PANTERA Proclaims Second Budapest Present In Place Of Cancelled Vienna Present

Pantera has introduced a second present at Barba Negra in Budapest on Could 31. The present is rather than Pantera‘s now-cancelled date in Vienna, Austria over accusations of previous racism.

For these out of the loop, Pantera‘s appearances at each the Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park festivals in Germany this summer time have been cancelled, in addition to the present in Vienna, Austria has been cancelled as nicely. Competition promoters Thoughts Over Matter Music in Austria did not give a motive for the cancellation apart from issuing the next assertion:

“Pantera concert on the 31^st May 2023 at the Vienna Gasometer will be canceled. All tickets can be returned where they were purchased. Thank you for your understanding.”

Nonetheless, the cancellations for each the Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park festivals have been explicitly because of accusations of previous racism. “Pantera will not be performing at Rock in the Park and Rock in the Ring 2023, as announced,” learn the organizer’s assertion earlier this week. “In the last few weeks, we have had many intensive conversations with artists, our partners and you, the festival fans, we have continued to deal with the criticism together and decided to remove the band from the program.”

The accusations not less than partially stem from an incident on the 2016 Dimebash present the place Pantera vocalist Phil Anselmo did a “Sieg Heil” gesture and yelled “white power.” Anselmo has since claimed it was a joke because of consuming white wine again stage and issued an apology, although Machine Head vocalist Robb Flynn had claimed on the time there was no white wine backstage.

In line with Blabbermouth, the criticism additionally comes from the truth that each Rock Im Park and Rock Am Ring are being held in Nürnberg the place Nazi get together rallies have been famously held between 1933 and 1938.

The German Inexperienced Celebration stated throughout a current metropolis council assembly that Anselmo had “repeatedly and deliberately made Nazi gestures and yelled racist slogans.” Spokeswoman for the Greens towards racism and right-wing extremism Réka Lörincz added “the former Nazi party premises” have been “being deliberately misused for the staging and reproduction of racist and inhuman ideology.”