Why "The Great Southern Trendkill" Is Pantera's Magnum Opus
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- Опубліковано 12 бер 2024
- Pantera's 1996 album "The Great Southern Trendkill" has unique sounds and harshness when compared to other Pantera albums. Could it be their best album? Better than "Cowboys" and "Vulgar?"
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Trendkill feels like the natural progression that each album made before it. Heavier and more sure of itself.
Each consecutive album had more balls and less bullshit. This was peak level.
Glad someone finally shares my appreciation for trendkill. This vid dropped after i saw Gary Numan and Ministry
I’m sure Gary and FLA ruled
@@KillbotAndGorGorAttack FLA was phenomenal! They've got Skold on guitars this time around on another note. Gary was so good that he's now one of my girlfriend's new favorites, like see told ya he'd wear off on ya.
Love this album. It doesn't get enough credit.
@@EddieJarnowski for real I mean 13 Steps to Nowhere and Drag the Waters are definitely my favorites and the title track used to be my alarm clock ⏰ 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
This is my favorite Pantera album because it is the band's darkest and heaviest album in its discography. The groove of Vulgar Display of Power, guitar virtuosity on Cowboys from Hell and aggression on Far Beyond Driven are mixed and spliced through a meat grinder on this album. The grindcore and death metal influences compliment the bluesy meets thrash attack on the title track, Living Through Me and Sandblasted Skin. It's an abrasive album, yet also introspective and textured.
Good description of it
Such an underrated banger, The Great Southern Trendkill is absolutely incredible!
Fuckin’ a!
@@KillbotAndGorGorAttackSuicide Note Pt 2 and Floods are my favorite tracks off of the album. This album is probably their best one and it’s a shame most people either don’t know of its existence or they hate on it.
FBD didn’t just make it to #1, it debuted at #1. I was in my senior year of high school and maybe 3 friends liked heavy music. This was a personal victory for us young metal heads. I was lucky enough to see them 9 times before this album came out but never after.
Quite an accomplishment!
Remember when MTV called FBD "Rap Metal"? Lol.
My favorite track is living through me. That crunchy main riff got.
Great follow up to floods
@@trentonwalker8602 oh yea great follow up after something so slow and sludgy.
the chorus is killer
That dark, industrial part in the middle is really awesome
One of the best songs they ever made
Reinventing The Steel is the most underrated, especially the new Terry Date mix, which is superb.
I didn’t like that album til I heard the remix. Now I enjoy it a lot more
I personally love that Album! I think musically it´s the very best they ever did. every song is an anthem!
I think personally the remix sucks ass, the original sound is great
@@krysvalkyrion8252Same here. I love all of them, but RTS is probably my most played. The Terry Date mix sounds terrible imo. Surely would've been significantly better if he originally worked on it.
RTS had two good tracks. The original mix was fine, but the Terry Date remix was not great.
If you were a Pantera fan through the years back then, it was like a tribe/family. So when this record came out and you heard the stories how Phil did the vocals outside of Jerry's studios and the whole group, you felt it...from the first scream was almost an "I've had enough", either with addiction, the long run they had and expectations. But something was off and the overlapping of vocals was just disjointed and covered up all the cool riffs and grooves. Like you were listening to 2 separate journeys (not the band lol) colliding. Saw the KMFDM poster and I was playing a show in Dallas in '93 with a guy that joined them later and I look out and there's Vinnie Paul in the crowd! He was mobbed there but still pulled me aside after and had an awesome talk and a few shots lol. Great vid and it is making me go revisit in a new light!
I love this album as well. Was the album that made them click with me, as well as helped me through a break up. Floods is one of the greatest songs ever written, and the lyrics feel like they're more relevant to issues both internally and socially. So glad you've made this video. I love hearing why people choose an album like Great Southern Trendkill as their favorite. You know, the underrated albums that the fan base don't show love to as much as the more popular
I think even non-fans can like this album
Floods is a great song, but to this day I feel like the outro is a big tease. With how the drums are elevated and played during the outro it sounds like the song is going to transition to a fast/heavy riff to finish off the song, but instead it kinda just ends abruptly
@@KillbotAndGorGorAttack definitely. My step mom saw the Metallica tour with Dad and I last year. And Pantera were a highlight for sure though they'd not played anything from this album
CFH is my personal favorite for sentimental purposes but I will definitely agree that they peaked here. This album is in my opinion the angriest, heaviest and darkest album ever written and recorded.
Got good memories attached to all those albums
you nailed it dude the album recently started growing on me
10’s, floods, suicide note, drag the waters are such bangers
Definitely an album that grows and stays with you
Reinventing the steel is their masterpiece. Each song sounds like a different Era,.
