For me: 1. Vulgar Display of Power 2. Far Beyond Driven 3. Cowboy From Hell 4. Reinventing The Steel 5. The Great American Trendkill 6. Power Metal 7. Metal Magic 8. I am The Night 9. Projects in the Jungle
Fantastic video. For me it would be Vulgar Display because overall I think the songs are better and more consistent but like Pete said, those 3 tracks on Far Beyond Driven are KILLER too.
1 - Cowboys From Hell 2 - The Great Southern Trendkill 3 - Vulgar Display Of Power 4 - Far Beyond Driven 5 - Reinventing The Steel 6 - Power Metal 7 - I Am The Night 8 - Projects In The Jungle 9 - Metal Magic
An amazing band! One of my favorites for sure. Super influential on current metal music. 1) Far Beyond Driven 2) The Great Southern Treandkill 3) Vulgar Display Of Power 4) Cowboys From Hell 5) Reinventing The Steel 6) Power Metal 7) Projects In The Jungle 8) I Am The Night 9) Metal Magic
28:49 re: metal threshold. I think this is really well stated and, actually, I think my metal threshold is about the same place as Guitar Hack's, with Pantera teetering along the edge.
9. I Am The Night 8. Metal Magic 7. Projects in the Jungle 6. Power Metal 5. Reinventing the Steel 4. The Great Southern Trendkill 3. Cowboys from Hell 2. Far Beyond Driven 1. Vulgar Display of Power
This list is dead on! Vulgar Display of Power is perfect music for my "run through a brick wall" workout! It is a perfect album and works well to keep people away from me that I don't want near! Ha ha!
9. Metal Magic 8. Great Southern Trendkill 7. Power Metal 6. Reinventing the Steel 5. Projects In the Jungle 4. Far Beyond Driven 3. I Am the Night 2. Cowboys from Hell 1. Vulgar Display of Power
1. Cowboys From Hell 2. Vulgar Display of Power 3. The Great Southern Trendkill 4. Far Beyond Driven 5. Reinventing The Steel 6. Power Metal 7. I Am The Night 8. Projects In The Jungle 9. Metal Magic
I just saw Pantera a few weeks ago & I was pleasantly surprised that Zakk played like Dimebag and not like Zakk & Phil's vocals were spot on. I saw the Pantera of the 90s & this was almost as great as that Pantera.
‘Projects in the Jungle’ is my first and has become my go to Pantera album over the years. Dime’s solo at the end of “Takin My Life” is simply brilliant! That being said, I don’t think it’s their best. My ranking 1. Cowboys From Hell 2. Vulgar Display of Power 3. Projects in the Jungle 4. Power Metal 5. Far Beyond Driven 6. I Am The Night 7. Reinventing the Steel 8. Great Southern Trendkill 9. Metal Magic Metal Magic is very primative but still fun. Reinventing & Trendkill start to throw in a lot of filler. Some of it is “contrived heaviness” or just making racket to sound heavy. Phil’s once great range and powerful vocals are shot by then. Still great guitar solos by Dime.
The fact that Vinnie and Dime basically erased their 80's catalogue is wrong. I never thought of those first four records as "hair metal" in sound and definitely nothing to be ashamed of.
My ranking 1-9: Vulgar Display of Power Cowboys From Hell Far Beyond Driven Projects in the Jungle Power Metal Great Southern Trendkill Reinventing the Steel I am the Night Metal Magic
Inovative, Pantera, new genra. If Richie Blackmore didn't invent this mode of playing there would not be : Eddie Van Halen Randy Roads All the metal guitarists after If not for Richie Blackmore, there would not be a Pantera.
Page is really important too. Eddie van Halen said Jimmy Page was a big influence on him. I also think Page influenced Blackmore. Blackmore plays a certain way on the first three Deep Purple albums, that is influenced by Hendrix, Clapton and Beck. Then you hear In Rock and that template is suddenly there. The difference to me is Led Zeppelin I and II coming out and Blackmore hearing what Page is doing.
Did Martin just slam Chicago? Pete is a fan of early Chicago, the Chicago that produced three amazing, jazz influenced albums right out of the gate! Martin must be referring to sappy, ballad heavy Chicago! Right Martin? Martin?
