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Pantera - Best of Pantera: Far Beyond the Great Southern Cowboy's Vulgar Hits
- If there is any band responsible for the way American heavy metal sounds today, it is most likely Pantera is that band. With a sound originating in the more melodic metal of the seventies and eighties and heavily influenced by the blues, Pantera took the sound into new places, incorporating elements of punk and creating a much more aggressive sound. "The Best of Pantera: Far Beyond the Great Southern Cowboy's Vulgar Hits" provides not only a great collection of Pantera songs, but also offers something of a retrospective, which contrasts their old sound with the one that emerged as they went further into their career.
Early songs in their career reveal influences from previous metal bands like Judas Priest and Iron Maiden, and also a very strong influence of country music. This comes out it songs like "Cowboys From Hell," the ballad, "Cemetery Gates" and the cover of Ted Nugent's, "Cat Scratch Fever." Other songs on the album show the innovations that Pantera brought to music. "Revolution is My Name" uses feedback and other "ugly" noises, and the monstrous "Walk" introduces listeners to a dissonant shuffle. On this CD, listeners can also hear the most apparent thing Pantera brought to metal: the breakdown. By half-timing the music and playing blast-beats, Pantera created a technique used in almost all heavy American music, like hardcore, punk and screamo, in addition to metal.
Reviewer: Josh Brachfeld
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Added: 27-Jul-2009
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