Cowboys from Hell

Phil Anselmo was the singer for the very famous metal band Pantera. Before Pantera was famous they were an unsigned glam band however in 1986 they wanted to go towards the metal direction and found their front-man Phil Anselmo.In 1990 Pantera was signed and their album Cowboys From Hell was released and a long tour began. After that album Pantera recorded many more and always were touring and climbing up the billboard chart. Phil Anselmo had a bad heroin addiction along with other drugs though and claimed he used due to his bad back. On July 13 1996 he went into cardiac arrest from a lethal heroin overdose and was pronounced dead for 4-5 minutes before he was revived. In 2003 Pantera disbanded because of complications with Phil Anselmo. Phil kept up his side projects though and kept living the rock and roll life. In 2005 he stopped using hard drugs in order to get his back surgery done. Phil Anselmo may have been arrogant but he was one of the best metal singers.