For me it's not a "metal threshold", just what certain bands are good at -- I like a lot of extreme metal bands because of the way they play and the way they do things. I don't love Pantera although I think they are interesting; I definitely prefer them being kind of melodic and Cowboys would be my favourite. I think Reinventing the Steel is probably their worst for me -- I'd take the 80s ones over it for sure. Of course, I don't think too many people knew about them back in the 80s at all. In my opinion a lot of people are just too easy on this band for reasons I can only theorise about. All the albums until Cowboys have pretty thin and weak sound for their time (yes, I mean compared to other "poverty" metal bands Martin mentioned), and Glaze was definitely not great. I don't think the band changed overnight; in fact it was pretty gradual, with Vulgar certainly being a little bit of a leap, but not that much of one. I like Trendkill a lot because it's such a weird and intense album, and theres variety on it and more of a feeling of dedication and passion that I don't hear at all on Reinventing. So Trendkill would be #2. For me, Power Metal is #3. I really enjoy that one for the most part and yes, Phil was an improvement. Already on stuff like Far beyond Driven I was missing his cool versatile melodic voice. Weird band, like I said; far from a favourite but kind of interesting to talk about in a way. it always surprises me when guys who were around during the 80s metal days embrace what they turned into. I'm not one of those people -- Trendkill was the "new" album that came out a little while after I discovered them.
I understand panteras importance and popularity in the 90s but I could never get into them, don't like Anselmo gruff voice. I like cemetery gates and the title track from cowboys but not much else especially the heavier albums.
1. I Am the Night 2. Projects in the Jungle 3. Metal Magic 4. Cowboys From Hell 5. Their Nu Metal nonsense ,or Groove Metal 😂. Just too bouncy for my tastes. I like the faster songs , but songs like Walk can just Walk On.....HOMEBOY.....HOMEBOY......WALK On. You Go HOMEBOY
1. I Am the Night 2. Projects in the Jungle 3. Cowboys from Hell 4. The Great Southern Trendkill 5. Vulgar Display of Power 6. Power Metal 7. Far Beyond Driven 8. Reinventing the Steel 9. Metal Magic Great catalogue. One of my favorite bands.
Also I'm sorry but this band has the worst attitude ever. Sweeping their first four albums under the rug is so egregious at this point, especially after the death of the Abbot brothers.
They were self releases by the Abbott family’s own label, Metal Magic. Jerry Abbott has the rights to that music, not the current band. Your beef is with him but unfair if he is adhering to the wishes of his sons. The albums were never on a major label and the truth is that they have not been swept under the rug, they never sold that many in the first place. People pretending they’re the greatest things Pantera ever did aren’t going to get them reissued either, its clearly not about money at this stage because the success of the later albums means people now care enough to get them.
@@jimmycampbell78 No it's the band. The entire band considered it a *NEW* band when Phil joined. Although Philip sings on Power Metal, most of that album was written before he joined hence CFH being the true debut because it is the first album written 100% by all four guys from the beginning. Plus, obviously it's their major label debut. The band could've made a fortune te-releasing these 80s albums but they didn't want to tarnish the Pantera name. CFH is also the first album to not feature a teenager. Bottom line, the band considered the 80s material to be a different band. They even seriously considered renaming the band when Phil joined but the truth is that would be counterproductive. All the 80s stuff is cool collectible material and they liked it that way.
@@user-zq5eb2hj9oI wouldn't say you are in that small of a group.... Pantera was really popular in the early to mid 90's, and certainly that legacy is still strong, but there are a fairly large number of metalheads who dislike their role in the creation of nu-metal, who dislike Phil's overall persona (the voice, the image, the attitude, the faux pas over the years, etc.).... And perhaps most of all, there is disdain for the band disavowing their 80's stuff which also can come across as them dissing the 80's in general. And via that disdain they themselves have caused those albums to be dismissed as third rate "hair metal" by most people.
The albums never sold that many in the first place. It does not matter if you prefer ‘glam’ over ‘nu metal’. People didn’t care about those albums back then. And if you want generic and derivative, its those 80s albums.
@@ryanjacobson2508 Fans get more confused over Pantera than any band I can think of. They arent hiding the 80s albums nor were they ashamed of them. They did not magically change overnight jan 1st 1990 and they do not dislike 80s metal or anything. Its simple, they got a new singer and considered it a new band. Because they were still so young they decided against changing the band name which makes sense. All they did was drop old songs in favor of new ones as they grew as muscians and the fact is that continued through FBD. When Phil joined they dropped 99% of Terry's stuff. By 1989 a full year before CFH they had dropped almost all 80s material except a couple tracks from Power Metal. Bottom line it really was just teenagers growing up and finally finding the right singer to complete the band. CFH is the first album written written written 100% by all 4 guys, hence it being their debut. People dont realize almost all of PM was written in 1986 before Phil joined
I liked some of their stuff back in the day, . But, far beyond driven is a horrible record with bad vocals and way to much needless overdubs that make most of the songs annoying and unlistenable. I was done with them after that other than a couple songs. Dime and Vinnie were good though
I think Far Beyond got a big boost due to the popularity of Cowboys and Vulgar... As time has gone by those first two have retained their popularity but Far Beyond hasn't maintained the same resonance.
