Pantera is just this extremely strange oddity because they were absolutely musical virtuosos, masters of riff and groove and composition and most people never paid attention to them because Pantera was also a thrashy, punk-y garage metal act. But they groove and harmonize and shred in ways no other band could. And both the drummer (Vinnie Paul Abbot) and his brother the guitarist (Dimebag Darrel Abbot) were absolute perfection musically. Dimebag is regarded as one of the greatest metal and rock guitarists of all time despite his short life, and I don't think anyone in the metal or rock world would really even be interested in trying to argue that he wasn't. Eddie Van Halen even regarded him as one of the best.
Nobody paid attention to them? The album this song is from debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200. Not the Billboard rock or metal charts, the Billboard chart that covers all music. It is by far the heaviest album to debut at number 1 on that chart.
Pantera are by far the masters of groove metal. They pretty much started the genre. Dimebag is god on guitar. I'd say these guys are responsible for a LOT of what modern metal is. The grooves, the breakdowns, the slam riffs, all of it comes from Pantera.
Awesome reaction to this! If you really want to hear how versatile Phil Anselmo's vocals are, you need to give "Cemetery Gates" a listen. You will be amazed how he goes from clean to harsh vocals, and back again. It's my all time favorite song by Pantera! I guarantee you will love the lyrics, and be blown away at the end of the song! RIP to brothers Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul. Peace! 🤘✌
Phil Anselmo was one of the most versatile metal vocalists of all time. He had multiple primes in multiple vocal styles. Listen to shattered by pantera to hear how different he could sound
Also as someone who's as much into Metal as I am Hip Hop but learnt it the other way round, grew up with Metal, learnt to adore Hip Hop as an adult, I love seeing other people checking out the other side of the aisle.
My bro!! Great reaction video, I'm hoping you react to Cemetery Gates (studio version). I promise it's going to blow your mind and it won't be what you expect it to be.
You are so right on the Iommi/Sabbath influence and sound, Pantera are also a one guitar band, so when Dimebag is soloing, that gives Rex on the bass scope to fill in the rhythm where normally you'd hear another guitar, just like Tony & Geezer !
You are ready for “Cemetery Gates”! I cannot emphasize enough the importance that you listen to the album version (Long Version). The video version cuts out the intro, which is so important to the atmosphere of the song! The intro sets up everything, including the mind blowing outro!! Keep rocking! So glad you found Pantera, enjoy the jams ✌️
We need more Pantera reactions on the channel, great reaction btw! "Shedding Skin" is also a great song lyrically and musically by them that you should check out next.
They have a literal bottomless pit of grooving metal tracks like this: Cowboys from Hell, i’m Broken (official video recommended), Mouth For War, Regular People, Piss, Drag the Waters, Revolution is my Name, Walk, Primal Concrete Sledge, This Love… All straight fire and plenty to get you started
If you want to hear Phil's range in his vocals, check out "Cemetery Gates". He is literally singing his ass off. His vocals against Dime's licks are insane. "WALK" is another great Pantera song. RIP Abbott Brothers. 💔 🕊You made us Texans SO proud ! 👏
Pantera covered some Black Sabbath songs, actually. Two by tequest and one at the end of this same album. The guys in Black Sabbath loved Pantera. They were indeed heavily influenced by Black Sabbath as kids, then got to tour with them.
Phil brings out his operatic side a lot more on the previous album. Glad you didn't start with Walk, everyone seems only to react to that one. It's awesome, but they have like a dozen amazing tracks.
I was a fan of Pantera in the 80’s when Phil joined the band .. Power Metal was their first album with him and i loved it … Phil pretty much pioneered that growling style of vocals and as a long time metal guy I am unaware of anyone singing like this … Metallica maybe … but Phil took it some place else … and the Abbot brothers were just simply amazing and exceptional musicians.. RIP Dime .. formerly known as Diamond Darrell Lance
Phil Anselmo, vocalist for Pantera, has discussed the incident that led to the lyrics he wrote for this song, multiple times during interviews. The best part about the story, is when this fan’s father, who was speaking to Pantera’s manager, said he he didn’t care about the lawsuit, and just wanted “5 minutes alone with that Phil Anselmo”, to which their manager responded, “no you don’t.”
