Label: Elektra Records
Website: www.officialpantera.com
Formed in: 1981
Disbanded in: 2003
1983-1989 Heavy metal
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Metal Magic (1983)x
Metal Magic is the first album by the hard rock and heavy metal band Pantera, released in 1983 (see 1983 in music). Like the band's next three releases, this album was musically oriented toward a hard rock/glam metal sound influenced by Kiss and Van Halen, rather than the groove metal style they became famous for playing in the 1990s, starting with the release of Cowboys from Hell. It was released on the band's own label (also called Metal Magic) and produced by Jerry Abbott (under the alias "The Eldn'"), notable country music songwriter and producer, and father of Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul.
Track listing
* All tracks by Pantera unless noted otherwise.
1. "Ride My Rocket" – 4:55
2. "I'll Be Alright" – 3:13
3. "Tell Me If You Want It" – 3:44
4. "Latest Lover" – 2:54
5. "Biggest Part of Me" – 4:49
6. "Metal Magic" (Scott Gigney) – 4:17
7. "Widowmaker" – 3:03
8. "Nothin' on But the Radio" – 3:30
9. "Sad Lover" – 3:27
10. "Rock Out" – 5:45
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Projects in the Jungle (1984)x
Projects in the Jungle is a glam metal album by the American hard rock and heavy metal band Pantera, released in 1984 (see 1984 in music). The title track's musical style is a foreshadowing of what was to come a few years later, as it features a thrashy guitar riff with more "Groove" like breakdowns.
Track listing
* All tracks by Pantera.
1. "All Over Tonight" – 3:36
2. "Out for Blood" – 3:09
3. "Blue Light Turnin' Red" – 1:38
4. "Like Fire" – 4:01
5. "In Over My Head" – 3:58
6. "Projects in the Jungle" – 3:05
7. "Heavy Metal Rules" – 4:18
8. "Only a Heartbeat Away" – 4:01
9. "Killers" – 3:30
10. "Takin' My Life" – 4:31
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I Am the Night (1985)x
I Am the Night is an album by the then-glam metal band Pantera, released in 1985 (see 1985 in music) on record and cassette. Any CD release is a bootleg transferred via vinyl or tape. This album is where some of Pantera's faster and heavier influences were becoming more apparent, especially on the title track and "Down Below". It was also the last album to feature lead singer Terry Glaze.
Track listing
* All tracks by Pantera.
1. "Hot and Heavy" – 4:06
2. "I Am the Night" – 4:27
3. "Onward We Rock" – 3:56
4. "D*G*T*T*M" – 1:43
5. "Daughters of the Queen" – 4:16
6. "Down Below" – 2:39
7. "Come-On Eyes" – 4:13
8. "Right on the Edge" – 4:06
9. "Valhalla" – 4:05
10. "Forever Tonight" – 4:10
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Power Metal (1988)x
Power Metal is an album by heavy metal band Pantera, released in 1988 (see 1988 in music).
The album was the first featuring Phil Anselmo on lead vocals, and was also notable for containing Dimebag Darrell's first appearance on lead vocals (he later sang on "Caged in a Rage" and "Heard It on the X" from the Supercop and E.C.W. Wrestling soundtracks, respectively), on the final track, "P.S.T. 88". The album fully realizes the heavier direction hinted on the previous album, I Am the Night, and features more traditional metal songs ("Rock the World", "Over and Out", "Death Trap", "P.S.T. 88"), speed metal songs ("Power Metal", "Down Below" and "Burnnn") and a few glam metal songs ("Hard Ride", "Proud to be Loud" and "We'll Meet Again").
Many fans of the album question the decision of the band not to re-release it, since it is very close to the sound on their next album, Cowboys from Hell, and also has a cult following among many Pantera fans. The album is available through bootlegs at this time, though official releases are scarce.