9.Metal Magic 8. I Am The Night 7. Projects in the Jungle 6. Power Metal 5. The Great Southern Trendkill 4. Reinventing the Steel 3. Cowboys from Hell 2. Vulgar Display of Power 1. Far Beyond Driven
1. Great Southern Trendkill
2.Far Beyond Driven
3.Cowboys from Hell
4.Vulgar Display
5.re-inventing the steel
For me:
1. Vulgar Display of Power
2. Far Beyond Driven
3. Cowboy From Hell
4. Reinventing The Steel
5. The Great American Trendkill
6. Power Metal
7. Metal Magic
8. I am The Night
9. Projects in the Jungle
Fantastic video. For me it would be Vulgar Display because overall I think the songs are better and more consistent but like Pete said, those 3 tracks on Far Beyond Driven are KILLER too.
Vulgar Display Of Power gives me the strength of 10 men! It is life changing🎸🎸!
Please do a Pantera book Martin!!!
The band "Europe" has released a brand new song called "Hold Your Head Up". For those interested!
1 - Cowboys From Hell
2 - The Great Southern Trendkill
3 - Vulgar Display Of Power
4 - Far Beyond Driven
5 - Reinventing The Steel
6 - Power Metal
7 - I Am The Night
8 - Projects In The Jungle
9 - Metal Magic
9. Metal Magic
8. Projects in the Jungle
7. I Am the Night
6. Power Metal
5. CFH
4. RTS
3. VDOP
2. GSTK
1. FBD
An amazing band! One of my favorites for sure. Super influential on current metal music.
1) Far Beyond Driven
2) The Great Southern Treandkill
3) Vulgar Display Of Power
4) Cowboys From Hell
5) Reinventing The Steel
6) Power Metal
7) Projects In The Jungle
8) I Am The Night
9) Metal Magic
Top 5
1 - Vulgar Display of Power
2. - Cowboys From Hell
3 -.Far Beyond Driven
4. -The Great American Trendkill
5.- Reinventing The Steel
the cd “power metal” is way underrated
28:49 re: metal threshold. I think this is really well stated and, actually, I think my metal threshold is about the same place as Guitar Hack's, with Pantera teetering along the edge.
9. I Am The Night
8. Metal Magic
7. Projects in the Jungle
6. Power Metal
5. Reinventing the Steel
4. The Great Southern Trendkill
3. Cowboys from Hell
2. Far Beyond Driven
1. Vulgar Display of Power
This list is dead on! Vulgar Display of Power is perfect music for my "run through a brick wall" workout! It is a perfect album and works well to keep people away from me that I don't want near! Ha ha!
9. Metal Magic
8. Great Southern Trendkill
7. Power Metal
6. Reinventing the Steel
5. Projects In the Jungle
4. Far Beyond Driven
3. I Am the Night
2. Cowboys from Hell
1. Vulgar Display of Power
I love the first 3 albums after that I checked out.
I am with you, Hack. Pantera is my metal threshhold as well. I can't do the growling, except for maybe some brief ventures.
1. Cowboys From Hell
2. Vulgar Display of Power
3. The Great Southern Trendkill
4. Far Beyond Driven
5. Reinventing The Steel
6. Power Metal
7. I Am The Night
8. Projects In The Jungle
9. Metal Magic
Pantera absolutely need to reissue their first 4 albums
Never gonna happen. Different band, same name.
Great Show as always,
A King Diamond Show would also be cool.
i wish the band (the family) would reissue the first four records
I just saw Pantera a few weeks ago & I was pleasantly surprised that Zakk played like Dimebag and not like Zakk & Phil's vocals were spot on. I saw the Pantera of the 90s & this was almost as great as that Pantera.
Worth mentioning that Far Beyond Driven is the heaviest Billboard number one album ever.
Interesting about the threshold, id agree on Anselmo but strangely i can listen to slayer.
