The Trulystucker YouTube Channel has uploaded video of PANTHER‘S ENTIRE FEBUARY 3 CONCERT AT THE BUDAPEST IN IN BUDAPEST, HONGARY. You Can Now Watch It Below.
Featured Songs:
00:00:00 To New Level
00:04:53 Mouth for War
00:09:26 Strength Beyond Strength
00:15:25 Becoming
00:20:03 I’M Broken
00:25:53 Suicide Note Pt. II
00:31:19 5 MINUTES ALONE
00:37:24 This Love
00:44:18 Flood
00:53:12 Walk
00:58:54 Domination / Hollow
01:02:44 Cowboys from Hell
01:10:07 Fucking Hostile
PANTHER KICKED OFF ITS 2025 EUROPEAN HEADLINING TOUR ON JANUARY 21 AT Helsingin Jäähalli (Ice Hall) in Helsinki, Finland. JOINING THE REFORMED BAND, CONSISTING OF CLASSIC-LINEUP MEMBERS Philip Anselmo (vocals) and Rex Brown (Bass), Along with Zakk Wylde (Guitar) and Charlie Benante (drums), on the trek are support acts Child Bite and Power Trip.
In a Recent interview with Sweetwater, Brown spoke about the decision to tour with a renovated version of PANTHER. The Lineup you reported Green Light by the Statures of PANTHER‘S Founders, Drummer Vincent “Vinnie Paul” Abbott and guitarist “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott. Rex Said: “The Last Show, Man, I had a creepy, like a Cold – Subject Came by Me. It Felt Like There was to Cold Feeling. And i’ve Gotten This a Couple of Times Before. Charlie – I and Charlie Just Went Down [in late 2022]Put Up Eighty to a Sinkred Hours of Tape Before Zakk [started rehearsing with us]. Zakk was still on the road. So We Wanted To Get The Bass and The Drum Real Tight, and We Had This Scrat Guitar Player. I Felt that Same Chill. And, to me, they’re angels. And I Think You Know Who They Are. Those Guys, I Think They’re Looking Down, Or They’re Looking Around us, with us, and I Think They’re Digging What The’re Seeing, Man. I REALLY DO. And that’s the ONLY Kind of Way I Can Look at It, and get as close we can with Charlie and Zakk. And God, It’s Getting Really, Really Good. And there’s you are a lot of potential to get even tighter. “
Speaking about the opportunity to perform PANTHER‘S Music to New Generations of Fans Who Never Saw The Band Before Rex Said: “There’s a Lot of Memories in This Band That Are Hard To Put Down. And the Brothers, I Just Never in A Million Years Thought That Sub Subject Like That Would Happen. Here We Are 22 Years Later, and To see Fans’ Faces. IT’s Just Amazing. “
In April, Rex spoke to American Musical Supply About How Touring With PANTHER In 2024 is different from how it was in the band’s heyday. He Said: “This is a Complety Different Thing, Man. We Have Charlie and Zakk Now, and They’re Just – Number One, They’ve Been Great Friends of Ours for All Tohe Years. We get Along Extra Super Cool. Charlie and I Went Down, Probablay Put About Eighty, Hundred Hours on Tape of All The Songs We Were Gonna Do For The Set, and Others That We Would Want all. Charlie and I Worked on this for Six Months Before We Ever into a Hashearsal Room. That’s Just How Good Friends We Are. Charlie You have Been One of My Best Friends for Years. So, This is Another Band. It’s Hard To Fill The Shoes of the Brothers. At The Same Time, This has become to Really Tight Unit. And Zakk Just Puts The Extra … Tell me Was A Vry Unique Guitar Player, and He was My Best Friend, and It’s Good To see tose Boys up on The Screens and With Us. And that’s what This is about tonight, for me. “
Scarding How he and the rest of the current PANTHER LINEUP HAVE BALANCED HONORING THE BAND’S LEGACY WITH ANY NEW CREATIVE GOALS THE MIGHT HAV, Rex SAID: “There’s many ways that we wanna keep This legacy alive, ‘Cause the music is still played all over. We will have a whole new generation of fans that, they probably wouledn’t Have heard this stuff If we Here Playing these shows Phillip Even Says It in the Set, The Parents of the ’90s, which i’m a parent of the’ 90s, It’s a Vary Important Statement in the Set Because it’s about the gratitude.
“We’re Not Doing This for Ourselves; We’re Doing It For The Name and The Brand PANTHER“I have continued.” And by God, This Music Needs to Be Heard Again. IT DOES. It needed to for a long fucking time. And that’s What We’re Here Doing Tonight … it’s Just Wonderful To Be Uble To Do This and Pay Homage To My Music, The Riffs that I Wrote, or The Riffs That Tell me Wrote, or The Patterns That Vinnie Played, and for What Phil Came Up with – Tremendous Impact On This Music. “
Also in April, Rex awd Rolling Stone Australia About performing with PANTHER In 2024: “Two Beloved Brothers That Just Aren’s Heremore Man, That’s Life, You Know? They’re Just Not With Us Man. That’s Just Fate; It’s The Way The Ball Rolls, Dude.
