1. Philip Hansen Anselmo was born on June 30,1968 and is an American musician best known as the lead singer for groove metal band Pantera, southern metal supergroup Down, and hardcore band Superjoint, amongst other musical projects.
52 Facts About Phil Anselmo
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Phil Anselmo was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and is mainly of Italian and French heritage.
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Phil Anselmo attended many schools across Louisiana and Texas, the last of which was Grace King High School in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie, which he dropped out of during 12th grade.
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Phil Anselmo has said in various interviews that he was the class clown as a child.
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Phil Anselmo worked on a shrimp boat with his stepfather in his teenage years, and claims to have witnessed a man be poisoned by a scorpionfish.
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In 1981, Phil Anselmo co-formed his first band, Samhain, together with friends from around the area, performing vocal and guitar duties.
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Around this time, Phil Anselmo quit high school to concentrate on his musical career.
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In 1986, after several meetings, then-18-year old Phil Anselmo was officially added to the Pantera lineup.
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Phil Anselmo relocated to Texas to record Pantera's fourth album, Power Metal, which was released in 1988.
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Phil Anselmo was released on $5,000 bail the next day.
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The album featured songs from five studio albums with Phil Anselmo, and included three cover tracks.
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Later that year, Pantera disbanded over communication problems and accusations that Phil Anselmo had neglected the band.
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In July 2022, it was announced that Phil Anselmo would be joining bassist Rex Brown, along with Zakk Wylde and Charlie Benante, for Pantera's first world tour in 22 years in 2023.
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However, Vinnie Paul told the press that he had heard the audio files of the interview and that Phil Anselmo had not been misquoted.
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At the request of Darrell's family, Phil Anselmo did not attend his funeral.
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Phil Anselmo stated that he wished to restart his friendship with Vinnie Paul, but a reconciliation had not occurred when Paul died on June 22,2018.
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Eibon was a short-lived supergroup, which Phil Anselmo participated in from 1998 to 2000.
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In 1993, Phil Anselmo produced Crowbar's self titled album and recorded backing vocals on some of the tracks.
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In 1996, Phil Anselmo recorded backing vocals for tracks on Crowbar's Broken Glass album.
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Phil Anselmo can be heard in the 1997 Jim Van Bebber film The Manson Family as the voice of Satan.
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In 1998, Phil Anselmo provided vocals on Soilent Green's album Sewn Mouth Secrets.
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In 1998, Phil Anselmo sang a duet on Vision of Disorder's Imprint album.
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Phil Anselmo managed to lay down some tracks for Iommi's album.
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Iommi and Phil Anselmo wrote and recorded three tracks together, "Time Is Mine", "Inversion of the Saviours", and a third unknown track.
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In 2001, Phil Anselmo provided additional vocals for "HFFK" on Biohazard's Uncivilization album.
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On March 6,2006, Phil Anselmo made an appearance along with Guns N' Roses and Velvet Revolver bassist Duff McKagan and the surviving members of Alice in Chains at a VH1's Decades Rock Live concert, in honor of the band Heart.
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In 2008, Phil Anselmo recorded vocals for the Mahakali album by Jarboe.
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In 2014, Phil Anselmo appeared in the YouTube comedy series Metal Grasshopper with comedian Dave Hill, in which he instructs Hill on how to "be" metal.
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In 2015, Phil Anselmo contributed backing vocals to "The Prophets of Loss", a song from the Cattle Decapitation album "The Anthropocene Extinction", released in August 2015.
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In January 2016, Phil Anselmo sang lead vocals in a band which included Foo Fighters lead singer Dave Grohl, Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo, and former Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo.
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In 2017, Anselmo released a six-song EP titled Songs of Darkness and Despair together with Bill Moseley.
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Phil Anselmo started his own record label called Housecore Records sometime in 2001.
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Phil Anselmo has a wide range of musical influences from classic rock to black metal.
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Phil Anselmo was mainly influenced by bands such as Black Sabbath, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Slayer, Black Flag, Agnostic Front, Hellhammer and Venom, and singers Rob Halford, David Lee Roth, Dee Snider, Ronnie James Dio, Ozzy Osbourne, Roger Miret and Henry Rollins.
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Phil Anselmo stated that his main vocal influence had been Judas Priest singer Rob Halford before he decided to focus on the exploration of his own technique.
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Phil Anselmo mentioned that he is a massive fan of hardcore punk, especially '80s hardcore.
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In 2016, Phil Anselmo said the favorite of recent concerts he had attended included Morrissey, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and Stevie Wonder.
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On October 31,2001, Phil Anselmo married his longtime girlfriend, Stephanie Opal Weinstein.
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Phil Anselmo owns a collection of several thousand horror films, and possesses an encyclopedic knowledge of horror films and horror culture.
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Together with Steve Joseph, Ross Karpelman, and Jay Gracianette, Phil Anselmo started a Halloween-themed attraction called House of Shock.
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Phil Anselmo played the role of a part-time actor when his schedule permitted, however Phil Anselmo is no longer involved with House of Shock.
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Phil Anselmo owns hundreds of fight DVDs and used to take a boxing trainer on tour with him.
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Phil Anselmo has written articles as a columnist for the Boxing Insider website.
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Also a fan of the NFL team New Orleans Saints, Phil Anselmo has interviewed Saints player Jeremy Shockey and has helped to coach a youth team at the request of Saints team ambassador Michael Lewis during a visit to the team's practice facility.
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On July 13,1996, Phil Anselmo went into cardiac arrest due to a heroin overdose after a show at the Coca-Cola Starplex in Dallas, Texas.
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In 2005, Phil Anselmo stopped using hard drugs, so that he could be cleared for surgery to repair back damage caused by degenerative disc disease, and has remained clean ever since.
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In November 2016, Phil Anselmo reported that he had stopped drinking alcohol.
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Phil Anselmo has given some controversial statements about race, skin color, and culture throughout his life.
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Winda Benedetti of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer accused Phil Anselmo of mouthing the words "white power" and making Nazi salutes at Superjoint Ritual's performance at Ozzfest on July 27,2004.
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On January 22,2016, an intoxicated Phil Anselmo ended the "Dimebash" Dimebag Darrell tribute show by giving a Nazi salute and screaming the words "white power" to the crowd.
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Phil Anselmo later claimed that it was an in-jest reference to drinking white wine.
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Phil Anselmo stated that the hecklers called him all sorts of names throughout the show, and by the end he had lost his patience.