Metal Army America recently caught up with DOWN / PANTERA frontman and Housecore Records founder Phil Anselmo. An excerpt is available below.

MAA: I watched the video of your speaking at Loyola University (see below), and I was really struck about how powerful it was. With regards to your feelings on the media—and let me preface that by saying that’s NOT why I’m here, I’m a fan who dislikes, I’m assuming as much as you do, the often-sycophantic nature of the media—I was wondering how you felt about the double edged sword of trying to promote Housecore, while also keeping guard against those who might want to misuse their place in the media to their own ends?

Anselmo: "Look: I think that, when you’re fortunate enough to have had the success I’ve had in life, and the type of success which puts your actual face in people’s heads, as opposed to some businessman who lives behind closed doors, and moves to Australia, my face is in magazines, and people know who I am; they know Pantera’s history. People can form an opinion. That’s going to be the way it is until I hit the dirt. So honestly, it doesn’t rub me one way or the other, man. I realize that people have the power to type away whatever they want, man. Go for it. Fill your life up with it. That doesn’t deter me at all; it really doesn’t.

As far as the thing with the media: I never said I was the greatest guy in the world. I’ll let you know right now: I never said I had no faults, and that I was a perfect being. So, you heard it from me first! I’ll be the first to tell ya: I have MANY faults. I’ve messed up MANY a situation. Do I deserve to get bashed? Who can say who deserves what, man? That’s what you have no control over, and that’s one of the things, in order to grow in character, as a person, and as a man…that’s just the kind of stuff you have to let go, man."

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