Pantera introduced Power Trip because the openers for their upcoming 2025 European tour dates and Power Trip followers are pissed.
Followers’ anger stems from feedback made by late Power Trip vocalist Riley Gale in two separate interviews concerning Pantera and Superjoint Ritual vocalist Phil Anselmo. First have been Gale‘s opinions from a 2017 interview with the Rest room Ov Hell Podcast, the place Gale stated he would not tour with Superjoint Ritual on account of Anselmo‘s views expressed in the course of the 2016 Dimebash occasion – specifically shouting “white power” alongside a “Sieg Heil” and trying to pass it off as a joke later.
“We already did. Superjoint Ritual requested us to exit… It was onerous, it was onerous, however you recognize what? It was considered one of this stuff the place you recognize it was solely a yr in the past since Phil obtained busted seig heiling on digital camera. And one of many guys from Pig Destroyer — I consider it was Blake — he performs in a band with Phil, and he was there, and he sort of defined what Phil was doing was really being sarcastic, he was making an attempt to handle the hecklers.
“However you recognize what? He is performed some actually… He is performed some stuff that made us too uncomfortable. And I did not need to go on the market and really feel like I wanted to be the guardian for Phil Anselmo concerning his politics. And I actually did not need to come on the market and find yourself disagreeing after which being on tour with a band that hates us for our politics for the subsequent few months. It was a very onerous factor to show down. I might like to see what Phil actually is like as an individual.
“I consider that he most likely is an efficient individual on the finish of the day. And we have toured with Eyehategod and Jimmy Bower is a fairly good man. So it was a kind of issues the place, will we need to… It extra so needed to do together with his followers that kinda observe him round. Do we would like these kind of decrease earnings, kinda trailer trashy steel guys who simply worship Phil Anselmo, do we would like them to be uncovered to our band, after which perhaps turn out to be related to a scene or a bunch of people who we do not essentially agree with.”
“So it was robust. I might love a possibility to perhaps play with Phil and get to know him as an individual. However to decide to a five-week tour with a man who has performed and stated some questionable issues that we do not agree with was one thing that we simply kinda stated wasn’t price it. It wasn’t definitely worth the danger. We did not want the tour, as cool as it will have been. Power Trip did not must go on tour with Superjoint Ritual.”
Gale later echoed those self same sentiments in an interview with the Chicago Tribune in 2018, saying: “We turned down a Superjoint Ritual tour, primarily as a result of I do not need to be related to Phil Anselmo. I did not know him personally, however I do know he has gotten in hassle for saying a variety of silly s— (celebrating ‘white energy’ on stage, for which he later apologized). I did not need to be within the place of defending that. It is right down to what sort of band we need to be related to, as individuals as a lot as something musical.”
Power Trip has not issued any remark or response to fan backlash. Gale handed away in 2020. Power Trip has since carried on with Fugitive vocalist Seth Gilmore as of 2023.
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