Pantera Albums Ranked!
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- #thrallsofmetal #albumranking #retrospective #pantera #review
Miller, Necrotic Nick, Shredlord and Jammin' Jon go through and rank all the studio albums (even the Glam-tera ones) of groove metal legends Pantera!
thrallsofmetal...
1994, 1996, 1997 Pantera shows I saw. Far Beyond Driven is my fave. Sepultura opened the tour, Chaos AD.
🤘🎸 🥁 RIP Abbott Brothers. 😔
Probably be y’all’s biggest stream. Guess why you took a while there my friend 😁🏴
So glad to see the love for Trendkill. I’ve always felt like FBD or Vulgar might be better but Trendkill was always my personal favorite. Fuck with the channel you guys have turned me on to new bands and have made me realize bands I love have something new out lol
Reinventing the steel was my favorite album from pantera it’s raw and it’s funky and it has some of the best digitech whammy work besides suicide note prt 2, it has insane riffs it feels like it was a grown dark version of cowboys from hell marking the end of what was started long ago, Yesterday don’t mean sh*t, Hellbound, Uplift, has some of the Hardest Heaviest instrumentals that keeps musical consistency, I do not believe Pantera has made a bad album besides anything with Terry Glaze
RTS is awesome. It's like Vulgar 2.0 to me. Such a jammable album. It Makes Them Disappear is crazy underrated. I'll Cast a Shadow is really Black Sabbathy. Revolution is My Name is so good and catchy. It just seems like it encompasses everything about Pantera, right down to the album cover lmao.
This was so much fun. As much as I love the stories and your takes on music, your camaraderie is what keeps me coming back. I wish I still had such a tight-knit group of brothers... but life happens. I’m a Thralls fan forever. Best wishes and hugs to you all. \m/
No disrespect but I'm telling ya right now they were NOT falling apart while writing RTS nor did they record separately (that was Trendkill). Love it or hate it, the whole band loved that album and to this day it's still Philip's favorite.
Had to rant. Other than that I look forward to the show.
I love Reinventing! It's basically a metal love letter to everything I love about Pantera. Cheers!
What did you think of the Terry Date mix they released?
@@stefantopuzov6140
I liked it but I prefer the original production by Vince & Sterling
Every song on it is good. The highs just aren’t quite as high as some earlier albums. I love it though. I listen to it more than Vulgar for sure
Awesome. The rankings are my favorite content from y'all. Hopefully we can get these more consistently as well as tutorials from Shred
1-Cowboys from Hell
2-Vulgar Display of Power
3-Far Beyond Driven
4-Great Southern Trendkill
5-Reinventing the Steel
6-Power Metal
7-Projects of the Jungle
8-I Am the Night
9-Metal Magic
The day is finally upon us! Load a bowl, pour some black tooth grins, get yer pull, and let's go! RIP Darrell & Vinnie, you live on thru the music eternally!!!! 🤘❤🔥🤘
"The Sleep" solo, thank you for mentioning it.🤘
Pioneers of groove metal! Great ranking once again Thralls. Can't wait to another. 🤘
Woo hoo I knew you guys where going to get to it soon can’t wait
Awesome review Thralls of Metal! Pantera definitely invented the groove metal and I feel resurged thrash metal at the right time when it took a setback. There are many bands who may not have come out of the woodwork if it wasn't for Pantera. R.I.P. Dime and Vinnie !
Necrotic Nick- Thanks, man! I think Exhorder might have invented groove metal but I think Pantera really popularized it but that's always a debatable subject. Either way, Pantera dominated in a time were metal's popularity was kinda waning and they did it being heavy as hell. Thanks for all the killer music Vinnie & Dime!
I think I speak for us all when I say HELL YEAH PANTERA
Great ranking! Hard to rank such a discography that no matter what is almost perfect. Mind you those first 3 I barely acknowledge 😂. Im so excited for the Celebration of the band tour. Also I was wondering about Rin. Miss the dude and glad to hear he is well.
Great job guys. That was a good watch.
Excellent video as always guys. This was one of those I wanted to see, and you guys being in the know of all things metal, it was worth the wait. \m/
My first exposure to Pantera was through a little golden age meme on YTMND simply called the “Tragedy” fad. The original featured a clip from Sesame Street of Grover getting his head slammed in a door and the video then zooming in with the text “Grover. 1969-2007.” The outro to Floods was playing in the background and I didn’t realize until many years later.
Loved this!🔥🤘 Miller fan boyed til his hearts content!😄👍🤘
Yeah which ever one is the biggest fan seems to take the helm on these rankings. I think they said Jammin Jon will be taking the floor for the Mastodon ranking that one will be great.
