Trendkill feels like the natural progression that each album made before it. Heavier and more sure of itself.

Glad someone finally shares my appreciation for trendkill. This vid dropped after i saw Gary Numan and Ministry

This is my favorite Pantera album because it is the band's darkest and heaviest album in its discography. The groove of Vulgar Display of Power, guitar virtuosity on Cowboys from Hell and aggression on Far Beyond Driven are mixed and spliced through a meat grinder on this album. The grindcore and death metal influences compliment the bluesy meets thrash attack on the title track, Living Through Me and Sandblasted Skin. It's an abrasive album, yet also introspective and textured.

Such an underrated banger, The Great Southern Trendkill is absolutely incredible!

FBD didn’t just make it to #1, it debuted at #1. I was in my senior year of high school and maybe 3 friends liked heavy music. This was a personal victory for us young metal heads. I was lucky enough to see them 9 times before this album came out but never after.

I love this album as well. Was the album that made them click with me, as well as helped me through a break up. Floods is one of the greatest songs ever written, and the lyrics feel like they're more relevant to issues both internally and socially. So glad you've made this video. I love hearing why people choose an album like Great Southern Trendkill as their favorite. You know, the underrated albums that the fan base don't show love to as much as the more popular

My favorite track is living through me. That crunchy main riff got.

Reinventing The Steel is the most underrated, especially the new Terry Date mix, which is superb.

If you were a Pantera fan through the years back then, it was like a tribe/family. So when this record came out and you heard the stories how Phil did the vocals outside of Jerry's studios and the whole group, you felt it...from the first scream was almost an "I've had enough", either with addiction, the long run they had and expectations. But something was off and the overlapping of vocals was just disjointed and covered up all the cool riffs and grooves. Like you were listening to 2 separate journeys (not the band lol) colliding. Saw the KMFDM poster and I was playing a show in Dallas in '93 with a guy that joined them later and I look out and there's Vinnie Paul in the crowd! He was mobbed there but still pulled me aside after and had an awesome talk and a few shots lol. Great vid and it is making me go revisit in a new light!

you nailed it dude the album recently started growing on me 10’s, floods, suicide note, drag the waters are such bangers

I love Phil’s black metal screams in this album.

Crazy that you posted this video today. I’ve always been more of a casual Pantera fan and haven’t spent much time with this album. Yesterday I decided to give it go randomly and it’s probably my favourite record of theirs now.

CFH is my personal favorite for sentimental purposes but I will definitely agree that they peaked here. This album is in my opinion the angriest, heaviest and darkest album ever written and recorded.

I couldn’t have thought of a better way to sum up this album. A few months ago I probably would have picked FBD as my fave, but after really listening to this album on repeat (particularly Floods and the title track) I’ve really appreciated this album a lot more. It’s now my favorite Pantera album. Great vid man!

Reinventing the steel is their masterpiece. Each song sounds like a different Era,.

Awesome Pantera video and going to see Voivod and Prong live march 23 in Raleigh Lincoln theatre

Yes a new killbot video 🤘🏻🤘🏻

you post this video as i start obsessing and listening to this album again.

Finally someone who is not making a deal out of Phil recording at Trent Reznor on his own. This album is a masterpiece. Thanks

It's my personal favorite as well... brutal, groovy, bluesy, melodic (suicide note, pt. 1 and Floods) I fucking love it so much. It's as if I'm actually hearing a group of brothers breaking apart and falling into despair and drug use

Thank you so much for making this. I’ve been arguing some of these points for years. This was Pantera at their peak and aggressively demonstrating all that they believed in.

Trendkill is a classic. My favorite Pantera album. One of the few albums that changed my life forever, inasmuch as it was one of the albums that got me into metal. It blew my young, impressionable balls off. Still does.

Truly truly fuck the world, for all its worth! Every inch of planet earth!! what a raging and beautiful album man. Nice review

"The Great Southern Trendkill" is a true gem of all things heavy. Underrated when compared to their first three albums, but by no means bad for the uninitiated. A must have for any fan of Pantera and anyone who loves the pummeling heaviness, fast-paced thrash and groove of heavy metal.

