"It was great having Vinnie and Dimebag producing," says Phil. It gave us a better perspective on what we were trying to achieve."Īnd though Vinnie is reluctant to describe the songs on Reinventing The Steel, Phil's riveting bolts of passionate, in-your-face vocals are again faithfully discharged under the familiar Pantera squall of Dimebag's guitars, Vinnie's drums, and Rex's deft bass playing. We were able to concentrate and work at a steadier pace, going in for a couple of days a week. "This just seemed like a natural progression to let us have a go at it. "He was real cool about it," says Vinnie. Terry Date, who has helped guide their four other studio albums, agreed it was time to let Vinnie and Dimebag fly solo on this effort. The album was crafted in their own home studio in Texas, with the band also anointing Vinnie and Dimebag Darrell as sole producers on this one. "We took more time on this album, much more time," says Vinnie. Now, with Reinventing The Steel, their first studio album in four years, Pantera can once again let their music do the talking, and, as one writer has already noted about the band: "You can hear them coming a mile away." The new disc, following on the heels of 1997's gold-selling live opus, Official Live: 101 Proof, reverberates with a depth and intensity that secures Pantera's rep as the cream of modern metal. Our fans know we're true right down to the fucking core." We put everyone on notice that we don't f*ck around. Heavy metal, grunge metal, funk metal, rap metal - and we're still here.
Log onto the numerous websites manned by rabid and loyal fans, and you'll find chat rooms filled with their own testaments of faith to the band: "They never sold out." "They're as heavy as shit." "They always speak their mind." "They don't give a flying fuck about any of the others." But ask Philip Anselmo, the charismatic, often merciless frontman of Pantera about his take on their success and you get the true, living, breathing definition of this uncompromising phenomenon. Rex Robert Brown (aka Rexx Rocker, aka T-Rex) : Bass, Back VocalsĬritics writing about Pantera fall over themselves in search of adjectives to describe the fiercely independent foursome: "Boot kicking" "A Metal massacre" "Crushing" "Searing" - the list goes on and on. Vincent Paul Abbott (aka Vinnie Paul) : Drums
Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (Remastered)
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