They looked at their favorite songs and said “let’s condense it all to sound like that!”
Awesome Pantera video and going to see Voivod and Prong live march 23 in Raleigh Lincoln theatre
Cool
Trendkill is a classic. My favorite Pantera album. One of the few albums that changed my life forever, inasmuch as it was one of the albums that got me into metal. It blew my young, impressionable balls off. Still does.
It's my personal favorite as well... brutal, groovy, bluesy, melodic (suicide note, pt. 1 and Floods) I fucking love it so much. It's as if I'm actually hearing a group of brothers breaking apart and falling into despair and drug use
Not a bad song on the whole thing
Only 1 was on drugs
@@shamelesskindness and two others were hammered drunks who were throwing so many beer cans around that they had to build a case to protect the mixing desk
@@Creeping_Justice they were most likely pissed off at the lyrics
@@shamelesskindness the lyrics are phenomenal lmfao what are you on about
Crazy that you posted this video today. I’ve always been more of a casual Pantera fan and haven’t spent much time with this album. Yesterday I decided to give it go randomly and it’s probably my favourite record of theirs now.
An album that gets better with each listen
you post this video as i start obsessing and listening to this album again.
How timely!
I agree.
I distinctly remember getting into Pantera through their Greatest Hits album, and the standout track that I always came back to was "Drag the Waters", the only song off The Great Southern Trendkill, so I went and bought the album. The second it started I was a different person.
I'd even say if it weren't for The Great Southern Trendkill I probably wouldn't have gotten into death metal or black metal.
It’s definitely a gateway album for the nastier genres
I think I agree. TGST is definitely special. I would say this and Far Beyond Driven are probably my best Pantera albums. Some of these riffs and solos are so deep, like Hard Lines and Sunken Cheeks from FBD and obviously Floods from TGST. Classic, CLASSIC
Truly truly fuck the world, for all its worth! Every inch of planet earth!!
what a raging and beautiful album man. Nice review
I couldn’t have thought of a better way to sum up this album. A few months ago I probably would have picked FBD as my fave, but after really listening to this album on repeat (particularly Floods and the title track) I’ve really appreciated this album a lot more. It’s now my favorite Pantera album. Great vid man!
Thank you much!
"The Great Southern Trendkill" is a true gem of all things heavy. Underrated when compared to their first three albums, but by no means bad for the uninitiated. A must have for any fan of Pantera and anyone who loves the pummeling heaviness, fast-paced thrash and groove of heavy metal.
Yes a new killbot video 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Fuck yeah!
I shall re listen to this
tonight. Your critique inspired this.
Great!
This album and their live kept me sane.From my sophomore year to my senior year.
Thank you so much for making this. I’ve been arguing some of these points for years. This was Pantera at their peak and aggressively demonstrating all that they believed in.
Yeah, screaming, cussing and posing for posers
The band sounded great on this album and era, but I wouldn’t say they were at their peak cuz this is the time frame where Phil was really struggling with pain killers and absent from the band. He wasn’t even with the band when they recorded TGST, he did it separately at a different location. Phil was also on broken egg shells with the rest of Pantera. So I wouldn’t say this was their peak since the band was not getting along with each other, specifically Phil
I used to work for Panera Bread. I was constantly doodling on the cups, drawing Mother Bread (panera logo) with long hair and a Dean guitar.
"Welcome to Pantera Bread...what can I get star-(blasts 1st song over intercom)-ted for you???"
Always enjoy your video essays man. This is definitely my favourite Pantera record, for all of the reasons that you specified, and Floods has got to be one of the best metal songs ever 🤘🏻
Thank you much! It really is
I love Phil’s black metal screams in this album.
At 6:29. Ah Headbangers Ball. That takes me back.
When they had part of “Fucking Hostile” as their bumper music
as a early teen, I was shown Far Beyond driven and didnt like it since I was still early in getting into heavier music. But a few years into high school, Probably my junior year, I was listening to a Steve Vai station on apple music and Floods came on rotation. I thought it was super dark and the outro was amazing, so the first Pantera album i physically bought was Trendkill before any other album, and it was weird goin back into their catalogue and hearing them become softer.
Right? Almost night and day in mood between this and Cowboys
Well said, I completely agree. Loved how you put the context of its release & defended its recording & mix. I got this the week it came out & it equaled the previous 2 for a 3 way tie of epic releases that make up my top. Sometimes bands are just that good, & to me they struck gold 3 times, each equally stellar for different reasons.
