Vulgar Display of Power
 

The seminal heavy metal album by Pantera, which birthed a whole new generation of glue-sniffing, closet-masturbatin', rude and offensive adolescent jerks.



Thank you Dimebag.

This album took me forever to get into, but yeah, it's actually really good. Not really what I turn to when it comes to metal, but it's got some gems.

Not my kind of metal but then I'm from the South and this crap is everywhere here

More into Meshuggah? :)

Mouth for War is a great song, but the rest of it I'm not so bothered about

It probably is... But without it, many American youth would not have discovered glue sniffing, masturbating in the closet and other things; and by extension, would not have exported it to youth in other countries; and thereby life would have been so much different...

I never got Pantera... redneck metal. And when it comes to heavy redneck bands from southern US I prefer sludge bands like Eyehategod etc, who I'm sure can teach the kids about glue and heroin and the likes just as well, if not better.


Oh, and I saw Pantera live once at a festival in the 90's. They were crap.

Gotta say, I really hate Dimebag's solos (great riffs though!). This also goes for Slayer. Terrible guitar solos.

"Far Beyond Driven" is definitely the best Pantera record. It's heavy as shit but still has that New Orleans groove to it. I love Pantera. Never would have heard EyeHateGod if I never heard Pantera.

haven't touched this album (or pantera in general) since i was sixteen. i still think dimebag has a lot of really good riffs, but that's about all this band has going for them.

i even had a dimebag signature guitar when i was in my pantera phase =/:
http://i43.tinypic.com/2zox3sg.jpg

i dont know too much about them, other than the "hits". but i really like heavy riff with pinch harmonics in "cemetary gates"

I get the feeling i'm neither angry or American enough to really understand Pantera.

Pantera appeals to a very narrow swath of the population. Nonetheless, it exists. And Far Beyond Driven had better production; but this album is where it started... This is THE new metal. This is where they decided to make heavy metal heavier... For what it's worth, Dimebag IS Pantera; it is his riffing that defined a whole new generation of guitarists brought up on, and who worshipped at the feet of; Tony Iommi and Uli John Roth...

This album basically dictated what most heavy metal music would sound like...

although not really my thing, this album is "ok". as mentioned above, I really only like Cemetary Gates.

I have personal issues dating back to when they were a "local Dallas band" and a friend of mine who would obsessively try to get me to go see them.

often, this would come in the same breath as an extensive insistance that Slayer "weren't actually Satanic - just really into War" --- which was the explanation given for "hey, if yr such a Christian, why do you wear Slayer tshirts all the time??"

I love Down "Nola" as well, listening to it right now.

the justin broderick remixes are awesome though

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqz_vGzbhmE

That is awesome...

The by demons be driven remix is the best one.

I can't really find this one... Any idea where to find it?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Oa3vJrBmu8

insane

by demons be driven biomechanical mix

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFhMF...ext=1&index=71

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To all who diss Pantera...

*ahem*

(inhales deeply)

FUCK YOU!!!!

Pantera are/were THE standard by which I judge ALL metal bands. And for the "redneck metal" comments, if those making them knew jack about this band, you'd know there were not one but two songs, one right after the other, actually CONDEMNING racism ("Rise" and "No Good (Attack the Radical)"). I'm actually shocked so many of you would be dissing this band on a noise rock band's forum, considering the amout of dissonant/noisy parts a lot of their songs have...Dime was one of the few (the only other I can think of being Piggy from Voivod) thrash guitarists who understood the importance of texture in music.

Sure, some of their fans could be assholes, but you'll get that with pretty much any crowd.

I like their version of Poison Idea's "The Badge".

^^Yeah whatever, redneck.

I didn't say they were racist (were those songs before or after Anselmo's white pride speeches?), I said Pantera were redneck-metal.

ficlot

Pantera, yet another band where people judge them based on their idiotic fanbase, and not their actual occasionally-brilliant music.

^i judge them on a terrible live performance i witnessed and on listening to a couple of their albums that did nothing to me.

Well, that's good. I mean, I'm not a huge fan of them, I just think they're one of those bands, like Tool, who get overlooked because most of their fans are incredibly retarded.

I hear you. I sometimes do that myself as well.

I'll be the first to admit that I've never bothered to listen to The Grateful Dead, solely based-on my preconceived notion (fanbase, image, etc...) of what they're like.

You aren't missing anything. An okay riff here or there. Just keep listening to the Ex instead.

Very very very occasionally brilliant music.