Soo, the fans are gonna tell you to listen to all the radio friendly tracks and they should because you should listen to them, but….. can we get som amazing B sides? Message in Blood, By Demons Be driven, Hells Wrath “living through me”, or It makes them disappear/I’ll cast a shadow which in my opinion is two songs that need to be heard together 🤷♂️
Super cool seeing a young hip hop guy into my all time favorite band. Since you seem to like groove and you already said he has a demon voice....I suggest their track "By Demons Be Driven". Somewhat of a deep cut you don't see many react to.
I like calling it Cookie Monster vocals. My favorite Cookie Monster and probably the start of it was Cannibal Corpse. Now that would be fun to watch you react to a song like I Cum Blood.
Yeah, Pantera is about as heavy as it gets before it just becomes noise IMO 😉 this is tasty and smooth, groovy and heavy the way it’s supposed to be. Keep up the Pantera reactions and I’ll keep coming through. CAME FOR THE BEATLES/Stayed for Pantera 🙌
I’m with you. In my opinion any more and it just becomes chugga chugga with Cookie Monster scream mumbling through a song. I need my metal to have a hint of blues/classic rock. Take Pantera for example I’m Broken has some zeppelin flavor, 5 minutes alone is angry ZZ Top.
I just can’t get beyond the constant growling. I love it occasionallyas an accent, but the whole song done that way….with no dynamics…..just full on from start to finish…..I cannot get beyond it to the instrumentation, the groove…the words…..anything.
I'm generally a person that can't get into growling voices but Pantera was a special band where the groove hooked me. Cemetery gates was an earlier track that has more singing and for a metal vocalist he has great range.
I think with a lot of metal screams or growls, it’s done monotone, not really hitting any notes. Phil is singing and screaming at the same time. So there’s melody to it.
I was gonna say maybe you should ease into Pantera, the vocals on this song are pretty harsh, but it looks like you’re ok. If you want to hear Phil’s range, check out Cowboys from Hell (song) from same album title.
Thanks for the reaction and analysis, Pantera pretty much cemented me as a life long metalhead and as guitar player aficionado, And at first i found it peculiar that most metal songs you react to you found some Iommi influence in them, but then I remembered that the guy pretty much invented the whole movement, so yeah you'll most likely find his DNA on every metal song there is one way or another, Silly me for overthinking it. 😏
I can appreciate the lyrics, the screaming vocals not my style. No offense to those out there that love this style. There is so much music out there, that there is something for all of us. Great analysis as usual 😊
@@esoterica412 I hear frustration, anger, annoyance at critics who don't 'get it'. All artists have faced critics and sometimes that criticism is brutal and unfair. All art is subjective, so what a critic is saying is purely opinion. I can understand why an artist would like "five minutes out back" to 'discuss' the finer points". of the art (music in this case). So I think I understand where the singer is coming from, he is fed up constantly answering inane questions and dealing with haters. Eminem is famous for voicing his frustration with critics, Dee Snider testified before congress that heavy metal was not demonic and leading kids into devil worship. So what I appreciate in the lyrics is that the message is one I've heard before and agree with. Critics often get it wrong and know nothing about the music. I think the musicality is complex and can hear some parts I like, it's only the style of the lyric delivery that I find hard to relate to. Same reason I prefer Beethoven over Wagner.
@@ziggymarlowe5654 that’s a way to interpret it. Someone who doesn’t know the backstory to this can still get that vibe of brushing off the haters and telling them to back off. Funny enough, it’s called 5 minutes alone because Pantera were doing a show and one of the fans apparently were being disrespectful and Phil (the singer) going off on him, the crowd took it as “hey let’s beat this guy up for being a loud mouth” and so they did. The father of the fan got mad at Phil and the band and blaming them for doing that to his son. The Dad told the manager or publicist of Pantera saying he wanted “5 minutes alone with that guy” to which Phil and Pantera responded to him with this song, basically saying you want 5 minutes alone but i’ll bash your brains so to speak 😂… wild story.. there is actually a vid of Phil talking about the song the backstory it’s funny cause Phil loves boxing and is pretty big dude. 🤘🏽
@@esoterica412 Yes, that is a wild story and I vaguely remember hearing about it and thinking, 'Good Luck Buddy, taking on Phil, tell us how it turns out for you." So I guess I knew in the back of my mind that the song was inspired by actual events. Which gives the song more weight in my book. And I admit, I do tend to give the song a broader meaning in the sense of "Careful what you ask for", lol. I know I've heard other Pantera music I liked, same with 'Five Finger Death Punch', 'Disturbed', 'Mettalica' 'RATM', etc.. I have an eclectic taste in music, finding value in all. To me it's an art form. And I think critics can be unfair in his/her assessment. I think we music lovers probably gravitate towards one genre or another, which is great. I can learn from you and Syed about music I might not seek out on my own. Peace my friend ☮
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Pantera is just this extremely strange oddity because they were absolutely musical virtuosos, masters of riff and groove and composition and most people never paid attention to them because Pantera was also a thrashy, punk-y garage metal act. But they groove and harmonize and shred in ways no other band could. And both the drummer (Vinnie Paul Abbot) and his brother the guitarist (Dimebag Darrel Abbot) were absolute perfection musically. Dimebag is regarded as one of the greatest metal and rock guitarists of all time despite his short life, and I don't think anyone in the metal or rock world would really even be interested in trying to argue that he wasn't. Eddie Van Halen even regarded him as one of the best.