Great rankings, been waiting for this one! Here's my ranking :
1 - Cowboys From Hell
2 - Vulgar Display Of Power
3 - The Great Southern Trendkill
4 - Far Beyond Driven
5 - Power Metal
6 - Reinventing The Steel
7 - I Am The Night
8 - Projects In The Jungle
9 - Metal Magic
The band that pioneered the Ooga Booga sound 🤘🏾 RIP Abbott Brothers
1. Vulgar Display of Power
2. The Great Southern Trendkill
3. Cowboys From Hell
4. Far Beyond Driven
5. Reinventing the Steel
6. Power Metal
7. Projects In the Jungle
8. I Am the Night
9. Metal Magic
Pantera is my favorite band of all time, Vulgar is my favorite album by anyone.
Great video gents🤘
Trendkill is my favourite album of all time. 13 steps to nowhere is pretty mediocre for being Pantera but the rest of the songs are just flawless. I love the moody atmosphere, intensity and the crunchy guitar tone.
Necrotic Nick- I still really like that song. That drum beat is killer and Phil's lyrics are pretty interesting on that one. I do love the moodier, darker vibe on the album though and that guitar tone is massive.
I agree... I love them all. That album has all the elements. I also believe Trendkill actually has the best production sound out of all of their albums.. In the way of the production sounding more natural and live like. I love Vulgar, but at times it can be a bit too polished sounding.
There are NO bad Pantera songs from Cowboys on. I'm not saying every song is my favorite but name another band that had 5 albums with ZERO bad tracks. That is an achievement for sure. Also, 13 steps is a super sick song. That drum beat man...
I cannot wait for this! I just went through the entire discography this weekend in preparation for this. I give massive credit to Pantera for exposing me to more extreme metal and helping me get into more guttural vocals. I almost feel bad ranking the last five of their records because they are all great records in my opinion. Thank you for doing this ranking! Keep rockin' everyone at Thralls! \m/ \m/
P.S. Here is my ranking. I struggled with #3 and #4. However, I placed my #3 where it is because my #4 has one song on there that I do not care for. We all know which song it is I am sure.
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. Projects in the Jungle
8. I Am the Night
9. Metal Magic
Yaummers which song of FBD you not like? Good Friends and a Bottle of Pills? 😄
Good Friends and A Bottle of Pills
Is it possible that early humans mixed DNA with small, two legged elephant?
@@jasonscholl2945 Exactly lol. It is not the worst song ever but just so unnecessary \m/ \m/
My ranking is almost identical:
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
IAM ALL IN. This one is going to be big. all you guys rule for doing this...RIP DIME🤘
All in? I’ll see your all in 💵
@@jamesgwarrior1981 Far Beyond Driven #1
@@neilfoster9587 me and Miller gonna say, Southern TRENDKILL. 🤘🏽
@@jamesgwarrior1981 Sick Album, I remember getting it and a bottle of whiskey. by the 10th listen ,HAHA i was drunk as shit
@@neilfoster9587 that’s awesome! You’re the king 👑 🥃!!!!
"5 minutes alone" - that groove and rthymn section introduced me to Pantera, then the iconic "I'm Broken" riff, me and my buddy seen Superjoint Ritual, he got on stage and Phil drapped a flag around his back, awesome experience, and we had tickets to the Damageplan show in Columbus in our ticketmaster queue but ended up not purchasing the tickets, recently saw the new line up open for Metallica, they did kick tail, so yeh I appreciate this video
Great list from you guys. Always love your ranking videos.
For me it is:
9. Metal Magic 2/5 (the production not really great, especially Terry's voice. But it has some cool songs)
8. I Am The Night 3/5 (Better production, has some really good songs, but some meh songs)
7. Projects In The Jungle 3/5 (I like this album start to finish just a tiny bit better than I Am The Night)
6. Power Metal 3.5/5 (This album is really good, but there are better things to come)
5. Reinventing The Steel 4/5 (Very good album start to finish, but for me even the best tracks can't compare with the other albums)
4. Far Beyond Driven 4.5/5 (I judge albums by all the tracks on it and while it has some of their best it also has some of their worst from the 1990 - 2000 era namely Good Friends... and I also didn't need the Planet Caravan cover. But still a great album)
3. The Great Southern Trendkill 4.5/5 (This album flows for me better than FBD. Although the best tracks on FBD are better, but this album is more constant to me. And of course it also has some really great tracks too)
2. Cowboys From Hell 5/5 (What are the best tracks on this album? Everyone! I also like it for the fact that his vocals are more Rob Halford-ish on here)
1. Vulgar Display Of Power 5/5 (This album is filled with Classics. I like every track on here more than Walk which is the big single. And I still love Walk too. So, I think this says a lot about what I'm thinking of this album.)