Revealing your age! Haha! The band was big for a reason
My favourite album of all time…
So great
Great Southern Trendkill is my favorite Pantera album, also was the first album I got from the band, I remember I bought it afterschool, when I got home, inserted the disc on the radio and got bombarded with banger after banger, The Underground in America still my favorite Pantera track to this day. The truth is every track is fucking awesome. The other albums are great too, but they never hitted the same way Southern did. Great video my dude, grind on! 🤟
Thank you, man!
I enjoyed TGST a lot, but I don't listen to it as much these days. 10s, Drag The Waters, Flood are classics that still show up from time to time in my playlist.
Fuck yeah, new killbot vid🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Aw yeah
I'm 100% with you on your vocals argument. The fact that Reznor was down there in New Orleans with him shows. The dynamics are brilliant.
Great video man, thanks
Trendkill really grew on me over the years it’s so close to being my favorite followed by Far Beyond Driven! I saw them a dozen times in the 90s on every album tour except Cowboys! Love The Underground in America and the crazy low tuning along with Floods!
I’ve always considered it my second favorite album behind vulgar. Sometimes I even question if it should be number one with is dark and atmospheric sound.
My story with southern is kinda funny because I went to a local record store on my birthday to get some CDs. I grabbed it because it wads the next Pantera album I needed as I had all the ones before it. I was also looking for something that would be super heavy and crazy, but nothing caught my eye. I got in my car and threw it in my cd player. The second that scream came in I realized I had the heaviness I was looking for and was killing to birds with one stone.
An extreme album for the landscape of metal at the time… still heavy even now
@@KillbotAndGorGorAttack It is. I’m not a deathcore person for the most part but I was looking for something that was as heavy with guitars and screaming as job for a cowboys’ doom album. I was not expecting a 1996 album from a Groove metal band to go hard enough to itch that scratch
Yea I love this album
The Great Southern Trendkill, is my favorite Pantera album!
No way! Far beyond driven is their black album 🤘 Vulgar was definitely a masterpiece as well! I think damage plan was the direction done and Vince wanted to take pantera, you can tell on reinventing the steel they are trying to spark Phil’s interest with down inspired riffs!
I feel Dime almost pioneered that ultra loe drop g or whatever the tuning is on The Underground in America was. Or at least explored it in the mainstream way before modern metal.
Most modern metal bands have that "doom eternal" sound going on but never as brutal as this 1996 guitar tone.
I think they also pioneered the clicky drums like on FBD
For me it is a very good album. I like it precisely because Dimebag used a large number of tones, various tunings and various types of equipment different from what he always used, he said it himself in interviews with guitar magazines such as in the June 1996 issue of Guitar World, where he says he used different kinds of amps, different 6 and 12 string acoustic guitars and other brands of distortion pedals.
Curious that you talk about this album. In recent months I have been dusting off albums like this that I don't usually listen to as much, to get out of the routine like "Jugulator" by Judas Priest, "The X Factor" by Iron Maiden, "Tyr" by Black Sabbath, "Carnival Of Souls: The Final Sessions" by KISS, "Diabolus in Musica" by Slayer, "Volume 8: The Threat Is Real" by Anthrax, "Cold Lake" by Celtic Frost, the 1989 - 1992 Venom albums without Cronos, even Metallica's "Load" and "Reload", and a few others.
Jugulator and Tyr are fucking great
My favorite album of all time! Makes me think of a burning plane going down. So chaotic, brutal, dark but also beautiful. Nothing like it. I was a teenager when it came out. Changed my musical journey for sure! CFH
Cowboys was my first. This was the one that stuck with me the most at 12/13 and never left me
Reinventing the Steel is overlooked. Heck, even I overlook it sometimes, but it’s pretty awesome.
Its a great album
Another great video tony
Thank you much!
I watched the video, and I absolutely agree with what you said. Even with the other albums, you hit the nail in the coffin. In the end, Everybody who likes pantera has their own favorite album. love you killbot
Gracias!
This used to be one of my lesser favorite Anselmo-era Pantera albums. Now, it's my number one favorite, number two being I am the Night (that's right lol).
There’s the occasional good song among the glam albums, haha
I’m so happy to see someone else give this album the recognition it deserves. I also always favored this one out of their entire collection
It’s an album that never leaves you
First pantera I purchased when I was 12 years old in 1998. Still holds a special place in me.
2:10-3:04 That was some good comedic timing 😂
Waaaaaaaa!!!!!
Everything said its completely right.
