According to reports from Billboard, post-hardcore metal alumni, Pantera is reuniting its two remaining members for a reunion tour in 2023 with undisclosed additional members. After years of going back and forth in individual interviews, lead singer Phil Anselmo and bassist Rex Brown have officially announced they are heading back out on tour to honor the fallen members of Pantera. Although Anselmo has been playing Pantera songs with his band The Illegals, this will be the first time anyone from the original lineup under the Pantera banner since they broke up in 2003, their last live appearance taking place two years prior to the disbandment.
Even after the untimely deaths of Dimebag Darrell, who was killed a year after the band broke, and his brother Vinne Paul who passed in 2018, the work they did with Pantera still lives on. They are seen as the forefathers of groove metal and have accumulated multiple gold and platinum plaques since their Cowboys from Hell, was released in 1990.
Information on the upcoming tour is brief and almost non-existent. No official word has come from Anselmo’s or Brown’s respective camps, no dates have been mentioned, and no word of who the two original members will bring with them to fill in for their fallen bandmates has surfaced. The only piece of information on the reunion tour comes from a report from Billboard, who is getting the information from the booking agents in charge of the tour, Denis Afra and Peter Pappalardo.
Editors note 7/14- Billboard now confirms that guitarist Zakk Wylde and Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante will join vocalist Phil Anselmo and bassist Rex Brown on a headlining trek across a number of festivals in North America and Europe, plus their own concerts.
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I can’t believe with the brothers dead, they (especially Phil) can tour as Pantera.