Damageplan Breaks Into Top 40
DAMAGEPLAN's much-hyped debut CD, "New Found Power", sold 44,676 copies in the U.S. during its first week of release to debut at position No. 38 on next week's The Billboard 200 chart, according to Nielsen SoundScan.
The group, which includes ex-PANTERA members Dimebag Darrell (guitar) and Vinnie Paul (drums), fared substantially better than their former bandmate Philip Anselmo, whose first two offerings with his current project SUPERJOINT RITUAL, 2002's "Use Once And Destroy" and 2003's "A Lethal Dose Of American Hatred", registered first-week tallies of 13,690 (No. 87) and 20,269 (No. 55), respectively. DAMAGEPLAN's numbers are especially impressive when you consider the fact that PANTERA's "greatest hits" collection, "The Best of Pantera: Far Beyond the Great Southern Cowboys' Vulgar Hits!", shifted a total of 28,747 units (No. 38) in its first week of release last September (PANTERA's last official studio album, 2000's "Reinventing The Steel", opened with a tally of more than 161,000 to debut at No. 4).
In that same week, Dave Grohl's metal side-project PROBOT sold 27,380 copies in its first week of release, landing at position No. 68 on next week's The Billboard 200 chart.
Source: Blabbermouth
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2. writes:
JUST A FOLLOW UP COMMENT ON MY EARLIER POSTED MESSAGE. HEY DAMAGEPLAN! GREAT JOB ON BEATING SUPERJOINT RITUAL IN FIRST WEEK SALES, PHIL WAS AN a$$hole AND TALKED SO MUCH sh** TO YOU GUYS (PANTERA MEMBERS) WHEN I SAW THEM AT THE NEW ENGLAND METAL AND HARDCORE FEST, ITS ABOUT TIME HE GOT A REALITY CHECK AND REALIZED HE IS NOT "THE REIGNING GOD OF METAL" (WHICH WAS WHAT HE REFERED TO HIMSELF AS ON THE SJR WEBSITE)
4. writes:
Phil is a a$$ poundin fa**ot! Give me Five minutes alone with him and I'd kick his p***y little ass! I got a good 50 pounds on that b****! f*** him for breaking up pantera. now him and his fa**ot punk band that is barely metal are gonna be on ozzfest, I'll get to boo that f***er. Hey I have his autograph (and the rest of down's) if anybody wants it I'll sell it.
5. writes:
I'm not a fan of either superjoint or damageplan, but the only thing I like about them is that they don't sound like that sh+t they put on the radio all day. Radioplay=sh+t, Underground=The Sh+t. they need to do Pantera and stop shooting their mouths off on each other and start shooting their mouths off on whack bands like Linkin Park...............LP=Sh+t
7. writes:
Hey, Phil the f*&&head has no respect for anything on earth whatsoever! He badmouthed Metallica many years back and look what he did with Down, he just copied New Metallica. Then, he thought he suddenly became God and hence wanted to spend more time all alone on his side trast projects and started badmouthing Pantera. The guy is a total a$$hole, if he takes those f***ing pills, thats what is going to happen, he should just soberup, apologize to Dime and Vinny and make a mother of all metal album with them. At the end of the day, we are the losers, with no Pantera, this world sucks...
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1. MeTaLgOrE666 writes:
tHE NEW DAMAGEPLAN ALBUM SUCKS. dONT GET ME WRONG, I LOVE PANTERA / DIMEBAG / VINNIE, BUT LETS FACE THE FACTS, ITS SAPPY c*** ROCK! dIMEBAG AND vINNIE NEED TO GET BACK TO THE GRIND ON THEIR NEXT ALBUM AND MAKE SOME ASSKICKING MUSIC, NO MORE MELODIC SINGING AND c*** ROCK GUITARS... THEY NEED TO FOLLOW IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF LAMB OF GOD(THE BEST METAL BAND OUT THERE NOW)