Pantera

I'm going to talk about my favourite metal band, Pantera.

So what's so special about them? Well, while Metallica or Slayer were in their height of their fame Pantera steps in with a new style of heavy music: Groove Metal.

How to explain Groove metal.. Groove Metal if you mix in with some hiphop influence you get: Nu Metal (limp Bizkit, KoRn, Slipknot). I don't like saying Groove Metal is an early form of Nu Metal because Groove has its own attributes and originality.


Pantera's breakthrough Album 'Cowboys From Hell' features the title song's greatest metal riffs (explosive!). This song got me into Pantera and Groove Metal. Notice the verse riff. Dadad dad dad dad dad dadaadad

Groove Metal is like a more refined heavy metal that defines headbanging like never before. Ok, that's a little hard to understand but just listen to it anyway. With a little southern influence (these guys are from Texas), the bands sound is most unique.


'Mouth of War' from the Vulgar Display album. The revolutional song 'Walk' is also in this album. I like Mouth of War for it's explosive display of metal.

As a guitarist, I have tremendous respect for my idol/influence, Pantera's Dimebag Darrell. His music and playing and sound has been revered by many metal bands. Everyday I listen to his solos and never get tired of them, including my favourite: Floods.


'Floods' from The Great Southern Trendkill album has been my favourite for its whipping solo, with constant pedal changes in the sound creating it into 4 parts (see if you can find it in this video). But the best part in this song is the outro. To me, it was this outro that makes Dimebag Darrell one of history's greatest guitarist. I only posted the solo and outro for you to hear.

So that's it, videos from Youtube.com actually works well here! Other recommeneded Pantera listenings are: Cemetary Gates, Walk, Hollow, 5 minutes alone, Psycho Holiday, Domination and more...