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Pantera
Pantera started out in Arlington, Texas, built around brothers Dimebag Darrell Abbott on guitar and Vinnie Paul Abbott on drums, and spent years as a glam-leaning club band before singer Phil Anselmo came on board and they found their real voice. The turn came with Cowboys From Hell, and from there they got heavier and harder with every record, powering through the 1990s on Darrell's crushing riffs at a time when metal was supposedly on the way out. They broke up in 2003, and Dimebag was shot and killed onstage the following year, but their run of 90s albums remains some of the most influential metal ever cut.
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Vulgar Display of Power (1992). The heaviest and most focused record of their peak years. "Walk," "Mouth for War," and "This Love" are all here, and Dimebag's guitar sound hits as hard now as it did then.
Biography
Pantera () is an American heavy metal band formed in Arlington, Texas, in 1981 by the Abbott brothers (guitarist Dimebag Darrell and drummer Vinnie Paul), and currently composed of vocalist Phil Anselmo, bassist Rex Brown, and touring musicians Zakk Wylde and Charlie Benante. The group's best-known lineup consisted of the Abbott brothers along with Brown and Anselmo, who joined in 1982 and 1986, respectively. The band is credited for developing and popularizing the subgenre of groove metal in the 1990s. Regarded as one of the most successful and influential bands in heavy metal history, Pantera has sold around 20 million records worldwide and has received four Grammy nominations.
Having started as a glam metal band, Pantera released three albums in the mid-1980s with lead vocalist Terry Glaze (Metal Magic, Projects in the Jungle, and I Am the Night), with little success. Looking for a new and heavier sound, Pantera recruited Anselmo in 1986 and released Power Metal in 1988. They secured a record deal with major label Atco the following year.
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Studio albums
Discography
Official studio albums and EPs.
- 2000Reinventing the SteelAlbum
- 1996The Great Southern TrendkillAlbum
- 1994Far Beyond DrivenAlbum
- 1994Hostile MomentsEP
- 1992Vulgar Display of PowerAlbum
- 1991Cowboys From HellAlbum
- 1988Power MetalAlbum
- 1985I Am the NightAlbum
- 1984Projects in the JungleAlbum
- 1983Metal MagicAlbum
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