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Без заголовка 01-12-2005 21:55

PHILIP ANSELMO: VINNIE And DIME Can't Shut Up About How Much I Fucked Them Over - Feb. 3, 2004

Former PANTERA frontman Philip Anselmo spoke to MetalAlliance.org last Friday (Jan. 30) about the recent bad-mouthing in the press between the various ex-members of the band and his future plans with his current main project, SUPERJOINT RITUAL. Asked how people are reacting to the breakup of PANTERA, Philip said, "Not well at all. I mean, yeah, some people have taken SUPERJOINT to heart, and stuff like that, but it seems like the other guys in PANTERA are just on this warpath fucking with me and they just can't shut up about how much I fucked them over and this and that. Look, man, being in a band is like a marriage you know — if a band breaks up, it's everybody's fucking fault, you know. They can't see their own faults, because they're too busy looking at mine, you know. Of course, I'm not faultless, but neither are they. You've got to understand — it comes from all four of us, you know, and it's time to grow up man and knock off all this shit-talking to other people, you know — just talking shit, because in all honesty, me and PANTERA we worked together for fucking 17 years, practically, and for it to end with bitterness and hatred is just silly. I'm not going to buy into it, you know, but just to let the fans know, I did not abandon my cause, and my cause is to create extreme fucking music and support heavy metal music the best way I know how, and with SUPERJOINT RITUAL, I'm just continuing on in my own way with extreme music and I'm just taking one step at a time and you know open your mind and your hearts and just fucking take it in its fucking bad ass! And it's not supposed to sound like PANTERA. PANTERA is PANTERA."

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Без заголовка 01-12-2005 21:54

VINNIE PAUL: PHILIP ANSELMO Stabbed Us In The Back - Jan. 30, 2004

DAMAGEPLAN drummer Vinnie Paul spoke to Music Mania Magazine Thursday (Jan. 29) about the breakup of PANTERA and DAMAGEPLAN's forthcoming debut CD, "New Found Power". Asked if there is any possibility of a PANTERA reunion at some point in the future, Vinnie said, "I don't think so. It would have been real easy for [former PANTERA singer] Phil [Anselmo] to call me on the phone and say, 'Look, I've got these other bands that I want to do and I've gone as far as I can with PANTERA.' But we were stabbed in the back, left out in the cold, and so were the PANTERA fans. The dude had some less then favorable things to say about the band. Basically the line was drawn in the sand. When me and [DAMAGEPLAN guitarist] Dime did it [referring to playing with PANTERA — Ed.], it was 100% no fucking around, no side projects, no bullshit, no nothing. That's the way it should be and that's how I feel about DAMAGEPLAN. So PANTERA is done and I don't think their will ever be a reunion." With regards to the possibility of DAMAGEPLAN playing this year's Ozzfest, Vinnie said, "We have a fantastic relationship with the Osbournes, [and] if they wanted us to be there then we would be there."

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Без заголовка 01-12-2005 21:52

DIMEBAG DARRELL Says He Tried To Help PHILIP ANSELMO Beat His Drug Problem - Jan. 24, 2004

Former PANTERA guitarist Dimebag Darrell has told Guitar World magazine that he tried to reach out to ex-PANTERA singer Philip Anselmo and help him with his alleged drug problem, but that he was rebuffed before he could make a difference. Asked about a recent magazine interview in which Phil claimed that Dimebag had "changed" and that the guitarist had a problem with him that he didn't understand, Darrell said, "If you look at the [PANTERA] home videos, you can see that I'm the same dude in '3 Watch It Go' [the group's last home video, released in 1998] that I was in the first video shot some eight years earlier. And I still am today. I still have the same love for life in my heart, and my drive is still there for the same reason — the love of music, the love of playing guitar and the love of jamming for people and interacting with the fans. And my brother's the same way.

"Anyone who's heard Phil's recent radio interview, which is all over the Internet, or seen him hosting on MTV speaking three octaves down, hardly able to talk or keep his eyes open, knows what his real problem is. For some time now, he's obviously been around people that accept that, as opposed to being around me and Vinnie, who have a different standard level. I tried to get through to him and help, because I truly love the dude, but it's impossible to connect with someone in that state, and that's when I became the enemy in his mind.

