If you had a penny for every time a metal band said their next record would be their “heaviest”, you’d be a millionaire. Pantera was a prime example of a band that bucked the trend entirely, because their 1994 album Far Beyond Driven is easily the most crushing album ever to hit #1 on the…
PHILIP H. ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS: Choosing Mental Illness As A Virtue Streaming In Full At Revolver Alongside A Live Video Of “Finger Me;” Record To Drop Friday Via Housecore Records
Of all the major landmark metal releases the last 25 years or so, which ones do you consider the most iconic? Machine Head’s debut album? Maybe a Strapping Young Lad record or three? Between the Buried and Me? The choices are endless. You’d have to consider Pantera’s 1992 opus, Vulgar Display Of Power, for a…
In 2004, when Pantera (and then-current Damageplan) guitarist Dimebag Darrell was cut down on stage by gunfire, people often wondered what would be done to prevent events like this from occuring. Well, it didn’t exactly stop. Dozens of people dying during an Eagles Of Death Metal show in Paris? Still, nothing. And now, with The…
