I unironically think this is their greatest record. More riffs per square inch than anything else they did, and I think Dime's best solos are on this album. Phil never sounded better. It's just perfect and suffers from people clowning on it because it doesn't match the later Pantera persona. It's a piece of art.
This was the first Pantera I heard. It's a totally different style than what they are famous for, but it shows the vocal range of Phil and Dimebag still shreds. Love Hard Ride. Very underrated album for it's time.
I think the most underrated piece on this disc is the solo from "We'll meet again". I love it how many bluesy shredding patterns from it Dimebag would later use in The Sleep :P
Dimebag later said it was one of his favorite songs that he played on, and possibly the best solo he's ever done. One of the highlights of the album, for sure.
Hard rock, heavy metal, glam metal, speed metal, progressive metal. One of the best heavy metal albums of all time. Best Pantera album. Easily. R.I.P. Abbott brothers!
Wow. This has so many influences... from song to song I can hear queensryche (the warning), early Metallica (kill em all) Judas Priest, Maiden, Van Halen, and so on.. it’s the perfect mix of glam/thrash/power metal, and you can also hear small hints and riffs that’ll turn into a whole genre, groove metal
I live in Houston and one summer night in 1989 my friend and I walked into Backstage off I-59 not knowing what band was playing. We walked in right while Pantera was killing it and we had a brains melted. From that night to about 14 months later we saw them around 15 times between the two night stints they would play there every other month and going to Dallas a couple of times. This is all before Cowboys from Hell was released. What a great time this was. It shaped our lives. Live music and killer guitar playing is what I live for weather it’s metal, jazz, blues, classical whatever. Dime could have been at the top of music genre he had chosen. He went with badass metal and he ruled it. He difined music prodigy. What a senseless loss we all are stuck with. RIP my friend.
Do you remember what they played most often you heard them? Songs from this album? Did they do any off the cuff covers back then? I wasnt even in the nightmares of my fathers sleep then. Born in 96 so all I can do is imagine. I was born in the wrong decade.
Damn there was a time Phil had a real high range. Judas priest ,maiden range. You can hear it on Cemetery Gates but this shows guy could sing from top to bottom if he wanted to
Phil Anselmo has gotta be one of the most versatile singers in heavy metal history. The way he was able to sing like Halford even though he is a natural baritone, and how his style changed completely in the nineties to the heavier more savage vocals. Intense range.
Pantera should really recognise and respect this album as the first true Pantera album (Phil Anselmo era). It rocks hard and it's really pretty good straight-up Judas Priest 'Painkiller' style metal. 🤘
@@Prairie_Barbarian they are even hard on Cowboys 😆 Phil called Vulgar their "first real Pantera record" i can understand their perspective but i love all their stuff
@@imperator4973 Phil isnt really hard on this anymore. I think he often wonders why he never really got credit for some of the great stuff that was on it. Most of the best stuff on This was written by him.
I dont think anyone even Phil forgets that about Half of this album eventually turned into CFH. Both of these albums are very similar. The Problem is that stuff that did was Almost all written by Phil, Rex Vinnie and Dime. The stuff here that you never really heard again, Wasnt.
@imperator4973 Well that was back in the day I'm sure he said that. In 90's it was VERY taboo sadly to associate with ANYTHING connected to the 80's in hard Rock or metal. And I always defend Pantera from the dbags who give them shit about "the hair days". They were teenage kids for fks sake and had a mixed bag of influences from that era. Oh how dare they. Haha
I love all their stuff, as well as Dime and Phil's other projects. I also liked Red's Kill Devil Hill. May I ask what you didn't like about the later albums?
@@ayearandahalf4112 well Phil's life experiences are what drives the lyrics. I think the Great Southern Trendkill is their most underrated and creative album...and yes drugs and addiction played a large part in that, but sometimes the results can end up being brilliant, like Trendkill.
@@rufussamsquanch_6547 musically it is brilliant, but vocally it was an absolute let down. Phil was lucky to be alive during that peroid then he ended up diving in further, in which affected the lyrics and live performances. I actually skip fbd and trenkill when listening to, broken relationships and drug induced ramblings were burnt out in the grunge era, if phil didnt choose heroin- history would be different. Vdop is their best work. Fbd was the overrated album..
