Like Pantera

[MURAI]

Bands like Pantera:

Pissing Razors
Machine Head
Exhorder
Hateform
Black Label Society

 

[MURAI]

I think Pantera were a good band. On Pantera lyrics, yes, some of it can be rather annoying because it sounds like he's bluffing about how tough he is. For example on Strength Beyond Strength:

You're working for perfect bodies, perfect minds and perfect
names. But I'm helping to legalize dope on
Your pristine streets and I'm making a fortune...

No more holdbacks. No more paying a cops paycheck. Let him
Bust his own child. The son that heeds my word and smokes my dope.
The daughter that sucks me off and snorts cheap anything.

See, he's thinking he's the man because he writes about how he sells drugs to kids and fucks a cop's daughter. But get pass some of this, at least some of his lyrics are direct and sometimes even insightful. For example, in We'll Grind that Axe For A Long Time:

We'll Grind That Axe For A Long Time

Wears 10 crowns, dragons heads
Southern are the sons, Lords unmatched
- Their eyes don't look right, should they be trusted now?
Trashed-mouth Gods, avoided kings
With the spirit of revolt, the ghost of youth

Every fucking year it stays the same
Everybody changes to suit the day
Out of pride I'll isolate my fears
Never turned our backs on why we're here
We'll grind that axe for a long time

Follow close, train of fools
Just like them, just like you
- Their eyes don't seem right.
"Easily impressed" plague, dressed up fake
No respect

It is about how youth are impressionable to whatever that is in without thinking too deeply about it. And I like he calls hip idols as "Trashed-mouth Gods" and things like rebellion and temptation will always be hip.

 

[Dazie]

Pantera was the best band ever. Nothing can ever compare. And DevilDriver sucks. Listen to SuperJoint Ritual.

 

[seedofvengeance]

Zombie threads!!!!!!!! Where's Ving Rhames?!!!!

 

[The Ozzman]

And DevilDriver sucks.

DevilDriver's last two albums are better than anything Pantera has ever put out.

 

[Dazie]

meh. Their just coal chamber to me.

 

[The Ozzman]

Except it isn't Coal Chamber and never was Coal Chamber, so don't be a fucking cunt about it. The musical and songwriting talent of the band has progressed significantly since the Self-titled was released. If you haven't listened to anything past the self-titled, give it a shot at least. If you are basing your opinion solely on the fact he was in Coal Chamber and haven't even heard anything DevilDriver has done, you are dumb.

 

[Dazie]

yeah. I am well versed on devildriver. my boyfriend listens to them and even put them on my ipod to try to convince me. I do like a couple of their songs. They don't "exactly" suck. They just aren't comparable to Pantera.

 

[The Ozzman]

They are very comparable to Pantera, as is Lamb of God

 

[Vitor]

but without retarded lyrics like

"Are you talking to me?
No way punk"

sorry dude, but there isn't any band like them.

 

[The Ozzman]

Not even your home country's band?

 

[Vitor]

HAHAHAHAHA

:Smug:

 

[SatansSon]

I can't believe none of you have mentioned Brick Bath. Their first album I Won't Live was complete Pantera worship. If you're looking for the closest sound to Pantera not named Exhorder, Brick Bath is it.

http://www.myspace.com/brickbath

 

[Vitor]

i've never heard about

 

[Omni]

 

[seedofvengeance]

No, and yes.
DevilDriver is ok... but not in Pantera's league.
LoG is awesome, though.

 

[The Ozzman]

LoG got stale

 

[seedofvengeance]

True.. Sacrament was not at all impressive to me. Solid album, but not at all living up to the other 4, which are all fucking great.

 

[zabu of nΩd]

but without retarded lyrics like

"Are you talking to me?
No way punk"

Pantera's lyrics are hilarious, lighten up.

 

[mutantllama]

Ok, I'm tired of people complaining and saying Pantera's lyrics suck, when in fact most brutal death metal, death metal, and a lot of black metal lyrics are much worse and much more retarded. Or a lot of metal in general.