@@theycallmecole2814 Most Pantera fans are posers. That's why Pantera themselves in their live gigs always played the same few songs. The most well known ones.
@@younglo3000the guys in Exhorder said they influenced each other. The idea that Vulgar was a rip off of the Law is a myth. Law may have released before Vulgar, but VDOP was written before that release. Much like grunge, it was the way that the music was heading, and those happened to be the bands spearheading it.
Far beyond driven will probably always remain the sonically heaviest album to billboard #1 ever, seems impossible now that such a heavy album could get there
I personally rank Cowboys over Vulgar. It’s what I consider one of the few perfect albums. Probably my third favorite album of all time only behind Master of Puppets and Scenes From a Memory.
I agree. Cowboys is objectively better than Vulgar. But Vulgar has catchier riffs, as the album progresses, and well, that's why they call it "CATCHY" lol. Pleases a lot more people.
It may have a more traditional thrash sound, but personally i think that leads to dimes best guitar work period. Its also so much more fun and doesn't take itself too seriously as the later knuckle dragging tough guy stuff does
Cowboys from Hell is my favorite Pantera album. And Medicine Man is my favorite track. Phil's vocals were the absolute best on it and you heard all the ranges he could do!
Eh. Depends on how we are rating the albums. If we are just going on which albums have the most S tier songs - far beyond driven and vulgar gotta be at the top for me. But I’m just splitting hairs cause all three albums are fucking legendary.
Use Once is such a monstrous album. Dude sings four songs, ON ONE TRACK, starting with one where he celebrates somebody's death but says he would rather have personally killed the man and then shot himself.
As a Texas Resident, Pantera is so Heavy and perfect for me, i love the Southern feel, I love Phils Voice, and i love HOW HEAVY they got. Pantera is one of the best metal bands ever.
@@harrisontownsend910 People always talk about how metal went downhill in the 90s but I couldn’t disagree more. Even regardless of Pantera, the amount of fucking badass death metal that came out of that decade is some of the best metal ever made imo
Back in 1995 I was living in New Orleans and was only familiar with Cowboys From Hell onward. My pot dealer (after getting me high) said "Have you heard Pantera's early glam stuff?". Very surreal experience.
I'm african american and I love Pantera. I personally didn't care about the outrage, but people need to understand that the man was still reeling from Dimebag's death, substance abuses, the fact that Vinnie never talked to Phil and he passed away so things never got settled (he blamed Phil for Dime's death), the man was in a VERY bad situation that led him to do and say some really stupid shit all those rough years and he owned that. Its close as comparable to Bam Margera having issues dealing with Ryan Dunn's death. He has gotten older and more sober. I seen LOG and Pantera in Syracuse NY last August and it was a blast as my first time seeing them live. So honestly, given that context, I personally did not take offense, the man had demons and I'm glad Phil still around to this day.
showing the Nazi salute and shouting white power should still be a career ending move. No matter how sad you are, no one needs to do that. Metal fans are too forgiving in their quest to have fun.
@@gulliverthegullible6667 So modern vocalists siding with the people who support hamas aren't free from that same career ending thing? I mean they might as well be modern day n4zis.
@@gulliverthegullible6667 The most pathetic thing, is that I don't think Phil Anselmo actually believes in that shit. He gets together with black metalheads, like Derrick Green from Sepultura, he recently performed with him, and no one forces him to do that. I think Phil is severely disturbed when it comes to mental health, as lack of self-esteem and identity as well. A fascinating case from Psychiatry's point of view.
@@HeathenDance interesting. So you think he did all that shit because he was seeking attention or he just felt like it in his deranged mind? I still think someone like him should be shown the consequences of his actions.
@@gulliverthegullible6667 I believe his internal conflicts led him to drink and do drugs in excess. He is probably bipolar or schizophrenic. Sexual issues may have something to do, as well. Specially in a macho-man environment, where you can't show vulnerability, much less being a famous frontman of a metal band, it was too much for him to handle. Although his lyrics for the songs "Suicide Note PT 1 and 2" are already a cry for help. These individuals may have very destructive behaviours. Towards themselves and others. Even those close to them. Phil, when he was high, also used to mock Dimebag on stage. Very humilliating, in front of the fans. Phil also insulted Metallica for selling out, when Load came out. Very immature, really, from a fellow musician. Which even provoked a funny response from Lars, making reference to Pantera's Glam Days, wearing make up and what not. But I agree, such actions, even if only through words, should have consequences.
