During a recent interview with Igor Miranda, Pantera’s current guitarist Zakk Wylde was asked about the possibility of a new live album from the band. He responded by saying he would be open to the idea.
Wylde said the following about a live release:
“Yeah, whatever the fellas wanna do, we knock it out. Let’s be real — it’s a live album every night. People with their phones and everything are recording it anyway, so it doesn’t [matter] to me. You go up there and you play to win every night.”
He continued when asked about new material:
“No, we haven’t sat and talked about, like, ‘Oh, guys, let’s get together and write songs,’ or whatnot; there hasn’t been anything like that. I mean, the only discussions we’ll have is just what other new songs we wanna put in the setlist. Like when we put ‘Floods’ in and then we got together at rehearsals, got together over at Phil’s house, we just rehearsed everything. But no, nothing like… We haven’t been sitting around writing riffs and things like that.”
He also added the following when asked if he sees the current lineup as a tribute:
“Yeah, that’s what I feel it is. It’s not even a tribute. It’s more just a Pantera celebration. Like whenever we go out and do the ‘Experience Hendrix’ [tours], which I always have a blast when I do that, it’s all of us going out and celebrating Jimi’s greatness. To me, this is [a] Pantera celebration. We’re celebrating all the mountains that Pantera conquered. So that’s what this is.”
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