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Official Website:
www.philanselmo.com
Housecore Records
Jun
After a week off, The Sports Machine with Vince Caruso takes NO prisoners as we come back stronger than ever with former Pantera frontman, Phillip Anselmo! Phil is by far the BIGGEST boxing fan in the world and is a wealth of knowledge when it comes to the sport. Tune in and DO NOT miss this great episode!
Philip enters the interview at 12:50
Legendary metal frontman and Housecore Records founder Philip Anselmo, is bringing his horror-themed film and metal festival back for a third year. After a great ride in Austin, the festival will kick off in San Antonio, Texas at the Aztec Theatre on November 13th -15th, 2015.
The decision to return was driven by the desire to honor his friend and festival co-founder, Corey Mitchell, who tragically passed away last October. Mitchell was the driving creative force behind the festival’s success, and Anselmo believes there is no better way to pay tribute to his friend than to carry on for a third year.
“I’ve got a great team in place to help make this what Corey and I wanted it to be,” he says. “There are a lot of mixed emotions here because no one can replace him. But, we know he would want this to continue and so that’s what we’re going to do. We miss him and think about him every day.”
Bands already confirmed to play are Suffocation, Autopsy, Cripple Bastards, Nails, SYk & DalilaKayros, EYEHATEGOD, Child Bite, WARBEAST, many more to be announced soon. Maryland Deathfest co-founder Ryan Taylor will be booking bands this year and will help Anselmo craft a musical lineup that would make Mitchell proud.
In addition to showcasing the best in extreme metal, the festival will screen film gems from the personal vaults of both Anselmo and Mitchell. Horror filmmakers are encouraged to submit their films and winners will be selected in various categories and given the coveted Rot-Scar Award. “When Corey and I started this thing, it was important to us that we help independent filmmakers get their incredible work discovered,” Anselmo continues. “Nothing has changed, in that respect.”
Tickets to go on sale soon! Stay tuned for additional announcements.
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DOWN’s entire August 1, 2014 performance at the Resurrection Fest from Viveiro, Lugo, Spain.
Down will appear at the Amnesia Rockfest in Quebec in June, then will tour the East coast of the USA in August. Details and Ticket/VIP info below:
06/16/15 Montebello, Quebec, Canada Amnesia Rockfest TICKETS
Tour: Eastbound ‘N Down
08/06/15 Louisville, KY, United States Mercury Ballroom TICKETS VIP
08/07/15 Fort Wayne, IN, United States Piere’s TICKETS VIP
08/08/15 Birch Run, MI, United States “Dirtfest” Birch Run Expo Center TICKETS (No VIP available)
08/10/15 Buffalo, NY, United States Town Ballroom TICKETS VIP
08/11/15 Pittsburgh, PA, United States Alter Bar TICKETS VIP
08/12/15 Hartford, CT, United States Webster Theater TICKETS VIP
08/14/15 Sayerville, NJ Starland Ballroom TICKETS VIP
08/15/15 Richmond, VA, United States Hadad’s Lake – GWAR BQ TICKETS (No VIP available)
Originally posted on Loudwire here.
In an extremely close race, Pantera / Down legend Philip Anselmo and Slipknot / Stone Sour vocalist Corey Taylor were neck-and-neck in our poll for the 2014 Titan of the Year. However, once the voting closed, Anselmo came out the victor.
You know what’s truly bizarre about Anselmo’s win? His margin of victory was by .5 percent, the very number that adorns Slipknot’s 2014 album, ‘.5: The Gray Chapter.’
2014 saw Anselmo release ‘Down IV – Part II’ with the southern sludge legends. ‘Part II’ charted even higher than first ‘Down IV’ EP, claiming No. 23 on the Billboard Top 200. Down also unveiled a music video for ‘We Knew Him Well.’
Anselmo and the late Corey Mitchell launched the second Housecore Horror Film Festival in 2014, showcasing Satyricon, Eyehategod, Portal and many other bands. The fest also celebrated the 40th anniversary of ‘The Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ with a reunion of all the living members of its cast and also featured a reunion performance by Anselmo’s Superjoint Ritual.
