Favourite Albums

Pantera: Vulgar Display of Power

Now I'll take a look at a slightly heavier and more recent influence in the odd world of metal. The band is PANTERA and the album VULGAR DISPLAY OF POWER.

Play list.

  1. Mouth of war.
  2. A new level.
  3. Walk.
  4. F**king hostile.
  5. This love.
  6. Rise.
  7. No good ( Attack the radical ).
  8. Live in a hole.
  9. Regular people ( Conceit ).
  10. By demons be driven.
  11. Hollow.

All songs written & arranged by Pantera
All lyrics copyright 1991 Power Metal Music / Cota Music, BMI, Administered by Warner - Tamerlane Publishing Corp.
All rights reserved. Used by permission.

Produced & engineered & Mixed by Terry Date & Vinnie Paul.
Co produced by Pantera.

Recorded & Mixed at Pantego Sound Studio, Pantego, Texas (R.I.P.).
Mastered by Howie Weinberg at Masterdisk, New York, NY.
A&R Co-ordination: Derek Oliver.
Cover Photo: Brad Guice.
Band photography: Joe Giron.
Art direction: Bob Defrin.
Design: Larry Freemantle.

Pantera are.

Copyright 1992 Atlantic recording corporation for the United States and WEA International INC. For the world outside of the United States. All rights reserved.

Pantera are one of those names that have been floating around in conversations for the last few years and this was the album that made people familiar with them. This masterpiece of how powerful metal can be does have a few softer moments but they tend not to last too long and the album is all the better for it. Crushing and disturbing are words that spring to mind as they take a good long look at humanity and tell you exactly what they think of it ( which isn't much judging by the lyrics ).

Although they released a few albums before this the first couple have been hidden away by the band themselves due to the glammy image ( pink hair really doesn't rock too well does it!) and try to keep the thrashier hardcore thing going and claim this is only their second album. Some of their older stuff is Powermetal which is said to be the first album they started the play with the heavier sound and Cowboys From Hell which is a good enough thrash album in it's own right ( a few sad lyrics mess it up a bit though ). They have a few more albums out since this like Far Beyond Driven which again is a good album but just doesn't really match up to Vulgar Display Of Power and another album is The Great Southern Trend Kill ( I have to admit to not hearing that one though ). So if you wish to hurt yourself seriously by smashing your head to the wall then do it to this, its one of the best, trust me.

Bye for now. Thermite.