The tragedy put an end to any chance of a Pantera reunion, following the band's collapse the previous year. Paul has constantly shouted down suggestions of the surviving members gathering with another guitarist - last month he called the idea "selfish" although he insisted there was no bad blood between him and his ex-colleagues.

Now he tells Fozzy frontman Chris Jericho in Talk Is Jericho: "It was a really hardcore, tragic event - the guy wanted to kill me too. Somehow I was lucky enough to escape that. I'm still here. I don't want to remember it; I don't want to think about it.