"Some people like to compare hard drugs to people who like to party on alcohol. But look, man — one's legal and one's illegal, and there's a reason for that. Sure, I've been a drinker since day one, and I ain't perfect, but I've never missed a show and I've never played a half-assed one because of it. For the record, I've never, ever snorted cocaine, I've never, ever done crank, I've never, ever smoked crack, and I've never, ever done heroin. It just plain grosses me out. I've seen too many motherfuckers go down in flames because of that shit."

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Без заголовка 01-12-2005 21:50

DIMEBAG, VINNIE PAUL: 'Dope-Fucked' PHILIP ANSELMO Can't Keep His Story Straight - Jan. 19, 2004

Former PANTERA members Dimebag Darrell (guitar) and Vinnie Paul (drums) have slammed ex-bandmate Philip Anselmo over his assertions that he "wasn't the one" who wanted to end PANTERA, calling his claims "bullshit" and implying in no uncertain terms that Anselmo's alleged drug problem is largely to blame for the singer's often-bizarre public statements.

During an appearance on Cleveland's "The Metal Show" (www.themetalshow.com) on 92.3 FM (Xtreme Radio), interviewer Chris Akin questioned the brothers (who are once again reunited in their new project DAMAGEPLAN) about a quote from an earlier interview with Anselmo in which Philip deflected some of the blame for PANTERA's break-up away from himself and towards the rest of the band.

Asked if there was any chance down the road that he and Dime and Vinnie could get past their issues and rejoin forces, Anselmo said, "Man, it's not really my thing. Some people can say I'm the one that started all these side bands. But look, I'm a fuckin' musician. To limit yourself to one fucking band and one form of music to me is just treading shallow water. You need to plunge in fucking deep. There's a lot of different forms of heavy music itself, and it doesn't all need some form of heavy guitar. I've played all kinds of music. That's just how I am and that's just what I do. I'm not the one that fuckin' totally fuckin' wanted to end the name or the working relationship with PANTERA. That was those other guys. They wanted to end it, OK. Who am I to argue besides Philip Anselmo."

In response to Philip's quote, Dimebag said, "I'll just say this… Well, you can call it 'shallow', if that's what he wants to call it. What I call it is fuckin' thoroughly full, 1000 percent blood-and-heart-and-fucking-soul, from where me and Vinnie were coming from. 'Cause when you put as much into PANTERA as me and Vinnie did, you ain't got no time to go fuckin' jack off on no side fuckin' band, OK?! That's where we're coming from. And we ain't the ones that took off and left everybody hanging. And he did NOT communicate with us. Dude, we had fuckin' meetings set up… I mean, we even… At the end of the rope, after trying to hook up conference call after conference call, him blowing us off — in-between blowing us off, he'd go out and play shows, and people would call us and go, 'Man, he's doing it again. He said Dime fuckin' sucks and Vinnie's…' Whatever, all this ridiculous shit, for no good reason. It finally came to a head where we were talking to the record company, just trying to get cut loose to move forward and do a new band, and we even offered to prove to them that, 'Look, man, we'll do a meeting with you in your office' — Sylvia Rhone's office, the head of Elektra Records — 'We'll do a meeting with you to and we'll sit down with these cats and do our goddamn very best to iron everything out, whatever the hell the problem is.' You know, I've got no fuckin' problem — I'll sit down with them fuckin' cats and look them right in the eye and say, 'What is the hang-up, man?' And he blew that off — he would not do it. And then next thing you know, here comes his next SUPERJOINT record. And in interviews… That's [the story] he gave that one time. Like Vinnie says, he's not giving the same answer every time, so you've gotta wonder

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Без заголовка 01-12-2005 21:48

Ex-PANTERA Singer PHILIP ANSELMO: VINNIE PAUL Is A 'Crybaby' - Dec. 18, 2003

Ex-PANTERA/current SUPERJOINT RITUAL singer Philip Anselmo has slammed his former bandmates over their suggestion that his alleged substance abuse and alcohol problem have affected his performance to such a degree that he is now "much less than subpar at what he does" than he used to be during PANTERA's heyday.