So much that he buried the black and yellow original frankstrat with him
Nobody paid attention to them? The album this song is from debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200. Not the Billboard rock or metal charts, the Billboard chart that covers all music. It is by far the heaviest album to debut at number 1 on that chart.
They have so many great songs. To hear Phil’s range check out Cemetery Gates. The end will floor you!
Pantera are by far the masters of groove metal. They pretty much started the genre. Dimebag is god on guitar.
I'd say these guys are responsible for a LOT of what modern metal is. The grooves, the breakdowns, the slam riffs, all of it comes from Pantera.
You need to hear "Cemetery Gates" and "Walk" to see the full range of the singer...and more Dimebag greatness!🇨🇦🇨🇦❤
Awesome reaction to this! If you really want to hear how versatile Phil Anselmo's vocals are, you need to give "Cemetery Gates" a listen. You will be amazed how he goes from clean to harsh vocals, and back again. It's my all time favorite song by Pantera! I guarantee you will love the lyrics, and be blown away at the end of the song! RIP to brothers Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul. Peace! 🤘✌
Pantera are one of those special unreplaceable bands, fuck yeah!
You dropped this on Dimebag’s Birthday! Nice!
Phil Anselmo was one of the most versatile metal vocalists of all time. He had multiple primes in multiple vocal styles. Listen to shattered by pantera to hear how different he could sound
Also as someone who's as much into Metal as I am Hip Hop but learnt it the other way round, grew up with Metal, learnt to adore Hip Hop as an adult, I love seeing other people checking out the other side of the aisle.
Iconic band from Texas. No other band will ever be what they were.
Cemetery Gates!!! Is a must
My bro!! Great reaction video, I'm hoping you react to Cemetery Gates (studio version). I promise it's going to blow your mind and it won't be what you expect it to be.
That’s one helluva band.
You are so right on the Iommi/Sabbath influence and sound, Pantera are also a one guitar band, so when Dimebag is soloing, that gives Rex on the bass scope to fill in the rhythm where normally you'd hear another guitar, just like Tony & Geezer !
Welcome to Pantera's breakdowns, mate. It's a long and hard journey..
Now check out the dirtyest breakdown ever, Domination - but do it on the Moscow live. 13/10
You are ready for “Cemetery Gates”! I cannot emphasize enough the importance that you listen to the album version (Long Version). The video version cuts out the intro, which is so important to the atmosphere of the song! The intro sets up everything, including the mind blowing outro!! Keep rocking! So glad you found Pantera, enjoy the jams ✌️
We need more Pantera reactions on the channel, great reaction btw! "Shedding Skin" is also a great song lyrically and musically by them that you should check out next.
They have a literal bottomless pit of grooving metal tracks like this: Cowboys from Hell, i’m Broken (official video recommended), Mouth For War, Regular People, Piss, Drag the Waters, Revolution is my Name, Walk, Primal Concrete Sledge, This Love… All straight fire and plenty to get you started
I mean it is one of the best metal guitarists of all time. He damn near pioneered that tone and style. RIP Dimebag.
Your listening to one of the most amazing bands of all time
I have been with ya since your first Nirvana reaction....keep up the great work!♥️
If you want to hear Phil's range in his vocals, check out "Cemetery Gates". He is literally singing his ass off. His vocals against Dime's licks are insane. "WALK" is another great Pantera song. RIP Abbott Brothers. 💔 🕊You made us Texans SO proud ! 👏
So much more to discover with Pantera. Seek it out.
One of Dimebag's biggest influences was Eddie Van Halen. Once you know that you can hear the influence in his solo's.
I would say Eddie Van Halen, Randy Rhodes and Tonni Iommi
Pantera covered some Black Sabbath songs, actually. Two by tequest and one at the end of this same album. The guys in Black Sabbath loved Pantera. They were indeed heavily influenced by Black Sabbath as kids, then got to tour with them.
