Official video footage of PHILIP H. ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS performing the song "Battalion Of Zero" late last month at Anselmo's Housecore Horror Film & Metal Festival in Austin, Texas can be seen below.Anselmo's first-ever solo album (made available under the PHILIP H. ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS banner), "Walk Through Exits Only", sold around 8,700 copies in the United States in its first week of release to debut at position No. 35 on The Billboard 200 chart.Produced by Anselmo and Michael Thompson, and recorded over the past couple of years at Philip's New Orleans studio, Nodferatu's Lair, with his band THE ILLEGALS guitarist Marzi Montazeri (ex-SUPERJOINT RITUAL) and José Manuel Gonzales "Walk Through Exits Only" is abrasive, aggressive, anthemic and 100% Anselmo.Phil and the band will hit the road in 2014 for Leg Two of their "Technicians Of Distortion" tour. The trek kicks off January 10 in Houston, will play intimate rock clubs exclusively.Anselmo's recently released, limited-edition two-song "Housecore Horror Fest" 10-inch vinyl EP will be available for purchase on all tour dates. Tickets go on sale this Friday, November 22. Log on to TheHousecoreRecords.com for all ticketing information.Asked why he felt the need to start another band outside of DOWN, Anselmo told The Washington Times: "If you look at DOWN, we're made up of three different bands, EYEHATEGOD and CROWBAR and whatever the fuck Pepper's [Keenan, guitar] doing, you know; he does a lot of different things. So, we have this flexibility of freedom and dead time is lame. Instead of starting some fucking other band, you know, branding it with a name and having to have people buy into a whole new name, this is something I wanted to do for the long term and something I can do long term because I don't want any other fucking projects. That's the beauty of having a solo band. I can really do what I want. So, 'Walk Through Exits Only' is one expression of music. We have another EP coming out in October that's really completely different than anything that I've put out. And then we're gonna get even more different and base it off the fuckin' mood I'm in, you know? Jesus, It could be an all-acoustic, spoon-playing, flute-playing fuckin', oh man, any type of fuckin' music. I can do it if I feel like doing it. The only two bands I'm in right now, tangibly that I'm going to be working with and putting out records with is DOWN and the solo band. So, it's easy."
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