My rankings: #1: Far Beyond Driven (1994) #2: Vulgar Display of Power (1992) #3: Cowboys from Hell (1990) #4: The Great Southern Trendkill (1996) #5: Reinventing the Steel (2000) #6: Metal Magic (1983) #7: Projects in the Jungle (1984) #8: Power Metal (1988) #9: I Am the Night (1985)
"We'll Meet Again" off of Power Metal is one of Dimebag's best moments ever. I've listened to that solo so many times. That song the "Floods" Outro and also "Becoming" off of FBD are all set as alarms for me to wake up at different times. In some ways, I'd view "Power Metal as being "Cowboys from Hell" with the limiter off. Dimebag shreds at full power, the 80s Golden Age is still in full effect so there are a few crazy parts that are based on directly on Thrash and all bets are off on the guitar.
King's X were credited to inspire Pantera's sound, and their first album "Out of the silent planet" made Rex and Dimebag instant fans. Gretchen Goes To Nebraska and Dogman are my favorite albums of theirs.
@@jakefoxx7978 All great songs you're mentioning. 'Prisoner' is one of my all time favorites, especially the counterparts between the guitar & vocals. Genius stuff in my opinion.
@@krister-guitar26 Summerland is easily the most beautiful song I've ever heard, but Ear Candy has some good tracks like "Sometimes". "Not Just For the Dead" is like walking on another planet made of music
CFH gets my vote for their best album. Dimebag’s guitar work is face-meltingly awesome, especially on the intro to heresy and the solo for cemetery gates. What really puts it above the later ones for me is a palpable sense that the band had fun making it (plus Anselmo’s vocals sound the best on this one). By the way, your channel helped push me towards getting my first electric guitar in March, so thanks!
While Pantera’s influence especially on 90’s metal is undeniable, they also changed the metal fashion pretty much overnight in 1990 and all of sudden as a metal fan you could wear a tank top and cargo shorts instead of jeans and a band t-shirt.
It was Walk and Vulgar Display that got me into Pantera when I was a teenager. I watched that music video so many times. And the Domination live vid from Moscow gives me chills every time I watch it.
A friend of mine bought Projects In The Jungle when it came out. We were in the local record store, and store employees would always spin a few tracks of all the releases they got in. My friend and I were impressed with the guitar playing on it, and my friend bought tons of obscure metal albums anyways, so he bought it. Fast forward to when I was in the military in 1990, and a metal head I was stationed with told me I needed to hear this new band, Pantera - Cowboys From Hell. I was like: "Pantera? They aren't new..." 😊
C tier for power metal is a hard disagree for me, this may not be the iconic pantera sound but it is very solid and dimebag's guitarwork in this is stellar
Trendkill is my favorite Pantera album, possibly my favorite album of all time, but it's probably a product of it coming out when I was 18. I remember getting my CD from the Warehouse, after I tied an onion to my shoe, which was the style at the time, then I put it in my discman, pressed play, and I think I started drooling. I don't think I felt the same way about pressing play on a new album, having never heard any of the tracks, until Mastodon's Leviathan. And I was just thinking "wow how my taste changed over that long period of time..." 8 years. Those two albums are 8 years apart.
Havent heard most of their pre phil stuff but everything 88 and on is gold, power metal has one of my all time fav pantera songs, we'll meet again, which surprised the fuck outta me
wow “far beyond driven” is 30 years old this year in 2024! i was 23 when this album 💿 came out and still have it on CD and it’s also the 20th anniversary of Dimes death RIP 🪦 Bro 🤘🏼🎸🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🎶🎼
They originally had a vocalist called Donny Hart and a bass player called Tommy D. Bradford. The first three albums was produced by Jerry Abbott also known as The Eld'n. The father of the Abbott brothers. A well known country writer and producer.
The Great Southern trendkill is by far their best album. I prefer the more serious subject matter over the kinda goofy and anecdotal stuff they usually do, and I just feel like it's more dynamic and there's a little more experimentation with it. I just love how ugly and unsettling it is because it's about ugly and unsettling things.
Long Time Pantera Fan and I must say Steel is so damn underrated...I personally feel like it´s musically the most grown up album they made. It´s 200% Pantera. It is one of those Albums that grow on you the more often you listen to it. Perfection. But it´s not my favorite Album because I can´t pick just one. Really nice Video Bradley :D
Bradley, thank you for always making me smile. School has been insanely stressful and your videos have been extremely helpful to get me through it. Thank you so much.
