What it lacks in longevity it makes up for with intensity. This fast and malicious set clocks in at just under forty minutes. Stealing A Page Or Two From Armed & Radical Pagans Phil's calls of 'Hail Satan' to the crowd in between songs make things a little difficult to take seriously sometimes but it does keep in the spirit of their music, which is a strange blend of anger, weed references and dark imagery. Anselmo does a good job of getting the crowd worked up and into the music, and the rest of the band thrashes around all banging their heads in unison in a way that hasn't been seen too often since the end of the eighties. The band played legendary New York City music club CBGB in the summer of 2004 in support of their latest album, A Lethal Dose Of American Hatred.
It has also resulted in a tighter, angrier, heavier band that really delivers live and pretty much destroys the audience in the process (and I mean that in a good way). This change in musical styles and directions for Anselmo resulted in his new band playing larger club shows – a big change from selling out auditoriums like he was doing with Pantera. While he may have come close (who knows for sure) he ended up working with Necrophagia for a while and then devoting more of his fulltime attention to his latest project, Superjoint Ritual.
When Pantera imploded a few years ago, a lot of people figured that their angry front man Phil Anselmo would fall by the wayside and into some sort of heroin induced life in a ditch somewhere.
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