Pantera Albums Ranked
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- Опубліковано 4 сер 2024
- Today, I present my ranking of all nine studio albums from Texas metal legends, Pantera.
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Oh, I do have to add one thing. The story you told about the "unnamed singer" who sang one show for Pantera, it was Rick Mythiasin of Steel Prophet fame, haha. And it was in Arizona, IIRC.
I got CFH on cassette the day it was released in 1990. Saw em live 5 times in the 90s. One of the greatest metal bands of all time. Far Beyond Driven is my favorite.😎🤘
1. Cowboys From Hell
2. Vulgar Display of Power
3. The Great Southern Trendkill
4. Far Beyond Driven
5. Reinventing the Steel
6. Power Metal
7. I am the Night
8. Projects in the Jungle
9. Metal Magic
Great job! Little did I know seeing them live back in 2001 would have been the very last time unknowingly they'd call it quits only a few months later. That Glamtera era hold its own special charms… yeah took them awhile to finally find their footing but when they did that foot stuck really really well. I don't know about the "saved metal" part completely… having lived and enjoyed metal throughout the 90s they were definitely on the forefront I recall, but if they never existed I'm sure groove metal would have been not as prominant competing with nu-metal and the like… but Pantera definitely helped move the genre forward while the scene was trying to recover from its fatigue of samey glam, thrash and speed bands from the decade earlier… they kept it extreme in their own way while co-existing with the looming underground prevalence of genres like death and black metal which I know Phil was already a huge fan of even at the time (e.g. see his contribution with Necrophagia). By the time Reinventing dropped I remember even then feeling the disconnection with the members forward thinking with their newer alternative projects, Phil took that first leap with Down and things kinda started to wane from there. But all that said, their history is cemented and that can't be taken away… good video. Enjoy your ticket for when the tribute band comes around… but don't second mortgage the house just to score a seat Levi. Later man!
few corrections:
Brad Guice who appeared on Vulgar Display of Power's cover art doesn't claim he was punched though.
34:00 production began in '95.
38:15 they briefly return in '97 to record 2 tracks (Where You Come From and I Can't Hide) for the live album Official Live: 101 Proof.
Anyway my list including Dime's side projects:
1.) Cowboys from Hell (10/10)
2.) Vulgar Display of Power (10/10)
3.) New Found Power (9/10)
4.) Power Metal (8.5/10)
5.) I Am the Night (8.5/10)
6.) Projects in the Jungle (8.5/10)
7.) Metal Magic (8.5/10)
8.) Reinventing the Steel (8.5/10)
9.) Rebel Meets Rebel (8.5/10)
10.) The Great Southern Trendkill (8/10)
11.) Far Beyond Driven (8/10)
9 - Metal Magic
8 - Projects in The Jungle
7 - I Am The Night
6 - Power Metal
5 - Far Beyond Driven
4 - The Great Southern Trendkill
3 - Reinventing The Steel
2 - Vulgar Display Of Power
1 - Cowboys From Hell
Cool ranking. The only thing u got wrong, that most fans get wrong, is that they were not falling apart on RTS at all. All 4 guys LOVED RTS. They recorded together on RTS and were getting along well. Phil stayed at Dimes house for recording. Its literally Phil's favorite Pantera album and the other 3 guys loved it as well. Even the album cover is literally from a night of all the guys hanging out (that's Phil's tech guy). Theres been a lot of Revisionist history around this album. Issues within the band popped up on the road in 2001 (not during recording in 1999).
The album title is a tip of the hat to Priests British Steel. Like with Priest it was a change in direction. Unlike Trendkill there was a greater emphasis on writing memorable hooks and anthems. The songs were stripped down to cater to the live setting. People hear that the album isn't as extreme as Trendkill and read about the break up and assume everything was falling apart and the band forced out one last album that their hearts werent really into but that's just not the case at all. Its false and I've watched how this narrative popped up over the years so I like to set the record straight. They were close, they took their time and put out a record that was a return to the grooves and proper song structures of Vulgar while maintaining the heaviness of FBD all with a pinch of old school sabbath thrown in. Much more vocal melodies from Phil also. So it was intentional change to go more old school. The album was a huge success also with a world tour that was the most successful of their career.. Love it or hate it that's fine, I'm just saying its exactly the record they wanted to make and they all loved it.
My Dimebag ranking
1 Reinventing the Steel
2 Official Live 101
3 Far Beyond Driven
4 Rebel Meets Rebel
5 New Found Power
6 Vulgar Display of Power
7 The Great Southern Trendkill
8 Cowboys From Hell
9 Power Metal
10 Projects in the Jungle
11 I Am The Night
12 Metal Magic
Good video though.
And yes, I love that you dig into every song. I don't know that I hear much priest in Like Fire, I've always thought it sounded *heavily* inspired by Bark At the Moon. Dime cops the descending lick at the end of the Bark At The Moon solo nearly note for note here.
Okay I'll stop before I respond to literally every song.
Hahaha, I usually get annoyed at this videos but you did a great job. I love that you described Rock Out as "the heaviest Foghat song that was never written". LMAO. But "the heaviest Foghat song that was never written" basically describes every Nazareth song.
It sounds like a young Joe Elliot sitting in on a demo session with Nazareth that never got released.
God damn if there was something that didn't need this much thought put into it, it's this. How did I end up here?
I'll never understand why their label never bought the rights to Power Metal and gave it a proper release, like Elektra did with early Metallica. That album would sell! I don't have a copy but would like one. Far Beyond and Cowboys will always be my top 2. Cowboys is their most diverse album when it comes to mixing heaviness with melody, they lost a lot of that with Vulgar. But I love the songs on Far Beyond.
Label offered the band a fortune, they chose not to sell out for a variety of reasons. 1 being potential publishing issues/ royalties with Terry Lee & producer Jerry Abbott. 2 they considered it a new band when Phil joined and CFH is the first album written 100% front to back from Phil, Vinnie, Dime & Rex
Cowboys from Hell is the best Pantera album I agree. Then the next 3 in any order, depends on the particular day.
34:11 he farts
That was my chair lol
Pantera 🔥🔥🔥🔥
I agree long as Power Metal through Trendkill is the top 5, although Burn couldn't have been inspired by Annihilator 'cause it was a year before their first album
Well, I meant that it reminded me of Annihilator 😂