The bass player, who played on the record, is a local New Orleans guy, Bennett Bartley. “The drummer’s from Warbeast and they’re one of my bands on (Anselmo’s label) Housecore Records. “I’ve known the guitar player for almost 20 years,” he says. They are guys that the formidable frontman has known for years. Produced by Anselmo and Michael Thompson, and recorded over the past couple of years at his New Orleans studio, Nosferatu’s Lair, the collection features his Illegals-Marzi Montazeri on guitars, and drummer Jose Manuel “Blue” Gonzalez. “There was no real fucking big master plan or anything. “I had some time,” says Anselmo, who brushed off the much-written-about notion that he’s writing an autobiography. Although he had been working on the album for years, he just kind of went with the flow. “Walk Through Exits Only” was inspired by “real-life events, down-to-Earth true events” and “real stuff” that Anselmo deals with daily.
“I wanted to dabble in something a little more harsh than Down or anything else I’ve done lately,” Anselmo says via telephone from his New Orleans home, stressing the word “lately.” “It’s just something I did.
Called his debut solo record, “Walk Through Exits Only” is laced with brash, brutal guitars that cut through punishing percussion. Anselmo screams with uncompromising ferocity.Īnselmo-who’s also a veteran of Down and Superjoint Ritual, among others-wanted to make music at its hardest. He wants to cut to the chase and talk about “Walk Through Exits Only,” his first release with Philip H. Anselmo and the Illegals. Pantera’s Phil Anselmo keeps shows ‘real’ with new solo project January 9, 2014įormer Pantera frontman Phil Anselmo isn’t in the mood for any small talk.
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