PHILIP ANSELMO, PEPPER KEENAN Talk About Heavy Metal Scene In New Orleans
February 10, 2009Alison Fensterstock of BestOfNewOrleans.com reports: Heavy metal stars Pepper Keenan and Phil Anselmo and their band DOWN just completed a tour opening for METALLICA at the New Orleans Arena. Along with Mike IX Williams, they are three of the city's best-known musicians —outside of New Orleans.
"You know, I can remember being nominated four different times, back when I was in PANTERA, for Grammys," Anselmo says. "And they'd have on the news all the local New Orleans stars who were nominated. My name was never up there. And nothing against them — the Harry Connicks and the Aaron Nevilles. I even went to Lakeview high school with Harry Connick, and summer camp. But PANTERA, we sold more records than them. So I always took it with a grain of salt."
In the early '90s, he and Keenan were both living outside New Orleans and playing in hugely successful bands: Anselmo in the metal megamonster PANTERA and Keenan in CORROSION OF CONFORMITY, a North Carolina-based band. Though they visited New Orleans often and remained a part of the fast-growing scene, they then — and now — received very little notice from the city's music industry.
"They acted like we had leprosy," Keenan says.
Read the entire report from BestOfNewOrleans.com reports: Heavy metal stars Pepper Keenan and Phil Anselmo.
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