Pantera

[Roddy]

Just re-visiting this mighty band for the 1st time in yonks (Far Beyond Driven). What an amazing band they were in their heyday, between, and including, Vulgar Display and Great Southern. They bought 'extreme Metal' to the masses. It's incredible to think that FBD went to #1 on the US mainstream charts. Probably the heaviest album ever to do so.
Wadda ya think?
(and BTW, RIP to the great man)

 

[metallicamatty]

Yeah, one of the best Thrash acts.

Far beyond driven was a great album

Cowboy's from Hell has to be the Thrash anthem

 

[PHX]

I only ever listen to the Far Beyond Driven album these days.

Good one though.

 

[emperor]

Pantera were great. They are like Metallica for me in that I can still regularly rip out the classics and thoroughly enjoy it. The louder the better!

 

[Constipated Duck]

I think their music stacks up a lot better 10-15 years down the track, now that everyone else isn't trying to sound like them. And that's not their fault - they were very widely copied.

The amount of profanity in the songs in the mid-90s made me go off them a fair bit. Not offended by it at all, just think that it's a bit childish and a cheap way of aiming record sales at 14 year olds. And right from the start Phil always came across as a tosser.

DD's guitar work still stands up. Cemetery Gates is awesome, as is the whole sound he created that drove the band. I read somewhere that Megadeth's Dave Mustaine said in an implied fashion that the sound was copied from the early Metallica era with he & Hetfield, and as much I love Dave and his work, that's complete crap.

 

[Carlos]

Was massively into them back in the day and agree with the Duck that their music still stacks up very solidly today.

I pulled out Cowboys a month or so ago and it still sounds great, while Vulgar has to go down as one of my all time fav metal albums. Just a massively consistent album with some absolute killer tunes from a band taking their thing to "A NEW LEVEEEEEEEEEL"!!

All of them were awesome at their respective crafts too. Phil is a massively underated metal vocalist IMO. The loud-mouth aggro/ego thing kinda means not enough people acknowledge what an absolute muthaf*cker of a metal singer he was. But his yell/scream was as convincing and authentic as anyone's ever has been in the genre, and his truer singing voice doesnt get anywhere near the respect it deserves IMO.

Dime Bag (RIP) sits comfortably IMO in the top bracket of metal guitarists, Rex gets big respect amongst the bass playing community and Vinnie is just a monstor. The snap of that cat's chops is just awesome and while many have tried to copy it, no one can get close to that drum sound he pioneered. But its the groove which sets him apart from so many metal drummers IMO. Man that cat could lay it down!

A sorely missed band.

 

[metallicamatty]

I think their music stacks up a lot better 10-15 years down the track, now that everyone else isn't trying to sound like them. And that's not their fault - they were very widely copied.

The amount of profanity in the songs in the mid-90s made me go off them a fair bit. Not offended by it at all, just think that it's a bit childish and a cheap way of aiming record sales at 14 year olds. And right from the start Phil always came across as a tosser.

DD's guitar work still stands up. Cemetery Gates is awesome, as is the whole sound he created that drove the band. I read somewhere that Megadeth's Dave Mustaine said in an implied fashion that the sound was copied from the early Metallica era with he & Hetfield, and as much I love Dave and his work, that's complete crap.

i am one of those 14 year olds who listen to Pantera

 

[NSWCROW]

" COWBOYS " and " VULGAR " are 2 of the best metal albums of all time
A pity that PHIL lost his mind

********ING HOSTIIIIIIILE

 

[Peninsula Boy]

Unmistakeable riffs that make you wanna smash $h!t.