The song "Proud to Be Loud" was written and produced by Keel guitarist Marc Ferrari and was originally intended to appear on that group's 1987 self-titled album. However, Keel would not record a version of the song until 1998. Pantera's version was used as the party song in the theatrical cut of Donnie Darko, credited to the "Dead Green Mummies".
Pantera's former vocalist Terry Glaze helped co-write "Down Below". An earlier recording of the song with Terry Glaze appears on I Am the Night.
Track listing
* All tracks by Pantera unless noted otherwise.
1. "Rock the World" – 3:34
2. "Power Metal" – 3:53
3. "We'll Meet Again" – 3:54
4. "Over and Out" – 5:06
5. "Proud to Be Loud" (Marc Ferrari) – 4:03
6. "Down Below" – 2:49
7. "Death Trap" – 4:07
8. "Hard Ride" – 4:16
9. "Burnnn!" – 3:35
10. "P.S.T. 88" – 2:53
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Cowboys from Hell (1990)x
Cowboys from Hell is Pantera's fifth album and their first Atco Records album, released on July 24, 1990.
This was their first commercially successful album, exposing the band's choppy rhythms and dissonant vocals to mainstream audiences for the first time.
Album information
Cowboys from Hell is seen as Pantera's "official" debut by most fans, as well as the band itself as they left behind their glam metal past and began to exhibit a more groove-oriented sound.
The song "Cowboys from Hell" is featured on the PlayStation 2 game Guitar Hero, where it is considered one of the hardest songs in the main setlist, due to its placement in the game's last tier, "Face-Melters".
The song "Domination" has been covered by the Finnish band Apocalyptica, and is featured on their second album, Inquisition Symphony.
Metalcore band Bullet For My Valentine covered "Domination" and released it as a b-side on their Tears Don't Fall single. Also, on the front cover, Vinnie Paul appears to be holding a sandwich in his left hand.
Reception
On the Billboard Music Charts Top Heatseekers, Cowboys from Hell peaked at #27.
IGN named Cowboys from Hell the 19th most influential heavy metal album of all-time[1]. They said about the album:
"Along with Vulgar Display of Power, Pantera's fifth album is not only considered one of the band's best, but is also one of the defining albums of early '90s metal. The band's chemistry really begins to gel with collective symmetry here, as a pre-Dimebag Darrell (he was known as Diamond Darrell back then) rips the strings of his axe like a rabid weasel, frontman Phil Anselmo following in kind with chaotic vocal utterances, and the rhythm section of Vinnie Paul and Rex Brown keeping the rhythms in check and the whole mess glued together with low end prowess."
The album was ranked #11 on the October 2006 issue of Guitar World magazine's list of the greatest 100 guitar albums of all time. [1] It was ranked the #85 heavy metal album of all time by metal-rules.com.[2]
Track listing
* All tracks by Pantera.
1. "Cowboys from Hell" – 4:06
2. "Primal Concrete Sledge" – 2:13
3. "Psycho Holiday" – 5:19
4. "Heresy" – 4:45
5. "Cemetery Gates" – 7:03
6. "Domination" – 5:02
7. "Shattered" – 3:21
8. "Clash with Reality" – 5:15
9. "Medicine Man" – 5:15
10. "Message in Blood" – 5:09
11. "The Sleep" – 5:47
12. "The Art of Shredding" – 4:16
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Vulgar Display of Power (1992)x
Vulgar Display of Power is a groove metal album by heavy metal band Pantera, released on February 25, 1992.
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One of the most influential metal albums of the 1990s, Vulgar Display of Power is said to have played a major role in defining post-thrash metal, slowing down the tempos and incorporating a harder-edged vocal style. Several songs from this release have become some of the band's best known, such as "Fucking Hostile", "Mouth for War", "This Love", and "Walk", the latter of which reached #35 on the UK Singles Chart.
