Artist: Pantera Genre(s):
Rock
Metal
Metal: Thrash
Metal: Heavy
Discography:
The Best of Pantera: Far Beyond the Great Southern Cowboy's Vulgar Hits Year: 2003
Tracks: 14
Reinventing The Steel Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
Official Live: 101 Proof Year: 1997
Tracks: 16
The Great Southern Trendkill Year: 1996
Tracks: 11
Planet Caravan (Time Warner Rec.) (Single) Year: 1994
Tracks: 4
Planet Caravan (Atlantic Rec.) (Single) Year: 1994
Tracks: 4
I'm Broken Pt. 1 (single) Year: 1994
Tracks: 4
I'm Broken (Single) Year: 1994
Tracks: 4
Far Beyond Driven Year: 1994
Tracks: 12
5 Minutes Alone (Single) Year: 1994
Tracks: 3
Walk: Cervial Mix (single) Year: 1993
Tracks: 4
Walk (Single) Year: 1993
Tracks: 4
Vulgar Display Of Power Year: 1992
Tracks: 11
Mouth For War (Single) Year: 1992
Tracks: 4
Cowboys From Hell Year: 1990
Tracks: 12
Power Metal Year: 1988
Tracks: 10
I Am The Night Year: 1985
Tracks: 10
Projects In The Jungle Year: 1984
Tracks: 10
Project In The Jungle Year: 1984
Tracks: 10
The leading metal band of the early to mid-'90s, Pantera put to rest any and all remnants of the '80s metal scene, well-nigh single-handed leveling whatsoever impression that hair metal, speed alloy, power alloy, et al., were anything only passé. Loathe to accept it, the Texas band had in fact been one of those '80s metal bands, releasing middling stillborn (and later disowned) glam-inspired music passim much of the decade. The about-face came with the improver of vocalizer Phil Anselmo, and the florida key turning point was the band's major-label debut,
Cowboys from Hell (1990). Pantera's mainstream find came future with
Vulgar Display of Power (1992), their second major-label record album, which shove the striation to the head of the alloy view, aboard such ex-serviceman bands as Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, and Anthrax, as well as fellow up-and-comers Sepultura and White Zombie. By the fourth dimension Pantera unleashed
Far Beyond Driven (1994), after 2 long geezerhood of touring, they were the well-nigh popular metal band in the kingdom: the new record album debuted atop the Billboard Top cc as its lead single, "I'm Broken," was acquiring monumental airplay.
At the superlative of their popularity and influence, Pantera began to self-destruct. Less than deuce months later on the departure of
The Great Southern Trendkill (1996) -- an album ridden with allusions to dose pervert and personal death -- Anselmo overdosed on heroin later on a return concert in Texas, and as tensions blush wine betwixt him and his fellow bandmembers, he began piquant with a ontogenesis list of side projects that unbroken him away from Pantera. A live album,
Prescribed Live: one hundred one Proof (1997), was compiled for release when it became apparent that no new studio album was forthcoming any time presently. One last studio apartment record album did resultant role,
Reinventing the Steel (2000), merely that was more or less it for the concisely reunited Pantera. The bandmembers once again went their sperate shipway, forming such bands as Damageplan, Down, and Superjoint Ritual.
The end of Pantera then became official on December 8, 2004, when guitar player Dimebag Darrell was murdered onstage by a deranged winnow. This much-publicized off shone the limelight back up on Pantera for an extended moment, and amid all of the excited bombardment and tributes, a consensus arose: in retrospect, there was no greater alloy band during the early to mid-'90s than Pantera, wHO divine a legion of overzealous fans and whose oft-termed "groove metal" mode bucked all dominant trends of the day -- from haircloth metal and dirt to nu-metal and rap-metal -- and remains singular to this 24-hour interval, as outlined by the vocals of Anselmo as it is by the guitar of Dimebag.