If Pantera sounded like this their whole career nobody would know them (ok, just few people like you)...instead with a different style of their own (later in the 90's) they became one of the biggest metal bands worldwide.
In an alternative timeline pantera is disbanded by 1989, Diamond Darrell joins Marty Friedman in cacophony, Rex Rocker forms his own band with Jeff Scot Soto and Ritchie Kotzen as bandmates, Phill records jugulator in 1997 with Judas Priest and finally Vinnie Paul becomes a successful producer of Tex mex regional music
No offence to Dimebag but there's no way he could play any of Jasons parts in Cacophony and somehow I can't see him writing complicated counterpoint harmonies
Can proudly say I broke my nose at a Pantera concert in the early 90s. It helped that I was drunk and coked up outta my mind never felt a thing.. Phil's voice on this album is so fxxking awesome !
Phil said hes cool with this being re-released. I think him and Rex and whoever is in charge of Dime and Vinny's estate need to get together and re-release it! The fans demand it.
@@rufussamsquanch_6547 I wish all of them would be rereleased just for the fact of preservation and keeping them alive. But this is definitely the best of the old era
They really shouldn’t be ashamed of this, the guitars/ bass is on point and Phil is actually pretty good priest/ queensriech sounding singer. Everybody gotta start somewhere, look at Motley Crue, all glammed up from Shout at the Devil back, then they outgrew it but not ashamed of it
They could of played "Over & Out" in their sets until the end & it wouldn't of sounded out of place with their modern material. Don't know why they didn't.
This album needs to be remastered in such a way that Phil’s background vocals can be enhanced and Dimebag’s rhythm guitar parts can be overdrived in production and re-released
Been a Pantera fan since CFH debuted. I hate to admit I did not know they existed as Pantera before CFH. This is classic 80s metal. Huge difference from their signature sound but, still very good. Love it.
No shame in not knowing. The first album PHIL WROTE with them was CFH. Thats y they considered CFH their debut. They actually played a lot of these songs in 1990 but dropped them from the set in 1991.
DIME was a monster player even as a teenager! He is actually a busier player on this! as a guitar player, some shit on this are really hard as FUCK to attempt, God blessed ability, technical as FUCK, fast,complex,! He was not asked to join MEGADETH because he he didn't have mad skills, he was as good at 20 as anyone, throw in the tone,originality, personality, and he was one of the nicest and humble guy's ever, greatly appreciated and missed ALWAYS!!
@@Slanderous my dad just got me an ML and I'm going through PanterA's library and anything you can remaster like this would be such a treat to procure uwu even via email. That'd be super rad of you man ;-;
I have to admit, I have never been much of a Pantera fan... but the song DEATH TRAP (and that galloping opening riff from Hades... and that God-blessed SOLO!) just rips all kinds of late 1980s metal conventions to smithereens!!! "Queen of the Reich" meets Godzilla's testicles... on crack! Dime & Vinnie; we'll see you raising Hell in the afterlife, bros... and very, VERY nice remastering, slanderous! ;)
Without this we wouldn't have Cemetary Gates or Cowboys From Hell, I think these early albums show just how awesome Pantera was, these albums were how Pantera became Godsize.
PANTERA is like an onion I keep seeing different layers 2 them it all is good ,Terry Glaze erea is hidden jewel 's *c.f.h. is a badass album But it started here ,I love it ! PANTERA RULES !!!!
This is my favorite album from them and I think their best personally, I know I’ll get shit from people because their later albums are what they are know for but I prefer their older stuff, I like it better, I think their last five albums are overrated personally but to each their own
The song power metal is actually sort of Predicting what this band was about to do. Its one of the best early Pantera songs. That song mostly says exactly what they did for the next decade. They literally ran forever as long as they could.
Very Underrated Record, One of my favorite records of all time, Wasn't recognized much more it deserves to be, with the Help of Phil Anselmo they got more heavier and heavier because of his Heavy Metal Awra, I see this is the real Start where Pantera has Begun their Heavy Metal Sound before jumping into straight Groove Metal Trend. But hey its one of the classics that I've heard so far another masterpiece that I'II remember and some Speed/Heavy Metal/Glam Metal/and Thrash Metal here I guess Rock the World is straight Glam while the rest of the songs were Speed/Heavy Metal and Thrash Metal so great Hard Ride has a great solo as well amazing.