During the 90s, MTV's Headbangers Ball used excerpts from the album's songs for the show's opening theme, bumpers, and closing theme. Perhaps the most prominent sample is that of Anselmo screaming "hostile," taken from the end of the song "Fucking Hostile". "Rise," "Regular People (Conceit)" and "Mouth for War" were covered by Robert Prince for the first-person shooter computer game Doom, and a cover of "This Love" appeared in Doom II: Hell on Earth.[1]
In April 2007 the title was used for the book A Vulgar Display of Power: Courage and Carnage at the Alrosa Villa, which includes many song titles to name its chapters. The book details those involved and the details leading up to the murder of Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell Abbott.
The title of the album is from a line in The Exorcist.
Reception
Vulgar Display of Power peaked at #44 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. The album achieved Double Platinum status in 2004.
In 2001 Q magazine named it one of the "50 Heaviest Albums of All-Time."
IGN named Vulgar Display of Power the 11th most influential heavy metal album of all-time.[2] They said about the album:
"This album makes the list because it took heavy metal and made it heavier. It took darkness and made it darker. It took anger and made it angrier. Never before had a band tuned down its guitars and crunched a heavier riff than on this album. "Mouth for War" and "A New Level" and "No Good (Attack the Radical)" stand out on an album where every track is a classic track. Dimebag Darrell was an innovator and a true godsend for heavy metal. One of the most underrated players in the genre. And this may sound corny, but the way the band was able to turn seemingly negative aspects of the genre - hate, anger, violence and despair - into positive thoughts is somewhat akin to De La Soul dropping a positive message into rap."
Entertainment Weekly (3/6/92, p.59) - "..one of the most satisfying heavy metal records since Metallica's early-80s cult days...11 caustic songs of unabashed brute force...a fully realized album that goes way beyond metal's usual crunch-and-burn." - Rating: A
Q magazine (7/01, p.90) - "Pantera's new, heavier direction...was succinctly summed up by 'A New Level's sludge-thick chorus and the neck-snapping riffage of bile-flecked hate anthem 'Fucking Hostile'."
Track listing
* All tracks by Pantera.
1. "Mouth for War" – 3:56
2. "A New Level" – 3:57
3. "Walk" – 5:15
4. "Fucking Hostile" – 2:49
5. "This Love" – 6:32
6. "Rise" – 4:36
7. "No Good (Attack the Radical)" – 4:50
8. "Live in a Hole" – 4:59
9. "Regular People (Conceit)" – 5:27
10. "By Demons Be Driven" – 4:39
11. "Hollow" – 5:45
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Far Beyond Driven (1994)x
Far Beyond Driven is an album by heavy metal band Pantera. The album was released on March 15, 1994 through East West Records. It is considered one of the most extreme albums ever to debut at #1.[1]
An explicit version of the cover art (seen below) was originally sold but was later replaced due to censorship issues.
Album information
Far Beyond Driven took Pantera's music to an even heavier and more extreme style than on previous releases. Much of the shift was due to Dimebag Darrell's more down-tuned and up-tempo playing styles. Anselmo's lyrics of "I'll be a better father than you ever were" may shed some light on his personal life.
In the liner notes of the album, all the song's lyrics are printed beside the cover of "Planet Caravan". The liner notes read:
"This is a Black Sabbath song off of the Paranoid album. So don't freak out on us. We did the song because we wanted to. It has nothing to do with the integrity of our direction. It's a tripped out song. We think you'll dig it. If you don't, don't fucking listen to it. Thanks. On behalf of the rest of Pantera, Philip Anselmo '94".
This was the first Pantera album with Darrell being called "Dimebag Darrell" and not "Diamond Darrell," although in Vulgar Video he is referred to as "Dimebag."
The album is referenced in the Machine Head song "Aesthetics of Hate", the third track from the 2007 album The Blackening.
Reception
The album features a cover version of Black Sabbath's "Planet Caravan" as the closing track, which reached #21 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks and #26 on the UK Singles Chart. The album's fourth track and first single, "I'm Broken", reached #19 on the UK Singles Chart.