‘Projects in the Jungle’ is my first and has become my go to Pantera album over the years. Dime’s solo at the end of “Takin My Life” is simply brilliant! That being said, I don’t think it’s their best. My ranking
1. Cowboys From Hell
2. Vulgar Display of Power
3. Projects in the Jungle
4. Power Metal
5. Far Beyond Driven
6. I Am The Night
7. Reinventing the Steel
8. Great Southern Trendkill
9. Metal Magic
Metal Magic is very primative but still fun.
Reinventing & Trendkill start to throw in a lot of filler. Some of it is “contrived heaviness” or just making racket to sound heavy. Phil’s once great range and powerful vocals are shot by then. Still great guitar solos by Dime.
Where can we buy those early Pantera albums on CD? Are they obtainable? Thanks!
The early ones are my favorite! I Am The Night fucking RULES
1. Vulgar Display of Power 2. Cowboys From Hell 3. Far Beyond Driven 4. Best of. Don't need or really want anything beyond that.
I'm i dreaming ? Pantera ? Oh yea !!!
Vulgar is definitely their best record overall but Cowboys is my favorite. Does that make sense?
The fact that Vinnie and Dime basically erased their 80's catalogue is wrong. I never thought of those first four records as "hair metal" in sound and definitely nothing to be ashamed of.
metal edge covered them alot in 80s
My ranking 1-9:
Vulgar Display of Power
Cowboys From Hell
Far Beyond Driven
Projects in the Jungle
Power Metal
Great Southern Trendkill
Reinventing the Steel
I am the Night
Metal Magic
Inovative, Pantera, new genra.
If Richie Blackmore didn't invent this mode of playing there would not be :
Eddie Van Halen
Randy Roads
All the metal guitarists after
If not for Richie Blackmore, there would not be a Pantera.
Page is really important too. Eddie van Halen said Jimmy Page was a big influence on him. I also think Page influenced Blackmore. Blackmore plays a certain way on the first three Deep Purple albums, that is influenced by Hendrix, Clapton and Beck. Then you hear In Rock and that template is suddenly there. The difference to me is Led Zeppelin I and II coming out and Blackmore hearing what Page is doing.
Did Martin just slam Chicago? Pete is a fan of early Chicago, the Chicago that produced three amazing, jazz influenced albums right out of the gate! Martin must be referring to sappy, ballad heavy Chicago! Right Martin?
Martin?
It's a running joke with Pete.
For me it's not a "metal threshold", just what certain bands are good at -- I like a lot of extreme metal bands because of the way they play and the way they do things. I don't love Pantera although I think they are interesting; I definitely prefer them being kind of melodic and Cowboys would be my favourite. I think Reinventing the Steel is probably their worst for me -- I'd take the 80s ones over it for sure. Of course, I don't think too many people knew about them back in the 80s at all. In my opinion a lot of people are just too easy on this band for reasons I can only theorise about. All the albums until Cowboys have pretty thin and weak sound for their time (yes, I mean compared to other "poverty" metal bands Martin mentioned), and Glaze was definitely not great. I don't think the band changed overnight; in fact it was pretty gradual, with Vulgar certainly being a little bit of a leap, but not that much of one. I like Trendkill a lot because it's such a weird and intense album, and theres variety on it and more of a feeling of dedication and passion that I don't hear at all on Reinventing. So Trendkill would be #2. For me, Power Metal is #3. I really enjoy that one for the most part and yes, Phil was an improvement. Already on stuff like Far beyond Driven I was missing his cool versatile melodic voice.
Weird band, like I said; far from a favourite but kind of interesting to talk about in a way. it always surprises me when guys who were around during the 80s metal days embrace what they turned into. I'm not one of those people -- Trendkill was the "new" album that came out a little while after I discovered them.
I understand panteras importance and popularity in the 90s but I could never get into them, don't like Anselmo gruff voice. I like cemetery gates and the title track from cowboys but not much else especially the heavier albums.
1. Vulgar 2. Far beyond 3. Cowboys
Trendkill and Steel are both consistently underrated and FBD is consistently overrated.
Agreed!
1. I Am the Night
2. Projects in the Jungle
3. Metal Magic
4. Cowboys From Hell
5. Their Nu Metal nonsense ,or Groove Metal 😂. Just too bouncy for my tastes. I like the faster songs , but songs like Walk can just Walk On.....HOMEBOY.....HOMEBOY......WALK On. You Go HOMEBOY
1. I Am the Night
2. Projects in the Jungle
3. Cowboys from Hell
4. The Great Southern Trendkill
5. Vulgar Display of Power
6. Power Metal
7. Far Beyond Driven
8. Reinventing the Steel
9. Metal Magic
Great catalogue. One of my favorite bands.
