Pantera - Domination

[Arm0r]

Just having a few beers, dipping into nostalgia a bit and thought I'd share.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgNxalzduaY

[Arm0r]

heh, looks like Bullet for my Valentine did a remake of the song, dunno if I like it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYDiXLFfSy8&feature=related

[Whirlingdervish]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axzRdFOYpqg

^ my favorite pantera song, although I do like pretty much everything on the pre-southern trend kill albums more than most metal done since.

[|iR|Focalor]

They did an awesome cover of a Whackmaster classic for the Detroit Rock City soundtrack.

Pantera - Cat Scratch Fever (Ted Nugent cover)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3twRkEBvnfI

One of my favorites from Far Beyond Driven, not that any song on that album isn't good.

Pantera - Shedding Skin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_igViwDG_nw

Also a huge fan of Anslemo's other projects, especially Down (featuring members of Pantera, Crowbar, Corrosion of Conformity). They're supposed to be at the Masquerade in Atlanta this weekend. I don't go to many shows anymore, but I'm DEFINITELY gonna catch this one. Down is little less hard edged than Pantera and more sludgey, kinda bluesy, what you might describe as something like "progressive stoner rock/metal". Lots of different really cool elements mixed up in it. I'll post a bunch of different ones to hopefully demonstrate their variety of songs.

Down's first album was a little more straightforward metal.

Down - Bury Me In Smoke (from Down I - NOLA)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zay8kCgci2E

Down - Stone The Crow (from Down I - NOLA)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBLbrJxGtro

After the first album, they started mixing in a lot more effects for the guitars and put a lot more effort into the production. Really cool to listen to through some good headphones with the volume up to hear all the great subtle details in the recording.

Down - Ghosts Along the Mississippi (from Down II - A Bustle In Your Hedgerow)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH4nmmhv-c8

Down - Learn From This Mistake (from Down II - A Bustle In Your Hedgerow)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFT6TFw7e_w

This one was probably the biggest oddball track on the whole album. Very jazzy sounding. A lot of metal fans I've let hear this one said they didn't like it, but it's one of my favorites from that album.

Down - Lies, I Don't Know What They Say But... (from Down II - A Bustle In Your Hedgerow)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRp8Ra25O-c

Down - On March The Saints (from Down III - Over The Under)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuEX2n3YDfA

This one kinda reminds me of some Doors or Pink Floyd a little bit. Really

Down - Nothing In Return/Walk Away (from Down III - Over The Under)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J4trNtRwoc

Phil Anselmo also has another band called Superjoint Ritual with Hank Williams III on bass. The first album was a LOT closer to the old Pantera stuff than Down.

Superjoint Ritual - The Alcoholik (from 1st album, Use Once And Destroy)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1CuPCHH_pE

Superjoint Ritual - Fuck Your Enemy (from 1st album, Use Once And Destroy)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NewEBRKFwXg

Superjoint Ritual - Ozena (from 1st album, Use Once And Destroy)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rekblRBLQWk

Superjoint Ritual - The Destruction of a Person (from 2nd album, A Lethal Dose of American Hatred)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL_pMlXonrQ

Superjoint Ritual - Dress Like a Target (from 2nd album, A Lethal Dose of American Hatred)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QV6cZgZJSsA

Superjoint Ritual - Permanently (from 2nd album, A Lethal Dose of American Hatred)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNbQknfwMcg

[haunted]

Down - Ghosts Along the Mississippi (from Down II - A Bustle In Your Hedgerow)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rH4nmmhv-c8

^my favorite down song... Hadn't listened to it forever, just what I needed this morning.

Had to load this one up too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2ETjXxBw5Y

[Arm0r]

Niiice, never heard of down before this.  They're pretty fuckin good.

[|iR|Focalor]

It's fucking sad that a lot of younger/younger-ISH fans of Pantera never really got the chance to learn about Down. When their first album came out back in the mid 90's maybe a year after Far Beyond Driven, they (Down) got a good bit of press since Pantera had really broken through the underground with Far Beyond Driven. But since then, unless you were just a fan of Anselmo and already followed him, you probably didn't get an opportunity to hear about Down and Superjoint Ritual since major forms of music media like MTV stopped covering metal. If you ever get a chance to see them live, DO IT. They've only got a couple of dates left in the US before they ship down to South America to play some shows in November.

# 09/20/11 Dayton, OH
# 09/21/11 - Flint, MI
# 09/23/11 - Atlanta, GA
# 09/24/11 - Mobile, AL
# 10/29/11 - New Orleans, LA
# 10/30/11 - New Orleans, LA
# 11/11/11 - Buenos Aires
# 11/12/11 - Santiago, Chile
# 11/14/11 - Sao Paulo, Brazil
# 11/16/11 - Porto Alegre

[Arm0r]

Dayton is not a huge drive from me    I might have to go check these dudes out!!  I like the flavor alot, good fuckin band.

[|iR|Focalor]

AWESOME FUCKING SHOW. Place was packed, nothing but fucking assholes and elbows. Seriously considering maybe riding down to New Orleans next week to see them again if I can get away for a couple days.

[|iR|Focalor]

Found an old video of Darrell doing a guitar clinic at some small-ish guitar shop in Texas. Dunno exactly when this was. Probably sometime around 1994-ish.

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[|iR|Focalor]

The Pantera reunion. 

Some people were pissing their pants with glee at the notion. Others wanted no part of it. I was somewhere in the middle, remaining curious. To be honest, I was leaning more towards wanting no part of it though. Dime and Vinny before each of their deaths made it abundantly clear that Pantera getting back together was never gonna happen. And once you do a little research into the person of vocalist Philip Anselmo, it's pretty obvious that his personality grated on the Abbott brothers until it was finally more than even someone as wild and crazy as THEY WERE could put up with. Don't get me wrong, I love all the music Pantera did (even Great Southern Trendkill), I loved Down, I love Superjoint... eh, not so much Anselmo's other various projects. But... they guy is just a massive DICK. He's got this thing where he always feels like he needs to put on that he's the biggest alpha dog of the cell block. He does shit in interviews just to try and intimidate people for no reason (moreso in the past, he's cooled it a little bit on that with age I'd say, but he still does it). I've known guys like him, and as much as you love them and enjoy hanging out when they're being cool, inevitably they can't help themselves and they gotta go into bi-polar mode and start smashing your buttons. And they think that because you don't react by knocking the living shit out of them that they've somehow intimidated you. It's a silly childish game they play. Anyway... yeah, Anselmo's a dick.

Zakk Wylde, as cool as he is, just doesn't have the same groove that Dime did. He plays some of the songs really close, but it stills sounds like him all the way through.

That fuckin VIBRATO though. It's his thing. There's no losing that wacked out Zakk Wylde vibrato I guess. It sounds out of place in Pantera.

It's a "when the hell will I get this chance again?" kinda thing, and even though I know the whole thing probably makes Dime spin in his grave... I was still considering going to the show when it hit Atlanta, especially since Mastodon was also going to be there. I LOVE MASTODON. But after seeing this... yeah I don't think I missed much.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnlB-LzSSNQ

[stayne]

This is cute

[|iR|Focalor]

You're cute, sugar tits.

[stayne]

You're cute, sugar tits.

whatever $lug