Came to find out about the album by a YT video which summarized its background and gave an explaination to every song present, I felt very in line with the themes of pure hatred against trends, and the overall wrath felt through every song, Phil was an absolute beast with the vocals and i still get amazed with his screams in the title track and War Nerve, wish I could replicate them.
Calling this Dime's best guitar work is something I hadnt thought but i instantly agreed on, i love how weird and unique every song sounds, from the echoed-delayed outro of TGSTK, the whammys in Suicide Note II and the Drop G in The Underground in America and Sandblasted Skin, all of it a complete 15/10
It’s always been my favorite of their albums. 10’s and Living Through Me being my personal favorites.
This album shows a band willing to take risks and experiment in it's sound while keeping faithful in what they are. Unbelievable album. Forever Pantera.
Starting an album with such a scream certainly set the mood for the rest of the album.
Living Through Me is def my fav song from Pantera.
That crunchy riff is just so crushing.
"You won't need that anymore -not anymore, it's on sale at the fuckin dollar store"! Best lyrics hands down!
I love your passion for metal bro. It would be dope to share music and cheers some beers with you!
Glad to see The Great Southern Trendkill get some love.
It's my hands down number one. So dark, so heavy.
And their most diverse album
Wish you delved into 10’s a little bit. It’s one of my favorites of all time. Awesome video great info 🔥
Excellent and weird song
I can always tell how someone is by what Pantera record is their favorite.
Personally I’m a Far Beyond Driven guy but one of my homies and my wife are both Trendkill folks. One of my old band mates was a Vulgar guy. All valid opinions but definitely shows personality well
Absolutely, there’s no wrong answer when it comes to favorite Pantera albums. I’m sure someone somewhere can even make a case for Metal Magic, haha!
I might be a Reinventing The Steel kind of guy, to be honest. haha It might be because I saw them in concert on that tour...
Lots of variety in this one. From a technical point of view, it's not Dimebag's most complex work, by any means, but the quality and feeling in most songs, regarding composition, is definitely there. I think tracks 8 (Living Through Me), 10 and 11 (the final ones), are kind of weak, though enjoyable, but in my opinion, are what prevent "Trendkill" from being considered a top notch album.
Trendkill was my very first album of theirs I always had a soft spot for that album I always thought it was underrated👍👍 also I noticed the behringer pro one and the Hydrasynth in the back awesome🎹🎛️🎧👌 I've been wanting the pro one myself I have behringer model D and the neutron, the neutron I would recommend it's semi-modular and I was able to get some pretty crazy sounds on it BrAp oN!!¡!✋✌️
You make a great argument for this to be regarded as their best LP. When I come back to Panera, it's usually for Vulgar, FBD or Trendkill. I'm throwing Trendkill on now! It does have great depth, for sure!
Grown to dislike most of Pantera’s catalogue over the last few years, but this one has always stuck with me. Something about the weird mix of southern groove, grindcore, and death metal is so weirdly infatuating. Great video btw!
Thank you so much! I think even non-fans can like this album
Ive said this for years. Its a fine wine. I never would of gotten into extreme metal if not for this album. I was a hick kid in Oklahoma we never heard. This was shocking when it came out. Its the first album i drove to the store and bought
13 steps to nowhere feels like a flash of falling through hell. It’s so exhilarating yet intriguing like many tracks on this album. The great southern trendkill feels like a psychedelic transformation of hell. It’s got it’s warts and all, but damn does it hit each button right.
I was just thinking of this record two days ago Is my heavy lifting record I do not trust anyone that dismiss the greatness of this beast In fact the suicide pt 2 heard it for the first time on a Hokuto no ken AMV and ppl at that age were telling me there were heavier things but till this day the intesity felt was hardly toppled.
First time I heard SNp2 at 12, I thought it was the most insane thing I ever heard
I agree with everything, everything, said in this! 100% As a recovering opiate addict (and lifelong Pantera fan) I get this album. Its the rest of the band realizing Phil is fucked up, Phil admitting it. And Phil entering the stages of grief. Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. I feel a depressive acceptance in Reinventing the Steel. Almost optimistic. And most of Downs earlier stuff.
But The Great southern Trendkill is just anger and rage. Any song. "War Nerve" "Truly, fuck the world for all it's worth, Every inch of planet Earth, Fuck myself, don't leave me out, But don't get involved". Just look at the song titles. He's miserable and unhappy. Most opiate addicts I know are. They fucking HATE being on opiates but the Flu-like symptoms that come with quitting and the instant relief felt if relapsing make it SO hard, mentally to commit to quitting.
