Various news sources are reporting that Dimebag Darrel and another undisclosed band member were shot dead during a concert in Ohio.

I’ve been a long time fan of Pantera. You can, in fact, say that I’ve grown up with their music, and it has always been a great influence to me. It was one of the first bands where I could really find myself in their music.

The break-up of Pantera in 2001(?) was already a shock to me. The mudslinging by the various members of the band also was depressing. Pantera broke up and essentially fell apart into two different bands: Damageplan and Superjoint Ritual. Both of these bands are somewhat promising, but neither of them are Pantera.

Somehow I’ve got a feeling that perhaps the gunman was a Philip Anselmo fan who couldn’t take the mudslinging anymore and so he deciced to kill the opposing party (Dimebag darrel and Co).

This is really sad news.

Update: More rumours at Oor.nl.

Highlights:

“then i saw
the guy jump out of the crwod onto the stage… he was yelling something
about how “you broke up pantera…. you ruined my life…. what about
phil??? he needs heroin money…” or something like that then i saw the gun
and he shot DBD right in the head…”

“1) Daryl is dead. We all know this.
2) Vinnie is fine (I have confirmed this)”

_{Please note that these are rumours.}