Necrotic Nick- Thanks, man! This one was tough to do because everything from Cowboys to Trendkill could have been my number 1 honestly. I love all of those albums to death so this was a rough but really fun ranking.
Fully agreed. Walk is a fine song, but I rarely listen to it in favor of the other songs on the album. Vulgar has a much more “punk” feel to it, even with the subject matter. Rise and Mouth for War are pure punk rock energy. Even Everyday People has some punkness to it.
Nice vid guys personally my ranking would be:
1. Trendkill
2. Vulgar
3. FBD
4. Reinventing the steel
5. Cowboys
You guys should do a vid on electric wizard
Great video as always, boys!!! Here are my PanterA rankings:
9. Metal Magic
8. Projects in the Jungle
7. I am the Night
6. Power Metal
5. Cowboys From Hell
4. Reinventing the Steel
3. The Great Southern Trendkill
2. Vulgar Display of Power
1. Far Beyond Driven
PS.- Best wishes to Rin!! Come back soon brother!!
Necrotic Nick- Thanks, man! Solid ranking!
Pantera was the soundtrack of my teens and early 20s. I still revisit them from time to time but I’ve been kinda burnt out on their albums although I’ve really gotten back into Cowboys from Hell and Power Metal. Here are my rankings:
The Great Southern Trendkill
Cowboys From Hell
Reinventing the Steel
Power Metal
Far Beyond Driven
Vulgar Display of Power
Projects in the Jungle
I Am the Night
Metal Magic
Loved the ranking fellas! I’ve got to familiarize myself with the glam era of Pantera. I’m only familiar with cowboys onward. I hope all is well with your friend Rin , I always found him funny. Look forward to your next video!
Necrotic Nick- Thanks, man! The glam stuff is definitely an acquired taste but Power Metal is a ripper honestly. Rin's doing good but he wants to step away from the channel and we get that doing this kinda thing isn't for everyone. He's still welcome to return though.
I've come back and given this a like, just cos you guys is the best...
Necrotic Nick- Always appreciated, man! Thanks!
I have been waiting for this ranking. Pantera is my favorite band. Here is my ranking
1. The Great Southern Trendkill
2. Far Beyond Driven
3. Reinventing The Steel
4. Vulgar Display of Power
5. Cowboys From Hell
6. Power Metal
Necrotic Nick- Nice list, man!
This will be interesting. These guys get such hate in some metal discussions. Honestly it was Phil's vocals that eventually broke down the door to me listening to more extreme metals.
Anyways, here's my ranking
7-9, the first 3 Indy ones. My only takeaway from these is Dime can play his ass off.
6. Power Metal. Phil brought that something extra, of course they still had to give up on VH meets JP.
5. Reinventing the Steel. Some good tunes on here. Yesterday Don't Mean Shit and Revolution is my Name stick to me the most.
4. Cowboys From Hell. Sacrilege to many of the Pantera faithful. But I like what they turned into, more than the remnants of what they were hanging onto here. Still some killer tunes. Domination my fav here.
3. Far Beyond Driven. Stylistically perfecting what they did on Vulgar. But still, Vulgar had more upper echelon tunes.
2. Vulgar Display. My pal in college played me This Love, and I was like WTF is that. I hadn't ventured too far from the Big4 yet. But when I grabbed the CD and heard Mouth For War and Fuckin Hostile....fugedaboudit!!
1. Trendkill. Dark, ugly. Phil was in a bad place. At the time I wasn't in the best place. And that just cemented this one into my soul.
I been a fan of you guys for a little while now. You guys are so amazing! I love watching your videos and I always feel a part of them when I listen to your opinions on these awesome albums. You guys should totally do more ranking the albums. Decapitated or some other killer bands would be sweet. \m/ rock on all of you.
Funny I've been listening too all Panteras albums over the past 2 weeks.
Great Southern Trendkill was my first and favorite Pantera record, but admittedly, it's one that I don't listen to often. I've lost a lot of friends and family to heroin addiction, so the album is a VERY raw representation of how that feels from an outside and inside perspective.
Thralls ranking one of my favourite bands ... day absolutely made. Hey nick it would be awesome if you did like a retro review on superjoint ritual... that debut is a fierce banger. The demos are sick too and there’s something about their sound that just explodes to me ... great ranking as always 🤘
Great critique. I absolutely love Pantera post the glam 'era, yet I also love the glam 'era material (I'm 53 probably an age thing)
I recently aquired a pristine copy of
I Am The Night- Original press on Metal Magic Records 1985 (including all inserts) at CD Trader in Tarzana, Ca.
for $300.