Anyone that thinks this is somehow not a top-notch, cutting edge, technical metal record for '88 needs to get their fucking ears cleaned!!! Fucking seriously!? Dime's guitar work here is like Downing and Tipton together on steroids!!! Yes, heavy Priest roots yet at the same time progressively light years beyond. His fretting is so spot-on - razor sharp - precision, it's inhumane! Dime was truly six string divinity. \ The band as a whole is so tight throughout they are like one singular machine with precision chugging groove down to the atomic level. Vin's drumming is masterfully on time like nuclear clockwork while Phil's voice is questionably the best metal vocals ever belted out in the entire universe, ever! Really listen how he picks up where Halford leaves off and takes it to the outer limits of what every other singer only wishes could ever come out of their little mouths!!! Phil is state-of-the-art here and I would dare anyone to say otherwise to his face. It would probably be the end of your own as you know it. Get a fucking clue nay-saying people or just get the fuck outta here until you pull your heads out of your asses and clean all the shit out of your ear holes!!!
So, I didn't listen to this album for like 8 years and wow, I forgot how good this actually is. I find most of their later albums after this to be boring. Power Metal is their best album and it's a damn shame how this album is so forgotten. Too bad we'll probably never get a reissue of this masterpiece.
I can't believe this is Anselmo singing. I've been a fan since their early days in the eighties. I love what Phil brought to the band, but I would've loved to hear him actually singing like this more. I don't know how, but if he could've found a way to incorporate the two styles it would've been amazing. But at any rate, Pantera was always amazing..early, middle and late.
Wow man . Forgot about these records.... They all do great together .... Loved Phil's screams.... Dime.... crazy as always.. Great drums and bass... Rad mannnnn !
He was more demonstrative in 80s . Also Power metal is probably where Dime is the most on Fire .. Most over the top solos from Dime . The riffs ( and Vinnie s part ) are also more technical that it seems.
@@Pokemonvspuddin101 Honestly, I love every Pantera album equally beginning from Power Metal and on, but I've alway's loved Cowboys because it was a good combination of Power Metal and what will come after (Vulgar). You get the heaviness of Vulgar but the screams of Power Metal, it works so well. Every Pantera is great tho!!!🤘
This album is killer, even though it is a little different metal than "Cowboys from Hell" onward. You can tell they liked Judas Priest a lot. And what true metalhead doesn't?
Yeah . Formed 1981 , Metal magic (1983) , Project in the jungle (1984) , I am the night (1985), Power metal (1988) People may being " wow " when CFH came out , but almost a decade of career , 4 albums and 5 nights a week . Well you understand why , its their background . That background that allowed to do the rest . Though technically CFH is a 80's album too as it was on demo and mostly played live in 1988 . Power metal was made in 1986 . Pantera was signed on a Atco sub distribution , Gold moutain records , Phil came in , recorded his vocals , ready to be nationally released in 1987 . But the label though the album was too heavy and then they finally waited for the end contract but benefitted of the distribution , and released Power metal again on their own metal magic records label in 1988
Did not Except you here just watched your GH cats video. look up "glass houses font" comes pretty close. also it looks like regular font they just stretched and enlarged to give it a distorted font look.
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00:00 Rock The World
03:35 Power Metal
07:30 We'll Meet Again
11:25 Over And Out
16:34 Proud To Be Loud
20:37 Down Below
23:28 Death Trap
27:37 Hard Ride
31:56 Burnnn
35:32 P.S.T. 88
Thanks, I updated the video description with your tracklist since it's more accurate.
If only this was released as a CD/Vinyl/Digital download. My 2nd fave Pantera album
Raw AF, Its like a Priest album with a different touch.... love it
@@PapaEmeritus316 Yeah, it's such a damn shame that we'll never get a reissue of this fantastic album.
@@PapaEmeritus316 rollinrecords is doing a vinyl run. I ordered mine so fast my head spun
This Album is criminally underrated
Yes, this ambul is underrated... I think it´s a weird transition piece of art (a leg in the 80s, another leg in CFH era)
They're weren't signed to a major record label at that time. Very underrated but it's awesome!
completely agree!
I totally agree
Couldn't agree with you more.
Judas Pantriest with Phil Halford on vocals... awesome!
Think it has a Queensrychish vibe to it.
Judas Preistera
"pantriest" :D ..... hahah
Dude that's phill anselmo
@@jtb3732 Dude, thanks for replying. I hope you got the joke!