I think I agree. TGST is definitely special. I would say this and Far Beyond Driven are probably my best Pantera albums. Some of these riffs and solos are so deep, like Hard Lines and Sunken Cheeks from FBD and obviously Floods from TGST. Classic, CLASSIC

I agree. I distinctly remember getting into Pantera through their Greatest Hits album, and the standout track that I always came back to was "Drag the Waters", the only song off The Great Southern Trendkill, so I went and bought the album. The second it started I was a different person. I'd even say if it weren't for The Great Southern Trendkill I probably wouldn't have gotten into death metal or black metal.

Always enjoy your video essays man. This is definitely my favourite Pantera record, for all of the reasons that you specified, and Floods has got to be one of the best metal songs ever 🤘🏻

I shall re listen to this tonight. Your critique inspired this.

Great video. I love this album so much, I was 13 when it came out

Great video man, thanks

Great Southern Trendkill is my favorite Pantera album, also was the first album I got from the band, I remember I bought it afterschool, when I got home, inserted the disc on the radio and got bombarded with banger after banger, The Underground in America still my favorite Pantera track to this day. The truth is every track is fucking awesome. The other albums are great too, but they never hitted the same way Southern did. Great video my dude, grind on! 🤟

Another great video tony

Well said, I completely agree. Loved how you put the context of its release & defended its recording & mix. I got this the week it came out & it equaled the previous 2 for a 3 way tie of epic releases that make up my top. Sometimes bands are just that good, & to me they struck gold 3 times, each equally stellar for different reasons.

This album and their live kept me sane.From my sophomore year to my senior year.

My favorite Pantera Album, I've always connected more with the songs on this album that any else. My favorites are War Nerve and Living Thorught Me, thanks for sharing your opinion!!!

I’m so happy to see someone else give this album the recognition it deserves. I also always favored this one out of their entire collection

My favourite album of all time…

Grown to dislike most of Pantera’s catalogue over the last few years, but this one has always stuck with me. Something about the weird mix of southern groove, grindcore, and death metal is so weirdly infatuating. Great video btw!

This album shows a band willing to take risks and experiment in it's sound while keeping faithful in what they are. Unbelievable album. Forever Pantera.

I'm 100% with you on your vocals argument. The fact that Reznor was down there in New Orleans with him shows. The dynamics are brilliant.

Fuck yeah, new killbot vid🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

For me it is a very good album. I like it precisely because Dimebag used a large number of tones, various tunings and various types of equipment different from what he always used, he said it himself in interviews with guitar magazines such as in the June 1996 issue of Guitar World, where he says he used different kinds of amps, different 6 and 12 string acoustic guitars and other brands of distortion pedals. Curious that you talk about this album. In recent months I have been dusting off albums like this that I don't usually listen to as much, to get out of the routine like "Jugulator" by Judas Priest, "The X Factor" by Iron Maiden, "Tyr" by Black Sabbath, "Carnival Of Souls: The Final Sessions" by KISS, "Diabolus in Musica" by Slayer, "Volume 8: The Threat Is Real" by Anthrax, "Cold Lake" by Celtic Frost, the 1989 - 1992 Venom albums without Cronos, even Metallica's "Load" and "Reload", and a few others.

I watched the video, and I absolutely agree with what you said. Even with the other albums, you hit the nail in the coffin. In the end, Everybody who likes pantera has their own favorite album. love you killbot

This used to be one of my lesser favorite Anselmo-era Pantera albums. Now, it's my number one favorite, number two being I am the Night (that's right lol).

I enjoyed TGST a lot, but I don't listen to it as much these days. 10s, Drag The Waters, Flood are classics that still show up from time to time in my playlist.

The Great Southern Trendkill, is my favorite Pantera album!

