omg Dimebag Darrel

[SonOfNun]

Down is the best out of these bands. I enjoy Pantera's first few quite a bit every once in a long while, but NOLA is a masterpiece and gets mega jams, especially this time of year.

 

[JayKeeley]

Erik's fave album:

 

[NAD]

Yeah NOLA rocks. I even grew to like Down II, eventually. Sorta off at times, but overall very good.

Pepper Keenan

 

[lurch70]

Down ... fuck me ... members of pantera moved one state East

 

[NAD]

Technically speaking, Phil already lived in Louisiana, and was the only dude from Pantera to participate. Until the second one, when Rex joined and gave the worst performance in his entire career.

 

[Will Bozarth]

hey JK, looks as though i gave you your argument thread you wanted

 

[J.]

what ever happened to that super group bullshit with Satyr and ANselmo? norwegian black metal sellouts and american red neck jock metal kings unite!

 

[Erik]

It also had Fenriz, it was called Eibon, and nothing ever came of it except that one demo song

 

[lizard]

Shakira > The Clash > Slayer > Pantera

 

[NAD]

wiping with my bare hand > The Clash > Kiss

 

[cthulufhtagn]

i kinda like the clash, sometimes

wiping with your own tongue > kiss

 

[jimbobhickville]

Well, it goes back to the same old argument, the simple fact is, Testament and Slayer (especially) where there first. Now of course that doesn't change the fact that people might like post 90's stuff like Pantera more, but it will always go back to the original sound being more unique when it came out, less saturated, and sounding just a fuckload more genuine.

By the way, librariusmetallicus mentions the following:

While the music got heavier, the lyrics got worse, relying too heavily on cussing for shock value. Of course, this only increased their popularity. At the peak of their career, they were one of the most popular metal bands in the world

Gotta ask, did anyone outside of the US even know who Pantera was, even as late as 96?

Hmm... maybe not, but did any other metal band besides Metallica sell as many records, ever? Just curious. But, I could rephrase that to say the US, if you care that much. I think I wrote that description like 4 years ago.

 

[Krilons Resa]

I'm still sorta curious about their second album, but the first one... ugh. I wanted to like it, gave it many shots, then realized Use Once and Destroy was the most fitting album title I've ever come across.

LMAO!

 

[JayKeeley]

Hmm... maybe not, but did any other metal band besides Metallica sell as many records, ever? Just curious. But, I could rephrase that to say the US, if you care that much. I think I wrote that description like 4 years ago.

No, I was just curious because perhaps it was just me who missed the whole Pantera wave of popularity throughout the 90's in the UK.

It was an odd time: Metallica were finished, Bruce left Maiden and they went back to playing small clubs, Slayer and Megadeth were a shadow of their previous selves, Halford was out of Judas Priest, Ozzy continued to prance about....

....those were all the big ones hanging on by the skin of their teeth. Otherwise everything was swamped in Grunge which later was replaced by nuMetal.

EDIT: Of course none of this references the true underground simply because it was difficult to hear about all that was going on with only a 14K modem and Kerrang.

Throughout all of that, I never saw any mention of Pantera in the UK. And granted, the UK is not Europe. Who knows what was going on in Germany, Italy, and Greece.

Were Pantera big in Japan? That's always a shitty benchmark, because which metal band isn't big in Japan?

 

[cthulufhtagn]

Were Pantera big in Japan? That's always a shitty benchmark, because which metal band isn't big in Japan?

er, good ones?

 

[Eminor]

Roudness

 

[jimbobhickville]

Yeah, honestly I have no idea how well they did overseas, but Far Beyond Driven was #1 on the billboard charts for at least a week or two, making it one of the very few metal bands to have ever done so. I never really cared much about them after Vulgar Display of Power, but they were definitely one the most popular metal band in the states during the 90s. I don't have stats to prove so, but I think their US sales alone outweighed most metal bands' worldwide sales during the time period.

Anyway, yeah, um. Cowboys From Hell is great.

 

[Demonspell]

Yeah but Pantera hit their peak level of popularity when Clin-Ton was in office!

I'm guessing they got that far by appealing to both the redneck/jock axis and people sick to death of the grunge clones and were willing to disregard their image (although I think most of these eventually kept following trends instead of becoming reformed metalheads)...either way, I agree with everything Jay and Greg said...

 

[dorian gray]

you guys are queeeeeers. pantera owned. i couldnt stand the indivdual members and their appaling personal lives but as a band, they were awesome. their beer-fueled excess was hilarious. remember "good friends and a bottle of pills"? hahaha and at the end of the day, darrell abbott fucking ruled on guitar. and im not impressed by *anything*

 

[NAD]

you guys are queeeeeers. pantera owned. i couldnt stand the indivdual members and their appaling personal lives but as a band, they were awesome. their beer-fueled excess was hilarious. remember "good friends and a bottle of pills"? hahaha and at the end of the day, darrell abbott fucking ruled on guitar. and im not impressed by *anything*

That song is fucking HILARIOUS. "I didn't care if she was a burn victim, dead body, amputee... god DAMN I just wanted to fuck."

I always thought Phil was a putz, but didn't care because I love his voice. Dimebag smoked, one of my favorites.