Pantera

My point is that certain people like to associate Pantera with meatheads and blame them for making metal appear like anti-intellectual bro-fisting music to the mainstream world, yet they gladly listen to equally mindless Bay Area bands.

I think your point is pretty much silly and invalid tbh.
 
I fucking LOVED Vulgar Display Of Power when it came out, as did every metal fan I knew. And we were all fully into death & thrash metal at the time. It was without a doubt an important and influential album. Revisionist history metal buffs can blame it on the downfall of metal until the cows come home for all I care.