Speaking to Revolver magazine for its February 2004 issue, ex-PANTERA/current DAMAGEPLAN drummer Vinnie Paul said of Anselmo, "[In the years that followed Phil's 1996 drug overdose] he was very private about [the fact that he was using drugs 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."

Asked by SMNnews.com to comment on Vinnie Paul's statement, Philip said, "I just hear a big and sad yellowbelly crybaby fuckin' knowing that his meal ticket is in a different fuckin' band, and… [long pause] You would have to know those fellows to really understand where I was coming from — they're scared of their own fuckin' shadow. And, all that said, I wish them the best of fuckin' luck. I still love 'em.

"For Vinnie Paul's information and anybody else who would like to know, I've been fuckin' stone-cold sober for fuckin' two years — I feel like a fuckin' boy scout, for God's sake," he continued. "And fuckin', you know… I can have a couple of beers, let's get it straight.

"There was another thing brought up in that interview where Vinnie Paul said that he knows how to stop drinking, you know, and they can control themselves. And magically [ex-PANTERA guitarist] Diamond Darrell didn't answer a fuckin' thing. You know why that is? Because his fuckin' friends have to carry him fuckin' home every goddamn night — every night on tour, he gets carried to the fuckin' bus. Now, you tell me — me fucking up one time in my life compared to his fuckin' three thousand and seven. Give me a fuckin' break, man!"

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Без заголовка 01-12-2005 21:44

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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Без заголовка 01-12-2005 21:43

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."

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Без заголовка 01-12-2005 10:58

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Без заголовка 30-11-2005 16:49

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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Без заголовка 30-11-2005 16:48

PHILIP ANSELMO On New PANTERA Album: 'It Ain't Gonna Happen' - Aug. 26, 2003

SUPERJOINT RITUAL frontman Philip Anselmo was recently asked by Jim Beal Jr. of San Antonio Express-News if there will ever be another PANTERA album. "It ain't gonna happen," Anselmo said. "Me, personally, I left that door wide open. The brothers [Vinnie Paul and Diamond/Dimebag Darrell] closed that door. I'm not even mad at them. I wish them the best."

When asked what went wrong in the metal world that caused him to focus all his time and effort on SUPERJOINT RITUAL — arguably the most extreme of his high-profile projects — Anselmo said, "As far as I'm concerned PANTERA was extremely influential in heavy metal. Then white kids started rapping over the top of the music. The true rappers ought to be offended as well as the heavy-metal bands. Every genre ought to have its purity. There's nothing to what the bands today are doing. They're PANTERA ripoffs with the cheesiest song progressions.

"Bands in the past had some style. Bands today are instrumentally sub-par and sub-par in their ideas," he added. "I can hardly listen to them. SUPERJOINT is an extreme band, which makes it a new style. You have to set new goals or blow your brains out. Today's a new day. Today's a new show. I gotta prove myself today."

While in some respects, SUPERJOINT RITUAL is a heavy-music supergroup as guitarist Jimmy Bower has worked with EYEHATEGOD and DOWN, drummer Joe Fazzio with DEMONSEEDS and STRESSBALL and Hank III as the leader of his own band, Anselmo says that in another respect, "It's just me. I'm the man who's always made the most bread. It's 100 percent my lyrics and at least 75 percent my music. I'm the guy with the gold and platinum records on the wall. Hank has his audience but, for the most part, he goes with the flow. He's been a fan of SUPERJOINT for so long."

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Без заголовка 30-11-2005 16:46

PHILIP ANSELMO: 'There Ain't Nobody Like Me' - Aug. 8, 2003

PANTERA/SUPERJOUNT RITUAL frontman Philip Anselmo recently spoke to Metal Edge magazine about the influence he has had on fans as well as other bands.

"There wasn't even anyone with a bald head in bands in my fuckin' day, in metal bands at least," he said. "If you think about it, there really fuckin' wasn't. Now everybody's bald, and now look how many motherfuckers have beards and mustaches. You know, like the kid from GODSMACK [presumably referring to Sully Erna—Ed.], he dresses like me. He's been in my fuckin' laundry. He's still a good kid, he's a nice kid, but he's been in my fuckin' laundry basket, motherfucker."