My guy's getting heavier video to video, hell yeah, by November we'll be headbanging to Slaughter to Prevail.
It is really awesome, isn't it? It's Dimebag's birthday today! #dimebagforever
Phil brings out his operatic side a lot more on the previous album. Glad you didn't start with Walk, everyone seems only to react to that one. It's awesome, but they have like a dozen amazing tracks.
Pantera’s version of Black Sabbath’s “Planet Caravan” is mostly overlooked and deserves a listen.
Phil's vocals are what opened me up to harsh vocals many years ago.
It’s Dimebag’s birthday today.
I was a fan of Pantera in the 80’s when Phil joined the band .. Power Metal was their first album with him and i loved it … Phil pretty much pioneered that growling style of vocals and as a long time metal guy I am unaware of anyone singing like this … Metallica maybe … but Phil took it some place else … and the Abbot brothers were just simply amazing and exceptional musicians.. RIP Dime .. formerly known as Diamond Darrell Lance
I feel like fighting somebody now thanks a lot
Pantera: Kings of Grooove
"Power Groove" is EXACTLY what Pantera was known for! Please check out Immortal-One By One for a taste of aggressive Black Metal!
Syed come back and discover more from this unmatched band
Actually, the brothers are from a suburb sandwiched between Fort Worth and Arlington called Pantego Texas. Hence the name Pantera.
Phil Anselmo, vocalist for Pantera, has discussed the incident that led to the lyrics he wrote for this song, multiple times during interviews. The best part about the story, is when this fan’s father, who was speaking to Pantera’s manager, said he he didn’t care about the lawsuit, and just wanted “5 minutes alone with that Phil Anselmo”, to which their manager responded, “no you don’t.”
Do more of this!!
Best metal band of the 90’s!!!!!!!!!!
This album hit #1 on the bilboards. Heaviest album ever to do that.
R.I.P. DIMEBAG AND VINNY...
Can`t go wrong. Far Beyond is a pretty dark album imo. Good Friends and a Bottle Of P!lls is a really dark song. love it!
Talking about "hip-hop" metal groups, you should definetly do Rage Aginst the Machine - killing in the name
I'd start RATM with Wake Up or Down Rodeo. Real eye openers.
Go down the Pantera rabbit hole! Mouth for War (official vid), Fu*king Hostile, No Good (attack the radical), I’m Broken, Domination (live)…enjoy!!
Please react to cemetery gates by Panera!! One of their greatest songs and it gives me chills every time!!
If you like that you gotta hear cemetery gates. Reaction, analysis or whatever, you just gotta hear it.
I believe they have called themselves Groove Metal. So you were right on point 👉
Top notch analysis
Great reaction! You must react to Cemetery Gates. You'll love it. 🤘
Soo, the fans are gonna tell you to listen to all the radio friendly tracks and they should because you should listen to them, but….. can we get som amazing B sides? Message in Blood, By Demons Be driven, Hells Wrath “living through me”, or It makes them disappear/I’ll cast a shadow which in my opinion is two songs that need to be heard together 🤷♂️
Super cool seeing a young hip hop guy into my all time favorite band.
Since you seem to like groove and you already said he has a demon voice....I suggest their track "By Demons Be Driven". Somewhat of a deep cut you don't see many react to.
Definitely do Cemetery Gates next
That entire album is absolute fire. 🔥
#CFH #GetchaPull #BlackTooth #WatchItGo
I like calling it Cookie Monster vocals. My favorite Cookie Monster and probably the start of it was Cannibal Corpse. Now that would be fun to watch you react to a song like I Cum Blood.
U gotta be nuts to sue Pantera and then ask for 5 minutes alone with Phil😆 that would be a death sentence ☠️☠️☠️
Yeah, Pantera is about as heavy as it gets before it just becomes noise IMO 😉 this is tasty and smooth, groovy and heavy the way it’s supposed to be. Keep up the Pantera reactions and I’ll keep coming through. CAME FOR THE BEATLES/Stayed for Pantera 🙌
I’m with you. In my opinion any more and it just becomes chugga chugga with Cookie Monster scream mumbling through a song. I need my metal to have a hint of blues/classic rock. Take Pantera for example I’m Broken has some zeppelin flavor, 5 minutes alone is angry ZZ Top.
@@user-up1us9jf1o same although Death is pretty dope.
