Book Description

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Pages: 25. Chapters: 3 Vulgar Videos from Hell, 3 Watch It Go, Alive and Hostile E.P., Cowboys from Hell, Cowboys from Hell: The Videos, Driven Downunder Tour '94 - Souvenir Collection, Far Beyond Driven, I Am the Night, Metal Magic, Official Live: 101 Proof, Power Metal (album), Projects in the Jungle, Reinventing the Steel, The Best of Pantera: Far Beyond the Great Southern Cowboys' Vulgar Hits!, The Great Southern Trendkill, The Singles 1991-1996, Vulgar Display of Power, Walk (EP). Excerpt: Vulgar Display of Power is the sixth studio album by American heavy metal band Pantera. It was released through Atco Records, on February 10, 1992. One of the most influential metal albums of the 1990s, Vulgar Display of Power has been described as "one of the defining albums of the groove-metal genre." Several songs from this release have become some of the band's best known, such as "Mouth for War," "This Love," and "Walk." During the 1980s, Pantera released four albums under their own Metal Magic label. Their first three albums, featuring vocalist Terry Glaze, were glam metal records heavily influenced by bands such as Van Halen and Kiss. Having dropped Terry Glaze and welcoming vocalist Phil Anselmo in 1987, Pantera moved away from the glam-inspired music with their fourth studio album, Power Metal (1988). In 1989, the band signed with Atlantic Records' subsidiary label, Atco Records, having impressed Atco representative Mark Ross. The band began work on their major label debut at Pantego Sound Studio in Pantego, Texas, and in the following year they released Cowboys from Hell (1990). The album was a key turning point for Pantera, demonstrating a change in the band's musical direction, which was focused on bands such as Slayer, Metallica and Black Sabbath. After the release of Cowboys from Hell, ...