"We'll Meet Again" is a goddamn piece of art.
Solo's nuts
Looks like a "pre" cemetery gates
i love comments, its like listening to a bunch of records with your mates, they know all tha gems
and "Hard Ride" too!
My new favorite song love it
I unironically think this is their greatest record. More riffs per square inch than anything else they did, and I think Dime's best solos are on this album. Phil never sounded better. It's just perfect and suffers from people clowning on it because it doesn't match the later Pantera persona. It's a piece of art.
I bought this album as a curiosity (huge fan of their 90s output). This became my favorite album. So many elements that made them great on one record!
Absolutely best album.!
This was the first Pantera I heard. It's a totally different style than what they are famous for, but it shows the vocal range of Phil and Dimebag still shreds. Love Hard Ride. Very underrated album for it's time.
I think the most underrated piece on this disc is the solo from "We'll meet again". I love it how many bluesy shredding patterns from it Dimebag would later use in The Sleep :P
Dimebag later said it was one of his favorite songs that he played on, and possibly the best solo he's ever done. One of the highlights of the album, for sure.
You should check out Pantera's early works with Terry Glaze on vocals, especially I am the night.
Slanderous agreed
It's a badass album.
Hard rock, heavy metal, glam metal, speed metal, progressive metal.
One of the best heavy metal albums of all time.
Best Pantera album. Easily.
R.I.P. Abbott brothers!
And Thrash Metal
Easy, Nikki Sixx.
And a hint of thrash, some of it sounded like it could have been on ride the lightning
There's really zero wrong with this album it's fantastic at what it does.
POWER METAAAAAAAAAALL!!!!
Power metal is a badass song &
Album. , love diss. .
Wow. This has so many influences... from song to song I can hear queensryche (the warning), early Metallica (kill em all) Judas Priest, Maiden, Van Halen, and so on.. it’s the perfect mix of glam/thrash/power metal, and you can also hear small hints and riffs that’ll turn into a whole genre, groove metal
I wish this were on spotify...
I agree
Rita doesnt deserve the cash
@@ayearandahalf4112 why not?
Only "Proud to be loud" is available on spotify only but it was written as Dead Green Mummies, which it was actually sung by Pantera.
I live in Houston and one summer night in 1989 my friend and I walked into Backstage off I-59 not knowing what band was playing. We walked in right while Pantera was killing it and we had a brains melted. From that night to about 14 months later we saw them around 15 times between the two night stints they would play there every other month and going to Dallas a couple of times. This is all before Cowboys from Hell was released. What a great time this was. It shaped our lives. Live music and killer guitar playing is what I live for weather it’s metal, jazz, blues, classical whatever. Dime could have been at the top of music genre he had chosen. He went with badass metal and he ruled it. He difined music prodigy. What a senseless loss we all are stuck with. RIP my friend.
Killer story!
Do you remember what they played most often you heard them? Songs from this album? Did they do any off the cuff covers back then? I wasnt even in the nightmares of my fathers sleep then. Born in 96 so all I can do is imagine. I was born in the wrong decade.
Damn there was a time Phil had a real high range. Judas priest ,maiden range. You can hear it on Cemetery Gates but this shows guy could sing from top to bottom if he wanted to
Yep, but he didnt want to anymore
@@integrity101 And now he can't, I think.
@@darkscorpion-donzaloog
Yea not high pitched singing. He wouldn't want to tho anyway, he moved away from the style and found his own
Not just CEMETERY GATES but most of the CFH album...
Phil hit some high notes on songs such as SHATTERED and THE SLEEP...
his voice is deep asf when he’s not singing he’s a helluva singer.
Phil Anselmo has gotta be one of the most versatile singers in heavy metal history. The way he was able to sing like Halford even though he is a natural baritone, and how his style changed completely in the nineties to the heavier more savage vocals. Intense range.
Glam Metal? What Glam Metal? This is pure Heavy Metal man
Agreed,nothing glam about this.
i just found out about their first four albums and people call this glam? i think the hell not
@@rob.3575 it sounds like Glam moron
But it sounds like Glam morons
@@someboi6972
Sounds like Judas Priest. Priest isn't Glam
Pantera should really recognise and respect this album as the first true Pantera album (Phil Anselmo era). It rocks hard and it's really pretty good straight-up Judas Priest 'Painkiller' style metal. 🤘
I agree. Rex and Phil are way too hard on this album. They always distance themselves from it. They should embrace it!