Dimebag very much enjoyed the musical stylings of one Mr. Edward Van Halen. He cited Eddie as one of his primary influences. Which is why Eddie Vam Halen arrived at Dime's funeral with that yellow and black Van Halen II guitar and placed it in Darrell's casket. It remains buried with him today. Eddie Van Halen....class act all the way,that one was.
I would have put "I Am The Night" a little higher, but I saw Pantera a few times when they were still slugging it out in the DFW clubs. The very first time I saw them Terrance was still singing for them (played rhythm guitar also). Then Phil joined. They had just released "Power Metal" and were still playing some of the old songs. I guess you had to be there, but some of those older "Glaze" songs translated pretty well live. And Darrel? Wow 🤯😵💫 Even in the "glam" days he was a phenom on guitar. 🤯😵 The last time I saw them live was in a big theater in Dallas and Cowboys was out. They had two great local bands open for them and they put on a fantastic show. It was shortly after that they started bulldozing their path to worldwide fame. It's my opinion only, but I think "I Am The Night" was the best of their first 3 recordings.
Regarding the drastic change from glam to groove metal, another of Pantera's many controversies was the accusation that they borrowed/ripped off the groove metal sound from Exhorder. Exhorder themselves don't really have beef with Pantera but their fanbase did.
I Am the Night is one of my personal favourites. Maybe I can enjoy it more because english isn't my first langage, which implies that I don't feel as much cringe from bad lyrics-although I perfectly understand them, and it's quite enjoyable from my point of view. I never miss an opportunity to blast it during parties, whenever someone asks me to put music on their speaker (no one understands any word that is sung, but it would certainly be fun if they did).
Thanks Bradley! I'd never heard much before Power Metal, but that and Cowboys were always my faves... Hard Ride is an absolute banger :D P.S. Proud to be Loud o Donnie Darko!!
No chance far beyond driven is definitely pantera’s best work and finest moment! And I would say sales and chart positions are a great example of this ! And I would say when they got more serious I thought they got better !
From trendkill, suicide note part 2, and living through me, are probably the two heaviest songs ever written in my opinion, just pure aggressive power, so good.
My fav songs are from the two albums you said you didn't care for much: Far beyond Driven and Great Southern. Two best albums IMO. Vulgar Display is good too but I'd listen to the mumbling track "Good friends and a Bottle of pills" 20 times in a row before I listen to Walk again. I was also in a Pantera cover band so that might be why. Everyone always wanted us to play Walk and we got really sick of that song. It's also just so simple and repetitive. I will never willingly listen to that tune again. The Good friends and Pills song really didn't bother me like it did everyone else. I was pretty young when I heard it for the first time so I just accepted it as part of the albums sound. Now everyone has a video making fun of that tune. The music is actually kinda of cool on that tune.
Already have, Most Real Fans have listened to them. Metal magic wasn't Great But the next 3 were Really Good. say what you want But The Drums & Guitar on those first Album were Awesome. I also did a video titled Pantera the first 4 Albums.
Fun fact: Dime sang those specific lyrics (5:30) for live performances of Metallica's Seek & Destroy you can vaguely hear that in a live performance you can easily find on here from 1984 which predicted the song Dime later sang 4 years later, they were heavily influenced by Metallica so you can sort of hear where their sound comes from in Power Metal up to the actual albums.
Agreed on the Cemetery Gates comment but one other that should be recognized from a different band is Return to Serenity off The Ritual by Testament. 😘😘🤘🤘🔥💯
Honestly, it just feels like they full went for it for TGSTK. It’s extremely heavy and sounds angry with a passion. No one talks about Living Through Me (Hell’s Wrath) enough
It Makes Them Disappear into I’ll cast a Shadow on through the fade out was a really weird, although unintentional, swan song for that band. Chills every time.
Big fan of the Power Metal and Cowboys from Hell albums. After that and before that I am not as much of a fan, apart from a couple of songs from Vulgar Display of Power Cemetery Gates as the best ballad over One,Mr.Crowley,Fade to Black etc.. is a HOT take and I like the song😅
I'll always love Dime. I accept that he wasn't perfect. Nobody is. But he was a genuinely kind person and I think if he was alive today, he'd be on the good side of things.
Far Beyond Driven was peak Pantera, IMO. "Becoming", "5 Minutes Alone", "I'm Broken", "Planet Caravan", "Strength Beyond Strength"... it was heavy af, melodic where it needed to be, and chaotic where it needed to be. If I was introducing someone to Pantera, this is the album I'd link them.
