzilla, will release their debut album, "New Found Power", on February 10 through Elektra Records. The group expect to begin playing select shows in January, with a full-scale North American tour to follow shortly after the album's release.

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Yeh that truly sucks if pantera is done!!! They were one of my main influences wen i started playing guitar, so much so that i bought Dimes signature guitar the top of the range Dime Slime 333 ( Its fookin luvly i tell ya) Anyway heres to dimes new band cos we all know theyre gonna deliver the goods

Pantera was my first concert, that is when i met my best friend. Taking away a band like this is taking away history. These guys influenced so many people and so many bands. As my friend Matt puts it, "I should be crying and punching someone in the face at the same time." So all we can do is raise our glasses one more time in memoryof a great band.

. cheers to Pantera

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Agreed

Ex-PANTERA Drummer: 'PHILIP ANSELMO Was Afraid Of Success' - Nov. 25, 2003

Ex-PANTERA drummer Vinnie Paul recently spoke to Revolver magazine about the circumstances that led to the group's demise two years after the release of their critically acclaimed "Reinventing The Steel" CD.

"With the last couple of PANTERA records, we kept getting more and more narrow-minded because of Phil," Vinnie said. "He didn't want to experiment or take any chances, and it was like being in a tube that was getting to be so small you couldn't even breathe. Personally, I think the dude was afraid of success. He wanted to be such an underground icon that the bigger PANTERA got, the more he didn't want to be involved.

"I did everything I could to get the guy squared away so he could have a good time. We had already agreed to take six months to a year off anyway, because we had been doing this for 12 goddamn years and we needed a break. But next thing I know, he's off doing DOWN with [PANTERA bassist] Rex [Brown] and talking shit about us.

"Phil has no respect for anything and just perceives other people to be less than he is. After hearing him talking so much shit, I looked at [brother/PANTERA guitarist Dimebag Darrell] and went, 'You know what? I think this might be the end of this. We better start doing something, because the only thing we know how to do is play music."

According to Vinnie, Anselmo hid many things from his bandmates, including his appetite for heroin. It wasn't until 1996, when he overdosed after a hometown show in Dallas that the rest of PANTERA learned of his affinity for the needle.

"It was about 118 degrees outside that day, so I thought the dude had passed out from heat exhaustion," Vinnie said. "He was blue and medics were hitting him in the chest. Then they're saying it's a heroin overdose, and I'm like, 'Dude, you gotta be kidding!' Because he used to preach antidrugs back in the day."

"[In the years that followed Phil's overdose] he was very private about [the fact that he was using again]. I don't know if he was using the whole time or what, but it got to the point where I didn't know which Phil was gonna show up to the gig. One night he would walk in and be a fucking animal. The next night, I'd walk backstage and he'd be lying in the corner and he'd say he was tired. I will never take anything away from that dude from when he was at the top of his game, but where he's at right now, I think he's much less than subpar at what he does. I have a hard time watching him when I see him on MTV talking about SUPERDOPE RITUAL, or whatever they're called, and he can't keep his fucking eyes open."

Vinnie Paul's interview with Revolver appears in the magazine's February 2004 issue, out on the newsstands now.

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Lucky you, then you can live forever

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I WONDER IF THEY ARE GOING TO TALK SHIT ABOUT EACH OTHER LIKE THAT FOR A LONG TIME....

PHILIP ANSELMO Slams DAMAGEPLAN: 'They're Not Doing Anything Different' - Nov. 27, 2003

Ex-PANTERA frontman Philip Anselmo has slammed his former bandmates for "not doing anything different" with their new band DAMAGEPLAN and has one again reiterated the fact that he has no desire of ever returning to his previous group.

Speaking to AbsolutMetal about his current band SUPERJOINT RITUAL, Anselmo said, "I want SUPERJOINT RITUAL to be every-fuckin'-thing that people maybe missed in PANTERA. Because I knew that, you know, PANTERA, not to talk about 'um, because I'm not going to, but if it weren't fuckin' for me, in that fuckin' band...what I fuckin' taught those motherfuckers. You know, you'll see on their new shit [DAMAGEPLAN], the singer [Patrick Lachman] is gonna come out and imitate me, the best he possibly can. He's gonna have to end up singing songs that I wrote when I was fuckin' 20 years old, and they're gonna sound like [guitarist] Diamond Darrell and [drummer] Vinnie Paul's killer sound, you know, they're not doing anything different. Whereas with SUPERJOINT, yeah, we're doing something fuckin' different. I'm not saying it's never been done before, but what I'm saying is, is it's definitely a genre of music that changed my life forever. This is where I've wanted to be for so long, musically, you know, 'cause we've been writing SUPERJOINT shit for oh god, since '93, and you know, long time coming, man. I mean to fuckin' be with them, with this fuckin' band for damn sure."

When asked if the previously announced DOWN acoustic album and DVD will ever come out, Anselmo said, "As long as we're entrapped with Elektra Records, which we seem to be, I'm not doing another fucking thing for Elektra Records unless they...they'd have to promise me...a lot of money, real fuckin' quick, and a lot of promotion. And their gonna have to do better than promises, I want it fuckin' so to the fuckin' T, contracted to where they don't have the upper hand on the band. As they have in the past...I ain't doing nothing for Elektra Records 'cause they ain't done nothin' for me but fuckin' waste my time. Aside from the other band which I ain't ever doin' nothin' with again...and I don't want to talk about it."

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I dont enjoy Pantera. They are defunct.

Phil is such an idiot. I hate Pantera.

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i think panteras ok but they are deffinitly overrated.

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"I want SUPERJOINT RITUAL to be every-fuckin'-thing that people maybe missed in PANTERA." Well i wasent missing crappy music thats mroe repetivive than haetbreed... so i dunno wtf he thinks superdope ritual is. Phil just cant accept that hes a failure.... he blames elecktra for downs crappy sales.... hmmm pantera seemed to sell well on elecktra. Hes just an arragant asshole. FUCK PHIL!

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Ive never liked phil, he's just so out of place. and hes a damn heroin addict, cant even keep his eyes open in an interveiw.

Phil the frontman? what the hell? I always thought of Dimebag as the frontman, just because phil sings doesnt make him the frontman. damn MTV.

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I have to agree. I am not a big Pantera fan, but they have some really cool songs.

yep it sucks... im just glad i got to see them on the extreme steel tour

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this already been posted... you should have checked the entire thread before

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then why the hell are people still wondering if panteras finished??

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man, the bandmates are acting like teenagers now that they broke-up....
man, they used to be so awesome....i wish they did one more album.

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I just saw the new Superjoint album and it has a sticker with a quote from Phil supporting the band. I think "oh that's nice" then I realize he's in the fucking band and I put the CD back in disgust. "SUPPORT MY BAND! WE ARE GOOD!" What a dumbshit.

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Hopfully ND wont be next.