Heavy metal band Pantera has released a teaser for their fourth home video. The band, active from 1981 to 2003, has released three other home videos, featuring snippets of the band on tour, the audience, and the general shenanigans of Pantera. Pantera’s first home video, Cowboys from Hell: The Videos, named after their song “Cowboys from Hell,” was released in 1991, followed by Vulgar Video in 1993, and 3 Watch it Go in 1997. These three videos were later compiled into a set called 3 Vulgar Videos from Hell. The band was originally going to release a fourth home video and new album in summer 2002, but neither project came to fruition. Seventeen years later, the teaser for their next video shows the band joking around back stage, trashing a hotel room, and most notably, a fan saying “Whassup?” in a jolting flashback to a Budweiser campaign that used the phrase from 1999 to 2002.
The teaser comes less than a year after the death of Vinnie Paul Abbott, drummer and co-founder of Pantera, who passed of multiple heart complications. Vinnie’s brother and other co-founder of Pantera, “Dimebag” Darrell Abbot died in 2004 after being shot on stage by a fan during a concert with the Abbott brothers’ other band, Damageplan.
The remaining members of the band have been keeping Pantera’s legacy alive recently through re-releasing old records, creating 4/20-themed merchandise, and through the upcoming release of their fourth home video. The teaser from the band’s twitter came with the caption that they are “not sure when it will be released but definitely at some point in the future,” so fans are hopeful for its release shortly.
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