R.I.P Dime & Vinnie
Tony F. Corpse
(Post Mortem Superstar)
Necrotic Nick- Thanks, man! Dude! That's a solid find. Honestly I'd probably get Power Metal and I am the Night on CD if they ever did prints of them. I know those OG vinyl prints can go for insane money though.
1. Cowboys From Hell
2. The Great Southern Trendkill
3. Vulgar Display of Power
4. Projects In the Jungle
5. Power Metal
6. I Am the Night
7. Far Beyond Driven
8. Reinventing the Steel
9. Metal Magic
The solo on " The Sleep" from CFH is without a doubt one of the most underrated. Couldn't agree more Shredlord. Excellent banter for this ranking gentlemen, bravo.
Really appreciate what you guys did here. You really went through every CD and track. Very thought out.
Necrotic Nick- Thanks, man! We wanted to do this one justice since this band had a huge impact on all of us when we were younger.
Far Beyond Reinventing the Vulgar Rankkill. From Hell. Legit pumped for this! This band means so much to me. It's like Phil sings in Goddamn Electric - the part of me that's always sixteen. That obnoxious, drunk, loud me that no suit and tie, professional or family life can trully erase.
Choosing between Vulgar, Driven and Trendkill is almost impossible for me and could change any day. With a fair share of days Reinventing sneaks in there too. Let's see how you get out of it. But today it's:
1. Trendkill
2. Vulgar
3. Driven
4. Reinventing
5. Cowboys
6. Power Metal
7. Nothing else happened, we were all on vacation
That was a good watch. Cheers!
I knew about Pantera in the 80's but never really sought them out. In 1990 I was at an Exodus/Suicidal Tendencies show talking to this dude next to me who said he was there to see Pantera, which I thought was weird because Exodus and ST were at the height of their powers. It gets announced that Pantera didn't make it and we're getting Wehrmacht instead (who killed it) and the dude just walks out of the venue. My mind was pretty blown because it ended up being a quasi-legendary show with riot police eventually needing to be called in!
About a year and a half later I stumble upon Vulgar Display and bought it on sight based on the cover and my memory from the Exodus gig. I've been a fan ever since.
Trendkill is my favorite, like Miller.
I had a hard time hearing Miller in this video. He did most of the talking, but only seemed about half as loud as the other guys.
Always thought I was weird for liking southern trendkill the best, so im glad other people agree, what miller said about the guitar tone makes a lot of sense, it stands out to me above all their other guitar sounds.
Do you find that thee bass is a little low on that album? I really liked the way Rex's bass sounded in the first 3 albums (Cowboys - Far Beyond). I love Southern Trendkill but i felt like the low end was the one thing slightly lacking in it. I love the song writing and the intensity
@@mrmanju6989 For sure, less bass presence and like heft, to me its mixed more like an early '80s record, its pretty good just a lot flatter than their previous records.
Vulgar was a stronger album. Every track was great. Unlike trendkill with 13 steps to nowhere
Joe, you my man have the same ears on Pantera as I. Great rankings by the THRALLS crew. 🤘🏼
I’ve been waiting for this video for so long that I somehow missed it initially and just managed to watch it, and gotta say this was entertaining as hell, you guys deserve all the views and subscribers in the world, thank you once again for awesome content!
This is my list:
9. Metal Magic
8. Projects in the Jungle
7. I am the Night
6. Power Metal
5. Reinventing the Steel
4. Far Beyond Driven
3. Vulgar Display of Power
2. Cowboys from Hell
1. The Great Southern Trendkill (my favorite album of all time, across all genres)
Dime and Phil are generally the ones who get the press, but just a shout out to Vinnie Paul. What an incredible drummer. He didn’t have to get super technical, but just put impeccable grooves to hold those songs together and accentuate all the right parts. RIP Abbot brothers. I’m from Dallas and Pantera is in my blood. Lucky enough to see them live a few times, including with Sepultura. Great video guys!
Vinnie had a unique, brilliant style of playing. Like the intro to 13 steps to nowhere always gets me moving... Also a shoutout to Rex, def a underrated bassist!
That Sepultura/Pantera Dallas Smirnoff show was awesome, wasn't Slayer there or was that another show? I almost got crushed to death during Slayer up front/pit. I could swear it was all 3 at the same gig, but then there was another with Bkack Sabbath too right? Been so long I get em all mixed up, I lost the ticket stubs too...Did you go to the Vulgar show at the Bronco Bowl? That was my first Pantera.
All are equally amazing. Never will be another.
