Favorite Pantera release

Dude! "Power Metal" all the way! More people need to hear this album. Phil actually sings on it. He almost sounds like Halford.

I've heard good things about Power Metal,just never got around to hearing it

thrasher73 wrote:

I've heard good things about Power Metal,just never got around to hearing it

Go back to page one and download the tracks I uploaded. There are two from each album. Good stuff.

Cowboys is one of the best metal albums ever.

how dare all you people diss pantera!

ah well free choice an all that i spose. vdop is the best as hollow is on there and it is such an awesome song

Vulgar Display of Power !!!
Walk - This love - Mouth for war are great tracks.

I remember I saw them live here in Belgium back in 1992. They were opening for Megadeth and they totally kicked ass.
Megadeth were so boring that night, they disappointed me.
Pantera were way much better and convincing that night than Megadave.

I'll never forget them... good old Dimebag was awesome -- R.I.P.

I woted Power Metal coz I like Marc Ferrari, tho I'd probably never play this album in a foreseenable future... There are only few bands I dislike more than Pantera and Machine Head, ugh!

It's all about Cowboy's for me.

Vulgar Display, no contest. Cowboys is second, Trendkill is third. Of their pre-Cowboys stuff, I like all of it, but you are comparing two different animals there....



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I like everything up until "Cowboys" (and a few tracks on "Vulgar") but after that they got a little too screamy and abrasive for me. I voted for "Cowboys" cuz that is simply a fan-freakin'-tastic album all the way around.

Their earlier "hair metal" albums are an interesting listen, though. "Power Metal" is a great album, as are "Projects in the Jungle" and "I Am The Night." Those last two would probably make fans of their more "extreme" period puke, however.

Guys, if you knew how kick-ass Dime was on guitar, you would say that "Vulgar Display" is ballsy.

While I am the first to slam Panterrible at any opportunity, I do not mean to say they didn't have talent. I just could never stand their music enough to discover it.

ack

Fat Freddy wrote:

I like everything up until "Cowboys" (and a few tracks on "Vulgar") but after that they got a little too screamy and abrasive for me. I voted for "Cowboys" cuz that is simply a fan-freakin'-tastic album all the way around.

Their earlier "hair metal" albums are an interesting listen, though. "Power Metal" is a great album, as are "Projects in the Jungle" and "I Am The Night." Those last two would probably make fans of their more "extreme" period puke, however.

Those first four albums deserve a re-release. I hope Vinnie does it someday.

i do not have any of there hair metal albums but i have heard a song of one of them and it did not blow me away like their first two major label records did

Eyesore wrote:

Fat Freddy wrote:

I like everything up until "Cowboys" (and a few tracks on "Vulgar") but after that they got a little too screamy and abrasive for me. I voted for "Cowboys" cuz that is simply a fan-freakin'-tastic album all the way around.

Their earlier "hair metal" albums are an interesting listen, though. "Power Metal" is a great album, as are "Projects in the Jungle" and "I Am The Night." Those last two would probably make fans of their more "extreme" period puke, however.

Those first four albums deserve a re-release. I hope Vinnie does it someday.

I can see that happening. Even though the guys in Pantera might dis-own those releases, Vinnie will put them out "in rememberance of Dime". He'll release anything with Dimebag playing on it, I guarantee.

Vinnie also has his own record label now (Big Vin), which released the "Rebel Meets Rebel" album, so I wouldn't be surprised at all if those first four Pantera albums re-surface at some point. I wouldn't blame him, cuz they've been bootlegged like crazy over the years, so why wouldn't he want to get a piece of that action?

Cowboys From Hell, I don't really like any other albums from them. But I haven't heard anything from their first four albums.

Cowboys From Hell!!! Cemetary Gates is one of my favorite metal songs EVER!!!! I give it a 5 out of 5

Cowboys From Hell is in my opinion an almost perfect album (if they had've shortened it to 8 tracks it would've been a metal masterpiece). I still really like Vulgar, love the song Hollow, one of my favorites, but just the pointless screaming from then on in is just gutting for me. Pantera as a music band afterwards are excellent, but Phil just kills everything with his stupid, meaningless screams. The worst screaming I've heard period.
Yes I'm surprised at much I love Down after the final three Pantera studio records.
I havn't properly listened to the first four albums, but I do own all four, they seem pretty good (despite some terrible cheese) and yes they deserved a bit more production.

Dimedude23 wrote:

Cowboys From Hell is in my opinion an almost perfect album (if they had've shortened it to 8 tracks it would've been a metal masterpiece). I still really like Vulgar, love the song Hollow, one of my favorites, but just the pointless screaming from then on in is just gutting for me. Pantera as a music band afterwards are excellent, but Phil just kills everything with his stupid, meaningless screams. The worst screaming I've heard period.
Yes I'm surprised at much I love Down after the final three Pantera studio records.
I havn't properly listened to the first four albums, but I do own all four, they seem pretty good (despite some terrible cheese) and yes they deserved a bit more production.

Yeah, Phil has one HELL of a singing voice which makes it a crying shame that he won't use it more often. That is exactly why I never liked anything form Pantera after Far Beyond Driven.

DallasBlack wrote:

Dimedude23 wrote:

Cowboys From Hell is in my opinion an almost perfect album (if they had've shortened it to 8 tracks it would've been a metal masterpiece). I still really like Vulgar, love the song Hollow, one of my favorites, but just the pointless screaming from then on in is just gutting for me. Pantera as a music band afterwards are excellent, but Phil just kills everything with his stupid, meaningless screams. The worst screaming I've heard period.
Yes I'm surprised at much I love Down after the final three Pantera studio records.
I havn't properly listened to the first four albums, but I do own all four, they seem pretty good (despite some terrible cheese) and yes they deserved a bit more production.

Yeah, Phil has one HELL of a singing voice which makes it a crying shame that he won't use it more often. That is exactly why I never liked anything form Pantera after Far Beyond Driven.

The Great Southern Trendkill went overboard at times, but there still some amazing songs on that one, like "Floods," "Living Through Me" (one of my all-time favs), "Drags The Waters," and some others. The same goes for Reinventing The Steel. I think after Far Beyond Driven, though, is when the band started having internal issues. Phil was drinking and doing more and more drugs and he was killing his voice. I mean, he actually got the point where his singing voice simply sounded terrible.

Have you heard the new Down album? It's easily his finest moment since Far Beyond Driven.

TH Joe wrote:

Dude! "Power Metal" all the way! More people need to hear this album. Phil actually sings on it. He almost sounds like Halford.

I think he sounds closer to Geof Tate than Halford.

Pantera frickin' suck....

I can't see why anyone would dislike Power Metal or CFH? Those are great metal records! Cemetary Gates and We'll Meet Again are awesome songs.

Eyesore wrote:

Have you heard the new Down album? It's easily his finest moment since Far Beyond Driven.

Nope, sadly I've only got NOLA, but I still think it's an awesome album, Phil's singing on songs like Jail and Stone The Crows is really good though.
Whats the singing screaming balance on the new Down record?