Professional reviews:
* Rolling Stone (5/19/94, p.103) - 4 Stars - "...a kind of aesthetics of thud...the real art smolders in the noise itself..."
* Entertainment Weekly (4/1/94, p.54) - "If you're burned out on raging young men spewing aggression atop jackhammering drums and grinding guitars, then pass on Pantera. But if you've still got a yen for that sort of fare, than you can't do much better than this slab of metallic mayhem." - Rating: B+
* Melody Maker (4/2/94, p.35) - "Like great techno, it's utterly flawless music, free of any error, minimal and animal enough to make a screaming bloody mess of the head."
Track listing
* All tracks by Pantera unless noted otherwise.
1. "Strength Beyond Strength" – 3:38
2. "Becoming" – 3:05
3. "5 Minutes Alone" – 5:47
4. "I'm Broken" – 4:24
5. "Good Friends and a Bottle of Pills" – 2:53
6. "Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks" – 7:01
7. "Slaughtered" – 3:56
8. "25 Years" – 6:05
9. "Shedding Skin" – 5:36
10. "Use My Third Arm" – 4:51
11. "Throes of Rejection" – 5:01
12. "Planet Caravan" (Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, Bill Ward) – 4:03
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The Great Southern Trendkill (1996)x
The Great Southern Trendkill is a groove metal album by Pantera. It was released in May, 1996 through East West Records.
Due to inner tensions, Phil Anselmo recorded the vocals separately from the other members of the band at Trent Reznor's Nothing Studios in New Orleans; Dimebag Darrell, Rex Brown and Vinnie Paul recorded the music at Chasin Jason Studios in Dallas, Texas. It reached #4 on the Billboard Top 200 chart.
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The Great Southern Trendkill notably features the fastest tempos, most down-tuned guitars, and most guttural vocals that the band ever recorded. It also has a more experimental nature to its songs, such as the acoustic guitar and keyboard-laden "Suicide Note Pt. I". Unlike Pantera's first three major label albums, the vocals are often double tracked and layered to create a more "demonic" effect. An example of this can be heard in the chorus of "13 Steps to Nowhere", when Phil Anselmo's singing voice is backed up by high pitched screaming, done by Seth Putnam of Anal Cunt fame.[1]
The lyrics tackle topics such as Anselmo's hate for the media ("War Nerve"), suicide ("Suicide Note Pt. I"), drug abuse ("10's", "Living Through Me (Hell's Wrath)") and the end of the world ("Floods"), and Anselmo's view on trends ("The Great Southern Trendkill", "Sandblasted Skin").
Reception
Professional reviews:
* Melody Maker (5/25/96, p.49) - "It makes my brain hurt, my eyes water and my genitalia retract like a startled turtle. I cannot think of higher recommendation, considering the kind of album it is. If it made me feel all warm and gooey or tearful and lovelorn, then it would be a pitiful failure by its own lights."
* Spin (7/96, p.96) - "...mature speedmetal and perfect summer fun: twisted power ballads, rap-style toasting, almost radio-worthy melodies, plus all the right jackhammer drum jolts, wrestler bellows, and guitar lurch..."
Track listing
* All tracks by Pantera.
1. "The Great Southern Trendkill" – 3:46
2. "War Nerve" – 4:53
3. "Drag the Waters" – 4:55
4. "10's" – 4:49
5. "13 Steps to Nowhere" – 3:37
6. "Suicide Note Pt. I" – 4:44
7. "Suicide Note Pt. II" – 4:19
8. "Living Through Me (Hell's Wrath)" – 4:50
9. "Floods" – 6:59
10. "The Underground in America" – 4:33
11. "Sandblasted Skin (Reprise)" – 5:39
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Reinventing the Steel (2000)x
Reinventing the Steel is the last studio album by the very popular groove metal band Pantera.
Album information
It reached #4 on the Billboard Top 200 charts, #8 on the Top Canadian Albums chart, and #5 on the Top Internet Albums chart. The album's fifth track, "Revolution Is My Name", reached #28 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks.