Vinnie knew where to put fills and how to make unique sounding fills that fit the song perfectly. Vinnie influenced most metal and rock drummers of today. Wish I wasn't such a degenerate when I was younger, and I should've seen them live 😂😂
Still remember when my girlfriend at that time came home with Vulgar display of power. And listen to Pantera for the first time. Love Vulgar and Cowboys 🔥🤘🏻
Awesome video 🤘🏻🔥🤘🏻CFH
I'm gonna miss Rin so much. He is super funny guy.. I wish him the best!
Necrotic Nick- We're all still friends. I just think he decided the UA-cam thing wasn't for him and I totally get it. It's not for everyone.
Get an Immolation or Nile ranking soon! This was a pretty good video, I enjoy Cowboys and Southern Trendkill the most!
Necrotic Nick- After we finish up Mastodon and Crowbar we'll announce the next batch. I'd love to rank both Immolation and Nile for sure.
Going to see the Pantera reunion with Metallica in Minneapolis. I never got a chance to see the og lineup. Good video. Reinventing the steel is my favorite Pantera album.
Love watching you guys and hearing your stories thoughts and opinions you've opened the door to many great artists for me. Hope to maybe one day see a six feet under album ranking as I feel that would be quite entertaining given the rating for their recent attempt stay metal 🤘
Necrotic Nick- Thanks, man! We really appreciate that. This one near and dear to our hearts since this band had a tremendous impact on all of us when we were young. It's always cool to hear people finding killer new music through our channel so I'm happy to hear that, We might do SFU one day... I'm not sure I want to but we might lol.
@@thrallsofmetal I'm sure it would be a chore to get through most it. You guys had me dying with the review of nightmares of the decomposed especially your impression of Chris Barnes. Thanks for all you do 🤘
Rin would definitely have to be back before SFU gets ranked. Maybe do some editing magic and have 5 Rins each ranking every album differently. I actually enjoyed Nightmares AND your review. It's not even my least favorite SFU album That's probably a tie between Torment and Crypt of the Devil. I don't hate them but they aren't go to albums either.
I have the a strong suspicion that this going to be like every other Pantera album ranking ever made, you just shit talk the first 4 albums like everyone else does. When in reality I Am The Night and Power Metal are some of Pantera’s best music. I hope I’m wrong
Power Metal is their best album by far
Pantera was my whole introduction to extreme meta especially during highschool like most everyone says they were my favorite band at the time my ranking is
1 far beyond driven
2 the great southern trendkill
3 cowboy s from hell
4 vulgar display of power
5 reinventing the steel
6 power metal
7 projects in the jungle
8 I am the night
9 metal magic
Necrotic Nick- Pretty much the same here along with Cannibal Corpse, Sepultura, Megadeth and a few others but Pantera really latched on to my already shitty teenage attitude and just empowered it lol. Our rankings our pretty much the same minus one thing. Nice list, bro!
This was great! Great job by Miller with going through the history. Cheers, fellas.
Necrotic Nick- Thanks, man!
The great southern trendkill is definitely number 1 for me.
Great video as always, fellas.
Vulgar is the big one, but Cowboys was the one that changed things - it's the one I always go to when I want a fix.
Hoping Rin is okay, too, and he gets through what he's going through.
Cheers for the mid-week special!
I just found this channel, first video I watched was the Bloobath album ranking, then Opeth, then saw this one and damn..my love for Pantera was just completely reinvigorated. I moved towards the prog metal and tech death and forgot how intense their albums were. Far Beyond Driven is my #1.
Wow! Ya'll are smarter than I thought! Far Beyond Driven is number one but Trendkill is close number 2. Underrated album IMO. Vulgar is still good but I just like Cowboys and Trendkill better now. Great ranking. I was happy not many of you chose Vulgar. I thought everyone was gonna choose that one for number 1.
I’ve been a fan since I first heard Psycho Holiday on Headbangers Ball on MTV. For me though, Re-inventing the Steel is so damn underrated and my favorite Pantera album. So heavy and aggressive.
1. Trendkill, 2. FBD, 3. CFH, 4. Vulgar, 5. Power metal, 6. RTS, 7. Projects, 8. I am the night, 9. M.M. Great show guys, keep it up!
Great show boys! Only big surprise was Nick picking Power Metal #5.
First time I heard Pantera was in 89, I got a copy of a copy on cassette of Power Metal. I listened a few times but at the time I was not into the Rob Halford style vocals. I was into Crossover, Thrash and NYHC. Fast foward a year and I see the CFH video on Headbangers Ball and I run out and buy CFH. Over the years I rediscovered how good Power Metal is. Plenty of Speed and Thrash riffs.
First time I seen Pantera live was in 90 they opened up for Exodus and Suicidal at the Vic in Chicago. Still one of the my best shows. Neck stills hurts
My list. The bottom 3 I don't listen to very often. Playlist of a few good tunes.
