DIMETIME: DARRELL ABBOTT (PANTERA) DIED 21 YEARS AGO TODAY

 

 

 We lost DIMEBAG DARRELL ABBOTT 21 years ago today. DARRELL ABBOTT was an excellent guitarist and even nicer guy. 

 

 

According to BILLBOARD, Arlington, Texas, U.S.A. thrash metal legends PANTERA'S anticipated reunion tour WILL include CHARLIE BENANTE (ANTHRAX) on drums and ZAKK WYLDE  (BLACK LABEL SOCIETY and OZZY OSBOURNE) on guitar replacing the late ABBOTT brothers VINCE and DIMEBAG DARRELL.

 

Surviving members of  Arlington, Texas, U.S.A. thrash metal legends PANTERA have signed a deal with NORTH AMERICAN BOOKING AGENTS ARTIST GROUP INTERNATIONAL as PHIL ANSELMO and REX BROWN will embark on a 2023 re-union tour. 

 

DARRELL "DIMEBAG" ABBOTT.  late guitarist of PANTERA and DAMAGEPLAN was murdered. by a deranged gunman (NATHAN GALE)  12/8/2004 at. Columbus, Ohio's ALROSA VILLA.  

On 6/18/2018,  Texas, U.S.A. metal legend VINNIE PAUL ABBOTT ( HELLYEAH, DAMAGEPLAN and  PANTERA) died at 54. . 

PANTERA unleashed "REINVENTING THE STEEL", 3/21/2000 via EAST WEST. 

PANTERA broke up in 2002.

 

 

 AMON AMARTH have posted a video for  "HEIDRUN", a track from the bands four song digital single, unleashed 8/4/2023 via METAL BLADE RECORDS.   

 AMON AMARTH unleashed "THE GREAT HEATHEN ARMY",   8/5/2022 via METAL BLADE RECORDS. 

 AMON AMARTH have partnered with Z2 COMICS for "'THE GREAT HEATHEN ARMY" GRAPHIC NOVEL and BOARD GAME. 

 

 

FROM PANTERA: 

It’s hard to believe that you have been gone for 21 years. Your influence & energy is still very much alive. We feel it daily. Thanks to all our fans for keeping Dime’s legacy going!

RIP Dimebag Darrell, Jeffrey Thompson, Erin Halk, & Nathan Bray.

: Richard Beland

 

FROM REX BROWN (PANTERA): 

 You have been gone for 21 years. It’s still hard to believe. Miss you, brother!

 

 

FROM GUITAR WORLD: 

 

December 8 is not a date remembered fondly in the great calendar of heavy metal.

For the best part of two decades, it has served as the painful reminder of Dimebag Darrell's untimely passing – gunned down in cold blood only one song into Damageplan’s set at the Alrosa Villa nightclub in Columbus, Ohio.

The metal world would never be the same again.

 FROM GARY HOLT (EXODUS, SLAYER): 

 Forever missed, 21 years gone. Hard to fathom it’s been that many years, but those riffs and solos will never be silenced

PANTERA: "A NEW LEVEL" (VIA SPOTIFY, COURTESY OF PANTERA): Thanks-Stay Metal, Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-