When asked what he thinks set him apart from most musicians, Anselmo said, "There ain't nobody like me, at all. Not since day one. And you'll get that coming through life a few times. There's Mick Jaggers, there's Robert Plants, there's Rob Halfords, there's Bruce Dickinsons, Ozzy Osbournes, and shit like that. Lump me in with the Ozzy Osbournes. I always felt that PANTERA was in a way similar to BLACK SABBATH, not sounding the same really at all, but in the route that we took in people's hearts. We never had this big radio hit. SABBATH never had a gigantic radio hit, and still they would pull that hardcore motherfucking audience and they were not afraid to bring any band on tour. They made bands like VAN HALEN by bringing them on tour. Towards the end of SABBATH's career, I think even everybody felt that change in them, like they were not cutting the standard with how intense rock 'n' roll was getting with bands like VAN HALEN, and shit like that. They weren't as fresh as they used to be, and they disbanded. Well, I've always told myself that I don't want to become the old man onstage. I wanted to keep it new until the day I fuckin' croak."

Asked if that was the case with PANTERA, Philip said, "With PANTERA, I just felt that we had done the ultimate of what we could really do, and as far as touring and all that shit for me, in arenas and shit like that, yeah, we could have done that for a whole lot longer, and we could still do that. But you know, I had been there, and I lived through that side of things, and yeah, it's its own thing, it's a unique feeling in itself to play in front of that many people and what-not, but it's better for me to play in front of a smaller audience, a more intimate audience. It feels better. I'd rather play three sold-out nights in a small fuckin' place than one sold-out night in a big, fuckin' giant place."

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Без заголовка 30-11-2005 16:45

PHILIP ANSELMO: 'The PANTERA Guys Won't Talk To Me' - July 25, 2003

PANTERA frontman Philip Anselmo has revealed that he is no longer on speaking terms with the group's guitarist Dimebag Darrell — the result of a "falling out" that the singer says he is not sure "what the hell it's about."

Speaking to Revolver magazine for its September 2003 issue, Anselmo — who is currently focusing all of his attention on SUPERJOINT RITUAL — said that he doesn't expect his PANTERA bandmates to wait around on him before pursuing other projects of their own.

"They're doing it [already]," Anselmo told the magazine, referring to Darrel and PANTERA drummer Vinnie Paul's new project, provisionally called NEW FOUND POWER. "They're gonna name it something else [other than PANTERA], but they're doing it, and best of luck to them. I have no bad feelings toward those guys at all."

Asked if he thinks the other guys harbor any resentment toward him, Anselmo replied, "Sure. Absolutely. They won't talk to me. I speak to Vinnie maybe once every blue moon. But I think Dimebag and I have had a falling out that's going to be a little tough to reconcile. I'm not even sure what the hell it's about."

When questioned if the disagreement between him and Dimebag is of a musical or personal nature, Philip said, "Both. He's got a lot of resentment in his heart, and I don't really know where it's coming from. I'm not sure he's mad at me at all, you know? He's got a lot of personal issues in his life that he has to face, and once he does, I really, truly hope he becomes a better person — the beautiful person that I came to know and love."

With regards to whether doing another PANTERA record is where his head is at right now, Anselmo said, "No, it's not. It's not the right time. One thing you've gotta understand is, with PANTERA I've always been the one to question things. I've always been the one to say, 'Are you sure you wanna do this?' 'Are you sure this is right?' And they listen to me, they hear me out. And by no means am I saying that I'm the brains behind the entire thing. But I am saying that when it comes to music, due to my knowledge and very natural connection to what the underground scene is, I had to enlighten them several times over. Without me, it'll be real interesting to hear what they come up with."

Asked if he is interested in hearing the final product once it's completed, Philip said, "I'll listen to it when it comes out. And sure, it's gonna sound like PANTERA in a bunch of spots musically. And I'm also sure they've got a singer who — if it's Dimebag Darrell's dream — is gonna be a cross between Philip Anselmo and a guy who can hit, like, Rob Halford-style extreme high notes and shit. That's just a wild guess. But as for me being interested in it, what I'm really interested in is SUPERJOINT RITUAL. That's what interests me right now."

