Are there any good bands out there that sound like Pantera?

[theflyingmachine]

Many people used to mention Lamb of God as the similar sound to Pantera. I don't know how much truth is that, but you can still give them a listen.

My sister bought me their album for Christmas one year. Gave it a couple obligatory listens, but didn't really dig it. Too nu metal for me.

Also, I don't really understand Pantera's southern metal comps. Yeah the album that actually referred to the south could probably go that route, but everything else doesn't really sound too much like southern metal to me.

 

[off the godpills]

If you want to hear something similar to Pantera, you'd have to check out Throwdown. They used to be straight edge metalcore band, but since Venom & Tears album they started transforming into hard Pantera-worshipping band. Most of the songs on it sound in the vein of the last two Pantera albums.

Check this track to see that.

 

[EspaDa]

I have never heard nu metal parts in LoG. Maybe you should go with their Ashes of the Wake or New American Gospel.

 

[theflyingmachine]

If you want to hear something similar to Pantera, you'd have to check out Throwdown. They used to be straight edge metalcore band, but since Venom & Tears album they started transforming into hard Pantera-worshipping band. Most of the songs on it sound in the vein of the last two Pantera albums.

Check this track to see that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IprUuFBpw4I

Thanks for posting. I just tried to listen to it on my crappy laptop speakers...I will have to re-listen to it on a better set of speakers.

Espada-I will give those two a try. FWIW, the album I own is Sacrament, which isn't too great IMO.

 

[METAL GOD]

Pissing Razors.

This band from Texas was close to sounding like Pantera. They broke up in 2004 I believe.

Here is a few of their albums I can remember.

I saw them twice. Once 1999 in Honolulu with Skinlab and again in 2002 with Cannibal Corpse, Dark Funeral and Incantation in Springfield, VA.


Pissing Razors (1998)
Cast Down the Plague (1999)
Fields of Disbelief (2000)

 

[theflyingmachine]

That pissing razors rec looks to be a pretty good one. Their debut sounds solid

 

[Etch]

Pissing Razors.

This band from Texas was close to sounding like Pantera. They broke up in 2004 I believe.

Here is a few of their albums I can remember.

I saw them twice. Once 1999 in Honolulu with Skinlab and again in 2002 with Cannibal Corpse, Dark Funeral and Incantation in Springfield, VA.


Pissing Razors (1998)
Cast Down the Plague (1999)
Fields of Disbelief (2000)

THANK YOU!!!
I remember back after Pantera broke up I started looking for bands with that same sound and found Pissing Razors, and was obsessed with them and was surprised at how they never got the attention they deserved, then they broke up and I forgot all about them, even forgot the name, until I finnaly found this thread and sure enough, someone mentioned their name and immediately it all came rushing back!

Thank you sir, it will be a long nostalgia listening night for me. Too bad they only e albums!

 

[EspaDa]

2 years old thread

 

[CiG]

Also OP is a contradiction.

 

[snakebit82]

I know this is an old thread but I had to throw this out there. Texas Hippie Coalition. I know the vocals aren't there and the guitar isn't as funky but I don't think you gonna get any closer, except for Pissing Razors. Pantera was one unique bad ass band.

 

[theflyingmachine]

Also OP is a contradiction.

Why's that?

 

[crimsonfloyd]

So I hadn't listened to Pantera since the 00s. I figured maybe they weren't as bad as I remembered. Decided to give Vulger Display of Power a listen. Turned it off after two songs. That was more than enough to confirm that they are utter garbage. Music for bros to chug Bud Lites to before having backyard brawls. This is what I fear people think I mean when I say I listen to metal.

 

[CiG]

Why's that?

I don't remember, I said that last year.

So I hadn't listened to Pantera since the 00s. I figured maybe they weren't as bad as I remembered. Decided to give Vulger Display of Power a listen. Turned it off after two songs. That was more than enough to confirm that they are utter garbage. Music for bros to chug Bud Lites to before having backyard brawls. This is what I fear people think I mean when I say I listen to metal.

Try this one, and see how you feel.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Cowboys from Hell is an objective masterpiece.

 

[crimsonfloyd]

I don't remember, I said that last year.



Try this one, and see how you feel.

Yeah that's way better obviously. Better vocals, much better riffs and progressions, and better solos. Still a few passages of bro-growling. So did they fall off a cliff between CFH and VDoP, or is that song just an exception.

 

[CiG]

I'm not even a fan of Cowboys from Hell myself, but I similarly have no idea what happened to their songwriting between those albums.
I recommended that song because it's the song people always recommended to me when I used to say I didn't like Pantera.

Perhaps Phil Anselmo's thuggish hardcore punk bro-goon personality seeped its way into much more of the writing, but I really don't know.
"This Love" and "Walk" are worlds apart from Cowboys from Hell.

I don't pretend to understand a band like that.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Cowboys From Hell is trash outside of Cemetary Gates and about 2 more songs. Far Beyond Driven and The Great Southern Trendkill are their best albums imo.

Yea, far from a good band ... but i dont mind them as somewhat of a gateway band. But its not like theyre even that popular anymore nowadays for me to even refer to them as gateway. Its just old farts like me who dont mind them and the somewhat younger crowd who has made them out to be one of the cool to hate bands of today. i would rather run into 15 year olds who isten to Pantera than the shit pop music that mort listens to.

edit: @crimsonfloyd Vulgar is definitely their most BRO! album. No way were you going to enjoy it.

 

[CiG]

i would rather run into 15 year olds who isten to Pantera than the shit pop music that mort listens to.

You'd probably run into them as they're breaking into your car or kicking a dog tied up out the front of a shop.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

... nah, i doubt it. Metalheads dont do that kind of shit, not around these parts at least. And definitely not prepubescent ones who are probably going through their older brothers collection or something. And im not fucking around .... if you worship Pantera, chances are your balls haven't dropped yet.

Well maybe some strung out junkie with a Venom shirt on, but that's a whole 'nother story. Out here, if someone is breaking into your car, he probably has an old ass yellow wifebeater on or something.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

Yeah that's way better obviously. Better vocals, much better riffs and progressions, and better solos. Still a few passages of bro-growling. So did they fall off a cliff between CFH and VDoP, or is that song just an exception.

crimsonfloyd has strong opinion on band he hasn't listened to, news at 11!