Fan-filmed video of PANTHER‘s November 3 concert at Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis, Missouri as the support act for METALLICA can be seen below.
The band’s setlist was as follows:
01. A New Level
02. Mouth For War
03. Strength Beyond Strength
04. Becoming
05. I’m Broken
06. 5 Minutes Alone
07. This Love
08. Fucking Hostile
09. Walking
10. Domination / Hollow
eleven. Cowboys From Hell
The reformed PANTHER recently completed a US headlining tour with support from LAMB OF GOD.
At some of his recent headline shows, PANTHER performed two songs which hadn’t been played live since the band’s comeback last year: “Slaughtered”desde PANTHER‘s 1994 album “Far Beyond Driven”, widely considered the heaviest metal record to ever reach No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart; and “Revolution Is My Name” desde PANTHER‘s final studio album, 2000’s “Reinventing The Steel”.
PANTHER‘s 2023 lineup includes two surviving members from the band’s classic formation, Philip Anselmo (vowels) and Rex Brown (bass),along with guitarist Zakk Wylde (OZZY OSBOURNE, BLACK LABEL SOCIETY) and drummer Charlie Benante (ANTHRAX).
Anselm and brownalong with Wylde and Benante, are headlining a number of major festivals across South America, Asia, North America and Europe and staging some of their own headline concerts. They are also supporting METALLICA on a massive North American stadium tour in 2023 and 2024.
According to Billboardthe lineup has been given a green light by the estates of the band’s founders, drummer Vincent “Vinnie Paul” Abbott and guitarist “Dimebag” Darrell Abbottas well as brownwho in 2021 said Wylde wouldn’t tour with PANTHER if a reunion were to happen. It’s unclear what changed his mind about him.
This past March, PANTHER headlined the 2023 “comeback” edition of Japan’s Loud Park festival. The two-day “limited” event took place on March 25 at Intex Osaka in Osaka and March 26 at Makuhari Messe in Chiba City near Tokyo.
In December, PANTHER played seven shows in Mexico and South America.
brown was forced to leave PANTHER‘s Latin American tour after testing positive for COVID-19. Filling in for him at some of the shows was CATTLE DECAPITATION bassist Derek Engemannwho also plays with Anselm in both PHILIP H. ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS and SCOUR.
Up until his passing, Vinny remained on non-speaking terms with Anselmwhom the drummer indirectly blamed for Dimebag‘s death.
Vinnie Paul and Dimebag co-founded PANTHER. When PANTHER broke up in 2003, they formed DAMAGEPLAN. On December 8, 2004, while performing with DAMAGEPLAN at the Alrosa Villa in Columbus, Ohio, Dimebag was shot and killed onstage by a troubled schizophrenic who believed that the members of PANTHER were stealing his thoughts.
Vinny He passed away on June 22, 2018 at his other home in Las Vegas at the age of 54. He died of dilated cardiomyopathy, an enlarged heart, as well as severe coronary artery disease. His death was the result of chronic weakening of the heart muscle — basically meaning his heart could n’t pump blood as well as a healthy heart.