@@Prairie_Barbarian they are even hard on Cowboys 😆
Phil called Vulgar their "first real Pantera record" i can understand their perspective but i love all their stuff
@@imperator4973 Phil isnt really hard on this anymore. I think he often wonders why he never really got credit for some of the great stuff that was on it.
Most of the best stuff on This was written by him.
I dont think anyone even Phil forgets that about Half of this album eventually turned into CFH. Both of these albums are very similar. The Problem is that stuff that did was Almost all written by Phil, Rex Vinnie and Dime.
The stuff here that you never really heard again, Wasnt.
@imperator4973 Well that was back in the day I'm sure he said that. In 90's it was VERY taboo sadly to associate with ANYTHING connected to the 80's in hard Rock or metal.
And I always defend Pantera from the dbags who give them shit about "the hair days". They were teenage kids for fks sake and had a mixed bag of influences from that era. Oh how dare they. Haha
Dime completely shreds on this album.
Probably where he is the most demonstrative
@@Nissardpertugiu This and Cowboys. I think Cowboys is a little bit crazier, but this album has unreal moments too!
@@KickflipGnasty CFH have rest
But this more Spacy .
killer and underrated album
I love that they go through a few different styles of metal across this album. Pantera doing straight Thrash on Over and Out is 10/10
A moment to appreciate the geniuses who created this masterpiece
agreed.
@@davenotstaine5646 we have same profile picture
@@assemcrghannam5920 I know XD
Judas Priest worship with a spoonful of Metallica thrown in for good measure. Their greatest album.
If Pantera sounded like this their whole career I might've been a huge fan. This is awesome
I love all their stuff, as well as Dime and Phil's other projects. I also liked Red's Kill Devil Hill.
May I ask what you didn't like about the later albums?
@@rufussamsquanch_6547 drug influenced lyrics
@@ayearandahalf4112 well Phil's life experiences are what drives the lyrics. I think the Great Southern Trendkill is their most underrated and creative album...and yes drugs and addiction played a large part in that, but sometimes the results can end up being brilliant, like Trendkill.
@@rufussamsquanch_6547 musically it is brilliant, but vocally it was an absolute let down. Phil was lucky to be alive during that peroid then he ended up diving in further, in which affected the lyrics and live performances. I actually skip fbd and trenkill when listening to, broken relationships and drug induced ramblings were burnt out in the grunge era, if phil didnt choose heroin- history would be different.
Vdop is their best work. Fbd was the overrated album..
If Pantera sounded like this their whole career nobody would know them (ok, just few people like you)...instead with a different style of their own (later in the 90's) they became one of the biggest metal bands worldwide.
In an alternative timeline pantera is disbanded by 1989, Diamond Darrell joins Marty Friedman in cacophony, Rex Rocker forms his own band with Jeff Scot Soto and Ritchie Kotzen as bandmates, Phill records jugulator in 1997 with Judas Priest and finally Vinnie Paul becomes a successful producer of Tex mex regional music
Until....FLASHPOINT !
Not to hate on dime but he probably couldn’t play Becker’s parts in cacophony. It’s not his style of playing.
Bad Omen it would be cool if he attempted to. Who knows. Maybe he did know how to play all those sweeps and neoclassical licks, haha
He was supposed to join megadeth before they found marty. So, dime would of got huge with rust in peace, while marty remained an obscure shredder
No offence to Dimebag but there's no way he could play any of Jasons parts in Cacophony and somehow I can't see him writing complicated counterpoint harmonies
'We'll Meet Again' sounds like it should of been in a Van Damme movie haha
Best comment so far...
Can proudly say I broke my nose at a Pantera concert in the early 90s. It helped that I was drunk and coked up outta my mind never felt a thing.. Phil's voice on this album is so fxxking awesome !
R.I.P Vinnie Rock with Dime now my friend..
Rest in Peace Abbott bros, your love of music will live on through all we've been handed! 🙏🙏🙏
vinnies face bro black tooth grin
I'm surprised at how many of these songs I know from metal radio back in the day. I thought this era of Pantera had been ignored.
Phil said hes cool with this being re-released. I think him and Rex and whoever is in charge of Dime and Vinny's estate need to get together and re-release it! The fans demand it.
