Sad times in the world of Metal

[Wentz]

RIP Darrell Abbott, guitarist for metal band Damage plan, formerly of Pantera. Poor guy was killed while ON STAGE performing in Ohio. He remains one of, if not THE most influential metal guitarist of all time. This is the worst thing that's happened since Layne Staley of alice in chains died!

[All Kill3r]

 

Yea i heard this on the radio at work today. A tragedy indeed.

[Fatty]

Pantera was one of my favs.....still love the music...no sound like it.

[CowboyFromHell`X]

I can't believe this happened. He was the man.

[SupaFly]

Sad, Sad, day in the world of Metal....

 

 

 

Tommorow night FUSE is going to air a tribute to Dime, at 8 EST. I dont get FUSE, so if anyone comes across it online at a later date, send it my way..

[rackish]

R.I.P.

[Gond]

And in Dayton Ohio at that. Didn't another band member die as well?

[TeK]

Yea its very sad. It's crazy how it happened also. Sad day in metal world. RIP Dimebag Darrell

[gOOters]

I feel bad for his bro. How will he ever be able to play again? Sad day for Dallas.

[Xterminator]

i think his brother was also killed, it wasn't confirmed but it said another band member was killed

[SheepNutz]

And in Dayton Ohio at that.  Didn't another band member die as well?

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It was in Columbus, OH. Luckily, none of the other band members died, but it's a darn shame that anybody died that night. Some people are just idiots.

[Mossad]

oh wow fatty listens to pantera, i would of never ever thought that. Thats cool though, pantera is stil my favorite band, i think i saw them 24 times. Got a broken nose at one show :[

[TeK]

Wow 24 times, amazing. Pantera was the reason my friend picked up a guitar and he said quite a few other people did also. Man still can't believe this happened ;_;

[Batman]

Heres the news report..

 

COLUMBUS, Ohio (Dec. 9) - A man charged onstage at a packed heavy metal show and opened fire, killing at least four people including guitarist Darrel Abbott before an arriving officer shot him to death, authorities said.

 

Columbus police department spokeswoman Sherry Mercurio identified three of the victims of Wednesday's shooting as Abbott, guitarist with the heavy metal rock band Damageplan, and two other men, Nathan Bray and Erin Halk.

 

Damageplan had just begun their first song at the Alrosa Villa when the man opened fire, first targeting Abbott, shooting him multiple times at point-blank range, a witness said.

 

Abbott, one of metal's top guitarists, and his brother, Damageplan drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott, were original members of thrash rock pioneers Pantera, one of the most popular metal bands of the early 1990s.

 

The witness, 22-year-old Chris Couch, said he was standing about 30 feet away from the stage when he noticed a man wearing a hooded sweatshirt and hockey jersey walk up to the stage, followed by a bouncer and another club employee.

 

The man in the jersey climbed onto the stage, started yelling and shot the guitarist five or six times at close range, Couch said. He said the gunman also shot a bouncer who pulled him off the musician.

 

Columbus police spokesman Sgt. Brent Mull said that after shooting at members of the band, the gunman fired into the crowd. Mull said a police officer who arrived shortly after the shooting began shot and killed the gunman.

 

"If the officer wasn't as close as he was, I think this would have been a lot worse," he said. "It was a chaotic scene, just a horrific scene."

 

After the shooting began, Couch and a friend headed for the exit along with a tide of hundreds of fans.

 

"It was definitely a grudge. It was against something," Couch said.

 

Amanda Stankus, 19, who attended the show with Couch, said she initially thought the shooting was part of the show. "I just saw the guitarist fall down, and we decided to get out of there," she said.

 

Other members of Damageplan include vocalist Patrick Lachman and bass player Bob Zilla, according to the band's Web site.

 

A message left with Atlantic Records, which oversees the record label on which Damageplan records, was not immediately returned.

 

Damageplan's Web site said Darrel and Vinnie Abbott grew up in the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas area where their father Jerry Abbott owned a recording studio. Another entry on the site lists the elder Abbott as a country-western songwriter.

 

Telephone numbers for both Darrell and Jerry Abbott are unlisted and could not be reached early Thursday by The Associated Press.

 

Pantera, known for its brutally hard, fast and aggressive sound, recorded four albums between 1990 and 1996. They attracted a massive cult following and the band's third release, "Far Beyond Driven," debuted at No. 1 in 1994, surprising chart-watchers and critics alike.

 

I heard on the radio that there were 2 or 3 of the gunmans friends video taping the whole thing.. Weird..