New Found Power is the only studio album released by the short-lived American metal band Damageplan. "New Found Power" was also the original name of the band but was changed prior to the album's release. The record sold 44,676 copies in its first week to debut at number 38 on the Billboard 200. Many of the lyrical themes on New Found Power deal with the breakup of Pantera, of which the brothers guitarist Dimebag Darrell and drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott were an integral part, and the forming of Damageplan. This is most evident in the songs "Breathing New Life" and Read more on Last.fm.
Whether I missed Phil Anselmos voice or Dime was saving better riffs for the Pantera album that never was, this short lived project is really just decent, just solid. The riffs are okay. The lyrics are decent. Pat Lachman is an okay metal vocalist. It’s just kind of stock and kind of dissapointing. I still like Dimebags riffs here…..even if they sound like rejected Pantera one offs.