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Без заголовка 30-11-2005 16:43

PHILIP ANSELMO Says He Feels More Comfortable In The Underground Scene - June 6, 2003

SUPERJOINT RITUAL/PANTERA frontman Philip Anselmo has revealed to Kerrang! magazine that he feels more comfortable in the underground scene.

He says: "I'm a lot more at home. I feel better, a lot less stress, a lot less bullshit. I wasn't happy back there (in arenas) for a really long time. I can't even think. I was just not a happy man. But I can say, for the first time in a while, that I am a happy fella."

Anselmo has cast further doubt on the future of PANTERA, adding: "I never once said it was over, but, I'm not going to sit around and wait for anybody to make a decision. Life goes on, and shit, this is my life as well, so fuck, I'm tearing shit up!"

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

As previously reported, SUPERJOINT RITUAL will be filming a video for an as-yet-undisclosed cut from the album on Saturday (June 7) in their hometown of New Orleans. The video will be directed Tom Mignone (MUDVAYNE, SLIPKNOT), who had previously worked with the group on their "Live From Dallas" DVD.

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Без заголовка 30-11-2005 16:41

PHILIP ANSELMO Speaks Out On The Future Of PANTERA, DOWN And Collaboration With TONY IOMMI - May 27, 2003

PANTERA frontman Philip Anselmo stopped by the studios of Sirius Radio in New York City on Tuesday, May 20 and spoke to "Hard Attack" host Don Kaye about the current status of all of his musical projects, including PANTERA, DOWN, SUPERJOINT RITUAL and his much-rumored collaboration with BLACK SABBATH guitarist Tony Iommi.

The following are some of the highlights of that interview (as provided exclusively to BLABBERMOUTH.NET):

On the decision to put PANTERA on hold:

Philip Anselmo: "I think it's not just me [that wanted to take a break from PANTERA], I think it's a mutual thing [between all the members of the group]. And more or less, I believe that right now, in our careers, each and every one of us, [we] feel… especially… this is where I'm coming from. The last record that we did ['Reinventing The Steel'] was everything that I wanted the PANTERA record to be, the tour [in support of the album] turned out beautiful, and we ended up with MORBID ANGEL and SLAYER, and to me, it's like, how can you beat that?! I was thinking, you know, [if we were to put] out a new record, who the hell am I gonna go on tour with?! More or less, I took a hiatus, and I paid way more attention… Last year was a bit of a screw-up with DOWN and SUPERJOINT coming out at the same, and people were confused, and this and that, and this and that. I wanted to put all of that on the side and concentrate on one band, as I should, and that band is SUPERJOINT RITUAL right now. It feels extremely important to do this band, and that's what I'm doing right now — no other band." (Download audio clip of Anselmo's response here)

On DOWN guitarist Pepper Keenan's audition for the bassist slot in METALLICA and DOWN's current status:

Philip Anselmo: "Whatever Pepper Keenan does is whatever Pepper Keenan does. I think at the end of the DOWN tours, he got the vibe that I most definitely needed to take a break from… I was sick of being in full combat with a record label that I've delivered gold, platinum, platinum, platinum, gold, Number One record, you know, whatever… As a heavy metal band… Somewhere along the line, I don't think they see it or whatever, and I think with DOWN, they crushed it, they didn't push it purposefully [sic] because they wanted a new PANTERA record, and in turn, they pissed me off. And I'm not one to be pissed off. And SUPERJOINT RITUAL was the obvious choice [for me to put all of my energy into], especially if I'm in a pissed-off mood. SUPERJOINT is a great catalyst for everything above, and that's what I'm sticking with." (Download audio clip of Anselmo's response here)

On whether there's a possibility of another PANTERA or DOWN album in the future:

"You're dumb to say [anything you do is] final, because things change day by day, especially in the music business. There's no hostility towards any other [members of PANTERA or DOWN] or anything like that — it's just how it is right now. In my heart, and in my mind, I truthfully feel that SUPERJOINT is a band that, once the public truly gets ahold of it and embrace it, it's gonna mean A LOT to them, it's gonna be the SLAYER breaking out of the fog, it's gonna be the resurgence of a music forgotten, basically, and it's gonna be pure and absolutely 100%, and I'm

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Без заголовка 30-11-2005 16:40

PHILIP ANSELMO Says There Are No Immediate Plans For A New PANTERA Album - May 21, 2003

PANTERA frontman Philip Anselmo has told MTV.com that although the band has not officially broken up, there are no immediate plans to work together.

