Rex Brown: Pantera have come "close" to reuniting

By Scott Munro
( Metal Hammer )
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Former Pantera bassist Rex Brown reports that surviving members of the band have been offered big money to reunite

Rex Brown
Rex Brown

Former Pantera bassist Rex Brown says the surviving members of the band have been offered large amounts of money to perform together again.

Rumours about a live reunion have been swirling for years, with Zakk Wylde potentially taking the place of late guitarist Dimebag Darrell Abbott.

However, drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott has consistently said a reunion is out of the question after Dimebag was shot dead on stage in 2004 while playing with Damageplan.

Now Brown tells Loudwire the surviving members have been offered “ten times” the amount of cash Misfits made for their 2016 Riot Fest appearances. And when pressed how close a reunion has come, Brown replies “close.”

Brown adds: “I’d love to get out there and play those songs again. If everybody else was willing to do it, get us all in a room and get that water underneath the bridge all settled and make some music again – but it would be different, we’d be missing something.”

“I’d get up there and do it for fucking nothing, but it would be different.”

Brown is gearing up to release his debut solo album Smoke On This, which is due to arrive on July 28. It’s available for pre-order via iTunes UK (opens in new tab) and iTunes US (opens in new tab).

Rex Brown Smoke On This tracklist

  1. Lone Rider
  2. Crossing Lines
  3. Buried Alive
  4. Train Song
  5. Get Yourself Right
  6. Fault Line
  7. What Comes Around
  8. Grace
  9. So Into You
  10. Best Of Me
  11. One Of These Days

Pantera split fight wasn’t necessary says Rex Brown

Scott Munro
Scott Munro
Louder e-commerce editor

Scott has spent more than 30 years in newspapers and magazines as an editor, production editor, sub-editor, designer, writer and reviewer. After initially joining our news desk in the summer of 2014, he moved to the e-commerce team full-time in 2020. He maintains Louder’s buyer’s guides, scouts out the best deals for music fans and reviews headphones, speakers, books and more. He's written more than 11,000 articles across Louder, Classic Rock, Metal Hammer and Prog and has previous written for publications including IGN, the Sunday Mirror, Daily Record and The Herald covering everything from daily news and weekly features, to video games, travel and whisky. Scott grew up listening to rock and prog, cutting his teeth on bands such as Marillion and Magnum before his focus shifted to alternative and post-punk in the late 80s. His favourite bands are Fields Of The Nephilim, The Cure, New Model Army, All About Eve, The Mission, Ned's Atomic Dustbin and Drab Majesty, but he also still has a deep love of Rush.