I used to work for Panera Bread. I was constantly doodling on the cups, drawing Mother Bread (panera logo) with long hair and a Dean guitar. "Welcome to Pantera Bread...what can I get star-(blasts 1st song over intercom)-ted for you???"

as a early teen, I was shown Far Beyond driven and didnt like it since I was still early in getting into heavier music. But a few years into high school, Probably my junior year, I was listening to a Steve Vai station on apple music and Floods came on rotation. I thought it was super dark and the outro was amazing, so the first Pantera album i physically bought was Trendkill before any other album, and it was weird goin back into their catalogue and hearing them become softer.

Finally someone said it... More power to you 🤘

This is my favorite Pantera album!

At 6:29. Ah Headbangers Ball. That takes me back.

Lots of variety in this one. From a technical point of view, it's not Dimebag's most complex work, by any means, but the quality and feeling in most songs, regarding composition, is definitely there. I think tracks 8 (Living Through Me), 10 and 11 (the final ones), are kind of weak, though enjoyable, but in my opinion, are what prevent "Trendkill" from being considered a top notch album.

Everything said its completely right. Came to find out about the album by a YT video which summarized its background and gave an explaination to every song present, I felt very in line with the themes of pure hatred against trends, and the overall wrath felt through every song, Phil was an absolute beast with the vocals and i still get amazed with his screams in the title track and War Nerve, wish I could replicate them. Calling this Dime's best guitar work is something I hadnt thought but i instantly agreed on, i love how weird and unique every song sounds, from the echoed-delayed outro of TGSTK, the whammys in Suicide Note II and the Drop G in The Underground in America and Sandblasted Skin, all of it a complete 15/10

Starting an album with such a scream certainly set the mood for the rest of the album.

First pantera I purchased when I was 12 years old in 1998. Still holds a special place in me.

Reinventing the Steel is overlooked. Heck, even I overlook it sometimes, but it’s pretty awesome.

Glad to see The Great Southern Trendkill get some love.

You make a great argument for this to be regarded as their best LP. When I come back to Panera, it's usually for Vulgar, FBD or Trendkill. I'm throwing Trendkill on now! It does have great depth, for sure!

"You won't need that anymore -not anymore, it's on sale at the fuckin dollar store"! Best lyrics hands down!

My favorite album of all time! Makes me think of a burning plane going down. So chaotic, brutal, dark but also beautiful. Nothing like it. I was a teenager when it came out. Changed my musical journey for sure! CFH

13 steps to nowhere feels like a flash of falling through hell. It’s so exhilarating yet intriguing like many tracks on this album. The great southern trendkill feels like a psychedelic transformation of hell. It’s got it’s warts and all, but damn does it hit each button right.

I feel Dime almost pioneered that ultra loe drop g or whatever the tuning is on The Underground in America was. Or at least explored it in the mainstream way before modern metal. Most modern metal bands have that "doom eternal" sound going on but never as brutal as this 1996 guitar tone.

Wish you delved into 10’s a little bit. It’s one of my favorites of all time. Awesome video great info 🔥

The opening song is def black metal inspired.

Two best openings on an album EVER. Great video bro🤘🤘🤘🤘

Trendkill my favorite Pantera album. 13 Steps to Nowhere and War Nerve don’t get enough love

Finally somebody said it! Cowboys and Vulgar may both be more important, but TGSK feels like a more complete album experience. Not as many hits, but no filler to be found. And, like you said, hits were never the point with them.

Have to agree with everything. Trendkill is heavier overall imo (darker, chunkier, angrier…) but that doesn't impede them from also having the best songwriting of their career. Solid from front to back, and Floods and both Suicide Notes are mindblowing.

2:10-3:04 That was some good comedic timing 😂

I love your passion for metal bro. It would be dope to share music and cheers some beers with you!

Trendkill really grew on me over the years it’s so close to being my favorite followed by Far Beyond Driven! I saw them a dozen times in the 90s on every album tour except Cowboys! Love The Underground in America and the crazy low tuning along with Floods!

Ive said this for years. Its a fine wine. I never would of gotten into extreme metal if not for this album. I was a hick kid in Oklahoma we never heard. This was shocking when it came out. Its the first album i drove to the store and bought

For me personally this is the most consistent Pantera album. I also love how the whole mood is just very pissed off or very bleak and depressive

I can always tell how someone is by what Pantera record is their favorite. Personally I’m a Far Beyond Driven guy but one of my homies and my wife are both Trendkill folks. One of my old band mates was a Vulgar guy. All valid opinions but definitely shows personality well

You're wearing a fantastic shirt!

Suicide note pt2 is what got me into grindcore, it's literally a grindcore song XD

Its an amazing album, I always go back to it. While Cowboys from hell is my favorite, that doesn't mean the others is on or at par on the same level. Also fun fact Phil Anselmo was friends with Seth Putnam (The singer of AxCx or Anal Cunt) and he is credited on southern trendkill, because his vocals was on 13 steps to nowhere. Also AxCx made a cover of The great southern trendkill.

IMO Far Beyond Driven was their peak🔥 All their releases are outstanding but FBD was tops for me. Nice vid!

I discovered PanterA in my Freshman year (2001) of high school. A friend's older brother wore their shirts and we would hear their music in his truck when he'd give us rides to school. I then found myself at a flea market, and there were crates full of used CDs for $3 each. I began digging for anything PanterA as i didn't know any song titles or album titles, and only found one album. TGSTK. The cover, the song titles, the album title... it was so cool to me at that time (still is!). It's one of those albums I've bought at least 3 times due to taking the disc everywhere with me to play it so much and it getting scratched or lost haha. At the time it was the most extreme music I'd heard. And honestly I was sorta underwhelmed when I collected the rest of the PanterA discography (not a bad album in my opinion, just less extreme than TGSTK). I even had a custom white vinyl windshield sticker that read "TRENDKILL" across the top of my truck's windshield. I know most pantera fans I know and speak with are die hard VDOP boys, but I prefer FBD, TGSTK, or RTS anyday. Those 3 albums to me are Darker, heavier, less lingering performance elements of glam and Phil's occasional "red hot chili pepper rap" vibes, just all around more mature, original and pure. 🤘

It’s always been my favorite of their albums. 10’s and Living Through Me being my personal favorites.

This band made 5 masterpiece albums imo. Still STRONGER THAN ALL

All of Pantera's albums are really good, from their "glam" stuff to their groove stuff. Far Beyond Driven and The Great Southern Trendkill are the best in my opinion.

I made a top 10 pantera song video on my channel and backed up the album the same way you did. Rock on Killbot 🤘

The great southern trendkill is my ringtone when i hear phil anselmo screaming in the intro 😈

definitely my favourite from Pantera! 'You won't need that any more, it's on sale at the dollar store!!!'

An album where the walls start to talk to me. "Try running through me my son" (happily obliged father)

I’ve always considered it my second favorite album behind vulgar. Sometimes I even question if it should be number one with is dark and atmospheric sound. My story with southern is kinda funny because I went to a local record store on my birthday to get some CDs. I grabbed it because it wads the next Pantera album I needed as I had all the ones before it. I was also looking for something that would be super heavy and crazy, but nothing caught my eye. I got in my car and threw it in my cd player. The second that scream came in I realized I had the heaviness I was looking for and was killing to birds with one stone.

I was just thinking of this record two days ago Is my heavy lifting record I do not trust anyone that dismiss the greatness of this beast In fact the suicide pt 2 heard it for the first time on a Hokuto no ken AMV and ppl at that age were telling me there were heavier things but till this day the intesity felt was hardly toppled.

this album + reinventing the steel are my gym albums. such a boost of energy.

havent watched the video but i agree 100%

My favorite Pantera album. And Reinventing the steel of course

The first 3 songs from this album really get me going…

Living Through Me is def my fav song from Pantera.

"Metal is more than just screaming" [Hits play] *aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa*

I always wondered why this was my favorite Pantera album

Excellent 🔥🤘🔥

Love Pantera and all their records, but Vulgar is my favorite. Masterpiece.

i love Great Southern Trendkill and i love the live video where Phil is singing with Seth and Seth just doesnt let Phil sing

Agreed 100% . Love this record.

And to think TGST was my first Pantera record 😍