Floods has one of my favorite guitar solos ever. That song does bring me to tears. Say what you will on Pantera but there is no denying that Dimebag made some of the greatest riffs and solos ever.
Remember when the Abbotts held a huge party in Dallas after the Stars won the cup, and everyone there was so drunk and so out of control that they actually damaged the Stanley Cup? Great times. (I unironically would've loved to go to one of their parties, just to witness the shitshow)
My favorite is The Great Southern Trendkill. It's a perfect album in my opinion, it has the band's best solos, riffs, the band's most violent songs, the band's best ballads, it has awesome experimentations and the lyrics are the best the band ever wrote. It's one of my favorite albums ever actually. 5 - Reinventing The Steel (9/10) 4 - Cowboys From Hell (9,5/10) 3 - Vulgar Display Of Power (9,5/10) 2 - Far Beyond Driven (10/10) 1 - The Great Southern Trendkill (10/10)
GSTK is easily my favourite of the Pantera albums, just so ferocious and cathartic, as well as having some absolute legendary riffs and solos that have kinda been lost to time as far as the mainstream is concerned. Definitely my #1 pick to anyone who's never listened to Pantera before. And now that this video is out of the way, how about a reviewing of every Sepultura album?
My favourite album of Pantera will always be Cowboys From Hell (although The Great Southern Trendkill isn't far behind,what a beast of an album). Cowboys shows you basically everything Pantera were capable of. Introspective ballads that always feel from the heart? Got it. Almost plain thrash songs? Got it. Groovier songs predicting their future style? Got it. Hell,some songs still have that more heavy/glam sound to them. Every track is great (I get you with Medicine Man, but it never bothered me,cause song is still catchy enough).
My favorite is definitely Vulgar Display. It was always the album on repeat in my teens, when my friends and I would go out to party and get into fights.
Can't argue with your ratings here other than I would give Vulgar Display of Power 5/5 ; for me its the perfect album of a decade or more. It sits in my all time top 10 albums and its influence (as you mentioned) on other artists shaped music for the next 10-20 years. Furthermore this came out when Grunge was finding its moment - for me as a metal fan this helped prove that metal was still strong and that with records like this coming out I knew there would be many head banging moments to come in the future.
My list: (Never heard pre-Anselmo records) 6-Power metal 6/10 5-Cowboys from Hell 8.5/10 4-Vulgar display of Power 9/10 3-Reinventing the steel 9.5/10 2-Far beyond driven 10/10 1-TGST 10/10 (Probably my favorite record ever)
" I think it's safe to say they will never reunite". A few months later they announced the "reunion". Can you please say it's safe to say sepultura will never reunite with max?
I remember standing in line outside Tower records in San Diego so excited to get my hands on Far Beyond Driven when it dropped. Everyone was so rabid to get new material from Pantera. I remember this one dude had brought a boom box and was blasting Cowboys/Vulgar the whole time we waited. I know I bought it on cassette and I think I also bought it on CD ... my first if my memory is right. Seems so long ago. For me The Great Southern was always my favorite. It was so dark, oozed groove, and in my opinion some of Dime's nastiest riffs.
1. Vulgar Display of Power 2. Far Beyond Driven 3. Cowboys from Hell 4. Great Southern Trendkill 5. Reinventing the Steel 6. The rest here. They also have one of the best live albums I’ve listened to; the Domination/Hollow track in the live album is one of the sickest openings ever since it is the Domination breakdown.
Robert, I think this is a pretty fair assessment of Reinventing the Steel. It’s a letdown coming after those four albums, but as far as I’m concerned, both Revolution is my Name and I’ll Cast a Shadow are top 10 songs from this band. Total bangers.
A band i'd like to see covered in a video would definitely be The Dillinger Escape Plan Also. A nice video idea would be Reacting to Loudwire's Top picks for the best Metal/Rock albums this year
Discovered your channel today and subscribed! My ranking would be: 1. Trendkill 5/5 (my all time favorite) 2. Vulgar 5/5 3. Far Beyond Driven 4.5/5 4. Cowboys 4.5/5 5. Reinventing 4.0/5 The best songs on this album are 5/5 but a few ones are filler sadly.
