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At the height of their popularity and influence, Pantera began to self-destruct. Less than two months after the release of The Great Southern Trendkill (1996) -- an album ridden with allusions to drug abuse and personal destruction -- Anselmo overdosed on heroin after a homecoming concert in Texas, and as tensions rose between him and his fellow bandmembers, he began engaging with a growing list of side projects that kept him away from Pantera. A live album, Official Live: 101 Proof (1997), was compiled for release when it became evident that no new studio album was forthcoming any time soon. One final studio album did result, Reinventing the Steel (2000), but that was more or less it for the briefly reunited Pantera. The bandmembers once again went their separate ways, forming such bands as <a href="spotify:artist:4fE4Bf0MM6lMJpHiHniPuW">Damageplan</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:1m0B9ak05G0jqDY4ACLhQu">Down</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:2K5ouPQEC1lbHfUTbbjh0a">Superjoint Ritual</a>.
The end of an era for Pantera became official on December 8, 2004, when guitarist <a href="spotify:artist:7ozkOJRZcDU9B3DlmZKS9s">Dimebag Darrell</a> was murdered on-stage by a deranged fan at a <a href="spotify:artist:4fE4Bf0MM6lMJpHiHniPuW">Damageplan</a> show in Columbus, Ohio. This much-publicized murder shone the spotlight back on Pantera for an extended moment, and amid all of the emotional outpouring and tributes, a consensus arose: in retrospect, there was no greater metal band during the early to mid-'90s than Pantera, who inspired a legion of rabid fans and whose oft-termed "groove metal" style bucked all prevailing trends of the day -- from hair metal and grunge to nu-metal and rap-metal -- and remains singular decades later, as defined by the vocals of Anselmo as it is by the guitar of <a href="spotify:artist:7ozkOJRZcDU9B3DlmZKS9s">Dimebag</a>.
In the years that followed, Anselmo and <a href="spotify:artist:1o1EApaNV8DIvpdncvRK28">Rex Brown</a> continued work as <a href="spotify:artist:1m0B9ak05G0jqDY4ACLhQu">Down</a>, while Vinnie Paul formed the supergroup <a href="spotify:artist:4hxDvVq5t8ebPYPdBl1F9f">Hellyeah</a> with members of <a href="spotify:artist:2Pfv2w8a20xzC7Dr7QXRqM">Mudvayne</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:7v4hyXy0IQiJaKeVTTQX1E">Nothingface</a>. A Pantera greatest hits compilation, 1990-2000: A Decade of Domination, landed in 2010. Before the band managed an oft-teased official reunion, Paul died on June 22, 2018. Surviving members Anselmo and <a href="spotify:artist:1o1EApaNV8DIvpdncvRK28">Brown</a> eventually teamed with <a href="spotify:artist:1AeC9AuzqGc3IXMC2T5xny">Zakk Wylde</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:1QBskCF2bMaiVUCeNX2bgU">Charlie Benante</a>, playing as Pantera in a co-headlining spot with <a href="spotify:artist:2tRsMl4eGxwoNabM08Dm4I">Judas Priest</a> at the Monterrey Metal Fest in December 2022. That kicked off years of touring, joining the lineups for Hell & Heaven Metal Fest, Knotfest, and <a href="spotify:artist:2ye2Wgw4gimLv2eAKyk1NB">Metallica</a>'s extensive M72 World Tour. ~ Jason Birchmeier, Rovi
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