"If five or 10 years down the way, [everyone] wants to get together and do more PANTERA music, then we'll see," Anselmo said. "Of course, it would take some soul searching from all of us."

Anselmo is focusing his attention on his hardcore metal band SUPERJOINT RITUAL, while guitarist Dimebag Darrell and drummer Vinnie Paul work on their new outfit, NEW FOUND POWER.

"I think each and every one of us needs to get some other pieces of music out of their systems," Anselmo said. "And I think that some of us need to take some time for ourselves to get on with life again instead of reliving the past over and over and over."

The singer also revealed that DOWN, his side-project band with PANTERA bassist Rex Brown, CORROSION OF CONFORMITY frontman Pepper Keenan, CROWBAR guitarist Kirk Windstein and EYEHATEGOD guitarist Jimmy Bower (who's also in SUPERJOINT RITUAL), may also be on indefinite hold.

"As much work and as much blood and sweat that we gave to those two records is how much we weren't given back or helped or even pushed a minute at all by our record label," he said. "It's basically sabotage and it's painful to take a knife in the back like that. They don't give a shit at all that DOWN is some people's favorite band. They don't care that the new METALLICA sounds a lot like DOWN. They don't care that Jack Osbourne, who's on the cover of People magazine, has a DOWN shirt on. No way. They're just telling us that this record's run its course and it's over with. So until a lot of business is taken care of with and between the record labels, it's very tough for a band like DOWN to function at all."

SUPERJOINT RITUAL, whose sophomore album, "A Lethal Dose of American Hatred", is due on July 22 through Sanctuary Records, remains Anselmo's top priority at the moment.

"Right now it feels absolutely thrilling to be playing back in smaller clubs and to have kids right dead in front of my face and be playing hard-ass-core music that people are reacting to violently," he said. "I fucking love that, and that is SUPERJOINT RITUAL."

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Без заголовка 30-11-2005 16:39

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.

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Без заголовка 30-11-2005 16:35

PHILIP ANSELMO: "Sometimes It Feels Good To Be Miserable" - June 7, 2002

In the new issue of Sweden's premiere metal publication, Close-Up Magazine, journalist Martin Carlsson speaks at length with vocalist Phil Anselmo on a number of topics, including his numerous side projects, PANTERA and Anselmo's past and present drug use. The interview was conducted over the phone on May 4th, while the singer was staying at Ritz Carlton in Cleveland, Ohio, where one of his many bands, DOWN, was playing. BLABBERMOUTH.NET can now exclusively present the entire conversation, word by word, transcribed directly from the interview tape.

Q: What happened to the deal [you had] with Relapse [Records for your Housecore/Baphomet record label]?
Phil: They [Relapse] turned out to be dicks and I decided not to go with them. They basically sent out an offer and we walked and talked and worked through it for quite a while. Basically they took it upon themselves, before my permission was granted, and you don't do that. Let's just say, that's enough of that and I don't work with them.

Q: As far as the pissed-off nature of SUPERJOINT RITUAL's Use Once And Destroy, it kind of reminds me of PANTERA's Far Beyond Driven.
Phil: I think it's completely different to PANTERA. Sound-wise, it's different, sound-wise it's different. I think the mere fact there are no leads makes it VERY different. Lyrically, with PANTERA I'm more straightforward and there's a message to be had. For SUPERJOINT RITUAL it's more or less a kind of sporadic thing and… what's that word I'm looking for? I can't remember the fuckin' word… it's more of a loose net of thoughts instead of something very concentrated.