I know this is an old review but I just discovered your channel a little while ago . One of my favorite metal bands duuuude ! I agree ; vulgar display of power kicks ass !! Great work buddy 👍
I'm pretty cool with their early discography. I think their early catalog has it's moments, but they definitely made the right decision in going with groove metal.
1. Vulgar display of power 2. Far beyond driven 3. The great southern trendkill 4. Cowboys from hell 5. Reinventing the steel 6. Power metal 7. I am the night 8. Projects in the jungle 9. Metal magic
Cowboys From Hell is my favorite, A few tracks from Power Metal are good, Vulgar is nice but its played out for me, Far Beyond Driven has some tasty riffs, Great Southern has a lot of soul, and Reinventing doesn't really belong with the rest of thier great albums.
"room temperature whiskey" couldn't describe Cowboys any clearer. 💪🏻 Also, finally someone who respects Trendkill for what it is. Uncompromisingly heavy, brutal and robust!
My rankings of the non glam albums... 5. Reinventing The Steel- 3.5/5 4. Vulgar Display of Power -4/5 3. Far Beyond Driven - 4/5 2. Cowboys From Hell - 4.5/5 1. The Great Southern Trendkill - 4.5/5
Phil said for years if there WAS to be a Pantera reunion, he'd want Zakk Wylde on guitar, and honestly he's a perfect choice. Drums is tougher, but somebody like Chris Adler might be appropriate.
9-Metal Magic 8-I am the Night 7-Projects in the Jungle 6-Reinventing the Steel 5-Far Beyond Driven 4-GSTK 3-Power Metal (underrated as hell) 2-VDOP 1-Cowboys from Hell
Have you heard the 20th anniversary edition of Reinventing The Steel? It includes a whole new Terry Date mix. That seemed to make the albums production sound better than the original did.
Pantera is a band that kind of escaped me during the time I started getting into really heavy music, I had already heard Vulgar and Cowboys from this guitar virtuoso I met, he worshiped them, but I was still into Floyd and Early Genesis and whatnot. That was 97... Fast forward to December 11th 2004, I was working security for a Breaking Benjamin show (the power went out on them and it was funny but that's not the story here) the opening band was Flyleaf, brand new at that time and actually decent. The singer gave a heartfelt ode to Dime Bag who had died three days prior, and the band covered one of their songs, but I can't remember which. I did however give a proper listen to those albums, having been into heavy shit since Slipknot dropped their insane debut in 99. I ended up really appreciating their contribution to metal. I also remember they were famous for trashing hotel rooms.
There are two other songs unreleased after their last album that are two of their bests songs ever, Immortally Insane and Avoid The Light. Please hear those two, you will fucking love them a lot.
By far my favorite band and my top 5 albums of all-time. I actually like Power Metal a lot too. Dime's solo on We'll Meet Again is too good. My favorite album changes weekly lol. RTS is definitely underrated imo. I'll take it over CFH. I think TGSTK to the 1st Superjoint record is Phil's best vocal period. Dude's voice was insane.
Wait a sec, Pantera were commercially successful in the 90s? Beyond 2-3 albums, I couldn't find them at Greece at a teen back then and had to import them before EU, already nu metal and alt metal were available then in supermarkets, Pantera were hard to find in specialists shops. Maybe back there in America things were as they still are very different. In all cases, Pantera was my intro to sludge and post-metal, reviving my old flame for doom-like genres.
Oh Pantera was HUUUUUGE in America, sold millions of records my dude. "Vulgar Display Of Power" went double platinum, they were nominated for a bunch of Grammy Awards too.
Saw Pantera open for Black Sabbath in 99. Great show and great memories. Not a fan of their early glam stuff but starting with Cowboys From Hell they really found their groove (pun intended) as a band. Vulgar Display Of Power is my favorite album by Pantera. Cowboys From Hell and The Great Southern Trendkill are great too. Far Beyond Driven is good but it's one of the most frontloaded albums I've ever come across. The first 4 or so songs are great and then the album takes a nosedive imo. I never really got into their last album Reinventing The Steel. Live 101 Proof is a great live album. Pantera were always a great live band.
