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PANTERA Bassist REX BROWN Confirms Collaboration With “Good Friend” RICHIE FAULKNER

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PANTERA bassist Rex Brown was recently asked if there were any guitarists he would still like to work with.

Speaking with Tone Talk, Rex responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I did a record — it’s not out yet — I did it with Richie Faulkner [of JUDAS PRIEST]. Richie and I have become really good friends. And it’s really progressively heavy and cool. Richie is a very melodic player, and then it’s got my drummer that played on my first solo record. They tracked him playing on one of those electronic kits, and they sampled the sounds into a real kit — which I’m not too crazy about; that’s not the way I would do it. But it’s Richie’s record. And he’s got a new singer now. I don’t know when that’s coming out. Those guys [PRIEST] are still touring. That was a real thrill.”

Brown has hinted at working with Faulkner before in a February 2021 interview with Antihero. Rex said that he had just gotten out of the studio with a good friend of his whom he described as “one of the best guitar players in the business that you would know.” Asked if the recordings were going to be used for another Brown solo album or if it was more of a band project, Rex said: “[It’s] more for another kind of deal. And I don’t want to really talk about it… But the tracks are fucking badass.” After Rex asked the interviewer Mark Dean where he lived, Dean responded “just outside Manchester in the U.K.,” to which Brown said: “Then you would know this guy very, very well. He moved to Nashville and became a very, very good friend of mine. And we just cut six just blazing fucking tracks. Un-goddam-real.”

Rex, who is currently promoting the 30th-anniversary of PANTERA’s “Vulgar Display Of Power” album, recently completed work on a “a really introspective” follow-up to his debut solo album, “Smoke On This…”, which arrived in July 2017 via Entertainment One (eOne).