@@rufussamsquanch_6547 I wish all of them would be rereleased just for the fact of preservation and keeping them alive. But this is definitely the best of the old era
You can tell priest was a huge influence
This year, 30 years of this treasure.
This Is My Favorite Pantera Album That They Ever Made With Philip Anselmo
I like diss 1 2. ! , it's just different
From t he rest , c.f.h. is badass !
They really shouldn’t be ashamed of this, the guitars/ bass is on point and Phil is actually pretty good priest/ queensriech sounding singer. Everybody gotta start somewhere, look at Motley Crue, all glammed up from Shout at the Devil back, then they outgrew it but not ashamed of it
They werent ashamed .
They played stuff of that record till 1991 , even 1993
They could of played "Over & Out" in their sets until the end & it wouldn't of sounded out of place with their modern material. Don't know why they didn't.
@@SuperRoo_22 very true
This album needs to be remastered in such a way that Phil’s background vocals can be enhanced and Dimebag’s rhythm guitar parts can be overdrived in production and re-released
Still better than anything coming out in 2018!
Couldn't be more true dude!!!!!!!!
Make that 2019 too
@@steveozone4910make that 2023 too
Or 2024
Been a Pantera fan since CFH debuted. I hate to admit I did not know they existed as Pantera before CFH. This is classic 80s metal. Huge difference from their signature sound but, still very good. Love it.
Most people were, I only bought there CFH because there earlier stuff like I am the night was so good. Darrel was awesome.
No shame in not knowing. The first album PHIL WROTE with them was CFH. Thats y they considered CFH their debut. They actually played a lot of these songs in 1990 but dropped them from the set in 1991.
@@thiefgold0913 Their** x2
I didn't know that Pantera existed before "Cowboys from Hell".
@@integrity101 there s a bootleg from april 1991 where they play over and out
riffs to power metal song, kinda sounds like early megadeth
Lmao I can see where you're hearing that from, it always reminded me of Loved to Deth's main riff.
Over and Out reminds me of Megadeth too!
DIME was a monster player even as a teenager! He is actually a busier player on this! as a guitar player, some shit on this are really hard as FUCK to attempt, God blessed ability, technical as FUCK, fast,complex,! He was not asked to join MEGADETH because he he didn't have mad skills, he was as good at 20 as anyone, throw in the tone,originality, personality, and he was one of the nicest and humble guy's ever, greatly appreciated and missed ALWAYS!!
i hear that lol
@@danielsnyder832 I heard that he was asked to join Megadeth but since Dime told Dave you gotta take Vinnie Paul it didn't happen.
Deserves more credit one of the sickest albums of the era
Diss is my all time favorite PANTERA album I like C. F. H.
We'll Meet Again my personal fav, anticipated late Pantera sound.
Wow, this is noticeably cleaner than other versions. I was always bothered by the loud crackling noises on Over & Out and this fixes that.
There is a true CD version of this album.
Thanks mate, I also have "Projects in the jungle" remastered. just waiting for the good moment to upload it :D
do it
@@Slanderous plssssss
@@Slanderous my dad just got me an ML and I'm going through PanterA's library and anything you can remaster like this would be such a treat to procure uwu even via email. That'd be super rad of you man ;-;
Dime has always been the God of riffs even way back then
Diss is my favorite PANTERA album Phil Anselmo s voice is iconic the hies & bass lines , dat shredding
PANTERA RULES !!!!
there is even a queensryche influence on this album.
yes there is, queen of the reiche-ish, right? i hear Dokken in there too
I have to admit, I have never been much of a Pantera fan... but the song DEATH TRAP (and that galloping opening riff from Hades... and that God-blessed SOLO!) just rips all kinds of late 1980s metal conventions to smithereens!!! "Queen of the Reich" meets Godzilla's testicles... on crack! Dime & Vinnie; we'll see you raising Hell in the afterlife, bros... and very, VERY nice remastering, slanderous! ;)
My favorite album from Pantera. I love 80's Pantera.
He will always be Diamond Darrell.
I'm in love with this album.
RIP VINNIE AND DIME
Thank you so much for posting this dude!! Sounds great! Such a classic
Without this we wouldn't have Cemetary Gates or Cowboys From Hell, I think these early albums show just how awesome Pantera was, these albums were how Pantera became Godsize.