Vulgar & Cowboys are a tie for me being in my late teens/twenties when they were released they reinvigorated mainstream Metal with the stagnation of the Thrash scene.Far Beyond Driven i have always felt got to cash in on the growing hype of the previous two albums.Saw them back in 94 on the Driven tour first Australian gig where they sold out two shows in my city within under an hour,hell yeah they were on fire.
Hey Metal Meltdown, do you not like metal or heavy music that deals a lot with depressing subject matter. I'm just curious. BTW my favorite Pantera album is Far Beyond Driven.
It depends on how a band handles that subject matter. Like, DSBM and funeral doom is too much for me, its just utterly miserable stuff. I understand that's the point, but, I dunno, music should be at least a LITTLE fun to listen to. But there are bands and singers that handle really depressing and disturbing material with elegance and maturity (while also unleashing KILLER tunes) like Mastodon, Converge, Baroness, Panopticon, Swallow The Sun, Lingua Ignota.
1. Tie between Cowboys from Hell and Vulgar Display of Power (both 1000000/10) 2. Far Beyond Driven (9/10) 3. The Great Southern Trendkill (8.5/10) 4. Reinventing the Steel (7.5/10) 5. Power Metal (7/10) 6. The rest. I have listened to all of their glam metal albums, but pretty much all of the songs are pretty generic and forgettable, IMO. I’ve tried, believe me, but no thanks, not for moi.
Would love to see "Power Metal" re-released & remastered. I still think it's the greatest album Judas Priest never released. Which I find ironic, since Rob Halford wanted to be Pantera with Fight. My favourites are Far Beyond Driven & The Great Southern Trendkill. I really can't split them. FBD for it's overall brutality until the closing cover of "Planet Caravan". With Trendkill, I really love the variety & different textures they displayed. It also contains the greatest song I think they hve ever recorded in "Floods". It shows the whole spectrum of what they were capable of. Dimebag's solo in "Floods" is one of his greatest ever, along with solo in "The Sleep" from CFH. Pantera is just one of the most legendary metal bands ever. And in my opinion Dimebag was the Jimi Hendrix of my generation. He was that good. 🤘🤘🤘
@@themetalmeltdownofficial Huh... how could I missed that? Man, that's embarrassing :-D Well, already checked ;-) Also, I would like to change my suggestion to SEPULTURA. That would be freakin interresting !
I was kind of put off by Pantera when Anselmo abandoned his his Halford-esque high pitched vocals and screamed all the time. Cowboys From Hell is my fav without a doubt! Do a Manowar review video next! I’d curious to hear your opinion on them, bc I mostly hate them, but enjoy some of their cheesiness as a guilty pleasure lol!
Id say far beyond and trendkill are the best and heaveist by far. Cfh and vulger are a bit more complex but those I prefer those old songs on 101 proof live with Phil's lower voice.
1. Cowboys From Hell 2. The Great Southern Trendkill 3. Vulgar Display of Power 4. Far Beyond Driven 5. Reinventing The Steel 6. Power Metal 7. I Am The Night 8. Projects In The Jungle 9. Metal Magic
😂 I didn’t know you were getting bugged to do this Broman, anyhow I think I prefer the 90’s Pantera a bit more than any other era in the discogs. So here goes the ranking: 1. Vulgar Display of Power 2. Cowboys from Hell 3. The Great Southern Trendkill 4. Power Metal 5. Far Beyond Driven 6. Projects in the Jungle 7. I am the Night 8. Reinventing the Steel 9. Metal Magic What I like about Pantera is they got heavier each album. I laughed when you said why call the album RTS, when they didn’t reinvent shit. Amen! I was disappointed when I bought it. I was fuckin hyped when I heard it was coming out and was bored listening to it. Talk about a chore to get thru. I can say that I may have heard it twice to see if it could grow on me, but it didn’t. Oh well. Good ranking Bro. I’m too busy watching your other rankings right now instead of seeing something new at the moment. 🍻
I go: 1. Cowboys 2. Vulgar 3. Southern 4. Driven 5. Reinventing Have only heard Metal Magic from the Terry Glaze era, and yeah, it's pretty terrible. With that said, my favourite hook out of any Pantera song is from Southern (Drag the Waters).
