Here's a little Thursday-morning flashback for you!
On August 28, 2001, Pantera played their final show — ever — at the Beast Feast festival in Yokohama, Japan.
Below, you can watch the band — Dimebag Darrell, Vinnie Paul, Rex Brown and Phil Anselmo — perform "5 Minutes Alone," a track from 1994's Far Beyond Driven, from this very show.
During their final years as a band, long-simmering internal tensions and addiction issues were starting to take their toll, and the Abbott brothers officially broke up Pantera in 2003.
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