![Pantera Tell The Story of 'Vulgar Display of Power' [Full Documentary]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/pGHGv6kvFlc/mqdefault.jpg)
This was a super fun one! What do you think of our rankings? What's YOUR favorite Pantera album??
Vulgar Display
The great southern trendkill problably, either that or cowboys
power metal and the great southern trendkill
Vulgar diplay of power followed by Far beyond driven.
this sesh was so stupid fun
Long live Terry Glaze, without him we would not have such hits as Cemetary Glaze, The art of Glazing and Revolution is my Glaze
GOD BLESS THE GLAZE
Becoming (Terry Glaze)
Vulgar DisGlaze of Power
PRIMAL
CONCRETE
GLAZE
Mouth For Glaze
...Oh no.
But we want to listen to all of the Pantera albums
I don't 😢
LET ME HAVE MY CLICKBAIT TITLES OK
Hell yeah we do!!!!
They're in heavy rotation in my house.
@@BradleyHallGuitar drop the uncut footage of you listening to all pantera albums NOW
Great Southern Trendkill is criminally underrated. My personal favorite Pantera album
thats what ive been saying people who say they are pantera fans but dont like trendkill are just lying to themselves
@@theycallmecole2814 yup! They’re not real fans.
@@theycallmecole2814 Most Pantera fans are posers. That's why Pantera themselves in their live gigs always played the same few songs. The most well known ones.
Trendkill may have been some of their best. I don’t know why anyone wouldn’t like it, unless they had their testicles removed or something.
Vulgar Display is my favourite, but Trendkill would be a very close second.
The jump from average glam metal band in the 80s and go into CFH... is fucking MAMMOTH!
Because of Exhorder.
They were above average
@@jackclayton5620 cowboys from hell didn’t sound like Exhorder. Vulgar did forsure lol mostly Phil tho
@@younglo3000the guys in Exhorder said they influenced each other. The idea that Vulgar was a rip off of the Law is a myth. Law may have released before Vulgar, but VDOP was written before that release. Much like grunge, it was the way that the music was heading, and those happened to be the bands spearheading it.
It’s funny as well cause pantera don’t even acknowledge their 80s catalog which shows how bad it was
I remember watching the stream while being dead drunk. It was a captivating experience.
Far beyond driven will probably always remain the sonically heaviest album to billboard #1 ever, seems impossible now that such a heavy album could get there
I listen to every Pantera album even when I don't have to.
🤘🤘
Nice 🤘🏻
Yeah me too
Ever since this man discovered Terry glaze there's no stopping the milking
You may even say he hasn't stopped glazing
@@KarakanZdvpyHillary Banks says "Eyylll!" 🤣
That's the art of Glazing, mate
I personally rank Cowboys over Vulgar. It’s what I consider one of the few perfect albums. Probably my third favorite album of all time only behind Master of Puppets and Scenes From a Memory.
I think Vulgar is the best album, but Cowboys will always be my favorite.
I agree. Cowboys is objectively better than Vulgar. But Vulgar has catchier riffs, as the album progresses, and well, that's why they call it "CATCHY" lol. Pleases a lot more people.
It may have a more traditional thrash sound, but personally i think that leads to dimes best guitar work period. Its also so much more fun and doesn't take itself too seriously as the later knuckle dragging tough guy stuff does
Cowboys from Hell is my favorite Pantera album. And Medicine Man is my favorite track. Phil's vocals were the absolute best on it and you heard all the ranges he could do!
Eh. Depends on how we are rating the albums. If we are just going on which albums have the most S tier songs - far beyond driven and vulgar gotta be at the top for me.
But I’m just splitting hairs cause all three albums are fucking legendary.
11:01 this is peak Phil lmao. 96-02, Trendkill to Down II and Use Once and Destroy is monster Phil. Untouchable.
Use Once is such a monstrous album. Dude sings four songs, ON ONE TRACK, starting with one where he celebrates somebody's death but says he would rather have personally killed the man and then shot himself.
I love vince neil from Pantera. Very great drummer
Love these band deep dives. The streams are a lot of fun.
Pantera's first album came out a month before Kill em All came out.....
.........yeah. Really.
That is actually quite interesting.
It came before Suicidal Tendencies' self titled debut and Slayer's Show no Mercy as well😂😂😂
Vulgar and FBD are their best 🤘🏻
Love the song “Hollow” so much! What a groove metal breakdown riff for the end!
