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UP Close and Personal with Philip H Anselmo

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Unrated Magazine gets up close and personal with Metal Icon, Phil Anselmo about what the summer and fall of 2013 has in store for him including a first ever solo career, everyday highlights, horror movies, festivals, and hitting the road again on the "Technicians of Distortion Tour."

Anselmo is carving a new nitch for himself today. The former front man of Pantera is taking the world on with his first ever solo effort. Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegal's will release, Walk Through Exits Only on July 16th, 2013.

With a fresh and clean mind and body, the summer / fall tour in promotion of his new album is looking good. Not only for Anselmo fans, but therapeutic for himself as well as he describes the process.
Walk Through Exits Only was recorded over a three year period in New Orleans on Anselmo's own label, Housecore Records. It is produced by Anselmo and Michael Thompson.
This new musical venture brings Anselmo back to the front with his signature agro-screams, in your face sonic booms and heavily distorted, down tuned guitars. Blistering drums by Jose Manuel Gonzales, shredding guitars from Marzi Montazeri make this album one to notice. You can't help but feel pleasurable pain in each eardrum begging you for more track after track.

So how did this come to be? What's new with Phil? We asked him personally to find the answers.

James Currie: So Phil, thanks for chattin' with us and happy belated birthday. June 30th. Good date and easy to remember. My sisters is the same. 

Phil Anselmo: Well thanks a lot man. I appreciate that. You know so many others have that date as well including Mike Tyson. (Anselmo is a huge boxing fan). 

JC: Nice. Did you do anything special for it? 

PA: Yeah, as a matter of fact I did. I went to Greece. Went out to eat great food and one of the best things happened while I was there. We did a gig with Slayer. I was invited to join them on stage and we did an old Pantera "hit" together. It was one of the highlights for sure. 

JC: Sounds like a freakin' fantastic time for sure. Don't know many folks that can say they jammed with Slayer on their birthday. Pretty damn awesome to say the least. So now that you're back in the States and at home, how's NOLA been treating ya? What a resilient, historic proud town you've got there in New Orleans.

PA: It's always good to be home. We're getting back to hurricane season through so we'll see. Everyone's on their toes. Certain areas are coming back. Some are still hurtin' so... New Orleans is New Orleans. We're still here and we'll see what happens next. It's the nature of the beast. It's a fantastic city with fantastic people and food, but we're all privy to this thing called Hurricanes. Our coast has been chewed away a little each year since pretty much the dawn of time. 

JC: I hear ya and found a new respect for the area after visiting myself for the first time this year. I can't agree with you more. I'm just glad that they keep on keepin' on it would be a great loss to see it all gone.
And you've got another great contribution to the area with the release of the new album, Walk Through Exits Only. I have to say, it's pretty brutal. Much like one of those hurricanes tearing through my speakers. You don't let metal fans down. This is one of the hardest, heaviest albums of the year. What brought this out? What made you decide it was time to do a solo project? 

PA: Ah man, thank you very much. Well, I'm a fan man. I'm a gigantic fan of extreme hardcore and heavy metal or anything you consider extreme music, black metal, death metal... For me, it just dawned on me. It was something that I wanted to do. I'm very well versed in what's out there and the underground scene and know that the extreme scene is pretty much dominated by it's innovators and leaders and whatnot, but there is also a lot of clutter as far as bands that really just want to copycat what their favorite bands are, so my whole goal was to put this record together that could stand next to any band that would be considered extreme but to be very, very unique and withstand on it's own without having to sound like something or someone else out there. For me, music is an exploratory thing every time out to a certain degree and I wanted to make a record that was unique unto the genre. I didn't want to copy anything. I wanted to build a record from rhythmic busts so to speak.

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The upcoming tour starts July 31st, 2013 in Tulsa, OK and runs through August 20th in Atlanta, GA .
Here are the dates and locations.
July
  • 31 - Cain's Ballroom - Tulsa, OK
August
  • 2 - Wooly's - Des Moines, IA
    • 3 - First Avenue - Minneapolis, MN
  • 4 - House of Blues - Chicago, IL
  • 6 - House of Blues - Cleveland, OH
  • 7 - The Intersection - Grand Rapids, MI
  • 9 - Royal Oak Music Theatre - Royal Oak, MI
  • 10 - Danforth Music Hall - Toronto, ON
  • 11 - Heavy MTL Festival - Montreal, QC
  • 13 - The Palladium - Worcester, MA
  • 14 - Upstate Concert Hall - Clifton Park, NY
  • 16 - Best Buy Theatre - New York, NY
  • 17 - Union Transfer - Philadelphia, PA
  • 18 - The Fillmore - Silver Spring, MD
  • 20 - The Masquerade - Heaven Stage, Atlanta, GA
Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals are:
Philip H. Anselmo: Vocals
Jose Manuel Gonzales: Drums
Marzi Montazeri: Guitars
Bennett Bartley: Bass
 

     

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