Musically, sonically, I love that Dime, Rex, and Vinnie went with a southern (as a southerner myself!) bluesy-shuffle with a LOT of the songs. Combine that with Phils lyrics and it makes for a brutal album. My personal fave as well.
One of the greatest metal albums of all time
I completely agree, i think that this is their best work by a mile. and i loved seeing them play on the 19th. im glad they started playing floods again and always hearing suicide note pt 2 is a treat. but i still wish they played more off the album.
Two best openings on an album EVER. Great video bro🤘🤘🤘🤘
Gracias!
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Simone wey!!!!!
Always has been my favorite record of theirs. Its one of the few albums that Ive ever heard that has a sonic atmosphere. I don’t know what to call it I guess. Underground In Americas verse riff is bar none the heaviest thing Ive ever heard. Dimes tuning is so low I can practically see them strings rattling from being so loose. For me it’s their heaviest, darkest, and overall best record.
havent watched the video but i agree 100%
Be sure to watch!
@@KillbotAndGorGorAttack i will 😭
Hey, great video! But you should have included some mention of Reinventing the Steel!
It was visually there… it was alright.
Absolutely 👍
Finally someone said it... More power to you 🤘
Agreed 100% . Love this record.
Suicide note pt2 is what got me into grindcore, it's literally a grindcore song XD
So fuckin’ great
The Seth Putnam influence on Phil's writing of Trendkill is a little bit overlooked, but imo it's part of the amazing depth/breadth that the album covers. Cant think of another album that really does it all genre wise while still cutting deep lyrically/instrumentally
Its an amazing album, I always go back to it. While Cowboys from hell is my favorite, that doesn't mean the others is on or at par on the same level. Also fun fact Phil Anselmo was friends with Seth Putnam (The singer of AxCx or Anal Cunt) and he is credited on southern trendkill, because his vocals was on 13 steps to nowhere. Also AxCx made a cover of The great southern trendkill.
I wonder how much Seth got paid for his screams on this album
@@KillbotAndGorGorAttack I would think it would've been more of an act of friendship with Anselmo, though during those dark times for both members drugs might have been involved.
Seth is on multiple tracks
Trendkill my favorite Pantera album. 13 Steps to Nowhere and War Nerve don’t get enough love
No they don’t
Excellent 🔥🤘🔥
For me personally this is the most consistent Pantera album. I also love how the whole mood is just very pissed off or very bleak and depressive
Dime and Vince weren’t happy with Phil’s vocals on that record, basically they had to take whatever he recorded and use it, in Rex’s book he talk about wanting less screaming on the record, not to mention Phil had Seth Putnam do background vocals on a few songs without anyone’s approval! Same thing with reinventing the steel, they just had to take what ever phil crapped out.
Far Beyond Driven is my favorite, but Trendkill is my 2nd favorite Pantera album. Sooooo underrated!
All of Pantera's albums are really good, from their "glam" stuff to their groove stuff. Far Beyond Driven and The Great Southern Trendkill are the best in my opinion.
And to think TGST was my first Pantera record 😍
Brilliant stuff
"Metal is more than just screaming"
[Hits play]
*aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa*
i love Great Southern Trendkill and i love the live video where Phil is singing with Seth and Seth just doesnt let Phil sing
Apparently when AC was recording Picnic of Love, they called Phil from the studio and chatted with him for a while
Finally somebody said it! Cowboys and Vulgar may both be more important, but TGSK feels like a more complete album experience. Not as many hits, but no filler to be found. And, like you said, hits were never the point with them.
Yup, important albums and can understand if people pick them. But this album just checks off everything I want from the band
Hey man! I love your videos. Im a 17 year old metalhead abt to be 18 and i watched ur video abt being a metalhead as an adult, anything else i should know before i become an adult?
Love Pantera and all their records, but Vulgar is my favorite. Masterpiece.
Great one
"Floods" has some of my favorite guitar solos of all time. The greatest Pantera album hands down.
Have to agree with everything. Trendkill is heavier overall imo (darker, chunkier, angrier…) but that doesn't impede them from also having the best songwriting of their career. Solid from front to back, and Floods and both Suicide Notes are mindblowing.
Not a bad song on the whole album
The great southern trendkill is my ringtone when i hear phil anselmo screaming in the intro 😈
Seth Putnam *
Edgy
Raaaaaaaa!!!
Pantera's TGST is akin to Slipknot's Iowa - both were recorded during high tensions within the respective bands, but the end results were that both bands recorded 2 of the most heaviest & most beloved Metal albums of all time
The great southern trend kill is my favorite Pantera album. I first heard drag the waters and was hooked