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Dimebag Darrell Abbott, was born Darrell Lance Abbott on August 20, 1966, in Arlington, Texas, and died on December 8, 2004. Dime was the lead guitarist for Pantera, Damageplan and Rebel Meets Rebel. Pantera was formed in 1981 with Dimebag's brother Vinnie Paul on drums. Their 1st CD “Metal Magic” was released independantly in 1983 and was produced by the Abbott brothers' father, Jerry. In 1984, Pantera released its second album, “Projects in the Jungle”, and a year later their “I Am the Night” album was recorded, and sold 25,000 copies. Their sound was rooted in glam metal, but was getting heaver with each release. In 1988, Pantera released its first album with new singer Phil Anselmo, entitled Power Metal. It was by far the band's heaviest album, and continued their trend twrord thrash metal. Also in 1988, Dime auditioned for Megadeth's and was invited to join the band. When Darryl insisted that his brother Vinnie also be included he lost the gig. After being turned down by evry major label, they signed with Atco Records and in1990, released “Cowboys from Hell”. Pantera's unique "groove" style contunued to emerge on the breakthrough album “Vulgar Display of Power”, which came out in 1992. The album was their first to hit the American charts at #44. Pantera hit their hight of popularity on their next CD “Far Beyond Driven”which debuted at #1 in both U.S. and Australian , the first metal album to do so. "I'm Broken", was even nominated for Best Metal Performance at the 1995 Grammys. In all Pantera would sell more than 6 million albums in the U.S. and Dime became a pioneer of heavy thrash, groove metal guitar. Dime is best know for playing Dean guitars. In 2005 Dean Guitars
released the Dime Tribute line of ML guitars. These guitars come
in various models. In his last few weeks with Dean Guitars, Dime
helped design a guitar he called the Razorback. After his death,
Dean continued with the Razorback project and dedicated them to
the memory of him. During the height of Dimebag's fame, he also
worked together with MXR and Dunlop to produce the MXR Dime Distortion
and the Dimebag "Crybaby from Hell" Wah respectively. Click here to download the Dimebag Darrell Abbott 1024x768 image. Click here to return to the Hall Of Fame.
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