PANTERA is the definition of
HEAVY METAL. !
pretty cool how you can hear hints of the "cowboys from hell" album here and there..
Burrnnn is reminiscent of Cowboys from Hell. I dig it
Diss is a badass album! Phils Voice
Is epic , DIME is shredding , R. R da
Bass is hitting , and da kick beat
Drums r killer. PANTERA RULES !
PANTERA is like an onion I keep seeing different layers 2 them it all is good ,Terry Glaze erea is hidden jewel 's *c.f.h. is a badass album
But it started here ,I love it !
PANTERA RULES !!!!
This is my favorite album from them and I think their best personally, I know I’ll get shit from people because their later albums are what they are know for but I prefer their older stuff, I like it better, I think their last five albums are overrated personally but to each their own
I totally agree, can't believe how underrated this album is. It's their best one in my opinion as well.
I actually kinda like this era of their music much better than the later stuff.
I love it all! This is every bit as good as Cowboys.
The song power metal is actually sort of Predicting what this band was about to do. Its one of the best early Pantera songs. That song mostly says exactly what they did for the next decade. They literally ran forever as long as they could.
Very Underrated Record, One of my favorite records of all time, Wasn't recognized much more it deserves to be, with the Help of Phil Anselmo they got more heavier and heavier because of his Heavy Metal Awra, I see this is the real Start where Pantera has Begun their Heavy Metal Sound before jumping into straight Groove Metal Trend. But hey its one of the classics that I've heard so far another masterpiece that I'II remember and some Speed/Heavy Metal/Glam Metal/and Thrash Metal here I guess Rock the World is straight Glam while the rest of the songs were Speed/Heavy Metal and Thrash Metal so great Hard Ride has a great solo as well amazing.
No glam here, just hardcore, thrash metal gods
This might be peak Phil Anselmo vocals, what does everyone else think?
Anyone that thinks this is somehow not a top-notch, cutting edge, technical metal record for '88 needs to get their fucking ears cleaned!!! Fucking seriously!? Dime's guitar work here is like Downing and Tipton together on steroids!!! Yes, heavy Priest roots yet at the same time progressively light years beyond. His fretting is so spot-on - razor sharp - precision, it's inhumane! Dime was truly six string divinity.
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The band as a whole is so tight throughout they are like one singular machine with precision chugging groove down to the atomic level. Vin's drumming is masterfully on time like nuclear clockwork while Phil's voice is questionably the best metal vocals ever belted out in the entire universe, ever! Really listen how he picks up where Halford leaves off and takes it to the outer limits of what every other singer only wishes could ever come out of their little mouths!!! Phil is state-of-the-art here and I would dare anyone to say otherwise to his face. It would probably be the end of your own as you know it.
Get a fucking clue nay-saying people or just get the fuck outta here until you pull your heads out of your asses and clean all the shit out of your ear holes!!!
Dime is the reason why i am checking this out right now. And it is not disappointing.
The best album of Pantera
So, I didn't listen to this album for like 8 years and wow, I forgot how good this actually is. I find most of their later albums after this to be boring. Power Metal is their best album and it's a damn shame how this album is so forgotten. Too bad we'll probably never get a reissue of this masterpiece.
My fave PANTERA record. Power Metal, then Cowboys, then Vulgar! Speed metal here, high pitched vocals. Priest worship.
Love how you added their 90s logo to the original album artwork!
over and out
is dope asf
so groovy
I can't believe this is Anselmo singing. I've been a fan since their early days in the eighties. I love what Phil brought to the band, but I would've loved to hear him actually singing like this more. I don't know how, but if he could've found a way to incorporate the two styles it would've been amazing. But at any rate, Pantera was always amazing..early, middle and late.
he cant sing like this since 1992
@@razonyespiritu it was choice not a lost ability .
Ive bootlegs in 1993 and 1994 when he s more old school about it
If he would have combined this with those later albums.
Exactly!
That would have been SIIIIICKK!
This album is so awesome.
RIP Vinnie
"Power metal" is in fact speed metal
nah, not speed metal...not fast at all, this albums mostly mid tempo early queensryche style.
Wow man . Forgot about these records.... They all do great together .... Loved Phil's screams.... Dime.... crazy as always.. Great drums and bass... Rad mannnnn !
