Pantera was founded in 1981 by brothers Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul. After years of both triumphs and tensions, they suspended activities in 2001, and two years later the band broke up. A lot has changed since then. Both brothers are dead, and bassist Rex Brown and vocalist Phil Anselmo remain from the original line-up. In 2022, they decided to return to playing together with Zakk Wylde and Charlie Benant to pay tribute to the departed Abbott brothers.
The group is also planning a concert in Poland, which is scheduled for June 5, 2023 as part of the returning Metal Hammer Festival. The event will take place at the Atlas Arena in Łódź. Earlier, however, they were supposed to play at the German festivals Rock am Ring and Rock im Park. These are twin events that share line-ups at two different locations on June 2-4, 2023. The organizers wrote that Pantera will not perform at their events.
Pantera will not perform in Germany
On the Facebook pages of both festivals, we can read that it was decided to remove the band from the festival program due to criticism and after “intensive talks with artists, partners and festival goers”.
The reason for the criticism was the controversial behavior that Phil Anselmo committed years ago. She sought the cancellation of concerts, among others. The German Green Party recalled that the singer of the band “repeatedly and consciously made Nazi gestures and shouted racist slogans”.
In addition, Green spokeswoman Réka Lörincz opposed the “promotion of racist and inhumane ideology” in “former Nazi territories”. The Rock im Park festival takes place in Nuremberg, where Nazi rallies were organized between 1933 and 1938.
The allegations may stem from an incident that took place at a Dimebash party in Hollywood in 2016. Anselmo performed the Nazi salute from the stage there. The entire incident was recorded and posted online. You can also hear the vocalist shouting the words “white power”. The artist in 2019 in an interview with the weekly “Kerrang!” he denied everything and said, “It’s an out-of-context joke where they made me Hitler. I’m not like that.”
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Source: Gazeta
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