Metal Anarchy

During a recent interview with Sweetwater, Rex Brown further discussed Pantera’s decision to return with a new lineup. According to him, the band’s late founders, Vinnie Paul Abbott and Dimebag Darrell Abbott, are “looking down” on the group and are “digging what they’re seeing.”

Brown said the following:

“The last show, man, I had a creepy, like a cold — something came by me. It felt like there was a cold feeling. And I’ve gotten this a couple of times before. When we were down recording with Charlie [Benante] — me and Charlie just went down [in late 2022], put up eighty to a hundred hours of tape before Zakk [Wylde ][started rehearsing with us]. Zakk was still on the road. So we wanted to get the bass and the drum real tight, and we had this scratch guitar player. I felt that same chill. And, to me, they’re angels. And I think you know who they are. Those guys, I think they’re looking down, or they’re looking around us, with us, and I think they’re digging what they’re seeing, man. I really do. And that’s the only kind of way I can look at it, and get as close as we can with Charlie and Zakk. And God, it’s getting really, really good. And there’s so much more potential to get even tighter.”

He also added:

“There’s a lot of memories in this band that are hard to put down. And losing the brothers, I just never in a million years thought that something like that would happen. Here we are 22 years later, and to see these new fans’ faces. You’ve got one kid sitting there, or man, woman or child crying, and you have this other guy just going, ‘You did it right.’ It’s just amazing.”

[via Blabbermouth]