If you dig metal and comedy, you probably also saw the ‘Metal Grasshopper’ series, in which Anselmo taught comedian Dave Hill how to be a metal warrior. The result was questionable, but let’s be honest, not even Lemmy could pull of the feat.
Congrats to Philip Anselmo and here’s for a brutal 2015!
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Philip honored with the Musical Artist of the Year award at the 2015 President’s Arts Awards
Jan
Article originally posted here on nola.com
Creative pursuits of three President’s Arts Awards honorees focus on words.
Words – whether written in the stanzas, used to document historical facts or added to music to create a song – feature prominently in the creative pursuits of three President’s Arts Awards winners.
Phil Anselmo, former lead singer of the heavy metal band Pantera, fancies himself “a wordsmith to a certain degree, so I’m always learning and expanding my lyrical repertoire,” he said.
“Normally, like most bands, the music comes first, then the lyrics. But I’m always jotting down one-liners, or merely words that I may incorporate later,” the 46-year old added. “A lyric can inspire a riff, or a piece of music, so to collect as much phonetic info as possible is important. There is rhythm in everyday conversation, and I’m a believer in the fact that all rhythms in music haven’t been investigated. That’s what makes creating innovative music a blast.”
The New Orleans native grew up in a house filled with music that he adored “from as early as I can remember,” he said. He listened to the musical artists of the time, such as The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin, as well as radio hits, such as Dr. John’s “Right Place/Wrong Time.”
But when it came to creating his own music, Anselmo said “I followed my heart, and the style of heavy metal and hardcore music appealed to me as a style and expression that would best fit me.”
Anselmo’s noteworthy music career has included leading “Pantera to Grammy Award nominations, sales of 20 million albums worldwide, legions of diehard fans, and an indisputable heavy metal legacy,” according his biography.
Anselmo then formed the band Down, which had a gold-selling debut and three more critically acclaimed releases, most recently, 2012’s “Down IV Part I – The Purple EP.” Then to switch things up, Anselmo formed The Illegals and debuted the album, “Walk Through Exits Only,” in 2013.
That album was released by his own label, Housecore Records, based in Covington. The label, which has recorded dozens of albums for national and international bands, began “as a way of life in the early ’90s when I bought my first house in Lakeview,” Anselmo said. “Being a musician, I have had many musician friends, and back in the day when jam sessions were a way of life when I was home from long, grueling tours, we’d kind of shun traditional studios, opting for home recordings on my four-track. That’s where the term Housecore came from– creating music at home and recording it at home. There’s a unique feel to it.”
While he’s toured all over the world, Anselmo has called St. Tammany Parish home for the past 15 years. “I love it for many reasons; I have 17 acres of beautiful land, many animals and fantastic neighbors that put up with the racket and noise that comes out of my studio,” he joked. “I take pride in this little community, and support its growth with all my heart. People are friendly, restaurants are plentiful and fantastic, and downtown Covington is quaint and wonderful.”
About being named Musical Artist of the Year, Anselmo said “to be recognized within the community I’m a part of is perhaps one of the greatest accolades ever.
“I want to thank all who recognized me and Housecore Records as this year’s best constituent,” he added. “And I hope our local music scene grows more and more, and I hope I can help facilitate a place for the cream of the crop to thrive.”
For more information on New Orleans and New Orleans culture including past articles on Philip and his bands, check out nola.com
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METAL GRASSHOPPER with Philip H. Anselmo + Dave Hill: Episode Three “Metal or Not Metal?”
Nov
Here is the latest for Philip and Dave in Metal Grasshopper! Episode Three “Metal or Not Metal?”
EPISODE 3 (Episodes 1 and 2 below it):
EPISODE 1
EPISODE 2
Stay tuned for more! Also check out www.davehillonline.com…
Last week the Housecore Horror Film Festival’s co-founder and friend of Philip’s, Corey Mitchell, passed away. Earpslitcompund.com has put together some great memories of Corey by people who knew him personally and professionally. Donations to the daughters he left behind can also now be made via PayPal. Click here for details! Thank you.…
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Noisey concludes their 7 episode series “NOLA: Life, Death, & Heavy Blues from the Bayou” They examining the people & culture that fostered bands like DOWN, Eyehategod, Crowbar, Goatwhore and many others.