Hollow sounds like it could be a Metallica song
@@yessirskis7780 I’m gunna pretend I didn’t just hear you say that…..dime would be setting of bottle rockets and fire crackers at you for that
Hollow is their greatest song. Powerful, emotional story, amazing vocals and an absolute killer ending.
As a Texas Resident, Pantera is so Heavy and perfect for me, i love the Southern feel, I love Phils Voice, and i love HOW HEAVY they got. Pantera is one of the best metal bands ever.
“I don’t like when Pantera gets more serious”
“I can’t take Phil’s vocals seriously”
"UNGA BUNG BUNGABUNGA"
My favorite lyric from 5 minutes alone
@@PIZZAdayisbackIm gonna touch u inappropriately now
The Great Southern Trendkill. F yeah.
The Great Southern Glazekill
The Glaze Southern Trendkill
Best Pantera album idc what anyone says
@BittersweetDuality That album is the perfect metal album. Something that could've only come from the 90s for sure.
@@harrisontownsend910 People always talk about how metal went downhill in the 90s but I couldn’t disagree more. Even regardless of Pantera, the amount of fucking badass death metal that came out of that decade is some of the best metal ever made imo
Back in 1995 I was living in New Orleans and was only familiar with Cowboys From Hell onward. My pot dealer (after getting me high) said "Have you heard Pantera's early glam stuff?". Very surreal experience.
sounds like a good dealer.
But the song We'll Meet Again from Power Metal is actually petty fire it's like a proto Cemetary Gates specially with that solo
That's the only pre cowboys song I like.
such a good solo
@@ButBigger42 I would suggest giving "Come-on Eyes" and "Right On The Edge" songs another chance.
I'm african american and I love Pantera. I personally didn't care about the outrage, but people need to understand that the man was still reeling from Dimebag's death, substance abuses, the fact that Vinnie never talked to Phil and he passed away so things never got settled (he blamed Phil for Dime's death), the man was in a VERY bad situation that led him to do and say some really stupid shit all those rough years and he owned that. Its close as comparable to Bam Margera having issues dealing with Ryan Dunn's death. He has gotten older and more sober. I seen LOG and Pantera in Syracuse NY last August and it was a blast as my first time seeing them live. So honestly, given that context, I personally did not take offense, the man had demons and I'm glad Phil still around to this day.
showing the Nazi salute and shouting white power should still be a career ending move. No matter how sad you are, no one needs to do that. Metal fans are too forgiving in their quest to have fun.
@@gulliverthegullible6667 So modern vocalists siding with the people who support hamas aren't free from that same career ending thing? I mean they might as well be modern day n4zis.
@@gulliverthegullible6667 The most pathetic thing, is that I don't think Phil Anselmo actually believes in that shit. He gets together with black metalheads, like Derrick Green from Sepultura, he recently performed with him, and no one forces him to do that. I think Phil is severely disturbed when it comes to mental health, as lack of self-esteem and identity as well. A fascinating case from Psychiatry's point of view.
@@HeathenDance interesting. So you think he did all that shit because he was seeking attention or he just felt like it in his deranged mind?
I still think someone like him should be shown the consequences of his actions.
@@gulliverthegullible6667 I believe his internal conflicts led him to drink and do drugs in excess. He is probably bipolar or schizophrenic. Sexual issues may have something to do, as well. Specially in a macho-man environment, where you can't show vulnerability, much less being a famous frontman of a metal band, it was too much for him to handle. Although his lyrics for the songs "Suicide Note PT 1 and 2" are already a cry for help. These individuals may have very destructive behaviours. Towards themselves and others. Even those close to them. Phil, when he was high, also used to mock Dimebag on stage. Very humilliating, in front of the fans. Phil also insulted Metallica for selling out, when Load came out. Very immature, really, from a fellow musician. Which even provoked a funny response from Lars, making reference to Pantera's Glam Days, wearing make up and what not. But I agree, such actions, even if only through words, should have consequences.
My rankings:
#1: Far Beyond Driven (1994)
#2: Vulgar Display of Power (1992)
#3: Cowboys from Hell (1990)
#4: The Great Southern Trendkill (1996)
#5: Reinventing the Steel (2000)
#6: Metal Magic (1983)
#7: Projects in the Jungle (1984)
#8: Power Metal (1988)
#9: I Am the Night (1985)
Very original list =)
I think great southern trendkill is their best album personally
@4:08
"I do cocaine!"
Nice one, Reg....keeping the lads relevant...