1. Far Beyond
2. CFH
3. Vulgar
4. GSTK
5. Reinventing
6. Power Metal
7. OTTN
8. PFTJ
9. Metal Magic
So so pleased you fellas (in the main) support the celebration and didn't jump aboard "why are they fucking doing this" train. Power to your elbows.
Necrotic Nick- I think it's a good idea and they're doing it the right way by getting long time friends of the band to fill in on the tour. Zakk and Charlie will do Dime and Vinnie justice.
Spot on Nick. Keep up the good work.
I'd rank my Pantera as:
1. Far Beyond Driven
2. Vulgar Display of Power
3. Cowboys from Hell
4. Reinventing the Steel
5. The Great Southern Trendkill
6. Power Metal
7. Projects in the Jungle
8. I Am the Night
9. Metal Magic
I love Cowboys from Hell, Vulgar Display of Power, and Far Beyond Driven. That's cream of the crop Pantera, imo. Far Beyond Driven, for an album that went #1 on Billboard 200, is heavy af. You would think an album that does that would be more commercial, but it was more brutal and crunchier than ever, which I liked. And it's aged well, like you said.
I'm with Shred on The Great Southern Trendkill. I think the fact that the band was not close affected the quality of the songs. I love Floods and the Suicide Note songs. 10's is also great, and that brutal scream to open the album is great. But it has songs like Living Through Me, 13 Steps to Nowhere, and Underground in America that are meh, imo. I was also never the biggest fan of Drag the Waters, as I found it lyrically repetitive.
Glam-tera, outside of Power Metal, is kinda meh, but yeah, the improvement of Dimebag's guitar playing from Metal Magic to Projects in the Jungle is night and day. Honestly, the whole 1980s Pantera is more similar to listening to demos and seeing the band's coming into form, and the final realization of being onto something amazing was the opening riff to Cowboys from Hell.
Pantera rules and they definitely helped saved heavy metal in the 1990s because it's amazing how irrelevant heavy metal music was to the mainstream in the 90s, with the grunge scene taking off and then alternative rock hit the mainstream. Metal music, after spending so many years in the mainstream in the 1980s, went back to the underground in the 1990s. Metallica kinda sold out and wrote basic, commercial metal, and Load/ReLoad suck. Megadeth kinda did too, even though I can still listen to Countdown to Extinction and Youthanasia and get a lot of enjoyment out of it. Not saying there isn't good 90s metal because the underground extreme metal, such as progressive metal, death metal, and some black metal have amazing bands.
I am lil older than the thralls team... Pantera started to get attention with "Cemetary Gates", the first records launched can be easily ignored.
Phil was always the core of their success, just check the Damage Plan record.
Phil had many personal problems that blew up with Pantera, but without him, there wasn't really much they could do. "Power metal" isn't the real Anselmo that starts to feel more at ease with "Cowboys from hell" ... too bad it didn't last long :P
Yeah I want to like damageplan. Great name, great riffs, but the hokiest vocals ever. Phil’s other bands are great though. Down is such a killer project
Far Beyond Driven will ALWAYS be my number one Pantera album. Vinnie’s best work.
Mine favorite by them is "Great Southern Trendkill" 🤘
Necrotic Nick- Damn good album. My moody inner teenager loved that one growing up.
@@thrallsofmetal same here, I was 13, 14 when by big brother came home with that cd one day.
First time I saw Pantera was in 2001 on a VHS tape recording of the 1992 For Those About to Rock: Monsters in Moscow. At the time I had no internet and the only heavy metal band I heard was Metallica from cassette tapes, and I quickly realized that: Okay wow...there are bands heavier than Metallica out there? From there on, I was hooked and I never stopped listening to metal music ever since. I even got the Cowboy from Hell CFH logo tattooed on my leg. For me personally, Pantera is and always will be my favorite band the main gateway into metal music. Great video and thank you for reviewing their albums!🤘
Necrotic Nick- Thanks, man! I got exposed to them in high school and not long after that I got to go to Ozzfest '97 where they were the main headliner right before Ozzy. I already loved them but seeing them live made me an even bigger fan. They were one of the biggest gateways into metal for me as teen and run of albums from Cowboys to Trendkill might be some of the most important albums I ever got in terms of becoming a metal fan.
The remix of Reinventing the Steel increased my appreciation for it. A flawed album to be sure, but it sounds much better now than it did in 2000.
I did not even know of any albums before Cowboys From Hell! That's where the discography starts on Spotify! I wonder if it's a licensing thing or if they just wanted to separate the old from the new?