Oct
Noisey is proud to present NOLA: Life, Death and Heavy Blues from the Bayou, a seven-part series examining the people and the culture that helped foster bands like DOWN, Eyehategod, Crowbar, Goatwhore and many others. From the crawfish-littered tables of the secluded Anselmo compound to a fishing boat with Eyehategod in the swamps, we’ll discuss the bands, Hurricane Katrina, drugs, suicide, murder, and records that helped shape the New Orleans sound known the world over.
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Noisey is proud to present NOLA: Life, Death and Heavy Blues from the Bayou, a seven-part series examining the people and the culture that helped foster bands like DOWN, Eyehategod, Crowbar, Goatwhore and many others. From the crawfish-littered tables of the secluded Anselmo compound to a fishing boat with Eyehategod in the swamps, we’ll discuss the bands, Hurricane Katrina, drugs, suicide, murder, and records that helped shape the New Orleans sound known the world over.
Produced & Directed by: Jimmy Hubbard and Fred Pessaro
Executive Producer: Trevor Silmser
Supervising Producer: Andy Capper
Associate Producer: Allen Otto
Editor: Matthew Caron
Hosts: Fred Pessaro and Jake Boyle
Sound: Dan Cain
Camera:Dan Cain and Jimmy Hubbard
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The segment with Philip begins at 43:00
Some excerpts of the interview:
Speaking to the “Talking Metal” podcast, Anselmo said about “Mouth For War”: “I have definitely postponed this book thing for quite a while. And, really, it’s a tough process to do, and it really takes a lot of heads-down work to do this, and I’ve been so incredibly busy with my first love in my life, which is music. I’m not a book writer — I’m a songwriter, I’m a live performer, and that’s what I love and that’s what I’ve been doing. But having said that, I think eventually I’ll get around to doing it and writing it.
“I think my biggest aim is to be more, I guess, upbeat about things than perhaps Rex’s came across. Because there was a lot more good than there was bad — up to a certain point.
Talking Metal’s Mark Strigl:”Rex Brown spends half of page 58 of his book talking about Pantera’s relationship with Slayer back in the Power Metal era. He ends that part of that page by saying, in reference to Kerry and Philip’s friendship, ‘At one point I even thought that Kerry wanted to join the fucking band. That’s how intense it was.Talk about Kerry King. He seems to be somebody who had some influence on what you guys did with Pantera. Do you remember meeting him for the first time?
Philip Anselmo: Absolutely, yeah. Pantera, before we were signed, would play every weekend in the DFW area or Shreveport Louisiana or whatever along those circuits and we had a weekend booked playing a club in Dallas, and, which really consisted of Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Slayer were playing right down the street on, I believe the beginning of the South of Heaven tour and hey were playing on a Saturday night, they got in town on a Friday and my boxing coach used to be a radio DJ and he called my house and said hey man I got Tom Araya in here, do you want to talk to him, do you want to meet him and I’m like ‘”definitely.” So I talked to Tom on the phone briefly for a moment. Then sure enough he brought Tom, Kerry and Jeff, rest in peace, out to the show that night on Friday and we met all those guys and they got up on stage and did a couple songs with us. We knew Reign in Blood and oh gosh, one other song, umm, like I said my memory is pathetic. Kerry and I hit it off and we exchanged phone numbers and really he kept in touch quite a bit and it was awesome especially for a kid, like I was at the time, who really, for me, the greatest bands from California, especially at the time were Black Flag and Slayer. So definitely at the time, Slayer was the be-all end-all for me. To befriend a guy like Kerry King was a huge thing. Kerry would call all the time and when he would have downtime, or off time from the road, he would fly in and come hang out with us and this was around the time where I was beating my head against the wall desperately trying to turn the guys in Pantera on to heavier music and Slayer was the paramount band that I was saying please give them a chance and sure enough Dimebag and I would listen to Hell Awaits and he started to get it and feel it but there was one specific time when Kerry King called me and he says “hey” and I said “yes” and he said “I’m coming down.” And I said “ok” and he said “but this time I don’t want them mess around” and I said “what you mean by that?” and he said “I want to jam.” I said “well, let me ask the rest of the guys and see what we can do.” So he flew in early in the week so we can work out in an entire set and I think, a matter fact I will go on record and say I positively know that Dimebag and Kerry King sitting down with each other opened up Dimebag’s eyes and really eventually the rest of the guys eyes to the power of the thrash rift and the magic of it and really influenced us to push our own music over the edge and all props to Kerry King there. That night was an awesome night, a matter of fact it was two nights in a row. We did Slayer songs, Kerry King did old Pantera songs with us. We did Judas Priest songs and it was fun and it was a blast and I can’t go into how much of change the direction of Pantera.