In my opinion Pantera only got better over time! They aged like a fine wine and every album got better than the next
"We'll Meet Again" off of Power Metal is one of Dimebag's best moments ever. I've listened to that solo so many times. That song the "Floods" Outro and also "Becoming" off of FBD are all set as alarms for me to wake up at different times. In some ways, I'd view "Power Metal as being "Cowboys from Hell" with the limiter off. Dimebag shreds at full power, the 80s Golden Age is still in full effect so there are a few crazy parts that are based on directly on Thrash and all bets are off on the guitar.
King's X were credited to inspire Pantera's sound, and their first album "Out of the silent planet" made Rex and Dimebag instant fans. Gretchen Goes To Nebraska and Dogman are my favorite albums of theirs.
I'd say Gretchen has the most solid hits, but self-titled has my favorite songs of all time on it.
@@krister-guitar26 yes!!! I love Lost in Germany!!!
And "World Around Me" is probably my favorite riff of theirs outside of Black The Sky
@@jakefoxx7978 All great songs you're mentioning. 'Prisoner' is one of my all time favorites, especially the counterparts between the guitar & vocals. Genius stuff in my opinion.
@@krister-guitar26 Summerland is easily the most beautiful song I've ever heard, but Ear Candy has some good tracks like "Sometimes". "Not Just For the Dead" is like walking on another planet made of music
CFH gets my vote for their best album. Dimebag’s guitar work is face-meltingly awesome, especially on the intro to heresy and the solo for cemetery gates. What really puts it above the later ones for me is a palpable sense that the band had fun making it (plus Anselmo’s vocals sound the best on this one). By the way, your channel helped push me towards getting my first electric guitar in March, so thanks!
Bradhalma referring to Rex F-ing Brown as “the bass guy” is very in character
Rex is low-key my favorite member, I even listened to a little of his solo shit.
@@larrydotson2625 I’m just saying, cowboys from hell would not be as good without Rex’s sound
@@L0veLYLAd it definitely wasn't Dimebag's trash tone
Slaughtered is my all time favorite Pantera track. So brutal.
Phil Anselmo was feeding them Death Metal as influence, in those days. It shows on the Far Beyond and Trendkill albums.
While Pantera’s influence especially on 90’s metal is undeniable, they also changed the metal fashion pretty much overnight in 1990 and all of sudden as a metal fan you could wear a tank top and cargo shorts instead of jeans and a band t-shirt.
There’s 2 songs that are some of there best not on any studio albums but “I can’t hide” and “where you come from” are classics and deserve more love
Hell yeah! where you come from is fucking amazing
It was Walk and Vulgar Display that got me into Pantera when I was a teenager. I watched that music video so many times. And the Domination live vid from Moscow gives me chills every time I watch it.
Also it's quite dope that Terry Glaze's wife is one of the heads of NASA
really?
@@GallonOfBlackToothh Yep: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lori_Glaze
A friend of mine bought Projects In The Jungle when it came out. We were in the local record store, and store employees would always spin a few tracks of all the releases they got in. My friend and I were impressed with the guitar playing on it, and my friend bought tons of obscure metal albums anyways, so he bought it.
Fast forward to when I was in the military in 1990, and a metal head I was stationed with told me I needed to hear this new band, Pantera - Cowboys From Hell. I was like: "Pantera? They aren't new..." 😊
Pantera is what got me into metal and playing more technical guitat solos, along with my love of guitars with floyd rose systems.
C tier for power metal is a hard disagree for me, this may not be the iconic pantera sound but it is very solid and dimebag's guitarwork in this is stellar
The much anticipated Pantera stream finally happened, thanks Bradley.
Great Southern Trendkill is hands down my favourite Pantera album. It’s harder to unlock but it’s worth the effort
Trendkill is my favorite Pantera album, possibly my favorite album of all time, but it's probably a product of it coming out when I was 18. I remember getting my CD from the Warehouse, after I tied an onion to my shoe, which was the style at the time, then I put it in my discman, pressed play, and I think I started drooling. I don't think I felt the same way about pressing play on a new album, having never heard any of the tracks, until Mastodon's Leviathan. And I was just thinking "wow how my taste changed over that long period of time..." 8 years. Those two albums are 8 years apart.
Havent heard most of their pre phil stuff but everything 88 and on is gold, power metal has one of my all time fav pantera songs, we'll meet again, which surprised the fuck outta me
wow “far beyond driven” is 30 years old this year in 2024! i was 23 when this album 💿 came out and still have it on CD and it’s also the 20th anniversary of Dimes death RIP 🪦 Bro 🤘🏼🎸🤘🏼🤘🏼🤘🏼🎶🎼
You should make videos like this for:
Black Sabbath
Judas Priest
Helloween
Will do!
