Dimebag Darrell

Dimebag Darrell sits high in my personal pantheon of guitarists. What he built with his brother in Pantera, out of Arlington, Texas, redefined heavy rhythm playing; those razor-wire riffs and squealing harmonics are identifiable within two bars. I am struck by how joyful he was about such an aggressive art form, since every live clip shows a man having the time of his life. His murder onstage in 2004 remains one of music's cruelest losses, yet his vocabulary is now baked into the DNA of modern metal. Few players, in any genre, cast a longer shadow.

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Name (English)

Dimebag Darrell

Name (Japanese)

ダイムバッグ・ダレル

Reading

だいむばっぐ・だれる

Born

August 20, 1966 – December 8, 2004

Origin

Arlington, Texas, United States

Occupation

guitarist

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Horse

High school

Arlington High School

• Official sitehttps://dimebagdarrell.com/
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dimebag%20Darrell
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%82%A4%E3%83%A0%E3%83%90%E3%83%83%E3%82%B0%E3%83%BB%E3%83%80%E3%83%AC%E3%83%AB
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q311050

Tags

• Texas
• guitarist

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.