REVOLVER WILL RELEASE AN ALL-PANTERA ISSUE!
Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 at 2:30pm by Vince Neilstein
Revolver Magazine Editor-in-Chief Tom Beaujour has revealed in an interview with our chums at BITPOM.com that the magazine is planning an all-Pantera special edition issue for December, on the heels of their wildly successful and highly amusing all-Tool issue this past Spring.
If ever there’s another metal band that inspires as fervent a fan-base as Tool I’d think Pantera is certainly that band, and it makes perfect sense for Revolver to release a tribute issue. I’ll especially be looking forward to this one, as there is SO much to explore, especially in the way of new interviews with the remaining living band members — so long as the good folks at Revolver hold off on tacky Dime tributes (this topic has been beaten to death, deader than a dead horse fucking another dead horse in the bunghole) and so long as Rita Haney keeps her obnoxious trap shut. I’m also interested in seeing how much, if any, editorial space the magazine devotes to Pantera’s oft-ignored glam metal years.
If you missed the all-Tool edition, it’s your lucky day: you can buy a re-issue here. Trust us, it’s fucking awesome.
Also, remember that awesome feature Revolver used to have where they invited bands into their offices to write and record a new original song in just a couple of hours? RevolverMag.com just posted all of those tracks for free download; highlights include “masterpieces” by Dillinger Escape Plan, Genghis Tron, Meshuggah, Trivium, Chimaira, and plenty of others.
-VN
COOL. I’m not a regular Revolver reader, but I loved that Tool issue, and will be sure to pick this one up. Hope they keep doing issues like this througout the year.
phil aunt selma
thisbandisoverrated
*hides*
old pantera? i only got one thing to say to that….hard ride! (hard ride) with me…WITH MEEEEEEEEEEE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcG6a3fewxc
Tool still sucks.
So Revolver is getting some money out of me again. Good for them. I’m still gonna stick to my Terrorizer although inflation has raised the price from $6.66 to like $8.
I fucking love that picture haha!
Don’t get me wrong, I love Pantera, but it’s like looking through a year book and seeing the heroin addicted redneck when he used to have a frilly permullet. Holy shit they look like a bunch of queers. I love how Rex is sporting the Susanne Sommers hair too.
The ends justify the means I guess.
I have Pantera’s Power Metal album, the first with Anselmo (had to record from cassette to CD then import, so the quality is not too great, but doable), and as much as their look was sorta glam, that album is actually pretty heavy and showed early signs of the the aggressive vocals and shredding to come.
And I love those old photos of a skinny Dimebag and his still-fat brother who looks like a redneck shoved into spandex and makeup.
keep an eye out for the inevitable Rita Haney and Zakk Wylde interviews (brought to you by Dean Guitars!!)
jesus fuckin christ whats wrong with a dime tribute? if dean makes money off it than good im mean shit its the best guitar money can buy. damn i guess people that hate on dime are pissed because they suck at guitar, i mean goddamn go fuck your 3000 dollar lifelike sex doll with a picture of paul waggners face on it.
Dude, it’s not that people are hating on Dime.. it’s the fact that there have been hundreds of tributes since his death. Sure he was a great guy, a great guitar player, and just a model metal head in general.. but that train has long since left the station. One of the most important things to do in light of a tragedy is move on with your lives.
Me and my friend came up with a good way to describe Vinnie Paul in that picture.. he’s a Bam Bam Bigelow/Marty Jennetti hybrid.
they need an all Mike Patton and issue