Phil Anselmo
Phil Anselmo
Philip Hansen "Phil" Anselmois an American musician who is best known as the former lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Pantera. He is currently the frontman for the Louisiana-based heavy metal supergroup Down. Anselmo is also the owner of Housecore Records and has been a part of many other bands...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMetal Singer
Date of Birth30 June 1968
CityNew Orleans, LA
CountryUnited States of America
sound heavy-metal pantera
Pantera revolutionized the sound and the approach to heavy metal. It's been regurgitated. Once you up the production on a product and not just the playing but the actual production, then it's going to up the ante.
letting-go song guitar
Speaking of stage freight. I was terrified! It was in NOLA at an all ages show. I was wearing Jeans, a Van Halen t-shirt, and a bandana on my neck. Once I gripped that microphone stand, I did not let go! I plugged my microphone into a guitar FX pedal. Then at the end of the a Black Sabbath song we were covering, I hit the guitar pedal. It was horrific!
dark glowing caves
I'm glowing in the dark with my studio tan. I've been in a cave of music for months and months and months.
heavy hairstyles wanted
With this LP we were all very clear on the approach we wanted to take, which was to do something heavy, but also experiment with a lot of other things we really like.
tired get-real
There it is again. Image. Once again. I get really tired of it quick
heart men thinking
We, PANTERA, had the greatest, the most intense, dedicated fans I've ever seen in my ******* life. And I really hope with all my heart that one day, people - especially our fans and my friends - can see clearly enough to think for themselves and really realize that I have nothing but love for them. I've just been going through personal hell since December. Once again, it's very hard to talk about, man. You know, my heart is in a thousand pieces a day.
done wanted i-can
I can easily say I've done everything I've wanted in music.
hardcore following
We definitely have a hardcore following.
american-musician painted seems tailor
It seems like if you are not painted up special way or have some tailor made outfit to put on to go out on stage... I don't know... there's too much of it out there.
kicking trying wake
I wake up, and I'll just start reading and trying to brace myself for the rest of the day, and all the while I'm doing that, I'm kicking myself mentally.
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With Pantera, we lived through so many trend-of-the-day situations - when grunge was huge, we were still a heavy metal band; when hip-hop started getting incorporated into metal, we stuck to our guns and remained a heavy metal band very purposefully.
classic iron maiden metallica peter record seemed stuff
I went from being a kid-kid, listen to everything from The Beatles through Kiss, Peter Frampton, Jethro Tull classic rock, classic stuff into immediately, it seemed like, Iron Maiden and stuff like that. The first Iron Maiden record and then, obviously, the first Metallica record.
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I loathe rock stars. I am a music nerd, a fan, a follower... just like any fan of music might be. And although I have blood-relatives, a lot of times I feel closer to my audience than my true family, because at least my fans get what I'm doing, to a certain extent, whereas my family does not.
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I love to play guitar. I've been writing my own songs on the axe since I was nine years old. I suck at leads.