Reinventing the Steel contains lyrics mostly about the band itself, as on "We'll Grind that Axe for a Long Time" (where the band members tell about how they've kept it "true" throughout the years, while many of their peers "sucked up for the fame") and "I'll Cast a Shadow" (about Pantera's influence on the genre). There are also songs about their fans, like "Goddamn Electric" and "You've Got to Belong To It." The band members dedicated Reinventing the Steel to their fans, whom they viewed as their brothers and sisters.
Reception
Professional reviews:
* Rolling Stone (5/25/00, p.73) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "Metal-revivalist....relying on the genre's primal elements of rage and analog noise...chopped up with squealing dissonance....brutal enough to please underground purists and familiar enough for weekend headbangers."
* Entertainment Weekly (3/24/00, p.102) - "...resumes their scorched-earth policy with vigor....dropping aural anvils [along] with a dash of inventiveness..." - Rating: B+
* Q (6/00, p.112) - 3 stars out of 5 - "Pantera's attempt to upgrade [Judas Priest's] British Steel-era pure metal spirit....unequivocal heavy metalness."
* Alternative Press (7/00, pp.108-9) - 5 out of 5 - "An undiluted, unvarnished slab of riffs paying distinct homage to Judas Priest's British Steel, and not just in a titular sense, but in basic song construction."
* CMJ (4/3/00, p.32) - "Crammed with everything they've used to revolutionize metal....so old-school it could have been easily made in between the quartet's back-to-back classics."
* NME (4/15/00, p.34) - 6 out of 10 - "An unfashionably old-school metal album....it's Pantera's bid to herald the rebirth of bullet-belt, cut-off denim metal....It's a solid album, oozing drunk-as-hell metal spirit."
Track listing
* All tracks by Pantera
1. "Hellbound" – 2:41
2. "Goddamn Electric" – 4:58
3. "Yesterday Don't Mean Shit" – 4:19
4. "You've Got to Belong to It" – 4:13
5. "Revolution Is My Name" – 5:19
6. "Death Rattle" – 3:17
7. "We'll Grind That Axe For a Long Time" – 3:44
8. "Uplift" – 3:45
9. "It Makes Them Disappear" – 6:22
10. "I'll Cast a Shadow" – 5:22
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part2The Best of Pantera:Far Beyond the Great Southern Cowboys' Vulgar Hits!September 23, 2003
More about this album...1. "Cowboys from Hell" – 4:06
2. "Cemetery Gates" – 7:03
3. "Mouth for War" – 3:57
4. "Walk" – 5:16
5. "This Love" – 6:34
6. "I'm Broken" – 4:24
7. "Becoming" – 3:07
8. "5 Minutes Alone" – 5:51
9. "Planet Caravan" (Butler/Iommi/Osbourne/Ward) – 4:04
10. "Drag the Waters" – 4:57
11. "Where You Come From" – 5:13
12. "Cat Scratch Fever" (Ted Nugent) – 3:49
13. "Revolution Is My Name" – 5:19
14. "I'll Cast a Shadow" – 5:19
15. "Goddamn Electric" – 4:57
16. "Hole in the Sky" (Butler/Iommi/Osbourne/Ward) – 4:16
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More about this album...1. "New Level" – 4:24
2. "Walk" – 5:50
3. "Becoming" – 3:59
4. "5 Minutes Alone" – 5:36
5. "Sandblasted Skin" – 4:29
6. "Suicide Note Pt. 2" – 4:20
7. "War Nerve" – 5:21
8. "Strength Beyond Strength" – 3:37
9. "Dom/Hollow" – 3:43
10. "This Love" – 6:57
11. "I'm Broken" – 4:27
12. "Cowboys from Hell" – 4:35
13. "Cemetery Gates" – 7:53
14. "Hostile" – 3:56
15. "Where You Come From" – 5:11
16. "I Can't Hide" – 2:16
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