Note: I used the Official Video via KZfaq, but the video I posted originally got blocked. So, I re-edited with the audio only, using the album cover instead. I think it still works, since I really didn't react much to the visual content in the video. That's why the audio version of this song is what it is.

I really think you would dig the song Floods. Has a lot of cool dissonance and has a mix of heavy and unsettled mellowness similar to this song.

Unfortunately this is not the album version. This is a short version. The album version has a solo at the end that would’ve been interesting to hear your reaction to.

You're listening to the wrong version the other version is so much better when he yell's "no more head trip" and the headbanging starts

Doug would probably dig "Floods" and "The Sleep" They have some interesting things going on harmonically on these 2 songs, not the mention the amazing solos and vocals

A little bit sad you seemed to go for the radio edit. There's a whole other solo and that ending section appears in the middle too... But then it's the fault of whoever labeled the video, for not making that clear. Another thing about the harmonic style of Pantera, they tune slightly lower than standard pitch. Not quite like the A=432 conspiracy stuff, just they felt like this slightly-lower tuning was more like their heroes in Van Halen, who also didn't quite tune to A=440. A favourite of mine from this band you should check out is "Floods". Some really great chord progressions and unexpected tonal shifts in there. As for whether Phil Anselmo's views have "softened"... you might not want to read too much into it 😬

Dime grew up with a Texan/Blues upbringing with his farther being a record producer for many top Texan artists, Dime sitting in the studio watching these great blues guitarists come in and record for his dad no doubt influenced him massively.

Phil is a very complex guy. He struggles with being close to people. He had a very unpleasant and rough upbringing. He has always came across abrasive. I have been a Pantera fan since the beginning of their career, and have always wanted to just give Phil a hug and tell him all will be ok. Thanks for giving this type of music a chance. You keep on with your Metal Mondays🎸

Doug should just do the entire DEATH "Symbolic" album. That would trip him out.

5:38 see Doug banging in the chorus is fantastic! Made my day

We got them to play this song at a high school dance. They had no idea. Everyone started slow dancing with their ladies and when the heavy part kicked in the mosh pit came out of the crowd. It destroyed everyone in a flury of flying slow dancers. It was epic. The moshers got kicked out of the dance. Memories...

doug plsss pls pls give this a re-listen with the full version! Also Floods would be another good one.

new here...when i seen you start to headbang i cracked the biggest smile. This is the same way we all got started....Pantera FTMFW!!! thanks for doing these. Fun video to watch :)

Every member of this band just held down their role so fucking hard. True legends all.

I think you could tell something was missing from this song. This was the radio edit, not the studio track. That half time section is cut out of the middle, and the fade out goes longer on the album.

I can't stand this version of "This Love". Dimebag's crunchy, thrashy solo isn't present. The unedited song is soooo much better.

This Love is 6 minutes 32 seconds. You didnt hear the full song. This song never left the setlist. You should do a bonus reaction and listen to THIS LOVE off their Granmy nominated, GOLD certified, OFFICIAL LIVE 101 PROOF album.

Wish we had music teachers JUST LIKE HIM. In every school, with this level of intelligence and open mind. Doug H. Is What i consider an absolute master, at a true doctorate level in music. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👍🤘

The Sleep!!! Please man, one of the best metal solos ever, and i mean it. Not to mention amazing clean guitar riffs.. My god what a song

As a 15 year old kid in 1993 myself & 2 buddies saw them @ the Roseland in NYC. This song was the only song I was NOT in the pit for, for good reason. Heard the opening notes and waded to the side. Smart move.

Try pantera the sleep when you get the time, solo in that song is amazing

Doug out here making Mondays something to look forward to! PANTERA \m/ Also, you should check out "Down - Stone The Crow" That is Phil's early stuff and that song is such a jam!

Hands down the next Pantera tune you have on your show has to be Five Minutes Alone, it's one of their biggest songs, thanks Doug.

Who ever called this a “power ballad” is out of their mind.

I have to say you have hit the nail on the head, Pantera wrote the lyrics and the music to portray the feelings of what they were writing about, all of their music is written, sang and performed extremely emotional. The power and intricacy of the performance is so musically progressive. I think one thing you never mentioned, something I've noticed but each part of the song seems to feel like you have this consistency without overwhelming you with their skill and ability and by the last part of the song they are throwing more of the intensity of the playing, vocals, skill level, throwing it all at you. Much of their music is that way. I think you would love the way Cowboy's from Hell progresses. The guitar and bass seems to have a raw power to them I just don't hear in music today. They've gotten a lot of the heads cleaner sounding and I just think there is something we are missing when we don't hear that. It takes a power out of the guitars we used to get back in the late 80's early 90's. Thank you again. Great channel.

This Love is a beautiful song, but I suggest you to check Floods and/or Hollow, in my humble opinion it would be way more interesting for you to listen to them. Still great job Doug, always a pleasure to see a new video of yours. Probably you already heard it and I missed it but aside from pantera I would like to suggest Breaking all Illusion from Dream Theater's "A dramatic turn of events". Cheers from Italy 🇮🇹

Just been getting into your channel recently. I have to say that when you started headbanging in the second chorus that was pure joy! Great work Doug :)

was lucky enough to see a pantera show back in 01. was the best show i've ever seen.

I love that you are opening up to metal in general. As someone who listens to many many different genres of music, I think they all have a place in the lexicon of music. And I'm quite glad to be onboard for your journey!

Dr.Doug....If your gonna do Pantera then your gonna need to do Overkill/The Years Of Decay

Gotta say man, I love your videos. It’s like listening to music with a friend

Beautiful Doug, beautiful, love the way you analize feelings and notes and souds with great accuracy

your face at 5:56 is my exact face when I heard that riff the first time and every single time since. Love how the ending is just two chords...but so damn heavy

Doug! I'm new to you tube and this great music community I'm finding. I really dig u and ur groups energy. And ur knowledge and ear is top notch. Thank you for sharing ur knowledge. 🎸🎸

Loved watching Pantera in concert many years ago, freaking awesome!

Such a pleasure witnessing yours. Many thanks.

METAL MONDAYS! MY FAVORITE DAY! please make this a thing forever doug! :)

U have me subscribed due to your Pantera reactions. Totally unique way of reacting. Keep up the good work

I haven't listened to Pantera for a very long time, it's good to hear them again. I saw them in Budapest 20+ years ago, they played before Black Sabbath. It was a blast!

Damn dude!!!! , You really get in to the lyrics and music . Love it

Love the Pantera reactions ! Please keep them coming! FLOODS would be awesome for you

Amazing review. Do some more Pantera. Love how you break down the lyrics too

You need to react to The Sleep by Pantera, it has a mind blowing 2 minute solo!!

Don't be ashamed you didn't heard back then in the 90's. Neither did I. This was a new thing to me. Thanks for helping me through. Like your ending remark about finding your way into that kind of music. Actually I'm really impressed by the way you are so open and curious and jumps around in styles/genres as well as different decades. I think that is demanding.

I'm here because of your episode number, 311, which is also my favorite band. I also love Pantera, so I thought I'd check it out. Good stuff. I'd love to see you explore 311's massive library. Peace.

Love your channel Doug. Awesome choice today.

This album is fantastic! Thanks for the reaction!

When I think in terms of metal what it really sounds like this song is the epitome of it.

Doug, I just love your reactions! You make me smile! 🥰🥰

Love your reactions!❤❤❤

Neat observation about throughout the song, vacillating back and forth by half steps conveying indecision. Then right at the end, to full steps - "The decision has been made"

fourth video, started with Yngwie, then steve searched your channel for Jason and now pantera and my favorite song!!! all my favorite songs and artists

For Doug I think he’d appreciate either Hollow or The Sleep the most from Pantera.

i love your videos. it’s not just another reaction channel where you tell the audience, that you like the song just to get likes and so on. also love how you interpret the many different songs you’ve dealt with before! I recommend The Sleep by Pantera. Musically speaking very interesting and probably one of Dimes best solos too! Keep up the great work !

The emotion “kinda popped out”! Best reaction ever !!!!Say hello to my little metal band! I laughed out loud my friend. Doug, you rule for being so surprised. You are in for so much more every metal Monday.

