Ola Englund: Last News

Zakk Wylde has revealed that he is preparing for upcoming Pantera shows by watching YouTube tutorials to help him to work out how to play some of the band’s songs.When Pantera’s Phil Anselmo and Rex Martin announced in July that they would reunite for shows next year, they revealed that Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Wylde and Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante would stand in for late Pantera members Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul respectively.Since then, Wylde has been prepping hard for these Pantera shows, and he has now spoken to guitarist Ola Englund, via his YouTube channel, about how that prep is going.There’s a bit in REM’s 1996’s tour documentary ‘Road Movie’ (bear with me here!) where the band decide that they want to add an old song to their setlist. Unable to remember how to play it, Peter Buck has to go and buy the guitar tab from a local music shop.I guess this is the modern version of that.

Evanescence – has opened up about her recent departure from the band in a new interview.Speaking to The Haunted’s Ola Englund on his Coffee With Ola show on YouTube on June 21, Majura revealed that she’s “still in shock” about her abrupt exit from Evanescence.When asked how she feels now about the situation, Majura replied: “I believe, honestly, it’s three weeks now since I got the news, and I’m still in this blurry, oblivious momentum. I guess I’m still in shock, kind of, because after being married six years, all of a sudden you’re divorced”.Majura also opened up about her reaction after receiving the news, saying: “I just lay there on the floor, staring at the ceiling, wondering what that was and literally looking over to my suitcase that I had already started packing because I was two weeks from going out on the road until pretty much the end of the year”.She continued: “I’m hurt.