Damageplan

Damageplan rose out of the ashes of Pantera in Dallas in 2003, when brothers Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul Abbott decided they weren't done making a racket together. Dime handled guitar, Vinnie Paul the drums, Patrick Lachman, who had played guitar in Halford, stepped up to the mic, and Bob Zilla came in on bass.

New Found Power, released on Elektra in February 2004, keeps the groove metal flag flying: Dime's riffs still squeal and chug like heavy machinery, and Vinnie Paul still hits like a pile driver, while Lachman brings a more modern bark to "Save Me" and "Pride". It went in at number 38 on the Billboard 200, moving 44,676 copies in its first week.

It turned out to be their only album. On December 8, 2004, during a show at the Alrosa Villa nightclub in Columbus, Ohio, a man named Nathan Gale climbed onto the stage and killed Dimebag Darrell and three other people before he was fatally shot by a police officer. The band has not played since. Unreleased Damageplan recordings exist, according to the band's manager, but none has come out. Vinnie Paul and Zilla went on to Hellyeah, Lachman to the Mercy Clinic, and Vinnie Paul died in 2018.

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