You HAVE to do DOMINATION LIVE ‘91!
Domination.... Moscow '91
Trust me, you will be impressed 🤘
I just can’t get beyond the constant growling. I love it occasionallyas an accent, but the whole song done that way….with no dynamics…..just full on from start to finish…..I cannot get beyond it to the instrumentation, the groove…the words…..anything.
I'm generally a person that can't get into growling voices but Pantera was a special band where the groove hooked me. Cemetery gates was an earlier track that has more singing and for a metal vocalist he has great range.
Do domination by pantera
Live in Moscow will be awesome
Yeah that’s what I mean by domination
I think with a lot of metal screams or growls, it’s done monotone, not really hitting any notes. Phil is singing and screaming at the same time. So there’s melody to it.
Should've done Cemetery Gates first and then this one..Great song though🤟
I was gonna say maybe you should ease into Pantera, the vocals on this song are pretty harsh, but it looks like you’re ok. If you want to hear Phil’s range, check out Cowboys from Hell (song) from same album title.
PanterA
Nothing hip hop about that groove, but whatever, hey glad you enjoyed a classic from Pantera. There's plenty more in that rabbit hole.. lol
Thanks for the reaction and analysis, Pantera pretty much cemented me as a life long metalhead and as guitar player aficionado,
And at first i found it peculiar that most metal songs you react to you found some Iommi influence in them, but then I remembered that the guy pretty much invented the whole movement, so yeah you'll most likely find his DNA on every metal song there is one way or another, Silly me for overthinking it. 😏
Only Metal album to ever debut #1 on the Billboard top 100
Dimebag is the greatest Metal guitarist virtuoso in history so far…
Check out Domination Live in Moscow 1991 by Pantara 🤘🤘🤘
Domination live Moscow 91.
Please react to Cemetery Gates, Walk and Cowboys From Hell.
Should have watched the actual music video, it's intense
I can appreciate the lyrics, the screaming vocals not my style. No offense to those out there that love this style. There is so much music out there, that there is something for all of us. Great analysis as usual 😊
What do you like about the lyrics? Coming from a metal guy such as myself 🤘🏽😤
@@esoterica412 I hear frustration, anger, annoyance at critics who don't 'get it'. All artists have faced critics and sometimes that criticism is brutal and unfair. All art is subjective, so what a critic is saying is purely opinion. I can understand why an artist would like "five minutes out back" to 'discuss' the finer points". of the art (music in this case). So I think I understand where the singer is coming from, he is fed up constantly answering inane questions and dealing with haters. Eminem is famous for voicing his frustration with critics, Dee Snider testified before congress that heavy metal was not demonic and leading kids into devil worship. So what I appreciate in the lyrics is that the message is one I've heard before and agree with. Critics often get it wrong and know nothing about the music. I think the musicality is complex and can hear some parts I like, it's only the style of the lyric delivery that I find hard to relate to. Same reason I prefer Beethoven over Wagner.
@@ziggymarlowe5654 that’s a way to interpret it. Someone who doesn’t know the backstory to this can still get that vibe of brushing off the haters and telling them to back off. Funny enough, it’s called 5 minutes alone because Pantera were doing a show and one of the fans apparently were being disrespectful and Phil (the singer) going off on him, the crowd took it as “hey let’s beat this guy up for being a loud mouth” and so they did. The father of the fan got mad at Phil and the band and blaming them for doing that to his son. The Dad told the manager or publicist of Pantera saying he wanted “5 minutes alone with that guy” to which Phil and Pantera responded to him with this song, basically saying you want 5 minutes alone but i’ll bash your brains so to speak 😂… wild story.. there is actually a vid of Phil talking about the song the backstory it’s funny cause Phil loves boxing and is pretty big dude. 🤘🏽
@@esoterica412 Yes, that is a wild story and I vaguely remember hearing about it and thinking, 'Good Luck Buddy, taking on Phil, tell us how it turns out for you." So I guess I knew in the back of my mind that the song was inspired by actual events. Which gives the song more weight in my book. And I admit, I do tend to give the song a broader meaning in the sense of "Careful what you ask for", lol. I know I've heard other Pantera music I liked, same with 'Five Finger Death Punch', 'Disturbed', 'Mettalica' 'RATM', etc.. I have an eclectic taste in music, finding value in all. To me it's an art form. And I think critics can be unfair in his/her assessment. I think we music lovers probably gravitate towards one genre or another, which is great. I can learn from you and Syed about music I might not seek out on my own. Peace my friend ☮
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