Also I'm sorry but this band has the worst attitude ever. Sweeping their first four albums under the rug is so egregious at this point, especially after the death of the Abbot brothers.
🙄🤦♂️
They were self releases by the Abbott family’s own label, Metal Magic. Jerry Abbott has the rights to that music, not the current band. Your beef is with him but unfair if he is adhering to the wishes of his sons.
The albums were never on a major label and the truth is that they have not been swept under the rug, they never sold that many in the first place. People pretending they’re the greatest things Pantera ever did aren’t going to get them reissued either, its clearly not about money at this stage because the success of the later albums means people now care enough to get them.
@@jimmycampbell78
Rex & Rita not Jerry
@@integrity101 ok. But I think it would be the family blocking it.
@@jimmycampbell78
No it's the band. The entire band considered it a *NEW* band when Phil joined. Although Philip sings on Power Metal, most of that album was written before he joined hence CFH being the true debut because it is the first album written 100% by all four guys from the beginning. Plus, obviously it's their major label debut.
The band could've made a fortune te-releasing these 80s albums but they didn't want to tarnish the Pantera name. CFH is also the first album to not feature a teenager.
Bottom line, the band considered the 80s material to be a different band. They even seriously considered renaming the band when Phil joined but the truth is that would be counterproductive. All the 80s stuff is cool collectible material and they liked it that way.
I think they are the Dullest, most generic, overrated band in the history of metal. I liked a few of the offshoot bands like damageplan and superjoint
Literally one of the 1% of bands in the world that created a new sound. The polar opposite of generic.
I knew I’d be in the minority Martin but I just don’t get them and never have.
@@user-zq5eb2hj9oI wouldn't say you are in that small of a group.... Pantera was really popular in the early to mid 90's, and certainly that legacy is still strong, but there are a fairly large number of metalheads who dislike their role in the creation of nu-metal, who dislike Phil's overall persona (the voice, the image, the attitude, the faux pas over the years, etc.).... And perhaps most of all, there is disdain for the band disavowing their 80's stuff which also can come across as them dissing the 80's in general. And via that disdain they themselves have caused those albums to be dismissed as third rate "hair metal" by most people.
The albums never sold that many in the first place. It does not matter if you prefer ‘glam’ over ‘nu metal’. People didn’t care about those albums back then. And if you want generic and derivative, its those 80s albums.
@@ryanjacobson2508
Fans get more confused over Pantera than any band I can think of. They arent hiding the 80s albums nor were they ashamed of them. They did not magically change overnight jan 1st 1990 and they do not dislike 80s metal or anything.
Its simple, they got a new singer and considered it a new band. Because they were still so young they decided against changing the band name which makes sense. All they did was drop old songs in favor of new ones as they grew as muscians and the fact is that continued through FBD. When Phil joined they dropped 99% of Terry's stuff. By 1989 a full year before CFH they had dropped almost all 80s material except a couple tracks from Power Metal.
Bottom line it really was just teenagers growing up and finally finding the right singer to complete the band. CFH is the first album written written written 100% by all 4 guys, hence it being their debut. People dont realize almost all of PM was written in 1986 before Phil joined
Hard to discuss Pantera without thinking of the annoying stage behavior of Phil over the recent years and how poorly he handled the critique.
29:45 Awesome. Pete likes Chicago.
I love Martin, but he is so dead wrong about Chicago. I love all of their music, but the Terry Kath years are phenomenal.
@Almeida5 Yeah he's wrong about a thing or two.
Tora tora and one foot out the door rock ballz
Cemetery gates is lame
Far beyond is garbage
Dimes playing in later years was just like how zakk wyldes solos have been for 20 years. Way to much effects and overdubs and just noisy.
I liked some of their stuff back in the day,
. But, far beyond driven is a horrible record with bad vocals and way to much needless overdubs that make most of the songs annoying and unlistenable. I was done with them after that other than a couple songs. Dime and Vinnie were good though
I think Far Beyond got a big boost due to the popularity of Cowboys and Vulgar... As time has gone by those first two have retained their popularity but Far Beyond hasn't maintained the same resonance.
9.Metal Magic
8. I Am The Night
7. Projects in the Jungle
6. Power Metal
5. The Great Southern Trendkill
4. Reinventing the Steel
3. Cowboys from Hell
2. Vulgar Display of Power
1. Far Beyond Driven