Mark Strigl: When you say he did old Pantera songs with you are you talking about stuff that was on the Power Metal record?
Philip Anselmo: Absolutely. He played the song Power Metal with us which is a very intricate rift in itself and we even modified the song to where there was a breakdown part where Dime and Kerry went into this creepy Slayer-esque anti-melodic harmony part guitar thing and it was very spontaneous but still cool as hell.
Mark Strigl: When he came down to jam with you guys, was he just trying to help you guys out? Or was he interested working with you guys on some level?
Philip Anselmo: “Ooo…. I shouldn’t probably talk about this but … I do think… I’ll put it like this, he was having fun. I don’t think he was trying to help us as much as have fun himself and jamming with Dimebag because I know Dimebag blew his mind as a guitar player and really… He loved… I guess his love of Judas Priest and where my vocal range was at the time. He loved it and I think it was a nice departure for him to come down and jam with us so I’ll just say he’s having fun BUT… I could say more but I won’t.”
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Oct
Philip has teamed with friend and comedian Dave Hill to bring you “Metal Grasshopper”. Episode 2 “The Awakening”: Metal god Philip H. Anselmo reluctantly agrees to share his heavy metal wisdom with delusional manchild Dave Hill. Training and hilarity ensues.
Stay tuned for more! Also check out www.davehillonline.com…
Philip has teamed with friend and comedian Dave Hill to bring you “Metal Grasshopper”. Episode 1 “Origins”: Metal god Philip H. Anselmo reluctantly agrees to share his heavy metal wisdom with delusional manchild Dave Hill.
Stay tuned for more! Also check out www.davehillonline.com…
So this happened this week:
Photo By: Annie Atlasman
Metal Allegiance doing A New Level:
Metal Allegiance doing Fucking Hostile:
Metal Allegiance doing Mouth For War:
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Noisey is proud to present NOLA: Life, Death and Heavy Blues from the Bayou, a seven-part series examining the people and the culture that helped foster bands like DOWN, Eyehategod, Crowbar, Goatwhore and many others. From the crawfish-littered tables of the secluded Anselmo compound to a fishing boat with Eyehategod in the swamps, we’ll discuss the bands, Hurricane Katrina, drugs, suicide, murder, and records that helped shape the New Orleans sound known the world over.
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Noisey is proud to present NOLA: Life, Death and Heavy Blues from the Bayou, a seven-part series examining the people and the culture that helped foster bands like DOWN, Eyehategod, Crowbar, Goatwhore and many others. From the crawfish-littered tables of the secluded Anselmo compound to a fishing boat with Eyehategod in the swamps, we’ll discuss the bands, Hurricane Katrina, drugs, suicide, murder, and records that helped shape the New Orleans sound known the world over.
Produced & Directed by: Jimmy Hubbard and Fred Pessaro
Executive Producer: Trevor Silmser
Supervising Producer: Andy Capper
Associate Producer: Allen Otto
Editor: Matthew Caron
Hosts: Fred Pessaro and Jake Boyle
Sound: Dan Cain
Camera:Dan Cain and Jimmy Hubbard
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