Yes totally agree four of my top ten albums are from helloween lmao and the other bands are just to iconic not to do
Oh yeah, don’t forget dio
not enough bald eagles.
Reinventing the steel is so good, the Terry Date mix makes that album almost one of my favorites
They originally had a vocalist called Donny Hart and a bass player called Tommy D. Bradford. The first three albums was produced by Jerry Abbott also known as The Eld'n. The father of the Abbott brothers. A well known country writer and producer.
Phill Anselmo: racist (bad)
Terry Glazer: glazist (good)
The Great Southern trendkill is by far their best album. I prefer the more serious subject matter over the kinda goofy and anecdotal stuff they usually do, and I just feel like it's more dynamic and there's a little more experimentation with it. I just love how ugly and unsettling it is because it's about ugly and unsettling things.
Long Time Pantera Fan and I must say Steel is so damn underrated...I personally feel like it´s musically the most grown up album they made. It´s 200% Pantera. It is one of those Albums that grow on you the more often you listen to it. Perfection. But it´s not my favorite Album because I can´t pick just one. Really nice Video Bradley :D
Agreed. Criminally underrated album
Bradley, thank you for always making me smile. School has been insanely stressful and your videos have been extremely helpful to get me through it. Thank you so much.
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Sleep is definitely one of Dime's best solos and is massively underrated.
Thank you for this video this is one of me and my dad’s favorite bands
Dimebag very much enjoyed the musical stylings of one Mr. Edward Van Halen. He cited Eddie as one of his primary influences. Which is why Eddie Vam Halen arrived at Dime's funeral with that yellow and black Van Halen II guitar and placed it in Darrell's casket. It remains buried with him today.
Eddie Van Halen....class act all the way,that one was.
I would have put "I Am The Night" a little higher, but I saw Pantera a few times when they were still slugging it out in the DFW clubs.
The very first time I saw them Terrance was still singing for them (played rhythm guitar also). Then Phil joined. They had just released "Power Metal" and were still playing some of the old songs. I guess you had to be there, but some of those older "Glaze" songs translated pretty well live.
And Darrel? Wow 🤯😵💫 Even in the "glam" days he was a phenom on guitar. 🤯😵
The last time I saw them live was in a big theater in Dallas and Cowboys was out. They had two great local bands open for them and they put on a fantastic show. It was shortly after that they started bulldozing their path to worldwide fame.
It's my opinion only, but I think "I Am The Night" was the best of their first 3 recordings.
HOW DARE YOU NOT MAKE A VIDEO LISTENING TO EVERY DEATH ALBUM APOLOGIZE TO MY HUSBAND CHUCK AND CALL HIM BEAUTIFUL RIGHT NOW 🤬
hahahah
This absolutely needs to happen though
Tada
The opening of The Great Southern Trendkill album scared me back in the day
I really love every song from TGST
8:53 …..the best visual description of the song
“Come on eyes” off of the 85 album is definitely in my top five Pantera songs
Early stuff actually sounds pretty good for that era!
Regarding the drastic change from glam to groove metal, another of Pantera's many controversies was the accusation that they borrowed/ripped off the groove metal sound from Exhorder. Exhorder themselves don't really have beef with Pantera but their fanbase did.
6:59 I thought I was the only one who favoured this solo (The Sleep) out of all of Dimebag's work ❤️
No one:
Phil Anselmo: ✋🏻
lmao
“No one.” ….interadesting
🙋♂
Cringe dead meme
😂
Yes the sleep!!!! That solo is f-ing awesome
I concur with your list!
08:04 dammit Bradley, now this image will be stuck in my head forever
The solo from "We'll Meet Again" is my favorite Dime solo ever, even though it's from their last "glam" album
Yeah, I always say Dimebag kinda practiced for Cemetery gates with that one
Hi Bradley, I'm from Brazil and man I don't understand anything you said, but with your editing and your humor I can at least understand
My favourite part is when Bradley is in the hall
I Am the Night is one of my personal favourites. Maybe I can enjoy it more because english isn't my first langage, which implies that I don't feel as much cringe from bad lyrics-although I perfectly understand them, and it's quite enjoyable from my point of view. I never miss an opportunity to blast it during parties, whenever someone asks me to put music on their speaker (no one understands any word that is sung, but it would certainly be fun if they did).
