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Pantera's original logo, used during their glam metal era in the 1980s. The band was originally named Gemini, then Eternity, before finally settling on Pantera [14] and consisted of Vinnie Paul Abbott on drums, Darrell Abbott on lead guitar, and Terry Glaze on rhythm guitar; the lineup was completed with two more members, lead vocalist Donny Hart and bassist Tommy D. Bradford.
Far Beyond Driven is the seventh studio album by American heavy metal band Pantera, released on March 22, 1994, by Elektra Records and East West Records.Pantera's fastest-selling album, [2] it peaked at number 1 on the Billboard 200 [3] [4] and was certified Platinum by the RIAA. [5]
"Cowboys from Hell" is the band's first single off their major label debut album of the same name. The song ranked #25 on VH1's 40 Greatest Metal Songs. [4]Guitar World considered "Cowboys from Hell" to be the best Pantera song, writing: "Dimebag Darrell's delicious solo boldly announced that a new guitar hero was in town and loaded for bear".
Pantera then proposed Terry Date to produce the album on the strength of his work with Soundgarden, Metal Church and Overkill, the latter of whose latest album at the time The Years of Decay had influenced Dimebag Darrell's guitar tone, as well as the band's transition away from glam/traditional heavy metal to thrash/groove metal. [11] [12] [13 ...
Vulgar Display of Power is the sixth studio album by American heavy metal band Pantera.Released on February 25, 1992, through Atco Records, it was the band's second collaboration with producer Terry Date, after having worked with him on their breakthrough album Cowboys from Hell (1990).
The music video for this song appeared on MTV's Beavis and Butt-Head and is available on The Mike Judge Collection, Volume 1. In 1994, comedy punk band the Radioactive Chicken Heads (then known as Joe and the Chicken Heads) recorded a parody cover called "This Lunch". The song was released as downloadable content for Rock Revolution and ...
Reinventing the Steel contains lyrics mostly about the band itself, as on "We'll Grind that Axe for a Long Time" (where the band members tell about how they have kept it "true" throughout the years, while many of their peers "sucked up for the fame") and "I'll Cast a Shadow" (about Pantera's influence on the genre).
The music video was featured on Beavis and Butt-Head on the episode "The Pipe of Doom", where it received a rave response from the duo. The song was featured in a Carl's Jr. and Hardee's television commercial, starting in December 2015. The commercial features a burger flying through the air after the song's opening riff.