Origin:	New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Genres:	Sludge Metal
DISBANDED

Last update/review:	October 30, 2021

Superjoint

Superjoint (formerly Superjoint Ritual, the new name apparently needed for legal reasons) was yet another band featuring the talents of former Pantera frontman Phil Anselmo. His other bands/projects have ranged from southern doom to old-school black metal to horror-infused death metal in addition to the aggro-thrash of Pantera, and here he takes on yet another style, as 2002's Use Once And Destroy is a frenzied mix of hardcore, punk, and thrash metal. Raw, uncompromising, and extreme, it's a pretty intense listen, with Phil's vocals far more harsh than those in Pantera (in general, there's little reason to compare this to Pantera, these are two completely different and separate entities) and the guitarwork, shared by Phil and fellow Down cohort Jimmy Bower (normally a drummer) is simplistic yet effective. Two albums were released in 2002 and 2003, and after that Anselmo essentially put the band on ice as he continued with his other bands and projects. The band was revived with the new shortened name in 2014 and a third album released in 2016, but interest in continuing the project waned in recent years, and an announcement by guitarist Jimmy Bower in late 2021 confirmed that the band was pretty much done, as the members were concentrating on other bands, mainly Eyehategod and Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals.