1994, 1996, 1997 Pantera shows I saw. Far Beyond Driven is my fave. Sepultura opened the tour, Chaos AD. 🤘🎸 🥁 RIP Abbott Brothers. 😔

Dime and Phil are generally the ones who get the press, but just a shout out to Vinnie Paul. What an incredible drummer. He didn’t have to get super technical, but just put impeccable grooves to hold those songs together and accentuate all the right parts. RIP Abbot brothers. I’m from Dallas and Pantera is in my blood. Lucky enough to see them live a few times, including with Sepultura. Great video guys!

Probably be y’all’s biggest stream. Guess why you took a while there my friend 😁🏴

This was so much fun. As much as I love the stories and your takes on music, your camaraderie is what keeps me coming back. I wish I still had such a tight-knit group of brothers... but life happens. I’m a Thralls fan forever. Best wishes and hugs to you all. \m/

Reinventing the steel was my favorite album from pantera it’s raw and it’s funky and it has some of the best digitech whammy work besides suicide note prt 2, it has insane riffs it feels like it was a grown dark version of cowboys from hell marking the end of what was started long ago, Yesterday don’t mean sh*t, Hellbound, Uplift, has some of the Hardest Heaviest instrumentals that keeps musical consistency, I do not believe Pantera has made a bad album besides anything with Terry Glaze

Awesome. The rankings are my favorite content from y'all. Hopefully we can get these more consistently as well as tutorials from Shred

1-Cowboys from Hell 2-Vulgar Display of Power 3-Far Beyond Driven 4-Great Southern Trendkill 5-Reinventing the Steel 6-Power Metal 7-Projects of the Jungle 8-I Am the Night 9-Metal Magic

Excellent video as always guys. This was one of those I wanted to see, and you guys being in the know of all things metal, it was worth the wait. \m/

Pioneers of groove metal! Great ranking once again Thralls. Can't wait to another. 🤘

my ranking: GST FBD CFH VDP Power Metal RTS

So glad to see the love for Trendkill. I’ve always felt like FBD or Vulgar might be better but Trendkill was always my personal favorite. Fuck with the channel you guys have turned me on to new bands and have made me realize bands I love have something new out lol

My ranking: 1. Vulgar Display of Power 2. The Great Southern Trendkill 3. Far Beyond Driven 4. Cowboys from Hell 5. Reinventing the Steel 6. Power Metal 7. I Am the Night 8. Projects in the Jungle 9. Metal Magic Also, R.I.P. Dimebag! Sucks that we lost him after Reinventing the Steel! Also, you guys should have the following bands on the next batch of rankings: Immolation GWAR Candlemass Megadeth

The band that pioneered the Ooga Booga sound 🤘🏾 RIP Abbott Brothers

I been a fan of you guys for a little while now. You guys are so amazing! I love watching your videos and I always feel a part of them when I listen to your opinions on these awesome albums. You guys should totally do more ranking the albums. Decapitated or some other killer bands would be sweet. \m/ rock on all of you.

Great job guys. That was a good watch.

Another great episode. Just watched it now. Cheers mates !

Woo hoo I knew you guys where going to get to it soon can’t wait

Great ranking! Hard to rank such a discography that no matter what is almost perfect. Mind you those first 3 I barely acknowledge 😂. Im so excited for the Celebration of the band tour. Also I was wondering about Rin. Miss the dude and glad to hear he is well.

I’ve been waiting for this video for so long that I somehow missed it initially and just managed to watch it, and gotta say this was entertaining as hell, you guys deserve all the views and subscribers in the world, thank you once again for awesome content! This is my list: 9. Metal Magic 8. Projects in the Jungle 7. I am the Night 6. Power Metal 5. Reinventing the Steel 4. Far Beyond Driven 3. Vulgar Display of Power 2. Cowboys from Hell 1. The Great Southern Trendkill (my favorite album of all time, across all genres)

Joe, you my man have the same ears on Pantera as I. Great rankings by the THRALLS crew. 🤘🏼

Thralls ranking one of my favourite bands ... day absolutely made. Hey nick it would be awesome if you did like a retro review on superjoint ritual... that debut is a fierce banger. The demos are sick too and there’s something about their sound that just explodes to me ... great ranking as always 🤘

The day is finally upon us! Load a bowl, pour some black tooth grins, get yer pull, and let's go! RIP Darrell & Vinnie, you live on thru the music eternally!!!! 🤘❤‍🔥🤘

Awesome review Thralls of Metal! Pantera definitely invented the groove metal and I feel resurged thrash metal at the right time when it took a setback. There are many bands who may not have come out of the woodwork if it wasn't for Pantera. R.I.P. Dime and Vinnie !

Watching this video after a hurricane hit the island where I live! Cheers from Puerto Rico!!!🍺🍻 💪 Nice ranking as always!!! 👍

1. Vulgar Display of Power 2. The Great Southern Trendkill 3. Cowboys From Hell 4. Far Beyond Driven 5. Reinventing the Steel 6. Power Metal 7. Projects In the Jungle 8. I Am the Night 9. Metal Magic Pantera is my favorite band of all time, Vulgar is my favorite album by anyone. Great video gents🤘

"The Sleep" solo, thank you for mentioning it.🤘

Nice vid guys personally my ranking would be: 1. Trendkill 2. Vulgar 3. FBD 4. Reinventing the steel 5. Cowboys You guys should do a vid on electric wizard

I've come back and given this a like, just cos you guys is the best...

Great rankings, been waiting for this one! Here's my ranking : 1 - Cowboys From Hell 2 - Vulgar Display Of Power 3 - The Great Southern Trendkill 4 - Far Beyond Driven 5 - Power Metal 6 - Reinventing The Steel 7 - I Am The Night 8 - Projects In The Jungle 9 - Metal Magic

Really appreciate what you guys did here. You really went through every CD and track. Very thought out.

Funny I've been listening too all Panteras albums over the past 2 weeks.

What a kickass video, killer job boys.

1. Cowboys From Hell 2. The Great Southern Trendkill 3. Vulgar Display of Power 4. Projects In the Jungle 5. Power Metal 6. I Am the Night 7. Far Beyond Driven 8. Reinventing the Steel 9. Metal Magic

My first exposure to Pantera was through a little golden age meme on YTMND simply called the “Tragedy” fad. The original featured a clip from Sesame Street of Grover getting his head slammed in a door and the video then zooming in with the text “Grover. 1969-2007.” The outro to Floods was playing in the background and I didn’t realize until many years later.

I think I speak for us all when I say HELL YEAH PANTERA

Pantera was the soundtrack of my teens and early 20s. I still revisit them from time to time but I’ve been kinda burnt out on their albums although I’ve really gotten back into Cowboys from Hell and Power Metal. Here are my rankings: The Great Southern Trendkill Cowboys From Hell Reinventing the Steel Power Metal Far Beyond Driven Vulgar Display of Power Projects in the Jungle I Am the Night Metal Magic

Loved the ranking fellas! I’ve got to familiarize myself with the glam era of Pantera. I’m only familiar with cowboys onward. I hope all is well with your friend Rin , I always found him funny. Look forward to your next video!

I cannot wait for this! I just went through the entire discography this weekend in preparation for this. I give massive credit to Pantera for exposing me to more extreme metal and helping me get into more guttural vocals. I almost feel bad ranking the last five of their records because they are all great records in my opinion. Thank you for doing this ranking! Keep rockin' everyone at Thralls! \m/ \m/ P.S. Here is my ranking. I struggled with #3 and #4. However, I placed my #3 where it is because my #4 has one song on there that I do not care for. We all know which song it is I am sure. 1. Cowboys from Hell 2. Vulgar Display of Power 3. The Great Southern Trendkill 4. Far Beyond Driven 5. Reinventing the Steel 6. Power Metal 7. Projects in the Jungle 8. I Am the Night 9. Metal Magic

Didn't see that sign did ya!! literally belted out a huge laugh there. lmao

Loved this!🔥🤘 Miller fan boyed til his hearts content!😄👍🤘

This will be interesting. These guys get such hate in some metal discussions. Honestly it was Phil's vocals that eventually broke down the door to me listening to more extreme metals. Anyways, here's my ranking 7-9, the first 3 Indy ones. My only takeaway from these is Dime can play his ass off. 6. Power Metal. Phil brought that something extra, of course they still had to give up on VH meets JP. 5. Reinventing the Steel. Some good tunes on here. Yesterday Don't Mean Shit and Revolution is my Name stick to me the most. 4. Cowboys From Hell. Sacrilege to many of the Pantera faithful. But I like what they turned into, more than the remnants of what they were hanging onto here. Still some killer tunes. Domination my fav here. 3. Far Beyond Driven. Stylistically perfecting what they did on Vulgar. But still, Vulgar had more upper echelon tunes. 2. Vulgar Display. My pal in college played me This Love, and I was like WTF is that. I hadn't ventured too far from the Big4 yet. But when I grabbed the CD and heard Mouth For War and Fuckin Hostile....fugedaboudit!! 1. Trendkill. Dark, ugly. Phil was in a bad place. At the time I wasn't in the best place. And that just cemented this one into my soul.

Trendkill is my favourite album of all time. 13 steps to nowhere is pretty mediocre for being Pantera but the rest of the songs are just flawless. I love the moody atmosphere, intensity and the crunchy guitar tone.

No disrespect but I'm telling ya right now they were NOT falling apart while writing RTS nor did they record separately (that was Trendkill). Love it or hate it, the whole band loved that album and to this day it's still Philip's favorite. Had to rant. Other than that I look forward to the show.

Great video as always, fellas. Vulgar is the big one, but Cowboys was the one that changed things - it's the one I always go to when I want a fix. Hoping Rin is okay, too, and he gets through what he's going through. Cheers for the mid-week special!

The solo on " The Sleep" from CFH is without a doubt one of the most underrated. Couldn't agree more Shredlord. Excellent banter for this ranking gentlemen, bravo.

Great video as always, boys!!! Here are my PanterA rankings: 9. Metal Magic 8. Projects in the Jungle 7. I am the Night 6. Power Metal 5. Cowboys From Hell 4. Reinventing the Steel 3. The Great Southern Trendkill 2. Vulgar Display of Power 1. Far Beyond Driven PS.- Best wishes to Rin!! Come back soon brother!!

Great show boys! Only big surprise was Nick picking Power Metal #5. First time I heard Pantera was in 89, I got a copy of a copy on cassette of Power Metal. I listened a few times but at the time I was not into the Rob Halford style vocals. I was into Crossover, Thrash and NYHC. Fast foward a year and I see the CFH video on Headbangers Ball and I run out and buy CFH. Over the years I rediscovered how good Power Metal is. Plenty of Speed and Thrash riffs. First time I seen Pantera live was in 90 they opened up for Exodus and Suicidal at the Vic in Chicago. Still one of the my best shows. Neck stills hurts My list. The bottom 3 I don't listen to very often. Playlist of a few good tunes. 1. Far Beyond 2. CFH 3. Vulgar 4. GSTK 5. Reinventing 6. Power Metal 7. OTTN 8. PFTJ 9. Metal Magic

I have been waiting for this ranking. Pantera is my favorite band. Here is my ranking 1. The Great Southern Trendkill 2. Far Beyond Driven 3. Reinventing The Steel 4. Vulgar Display of Power 5. Cowboys From Hell 6. Power Metal

Great Southern Trendkill was my first and favorite Pantera record, but admittedly, it's one that I don't listen to often. I've lost a lot of friends and family to heroin addiction, so the album is a VERY raw representation of how that feels from an outside and inside perspective.

Far Beyond Reinventing the Vulgar Rankkill. From Hell. Legit pumped for this! This band means so much to me. It's like Phil sings in Goddamn Electric - the part of me that's always sixteen. That obnoxious, drunk, loud me that no suit and tie, professional or family life can trully erase. Choosing between Vulgar, Driven and Trendkill is almost impossible for me and could change any day. With a fair share of days Reinventing sneaks in there too. Let's see how you get out of it. But today it's: 1. Trendkill 2. Vulgar 3. Driven 4. Reinventing 5. Cowboys 6. Power Metal 7. Nothing else happened, we were all on vacation

"5 minutes alone" - that groove and rthymn section introduced me to Pantera, then the iconic "I'm Broken" riff, me and my buddy seen Superjoint Ritual, he got on stage and Phil drapped a flag around his back, awesome experience, and we had tickets to the Damageplan show in Columbus in our ticketmaster queue but ended up not purchasing the tickets, recently saw the new line up open for Metallica, they did kick tail, so yeh I appreciate this video

Love watching you guys and hearing your stories thoughts and opinions you've opened the door to many great artists for me. Hope to maybe one day see a six feet under album ranking as I feel that would be quite entertaining given the rating for their recent attempt stay metal 🤘

IAM ALL IN. This one is going to be big. all you guys rule for doing this...RIP DIME🤘

I just found this channel, first video I watched was the Bloobath album ranking, then Opeth, then saw this one and damn..my love for Pantera was just completely reinvigorated. I moved towards the prog metal and tech death and forgot how intense their albums were. Far Beyond Driven is my #1.

Going to see the Pantera reunion with Metallica in Minneapolis. I never got a chance to see the og lineup. Good video. Reinventing the steel is my favorite Pantera album.

This was great! Great job by Miller with going through the history. Cheers, fellas.

I knew about Pantera in the 80's but never really sought them out. In 1990 I was at an Exodus/Suicidal Tendencies show talking to this dude next to me who said he was there to see Pantera, which I thought was weird because Exodus and ST were at the height of their powers. It gets announced that Pantera didn't make it and we're getting Wehrmacht instead (who killed it) and the dude just walks out of the venue. My mind was pretty blown because it ended up being a quasi-legendary show with riot police eventually needing to be called in! About a year and a half later I stumble upon Vulgar Display and bought it on sight based on the cover and my memory from the Exodus gig. I've been a fan ever since. Trendkill is my favorite, like Miller. I had a hard time hearing Miller in this video. He did most of the talking, but only seemed about half as loud as the other guys.

YES! Pantera is my favorite band, been looking forward to this one!

Great critique. I absolutely love Pantera post the glam 'era, yet I also love the glam 'era material (I'm 53 probably an age thing) I recently aquired a pristine copy of I Am The Night- Original press on Metal Magic Records 1985 (including all inserts) at CD Trader in Tarzana, Ca. for $300. R.I.P Dime & Vinnie Tony F. Corpse (Post Mortem Superstar)

Great video guys. I hadn't realized y'all were such big Pantera fans. Regarding the tribute shows(reunion is NOT the word), I'm all for it so long as it's always, 100% taken in that light, as a tribute, like the most legit cover band there could be. Dime and Vinny both had definable, signature sounds, that can't be replaced(just like VH can't have a reunion without Eddie). So I'm in no way interested in a reunion. BUTTTTT, hell yes I'd love to hear these songs live again. A cover band WITH the actual vocalist? That's about as good as it gets. I've seen Pantera a couple of times, and loved it. I will NOT be comparing this to the real deal. But Phil, Rex, Charlie and Zakk? That's a pretty talented 4-some. If they ever made music together, I'd be very interested.... but not under the name Pantera. No fucking way.

I’ve been waiting for this for a long time. Fuckin awesome 🤘

It would be cool to have heard your opinion on the Damageplan and Rebel Meets Rebel albums as well. Good video. Thank you.

A new ranking! Awesome!

Get an Immolation or Nile ranking soon! This was a pretty good video, I enjoy Cowboys and Southern Trendkill the most!

Still remember when my girlfriend at that time came home with Vulgar display of power. And listen to Pantera for the first time. Love Vulgar and Cowboys 🔥🤘🏻 Awesome video 🤘🏻🔥🤘🏻CFH

I live in Texas so I've always had a somewhat special connection with Pantera. Like they're not just a band from Texas, they sound Texas as FUCK. Heavy, in your face, Southern Fried Metal. They were definitely one of those bands that helped develop my love for the genre of metal. There is only one Pantera. Fantastic video fellas 🤘

First time I saw Pantera was in 2001 on a VHS tape recording of the 1992 For Those About to Rock: Monsters in Moscow. At the time I had no internet and the only heavy metal band I heard was Metallica from cassette tapes, and I quickly realized that: Okay wow...there are bands heavier than Metallica out there? From there on, I was hooked and I never stopped listening to metal music ever since. I even got the Cowboy from Hell CFH logo tattooed on my leg. For me personally, Pantera is and always will be my favorite band the main gateway into metal music. Great video and thank you for reviewing their albums!🤘

My 2nd fav band after Faith No More. My personal fav is CFH but they are all iconic!! Great watch my dudes 🤘

Giving it some more thought, if live albums counted, 101 Proof Live would be an easy #1 for me. One of the best live albums ever and it captured the band perfectly and the songs sounded even better live than on the albums.

Great list from you guys. Always love your ranking videos. For me it is: 9. Metal Magic 2/5 (the production not really great, especially Terry's voice. But it has some cool songs) 8. I Am The Night 3/5 (Better production, has some really good songs, but some meh songs) 7. Projects In The Jungle 3/5 (I like this album start to finish just a tiny bit better than I Am The Night) 6. Power Metal 3.5/5 (This album is really good, but there are better things to come) 5. Reinventing The Steel 4/5 (Very good album start to finish, but for me even the best tracks can't compare with the other albums) 4. Far Beyond Driven 4.5/5 (I judge albums by all the tracks on it and while it has some of their best it also has some of their worst from the 1990 - 2000 era namely Good Friends... and I also didn't need the Planet Caravan cover. But still a great album) 3. The Great Southern Trendkill 4.5/5 (This album flows for me better than FBD. Although the best tracks on FBD are better, but this album is more constant to me. And of course it also has some really great tracks too) 2. Cowboys From Hell 5/5 (What are the best tracks on this album? Everyone! I also like it for the fact that his vocals are more Rob Halford-ish on here) 1. Vulgar Display Of Power 5/5 (This album is filled with Classics. I like every track on here more than Walk which is the big single. And I still love Walk too. So, I think this says a lot about what I'm thinking of this album.)

Wow! Ya'll are smarter than I thought! Far Beyond Driven is number one but Trendkill is close number 2. Underrated album IMO. Vulgar is still good but I just like Cowboys and Trendkill better now. Great ranking. I was happy not many of you chose Vulgar. I thought everyone was gonna choose that one for number 1.

In the 90s if you disrespected pantera you was kicked out of the metalhead group. Now all the old metalheads hate them smh. Blasphemy laws should be in place for pantera.

Pantera was my whole introduction to extreme meta especially during highschool like most everyone says they were my favorite band at the time my ranking is 1 far beyond driven 2 the great southern trendkill 3 cowboy s from hell 4 vulgar display of power 5 reinventing the steel 6 power metal 7 projects in the jungle 8 I am the night 9 metal magic

You guys had me in stitches with the Terry Glaze comments. LMFAO........ Great stuff here. I think my favorite is probably Vulgar Display of Power, although, The Great Southern Trendkill has some amazing tunes as well. So it really is a tossup between those two. IMO, Pantera did no wrong from 1990 to 2000. It was all badass in my book. Far Beyond Driven has a track I absolutely love the riffing on, which is called Shedding Skin; super underrated.. Pantera had it all, until it sadly didn't.......Thanks again for the laughs and the video \m/ \m/

I'm gonna miss Rin so much. He is super funny guy.. I wish him the best!

1. Trendkill, 2. FBD, 3. CFH, 4. Vulgar, 5. Power metal, 6. RTS, 7. Projects, 8. I am the night, 9. M.M. Great show guys, keep it up!

Great to finally catch a new ranking from you gents. I've been binging your past rankings lol. You guys should consider doing Megadeth or Metallica. Would be interesting to see those vids.

Back at this video after the news broke about jerry abbott passing away. Sad to think all the immediate abbott family is gone. Rest easy dime, vinnie & jerry. Cant believe it'll be 20 years here in December. Remember, what would dime do?

Vulgars my fav , im in Dimes generation so got cowboys on casette back in the day.Thralls keep killing it with your Awesome metal content!

I have an odd relationship with Pantera. Their slower songs Cemetery Gates, This Love, and Hollow are where thier genius is shown. The first time I heard Becoming was the release date and this dude I knew told me to get my ass over to his place to listen to the new Pantera. Becoming came on and I literally could not stop headbanging through that song.

If I were to rank Phil's albums, it would go like this. 6. Reinventing the Steel 5. Power Metal 4. Vulgar Display of Power 3. Far Beyond Driven 2. The Great Southern Trendkill 1. Cowboys from Hell

Great as always guys with thoughtful takes and contemporary experience from the older guys too. Sorry Shred. I didn't grow up on Pantera (00s metalcore kid) and just got into them the last ten years or so, so here's my outsider take on the ranking. 1. Cowboys from Hell. The complete package of their styles. Artwork could use a lot of work but it won't take it off #1. 2. The Great Southern Trendkill. The bits Lamb of God would draw from really resonated with me. The slight drop doom riff at 0:18 into War Nerve should've been elaborated on and it kills me. 3. Power Metal. Really great for the style. No points lost for not being their true sound. Top 3 really give a huge range of their styles so I find these to be the most essential to have for me. 4. Far Beyond Driven. Incredible, could swap with #2. 5. Vulgar Display of Power 6. I am the Night (the trashy bits rule. Miller, this version is way better than Phil's!! Overkill vibes like Nick said really make it.) 7. Metal Magic (cover art only takes it off last) 8. Reinventing the Steel (have not tried it yet..) 9. Projects in the Jungle

The great southern trendkill is definitely number 1 for me.

Well done boys! Excellent fucking review!!!!!

I'd rank my Pantera as: 1. Far Beyond Driven 2. Vulgar Display of Power 3. Cowboys from Hell 4. Reinventing the Steel 5. The Great Southern Trendkill 6. Power Metal 7. Projects in the Jungle 8. I Am the Night 9. Metal Magic I love Cowboys from Hell, Vulgar Display of Power, and Far Beyond Driven. That's cream of the crop Pantera, imo. Far Beyond Driven, for an album that went #1 on Billboard 200, is heavy af. You would think an album that does that would be more commercial, but it was more brutal and crunchier than ever, which I liked. And it's aged well, like you said. I'm with Shred on The Great Southern Trendkill. I think the fact that the band was not close affected the quality of the songs. I love Floods and the Suicide Note songs. 10's is also great, and that brutal scream to open the album is great. But it has songs like Living Through Me, 13 Steps to Nowhere, and Underground in America that are meh, imo. I was also never the biggest fan of Drag the Waters, as I found it lyrically repetitive. Glam-tera, outside of Power Metal, is kinda meh, but yeah, the improvement of Dimebag's guitar playing from Metal Magic to Projects in the Jungle is night and day. Honestly, the whole 1980s Pantera is more similar to listening to demos and seeing the band's coming into form, and the final realization of being onto something amazing was the opening riff to Cowboys from Hell. Pantera rules and they definitely helped saved heavy metal in the 1990s because it's amazing how irrelevant heavy metal music was to the mainstream in the 90s, with the grunge scene taking off and then alternative rock hit the mainstream. Metal music, after spending so many years in the mainstream in the 1980s, went back to the underground in the 1990s. Metallica kinda sold out and wrote basic, commercial metal, and Load/ReLoad suck. Megadeth kinda did too, even though I can still listen to Countdown to Extinction and Youthanasia and get a lot of enjoyment out of it. Not saying there isn't good 90s metal because the underground extreme metal, such as progressive metal, death metal, and some black metal have amazing bands.

Great job guys! Started with this band when I saw Cowboys From Hell video on Headbangers Ball. Saw them on the Cowboys tour here in Louisville Ky with Prong in a small bar with about 300 people. Most stage diving I ever did as a kid so much fun! Can't rate the albums before Cowboys cause I have hardly listened to them. The albums I have rated can all be switched around cause none these albums have a bad song. 1. Vulgar Display of Power 2. Cowboys from Hell 3. Reinventing the Steel 4. Great Southern Trendkill. 5. Far Beyond Driven

The remix of Reinventing the Steel increased my appreciation for it. A flawed album to be sure, but it sounds much better now than it did in 2000.

Far Beyond Driven will ALWAYS be my number one Pantera album. Vinnie’s best work.

Thank you very much guys for this ranking that I was looking forward to. Vulgar Display of Power was my favorite album when I discovered it but now The Great Southern Trendkill is my favorite. This album is a 5 stars for me. I'd really like you to do the same with Whitechapel (my favorite Deathcore band). 👍🏻

Pantera was one of the first metal bands I got into thanks to my oldest brother Roo (R.I.P.). At least is rocking out to the Abbott brothers in Heaven. If this Pantera tribute tour comes to Cincinnati or Columbus, I'm going. My rough ranking: 1. Cowboys from Hell 2. Vulgar Display of Power 3. Far Beyond Driven 4. Great Southern Treadkill 5. Power Metal 6. Reinventing the Steel 7. I Am the Night 8. Projects in the Jungle 9. Metal Magic

Not a fan of Parkway Drive then guys? Thought you would have reviewed their new album.

9. Metal Magic 8. Projects in the Jungle 7. I am the Night 6. Power Metal 5. Reinventing the Steel 4. Cowboys from Hell 3. Vulgar Display of Power 2. Far Beyond Driven 1. The Great Southern Trendkill

I am lil older than the thralls team... Pantera started to get attention with "Cemetary Gates", the first records launched can be easily ignored. Phil was always the core of their success, just check the Damage Plan record. Phil had many personal problems that blew up with Pantera, but without him, there wasn't really much they could do. "Power metal" isn't the real Anselmo that starts to feel more at ease with "Cowboys from hell" ... too bad it didn't last long :P

Far beyond is he no.1 all fucking day long! This was my first ever metal album, I bought it after hearing planet caravan thinking they were a chill band and then Strength beyond… hit me in the face and I was sold.

My ranking of pantera’s groove metal albums whould be this: 1. Vulgar display of power 2. Cowboys from hell 3. Far beyond driven 4. The great southern trendkill 5. Reinventing the steel

I did not even know of any albums before Cowboys From Hell! That's where the discography starts on Spotify! I wonder if it's a licensing thing or if they just wanted to separate the old from the new?

I’ve been a fan since I first heard Psycho Holiday on Headbangers Ball on MTV. For me though, Re-inventing the Steel is so damn underrated and my favorite Pantera album. So heavy and aggressive.

Awesome video fellas! Is Ren doing ok these days? My favorite will always be Vulgar. When that dropped the metal world finally exploded once again! 🤘🏼 As far as the early Pantera, I’m not a big fan but it’s not due to the lyrics. I actually miss lyrics about just getting some & having a good time! I don’t need to hear about aliens, politics, or satan, in all my music. Btw, love that band “Neel” lmao

Reinventing the Steel wasnt my fav, however there's many B-sides from this era from film soundtracks that are quite excellent, like Avoid the Light and Immortally Insane. I feel like this was during the Ozzfest era and Pantera suddenly saw themselves as one of Nu-metal's projenitors and I recall they werent about it at all. So they sorta started adding a bit more bouncy thrash/power metal into their sound and go more melodic to break from that catagory and in a way I respect that even if it was a swansong, not a bad way to go but they were definitely burning out.

I've been a metalhead since 86 but didn't hear of Pantera at all until they dropped the video for Mouth For War and it totally blew me away - I bought Vulgar Display immediately and was totally floored by it (it's still in my top 10 favourite albums - a definite 10 out 10) - I then worked backwards and was a little underwhelmed by Cowboys (which has grown on me over the years, but I'm still not a massive fan - i know, blasphemy) - when I discovered their much earlier material I was completely surprised - it's fine but I never listen to it these days. For me it's all about Vulgar, Driven and Reinventing The Steel - I do have a soft spot for Power Metal too.