Q: Still, PANTERA's Far Beyond Driven did have the same "fuck you" vibe to it that I get from SUPERJOINT RITUAL.
Phil: Any album I do, I say that with every record, 'cause if I'm gonna do a record I'm gonna do it fuckin' one hundred percent no matter what it turns out to be. That is my freedom as a musician and this to me… if you have any type of education into what the sounds and the feelings were like when hardcore and heavy metal met each other and met that crossroads. People call it crossover music and it sounded like what SUPERJOINT RITUAL sounds like. I'm just reliving those days, basically.

Q: Are you talking pre-D.R.I.?
Phil: D.R.I. are definitely a crossover band. Something like their album Crossover was crossover metal fuckin' hardcore. Bands like AGNOSTIC FRONT were crossover and even DISCHARGE had a heavy metal type guitar sound and a very attacking approach. Not that that was never used in hardcore music before, because it obviously was. I'm just saying that in SUPERJOINT RITUAL's music there a fine bit of both.

Q: I probably consider MOTÖRHEAD to be the first crossover band, in that they combined punk and hard rock.
Phil: I agree to a certain extent, but you say rock'n'roll as well and I don't necessarily hear any rock'n'roll in SUPERJOINT RITUAL. It's hardcore and metal, and just those two.

Q: You recently told Revolver magazine: "A lot of people in this business need to be seen. I need to NOT be seen." Yet you've put yourself on the SUPERJOINT RITUAL album cover.
Phil: I don't remember saying that. When I usually say something like that, it means that you look at today's round-up of kids and everybody's got this "look at me, I need to be looked at" type of fuckin' image. I'm not trying to dress up for anybody's fuckin' doll house. I look and dress the way I do every day of my fuckin' life and I'm gonna walk on stage the same fuckin' way.

Q: You've been doing more interviews for DOWN and SUPERJOINT RITUAL recently than you did for the last couple of PANTERA albums. Do you feel a

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Без заголовка 30-11-2005 16:33

PHILIP ANSELMO: DIMEBAG Has To Root Out Some Things In His Life Before We Can Be Happy Again - May 13, 2002

In a brand new interview with PANTERA frontman Philip Anselmo, conducted last week and published today, Monday, May 13th, in the Swedish newspaper Expressen, Anselmo had the following to say about the current status of PANTERA: "In PANTERA, there are some things that are going on that I'd much rather not comment on. I think that they… mostly Dimebag, he has some things to root out in his life and make things right before me and him can get down and be happy again."

In response to a direct question as to whether or not there will be another PANTERA album, Anselmo offered: "I would think so. When, I don't know."

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Без заголовка 30-11-2005 16:32

PHILIP ANSELMO: I'm Still In PANTERA - May 9, 2002

PANTERA frontman Philip Anselmo has once again shot down the rumors that he is planning on leaving the band prior to the recording of the group's next studio CD. In an interview conducted last Sunday before DOWN's show at Odeon in Cleveland, Anselmo told WMMS' The Metal Show that "I'm not an ex-member of PANTERA by any means. I'm still in PANTERA. So when we get together, we'll get together. I'm sure we'll have some things to discuss and some plans of attack to work out, but other than that, I'm laying it to rest right here—I'm still in PANTERA as we speak."

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Без заголовка 30-11-2005 16:30

PHILIP ANSELMO: If PANTERA Called It A Day Today, We Will Have Done Something Very Special - Mar. 15, 2002

PANTERA/DOWN frontman Philip Anselmo may not have any intention of leaving PANTERA in the foreseeable future (as he so convincingly stated in a recent press release—ahem!), but he sure keeps talking about it like he does. Here's Anselmo once again painting a bleak picture about PANTERA's long-term plans in the current issue of Revolver magazine (cover date: May/June 2002):

“I really feel that we're gonna have to take a very hard look at what PANTERA has done and what we think we can do in the future. For years, I think that we were the most successful and best pure metal band, and I never, ever want to have the audience feel like, 'Wow, these guys are past their prime,' and watch the crowds dwindle. I would much rather go out on a top f.cking note than somewhere in the middle, somewhere on the bottom, or anywhere else but the top. I'm not saying we're going to do this, but if we called it a day today, we will have done something very special.”

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