My like was 666th - perfect. Great channel, very cool and knowledgeable dude reviewing my all time favorite band, bar none! Thank You, kind sir and keep it up \m/

A lot of people already said it in the comments, I will follow them: the song "Floods" could be interesting too. Thank you again for your reaction videos.

Pantera was tuned down in between E and Eb, that is why it sounded like F but they actually play the 2nd fret starting (which is on guitar in standard tuning an F#) :)

I really like your facial expressions in reaction to the music. Pantera was a staple for Metal Heads in the day. I recommend you check out Down, which was a collaboration between Pantera and Corrosion Of Conformity. I highly recommend Lifer or Stone The Crow. Pillars Of Eternity also hits REALLY hard. The 80's and 90's metal was deep and though provoking with a lot of emotion, singing about the trials of life and love. I miss those days. Subscribed and liked.

I was screaming at you on that first pause!!!!!!

Dime and Vinnies dad owned a studio and recorded a lot of Texas blues and country there. Dime especially spent a lot of time listening to these blues musicians and it comes through in his playin, ESPECIALLY in his feel in his solos. BTW this is the radio edit of this song. It cuts out and entire section. Listen to the studio version.

Metal-Monday - Always fun! - Not stuff that regular appears in my Spotify anymore, so always a bit of a reminder.

"It's like their playing the blues"- that's Pantera for ya!

Metal Mondays feat Pantera?! Let's Go!!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘

There's a Pantera song from before this album that (by my best guess) was supposed to be on Cowboys From Hell. The song is called "Will To Survive". A more learned fan could might be able to tell you more. I don't know if it would have fit on the CFH album, Power Metal or (horror of horror) the I Am The Night album with their former singer. The pre-Cowboys From Hell life is a topic for a whole other discussion in a different place. The point being about the song "Will To Survive" is there's a riff in the song the Darrel (Dime/Dimebag) repurposed for "This Love". At 05:54 (of THIS video) they go into the fast moving tritone bridge riff. That riff was lifted almost note for note from "Will To Survive". Two very different songs with the same riff in it. I love the song WTS and I wish it had been given a full release, but it wasn't to be for whatever reason. You can still find it here on the Tube. Just a suggestion, but somewhere down the road you might cover WTS and compare it with This Love and point out the similar riff usage. Same band, same Abbott Brothers and company, but in two diametrically different songs.

You give me goosebumps

That was a perfect "hang on a second" pause :D

Vulgar is their 6th album actually. Their first album came out in 1983 called “Metal MAGIC” but Phil wasn’t the singer. They released 3 other albums prior to “Cowboys from Hell”. “I am the night “,”Projects in the jungle” and “Power Metal, which spanned from 1983-1988. Phil joined in 1987 for the Power Metal album and then in 19990 “Cowboys from Hell” was released and that was definitely the jump start they needed. The next 3-4 albums where so damn good. From Vulgar,Far beyond driven,Great Southern Trendkill and Reinventing the steel. I’ve seen them 3-4 times mostly in the 90’s and they are one of my favorite bands ever!!! RIP VINNIE AND DIME!!!

Great technical analysis on tension building, there's instability...ok let's keep goin'... 4:25 Quite different indeed. That's how Pantera do. Thanks for the content - you have a lot more sonic euphoria ahead of you on the Pantera journey - all the recommendations are good ones, but "I'm Broken" should be your next Pantera song, even if it's just listening privately.

I only subbed today, and kinda bouncing through your list, but, just the fact that you decided to make yourself see what's great about music you haven't enjoyed, or didn't see as on par, or your groove, however we put it, made me wanna stick around. Even the simplest, most juvenile music is sometimes the kind that tops the charts. People hear something in it that they relate to, and to just say " that's not music!" Or " you don't know what real music is.." etc. can be pretty condescending, and narrow minded of the people who probably view themselves as the most open minded , fair, and intellectual people. A simple, raw taste in music isn't an indicator of a simple minded, uneducated person. So good on ya, I like it !

wow wow what a pick

I love to see you headbang AND boogie-down in the same video!! I just wish you had done the full-length, 6:40 album version. You would have really loved it, especially with the long fadeout with the legendary Dimebag Darrell's pinched harmonics flowing all over the place. It's wonderful to see you move beyond your comfort zone into Metal. 🤘🏻

Hey Doug! Glad you are coming around to the Metal way of music! You know, some metal is just as beautiful and complex as classical music. I don't know how you feel about it, I am not a highly regarded composer, but I just feel there is a connection between a lot of metal compositions and classical ones. If you could find the time to answer this, it would be much appreciated, thanks for the videos Doug, take care.

I love how you take yourself out of your musical comfort zone to experience bands like Pantera. I used to hate metal in high school but it started to resonate more with the growing frustrations of a self-isolated young dude. It was catharsis for processing and channeling all those negative emotional trials and tribulations. Still is too, tho maybe to a lesser extent, as with age the angry energy has subsided somewhat. It's interesting to hear your take on it all. Curious how yourself (and other non-metal heads) dealt with all that, maybe in a totally different way thru other types of music.

On the livestream, people were making recommendations for female-fronted metal bands. I really believe you'd enjoy Seven Spires. All the members met at music college. Symphonic metal with elements of lots of other genres, including jazz. Please listen to "The Cabaret of Dreams" off their first album. Absolutely amazing and unique. Thanks!

Pantera - Hollow One of the best metal ballads I've ever listened

What blew my mind about this song … when I heard these chords transcend mediums as they powered my way to victory playing Doom 2 in the mid 90’s!!! RIP Dimebag and Vinnie Paul

Saw this tour live and even got a Dime pick! Still have it.

Love that cd .

The live version of this song is a master piece

Keep rockin out, Doug!! There’s a lot of stuff out there that would melt your face off!! Haha

Made me giggle when you said "dunno about singing like that" referring to vocal fry, and yeah it is a honed skill so that the vocal cords don't get injured

Muy buenos dance moves, Doug!

I've seen a couple Pantera's show from this area and the moshpit was insane during the heavy parts of this song

Thanks Doug!

Daily Doug challenge met, Doug headbanging! YESSSSS!!!!!!!!

hahaha that shoulder movements

You got *THIS CLOSE* to figuring out the glory of the mosh part/breakdown. Lots of half step shifts, and open ringing cymbals maintaining a BPM which is just about half of the human heart in fight or flight mode.

This song was a staple in my high school locker room. Along with "walk".

I’ve been viewing your episodes and have immensely enjoyed seeing your analyses of many of my favorite pieces and artists as well as some I have not had much exposure to. I am surprised you haven’t, apparently, listened in on Gentle Giant, a great innovative band who recorded in the seventies. I would suggest listening to Knots or His Last Voyage as good introductions to their music.

This was the song that introduced me to Pantera. It had a video that made some noise on MTV, which was how most teens discovered music in those days.

the solo and breakdown exposed your stank face! love it cause that’s just what dime does, melts faces.

Such an awesome album.

5:38 YES! This is EXACTLY correct :)

Doug, I timed this song length at about 4:51 min, original is 6:34 min. A truncated song. I love the guitar crunch in this song.

Saw Phil Anselmo perform this live opening for Slayer in 2019 at Madison Square Garden. Actually he performed 8 total Pantera songs. I never thought I’d get to see these songs live. As a Pantera fan since the 80’s when Terry was still the singer, it was a great experience. They were the very first band and the fans new what Phil would be doing, and the venue was completely full and thrashing!

Pantera is a band that express anger in its songs like nobody else. I know it is mainstream, but "Walk" is something you should definetly take a look into. It is not as fast as other songs from the band, but it is a song that makes me feel anger everytime I listen to it. I don't know how they did it, but it is an incredibly display of a powerfull emotion, such as anger.

I've never been much of a fan of what I refer to bands like this as "Cookie Monster rock". Years ago, I had a rough breakup with an ex, and VDOP somehow made it into my rotation. It was very theraputic at the time, so it holds some nostalgia for me, as well as something that got me through a tough time. Great album. Unfortunately, this version cuts out too soon. On the version I'm familiar with, the end part fades out while some haunting guitar playing fades in as the song ends.

Ohh, the progression after "No more head trips" caught me off-guard. I didn't know there was a different version from the one I had on my cd :D

The creators of the video game Doom had an 8 bit version of this song in one of its levels. Wasn't familiar with Pantera at the time but the melody stuck in my head.