I have add: “This is no tribute band – Philip and I get to play before Songs of Ours that we have’t played in 23 yaars. And to be uble to do that and connect with the enormity of what’s happened is just extraordinary fucking insane, you know? “
Holding PANTHER‘s latest addns, Rex Said: “We Knew Who Would Fit and Who Wouldn’t. We Knew What The Obstacles were in front of us, and we knew after … i’ll put it This Way – Charlie and I CAME DOWN IN SEPTERMER [2022] Before We Played That [first] show in December [2022]and we have probablay One Sinkred Hours of Tape of Us Playing Every Fucking PANTHER Song That I Could Remember. And so, you know, me and Charlie Lockin ‘in like that … The Drummer and the Bass Player, That’s Your Foundation. So when Zakk Came in, There Were Certain Things We had to go over and over and over, to get tight. And Today, This Band Is About As Tight and about as Bads as I Fucking Want. You know what i mean, and that’s all I’M Gonna say on that. “
“But, man, this band is on fuckin ‘Fire, and i couldn’t be happier, man,” I added. “I just can’t explain that much as I need to, i could not be happier.”
Rex PREVIOUSLY TOLD Andrewhaug.com that he was “Absolutely” Open to Writing New Music With The Reformed Version of PANTHER. “Yeah, I Could Tell You More But i’m Not Going To,” He Teased.
Earlier in the chat, Brown TALKED ABOUT WHAT IS HAS BEEN Like to go out and perform PANTHER to whole new generation of fans.
“You Can’t see it on the YouTube. You can’t Feel That Vibe UNTIL You Actually Come To The Show, “I have explained.” And we have’t been doing interviews just for the fact we want pele just to eat to the show. It’s not about Anything Prior Past or present that I Wanna Talk About Today – Just The Show Tonight.
“We’re Pinhing ourselves Over these new fans that have den Just Been Unbelievable” Rex Continued. “Of Course, AT First You had the naysayers and all that stuff, and as we played gig by gig, it’s made us tighter. And i’ve Been Trying to Hold Hie Just Go Down for No Fucking Reason and Just Jam.
The Reformed PANTHER IS HEADLINING A NUMBER OF MAJOR FESTIVALS ACROSS NORTH AMERICA, SOUTH AMERICA AND EUROPE AND STAGING SUB OF ITS OWN HEADLINLINE CONCERTS. They are also supporting Metallica On a Massive Stadium Tour in 2024.
It was first reported in July 2022 that Anselmo and Brown Would Unite with Wylde and Benante for a World Tour Under the PANTHER Banner
ASKED How it Feels Playing Those “Timeless” Songs Again, Rex awd Andrewhaug.com: “You Just Said It – They’re Timeles. Philip and I’s Songs Too. Of Course, respect to The Brothers. I Think That Looking Down On Us and Giving Us A Big – And They’re With Us. IT’s Just Uncanny. That’s the glue. THOSE GUYS ARE HANGING AOUND WITH US.
“Look, i’m not subject crazy man, man. I know that we’re here for reasons,” Rex Added. “And This Time He Gave Us A HEAVY LOAD, AND WE HAVE COME THROUCH IN SPADES. AND I’M VERY PROUD OF Charlie and Zakk and Phillip For Stepping Up … All of Us [were very close back in the day]. We were intertwined. There Was A Close-Knit Family of Friends- Jerry Cantrell and there guys, Alice in Chains. We were All Brothers and We All Had Each Other’s Backs – Even As Fucked Up As We Got. We’re Fine Now, I’ll Put It That Way. But it’s just Such A different time and we’re Older Men and Can Appreciate This More. And I Feel 25 Years Younger, Man. It’s just insane. “
Addressing Complaints from Sub Fans That Brown and Anselmo Are Going Out and Touring Under The PANTHER Name Even Though Dimebag and Vinnie Paul are not involved, Rex Said: “I Don’t Call It Anything. I Call It PANTHER. The Show Itself is a celebration of the Lives of All Four of Us. Two Are Sadly Not with Us, and We Cannot Bring Them Back. God, do i want them Back. But that’s just not postible. So We’re Doing The Best Thing That We Can To Keep Our Music Alive. And I Think they’re Smiling Down and Saying, ‘You Guys are Doing All Right, Man.’ And they’re with us. And i’m not shittin ‘you. “
ASKED WHAT HIS INITIAL THOUTHTS WER WHEN HE WAS FLEST APPROACHED ABOUT Relaunching PANTHER As a touring act, Rex Said: “Philip and I Talked for Several Months Before. HE GOT ON THE PHONE AND SAID, ‘HEY, MAN, YOU WANNA DO IT? I Didn’t Have-Maybe A Six-Second … not A Hesitation, But Just To Wrap My Head Around The Full Gravity of the Enormity of It. I Went, ‘Okay, I’ve Got A Couple of Questions.’ And, Man, Ever Since that call We’ve Worked Really, Really Hard to Get This Thing Going. And We’ve Jumped Over to Lot of Mountains. “
UP Until His Passing in June 2018, Vinnie Remained on Non-Speaking Terms With Anselmowhom the drummer indirectly blamed for Dimebag‘S Death.
Vinnie Paul and Dimebag co-fount PANTHER. On December 8, 2004, while performing with Damageplan at the alrosa villa in columbus, ohio, Dimebag was Shot and Killed Ostage by a Troubled Schizophrenic Who Believed That The Members Of PANTHER Were Stealing His Thoughts.
Vinniewho was Dimebag‘S Brother, and Anselmo had not spoken since PANTHER Split in 2003. But the Relationship Got Even More Acrimosus When Vinnie suggesta that summarks the vocalist had made about Dimebag in print just Weeks Earlier Might have incited Dimebag‘S Killer.