Awesome album.
Mastodon next please
Yes, can we get a poll started?
@@John-k6f9k ha! I wouldn't wish that on anyone. It's an interesting record but I think it would put Beanley to sleep.
0:45 The guitarist and vocalist for Pantera are so iconic they overshadowed the band.
I really would like to see your take on Helloween and the sub group like Iron Savior, Gamma Ray and such also Faith No More
0:21 Johnny Kelly jump scare. Love that man.
Thanks Bradley! I'd never heard much before Power Metal, but that and Cowboys were always my faves... Hard Ride is an absolute banger :D
P.S. Proud to be Loud o Donnie Darko!!
Great Southern Trendkill lovers unite.
Pretty accurate. Nice work!
CFH will always be my S tier #1 ultimate Pantera album.
Very rare that I agree with you, but you got this one spot on
bradley you look exactly like the guy second from the left on the back of the like an everflowing stream cd by dismember
I love every song from The Great Southern Trendkill
No chance far beyond driven is definitely pantera’s best work and finest moment! And I would say sales and chart positions are a great example of this ! And I would say when they got more serious I thought they got better !
1. FBD
2. GSTK
3. VDOP
4. RTS
5. CFH
6. PM
7. IATN
8. PIJ
9. METAL MAGIC!!! 🎉🤘
From trendkill, suicide note part 2, and living through me, are probably the two heaviest songs ever written in my opinion, just pure aggressive power, so good.
I'm waiting for the hour-long AC/DC entry in this series. Really only need two rows.
My fav songs are from the two albums you said you didn't care for much: Far beyond Driven and Great Southern. Two best albums IMO. Vulgar Display is good too but I'd listen to the mumbling track "Good friends and a Bottle of pills" 20 times in a row before I listen to Walk again. I was also in a Pantera cover band so that might be why. Everyone always wanted us to play Walk and we got really sick of that song. It's also just so simple and repetitive. I will never willingly listen to that tune again. The Good friends and Pills song really didn't bother me like it did everyone else. I was pretty young when I heard it for the first time so I just accepted it as part of the albums sound. Now everyone has a video making fun of that tune. The music is actually kinda of cool on that tune.
If you want to die, you should do Buckethead next :D (I swear he has like hundreds of albums)
Already have, Most Real Fans have listened to them. Metal magic wasn't Great
But the next 3 were Really Good. say what you want But The Drums & Guitar on those first Album were Awesome. I also did a video titled Pantera the first 4 Albums.
Fun fact: Dime sang those specific lyrics (5:30) for live performances of Metallica's Seek & Destroy you can vaguely hear that in a live performance you can easily find on here from 1984 which predicted the song Dime later sang 4 years later, they were heavily influenced by Metallica so you can sort of hear where their sound comes from in Power Metal up to the actual albums.
Great Southern Trendkill and Reinventing the Steel are my fav albums by them haha underrated as hell, IMO
I guess I'm the only one that loves their cover of "Planet Caravan", because it show their range and talent.
Agreed on the Cemetery Gates comment but one other that should be recognized from a different band is Return to Serenity off The Ritual by Testament. 😘😘🤘🤘🔥💯
Honestly, it just feels like they full went for it for TGSTK. It’s extremely heavy and sounds angry with a passion. No one talks about Living Through Me (Hell’s Wrath) enough
It Makes Them Disappear into I’ll cast a Shadow on through the fade out was a really weird, although unintentional, swan song for that band. Chills every time.
Hey Bradley you should make a "writing a Van Halen album in 2 hours"
Big fan of the Power Metal and Cowboys from Hell albums. After that and before that I am not as much of a fan, apart from a couple of songs from Vulgar Display of Power
Cemetery Gates as the best ballad over One,Mr.Crowley,Fade to Black etc.. is a HOT take and I like the song😅
I've herd every song from them during 80s to last album still listening them
Power Metal is so easily their best and it's criminally insane that they pretend it doesn't exist.
I'll always love Dime. I accept that he wasn't perfect. Nobody is. But he was a genuinely kind person and I think if he was alive today, he'd be on the good side of things.
Far Beyond Driven was peak Pantera, IMO. "Becoming", "5 Minutes Alone", "I'm Broken", "Planet Caravan", "Strength Beyond Strength"... it was heavy af, melodic where it needed to be, and chaotic where it needed to be.
If I was introducing someone to Pantera, this is the album I'd link them.
As a hardcore Pantera fan this ranking angered me but everyone has a right to their on opinion 😅🙌