Dime is on fire, you can feel the motivation
I LOVE Pantera’s other stuff. Haven’t really given this record and earlier ones much attention. I need to expand my taste range!
never stop expanding
favorites: yes
elitism and tunnel vision: no [unless yer drunk]
OUGH
Holy Iron Maiden, Phil!
More like Holy Judas Priest, Phil!
Holy Iron Priest, Phil!
showing the metal world how it's done...next, groove metal!
One of the BEST albums EVER.
Ive listened to this album beginning to end about 100 times the past week or so. its so fire
Love this. Dimebag was insane.
mattdedasc as a guitar player, this is a fucking nightmare! some incredibly tough riffs! DIME was a monster player, legend!
He was more demonstrative in 80s .
Also Power metal is probably where Dime is the most on Fire ..
Most over the top solos from Dime .
The riffs ( and Vinnie s part ) are also more technical that it seems.
i want all of panteras glam metal on spotify right freaking now
This is peak thrash fool.
@@metler7642 what
I love all PanterA albums ! Diss one is my favorite ! RIP Abbott brothers Legends 4real .!.
Diss is badass shredding by Dime & vinnie 's drumming is awsome, Phil's
Voice is epic....
pure metal
Judas Pantera
Best Pantera album!
Cowboys from Hell will alway's be their greatest in my opinion!!!🤘
@@vapordreams983 The great southern trendkill is the best imo.
@@Pokemonvspuddin101 Honestly, I love every Pantera album equally beginning from Power Metal and on, but I've alway's loved Cowboys because it was a good combination of Power Metal and what will come after (Vulgar). You get the heaviness of Vulgar but the screams of Power Metal, it works so well. Every Pantera is great tho!!!🤘
@@vapordreams983 tbh I haven't listened to the 80s pantera catalog at all. I would have if they wete rereleased.
Great work uploading this gem!!! Props to you mate; )
This is an excellent remaster \m/
Power Metal & Over and Out are total bangers \m/
this just sounds like if Megadeth and Judas Priest made some badass side project together. i love it
Uno de los mejores solos de guitarra en la historia de Dimebag se lo lanzó en we'll meet again, que pedazo de solo.
17 años ..me ponia un parche el ojo .... aguante .. heavy metal x siempre ... nunca lo olvidere jamas ...
This album is killer, even though it is a little different metal than "Cowboys from Hell" onward. You can tell they liked Judas Priest a lot. And what true metalhead doesn't?
The beginning of Burnnn always reminds me of Freewheel Burning. This is a killer album.
.Power Metal -3:35 .We'll Meet Again -7:30 .Over & Out -11:26 .Proud to be Loud -16:34 .Down Below -20:38 .Death Trap -23:29 .Hard Ride -27:38 .Burnnn -31:57 .P.S.T '88 -35:32
Hey, the tracklist is in the desc ;)
Slanderous the timecodes in desc don't work on mobile. this comment is good for that
Alright, wasn't aware of that. Thanks for letting me know
I see Judas in here.
This is Majestic!!!
Love Rex's hair in the thumbnail lol.
Background pic i mean...
Wow.....I never knew that pant era had an 80s background...crazy
Yeah .
Formed 1981 ,
Metal magic (1983) , Project in the jungle (1984) , I am the night (1985), Power metal (1988)
People may being " wow " when CFH came out , but almost a decade of career , 4 albums and 5 nights a week .
Well you understand why , its their background .
That background that allowed to do the rest .
Though technically CFH is a 80's album too as it was on demo and mostly played live in 1988 .
Power metal was made in 1986 .
Pantera was signed on a Atco sub distribution , Gold moutain records ,
Phil came in , recorded his vocals , ready to be nationally released in 1987 .
But the label though the album was too heavy and then they finally waited for the end contract but benefitted of the distribution , and released Power metal again on their own metal magic records label in 1988
this sould be on spotify it sound exactly like judas priest
Amazing album.
Here in 2024 🤘
Killer album!!!
Thank you...thank you so much for sharing this treasure! God bless you!
Does anyone know the name of the font used on the words "power metal"?
Did not Except you here just watched your GH cats video. look up "glass houses font" comes pretty close. also it looks like regular font they just stretched and enlarged to give it a distorted font look.
Ironically Rob Halford wanted to be Pantera with Fight. Where this is the best Judas Priest album, that Priest never made.
The solo on We'll Meet Again is nuts