Pantera’s recent club show in Minneapolis on August 15th is being preserved as the cornerstone of their upcoming live album. This release is notable as the band’s first with the new lineup, bringing together original members Philip Anselmo and Rex Brown alongside Zakk Wylde and Charlie Benante.
Before Pantera hit the stage at First Avenue, a staff member stepped out to address the crowd (via Blabbermouth): “Announcement number one. The band you are seeing tonight is not called Cowboys From Hell,” a reference to the fact that First Avenue announced the Pantera gig by tweeting out Pantera‘s CFH — Cowboys From Hell — logo on Tuesday, placed over the band’s star on the wall outside the venue.
“You are about to watch an exclusive show from the band Pantera. The rumors got out quickly, [and] you guys bought up all the tickets. And you may have heard this rumor. And this is also true. We are recording our first-ever live album right here at the First Avenue. So, there’s a couple things you need to know about it. First of all, you will all, for eternity, be heard on a live Pantera album. That’s the good news. The bad news, you’re not gonna get paid for this. Welcome to the music business.”
Setlist for the show was as follows:
01. A New Level
02. Mouth For War
03. Strength Beyond Strength
04. Becoming
05. I’m Broken
06. Suicide Note Pt. II
07. This Love
08. F**king Hostile
09. Walk (with Robert Trujillo and Kirk Hammett on backing vocals)
10. Domination / Hollow
11. Cowboys From Hell
Encore:
12. Yesterday Don’t Mean S**t
In a recent interview with Brazilian music journalist Igor Miranda, Zakk Wylde was asked about Charlie Benante‘s remarks on the discussions surrounding the current Pantera lineup releasing a live album.
“Yeah, whatever the fellas wanna do, we knock it out,” Zakk responded. “Let’s be real — it’s a live album every night. People with their phones and everything are recording it anyway, so it doesn’t [matter] to me. You go up there and you play to win every night.”
Regarding the possibility of new songs from the current Pantera lineup, Zakk said: “No, we haven’t sat and talked about, like, ‘Oh, guys, let’s get together and write songs,’ or whatnot; there hasn’t been anything like that. I mean, the only discussions we’ll have is just what other new songs we wanna put in the setlist. Like when we put ‘Floods’ in and then we got together at rehearsals, got together over at Phil‘s house, we just rehearsed everything. But no, nothing like… We haven’t been sitting around writing riffs and things like that.”