My 2nd fav band after Faith No More. My personal fav is CFH but they are all iconic!! Great watch my dudes 🤘
9. Metal Magic
8. Projects in the Jungle
7. I am the Night
6. Power Metal
5. Reinventing the Steel
4. Cowboys from Hell
3. Vulgar Display of Power
2. Far Beyond Driven
1. The Great Southern Trendkill
Necrotic Nick- Solid ranking, man!
I’ve been waiting for this for a long time. Fuckin awesome 🤘
Necrotic Nick- Thanks, man!
Not a fan of Parkway Drive then guys? Thought you would have reviewed their new album.
Back at this video after the news broke about jerry abbott passing away. Sad to think all the immediate abbott family is gone. Rest easy dime, vinnie & jerry. Cant believe it'll be 20 years here in December. Remember, what would dime do?
If I were to rank Phil's albums, it would go like this.
6. Reinventing the Steel
5. Power Metal
4. Vulgar Display of Power
3. Far Beyond Driven
2. The Great Southern Trendkill
1. Cowboys from Hell
9 Metal Matic
8 I Am The Night
7 Projects In The Jungle
6 Power Metal
5 Reiventing The Steel
4 Cowboys From Hell
3 Far Beyond Driven
2 The Great Southern Trendkill
1 Vulgar Display Of Power
Vulgars my fav , im in Dimes generation so got cowboys on casette back in the day.Thralls keep killing it with your Awesome metal content!
Necrotic Nick- Thanks, man! Plenty more to come!
Giving it some more thought, if live albums counted, 101 Proof Live would be an easy #1 for me. One of the best live albums ever and it captured the band perfectly and the songs sounded even better live than on the albums.
Far beyond is he no.1 all fucking day long! This was my first ever metal album, I bought it after hearing planet caravan thinking they were a chill band and then Strength beyond… hit me in the face and I was sold.
In the 90s if you disrespected pantera you was kicked out of the metalhead group. Now all the old metalheads hate them smh. Blasphemy laws should be in place for pantera.
My favorit album Far Beyond Driven! 2 Trenkill the heaviest of all !🤘
I have an odd relationship with Pantera. Their slower songs Cemetery Gates, This Love, and Hollow are where thier genius is shown. The first time I heard Becoming was the release date and this dude I knew told me to get my ass over to his place to listen to the new Pantera. Becoming came on and I literally could not stop headbanging through that song.
Didn't see that sign did ya!! literally belted out a huge laugh there. lmao
A new ranking! Awesome!
Go with Shred on this one..Vulgars my #1..When Pantera truly became Pantera! Walk, New Level, Mouth of War, Fucking Hostile...Phil's angry vocals, No BS attitude 💯
Necrotic Nick- I love Vulgar but I just like Trendkill, Cowboys and Far Beyond Driven more. All 4 of them are worthy of a number 1 spot in my mind.
Vulgar has no filler. Every track is great including piss. Using my third arm is not as good as piss
I went to the Pantera show Zack and Charlie did a really good job “Pantera killed it opening for Metallica on night 1 of the M72 tour in Seattle
Great video guys, full of great and intelligent opinions!
My ranking is:
1 Trendkill
2 Vulgar
3 Cowboys
4 Far Beyond Driven
5 Reiventing
6 Power Metal
7 Projects in The Jungle
8 I Am The Night
9 Metal Magic
I've been a metalhead since 86 but didn't hear of Pantera at all until they dropped the video for Mouth For War and it totally blew me away - I bought Vulgar Display immediately and was totally floored by it (it's still in my top 10 favourite albums - a definite 10 out 10) - I then worked backwards and was a little underwhelmed by Cowboys (which has grown on me over the years, but I'm still not a massive fan - i know, blasphemy) - when I discovered their much earlier material I was completely surprised - it's fine but I never listen to it these days.
For me it's all about Vulgar, Driven and Reinventing The Steel - I do have a soft spot for Power Metal too.
Pantera was one of the first metal bands I got into thanks to my oldest brother Roo (R.I.P.). At least is rocking out to the Abbott brothers in Heaven. If this Pantera tribute tour comes to Cincinnati or Columbus, I'm going. My rough ranking:
1. Cowboys from Hell
2. Vulgar Display of Power
3. Far Beyond Driven
4. Great Southern Treadkill
5. Power Metal
6. Reinventing the Steel
7. I Am the Night
8. Projects in the Jungle
9. Metal Magic
Necrotic Nick- They were one of the best gateway bands in metal for me and a lot of it holds up well. Your brother clearly had great taste, man. It's good to see Power Metal get a bit of love on your list too.