Great take on this . I agree on reinventing the steel . I kinda feel like this really had to be their last album . Everything they do well had already been done up to this point .
Metal magic-2/5 Projects in the jungle-3/5 I am the knight-2.5/5 Power metal-4/5 Cowboys from hell-5/5 Vulgar display of power-4/5 Far beyond driven-3.5/5 The great southern trendkill-3.5/5 Reinventing the steel-2.5/5
Power Metal is actually my favorite Pantera album, followed by Cowboys From Hell. I don't know why the band 'disowned' Power Metal and I don't understand why it gets lumped into their glam metal era. The album is not glam metal at all. I think it has a vibe and energy very similar to Cowboys From Hell. The songs aren't glam at all; and looking at pictures of the band from when they recorded Power Metal, they weren't really 'glam' anymore either. I never understood why Power Metal wasn't considered their first album after they re-invented themselves. For me personally, this is their first 're-invented Pantera' album. Not Cowboys From Hell.
I remember when I first heard reinventing the steel I knew it was the end I was listening and was like why does it sound weird and just thrown together why r the drums so flat sounding
Pantera is one of my favorite metal bands of all time. Vinnie and Dime were both legends and with both be missed. Here would be my thoughts and ratings of each album: - Metal Magic: This album is a weak first entry. I got nothing against glam, I happen to like WASP and Dokken but this is just badly produced and unemmorable glam album (2/5) - Projects in the Jungle: This album was an even weaker sophomore album from Pantera. The album might be a bit more produced than Metal Magic but it's a less memorable in imo. (1.75/5) - I Am the Night: Out of the Terry Glaze era, this is the best one. The songwriting has definitely improved from the first two albums but there's still some rough spots on this album. (2.25/5) - Power Metal: Finally we get Phil Anselmo's entry into this band, and out of there glam era this is the only glam album of there's I enjoy. The riffs and songwriting is so much better and more memorable. (3/5) - Cowboys from Hell: This album is iconic. From the title track, to Psycho Holiday, Domination, Shattered, Medicine Man, and Cemetery Gates, this album has so much memorable songs. The songwriting and production has improved greatly and Dimebag Darrell truly showed has talents as a guitarist. (4/5) - Vulgar Display of Power: This album is Pantera's best imo. This album improved on Pantera's groove metal sound and is incredibly heavy and showcases more great songwriting. Mouth for War, A New Level, Walk, This Love, Rise, and the ending track Hollow are so good. (5/5) - Far Beyond Driven: This album has so many great riffs and the musicianship is top notch not to mention it's even heavier than Vulgar Display of Power. It shows more diversity on each track than Pantera had before. Some of my favorites include Strength Beyond Strength, Becoming, 5 Minutes Alone, I'm Broken, Slaughtered, Shedding Skin, and Throes of Rejection. (4.5/5) - The Great Southern Trendkill: This album is immensely heavy. It's the heaviest album Pantera has done and one of the heaviest metal albums in the mainstream. Even through it's really heavy it still has a lot of diverse moments such as the softer 10's, Suicide Note Part I and Floods; to the destructive title track, War Nerve, 13 Steps to Nowhere, and Suicide Note Part II. (4.5/5) - Reinventing the Steel: A decent final album from Pantera. It has a lot of great musicianship from Dime and Vinnie and many great songs such as Hellbound, Revolution Is My Name, Death Rattle (Which awesomely appeared on Spongebob), and We'll Grind That Axe for a Long Time. Phil's cringy lyrics kind of bog this album down but it's still decent. (3.5/5)
As an already "old" Pantera fan I have to disagree with you - TGST is definitely better than VDoP (I would give it 5/5 without thinking about it, but I AM a fan, so I can be unobjective), and this is their best album.
Does this doofus not realize Dimebag was only like 15 when he made his first record? Lol of course it’s generic because he was wanting to do what his idols were doing once he got older he was comfortable and found his own way.
@@themetalmeltdownofficial that or phil was trying to sound to much like DOWN n didnt want to be with Pantera much anymore at that point in bands lifespan.