My ranking of pantera’s groove metal albums whould be this:
1. Vulgar display of power
2. Cowboys from hell
3. Far beyond driven
4. The great southern trendkill
5. Reinventing the steel
In my humble opinion:
9. Metal Magic
8. Projects In The Jungle
7. I Am The Night
6. Power Metal
5. Reinventing The Steel
4. Vulgar Display Of Power
3. Cowboys From Hell
2. Far Beyond Driven
1. The Great Southern Trendkill
Great as always guys with thoughtful takes and contemporary experience from the older guys too. Sorry Shred. I didn't grow up on Pantera (00s metalcore kid) and just got into them the last ten years or so, so here's my outsider take on the ranking.
1. Cowboys from Hell. The complete package of their styles. Artwork could use a lot of work but it won't take it off #1.
2. The Great Southern Trendkill. The bits Lamb of God would draw from really resonated with me. The slight drop doom riff at 0:18 into War Nerve should've been elaborated on and it kills me.
3. Power Metal. Really great for the style. No points lost for not being their true sound.
Top 3 really give a huge range of their styles so I find these to be the most essential to have for me.
4. Far Beyond Driven. Incredible, could swap with #2.
5. Vulgar Display of Power
6. I am the Night (the trashy bits rule. Miller, this version is way better than Phil's!! Overkill vibes like Nick said really make it.)
7. Metal Magic (cover art only takes it off last)
8. Reinventing the Steel (have not tried it yet..)
9. Projects in the Jungle
Necrotic Nick- Thanks, man! This band definitely meant a lot to us growing up as metalheads and most of it still holds up well. I really like the fact that Power Metal is getting a lot of love in the comments. It's an underrated gem in my eyes. For an outsider perspective that isn't a bad ranking actually.
You guys had me in stitches with the Terry Glaze comments. LMFAO........ Great stuff here. I think my favorite is probably Vulgar Display of Power, although, The Great Southern Trendkill has some amazing tunes as well. So it really is a tossup between those two. IMO, Pantera did no wrong from 1990 to 2000. It was all badass in my book. Far Beyond Driven has a track I absolutely love the riffing on, which is called Shedding Skin; super underrated.. Pantera had it all, until it sadly didn't.......Thanks again for the laughs and the video \m/ \m/
Necrotic Nick- Thanks, man! Yeah, we try to have as much fun possible it was hard not to make fun of that stuff lol. For me, anything from Cowboys to Trendkill could have been my number one so I totally get it. They had a killer run and it should have kept going.
@@thrallsofmetal The 80's were funny man..lol. The whole glam thing and all the lipstick and hairspray and overdone vocals were pretty silly. While I would not consider Reinventing the Steel to be quite as high of quality as the four albums that came before it, I do love Goddamn Electric, Yesterday Don't Mean Shit and Revolution is My Name. Some great riffs from Dime on that record, but it was inconsistent. I think that reflects where the band, and where Phil was at that time. I read Rex Brown's book, but would love if Phil writes his part of the story one of these days.
Pantera is one of my top 5 bands, but this video is over a hour and I'm at work. But I just want to share mine.
6. All the pre Cowboys glam stuff I've never listened to, (sorry, just never been interested, even though I was obsessed with Pantera in my teens.)
5. Reinventing the Steel.
(It's got some great work, but it feels kind of disjointed, wonder why, but does have some of my favorite Rex licks. I think he really shines here and is not just droneing in the background, if they went forward I think it would have been insane.
4. The Great Southern Trendkill
(By far the most brutal, I used to wake up to Phil's scream on the first track in college, woke me the fuck up I'll tell you what. Also Floods is some of my favorite Dimebag guitar, saw them play it live on their last American tour.
3. Cowboys From Hell
(This is what got me into metal, and music and being a musician in general. I was in elementary school, but damn this shit ripped.It would be higher on my list but the last two albums are just so damn good.
2. Vulgar Display of Power
(Can't say enough, changed metal, changed me forever, also getting Vulgar Videos as a young-un was insane.
1. Far Beyond Driven
(It's always been a toss up between this and Vulgar for first place, but to me this is just the heaviest, grooviest piece of work that's ever been created. I mean first metal album to ever go platinum says it all. And the singles are great, but the deep cuts are the sickest songs ever created. Slaughtered, Throes of Rejection. I still listen to this one several times a year, and I don't see that ever changing.
I live in Texas so I've always had a somewhat special connection with Pantera. Like they're not just a band from Texas, they sound Texas as FUCK. Heavy, in your face, Southern Fried Metal. They were definitely one of those bands that helped develop my love for the genre of metal. There is only one Pantera. Fantastic video fellas 🤘
Cowboys from hell was when pantera became pantera
Before the shooting, that club booked all kinds of extreme metal and death metal acts, it was awesome. After the shooting about all they could get was ICP knock offs and unheard of Nu-Metal acts. They finally went under in 2020.
Great video! Where did Jammin John get his Bloodbath shirt from???