Best Album Ever Survivor: Somewhere In Time wins

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Come on now... No one anymore seconding Sabotage? Back to metal school!

A very solid Sabbath album. It is epic with Megalomania, has groundbreaking, scything riffs with Symptom of the Universe, is mercilessly heavy with Hole in the Sky, and it features a plain awesome instrumental track in the form of Supertzar. The other tracks are less weak than the least ones on Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, an album which has less variation and less unexpected moments (some songs on SBS are a drag even). I think I'd even rate Sabotage higher than the first three Sabbath, though I am not sure about Master of Reality.

EDIT: Just played the whole Pantera album and to be honest, the second half isn't that impressive as the first.
 
I love Pantera and what I see here makes me very happy. :D
But if you eliminate Awoken Broken, I'll nag about it until you change your mind or I get banned. There, you have been warned.
 
It will be promoted together with the superior Clockwork Angels. :cool: ;-)
So Awoken Broken isn't in the danger zone. YET! :)
 
Nah. Perhaps lyrically but that's not what I am digging in Pantera. Primal Concrete Sledge, now that song kicks major balls.

I had expected that Vulgar would have been beaten by Stormrider, which is more consistent from start to finish. Also I thought its style would connect more with this forum. Alas, it has to go. First setback of this survivor.
 
You need to get more confidential with Vulgar Display..tracks 1-5 is where all the hits are at but from 6 -11 you'll find all the real Pantera fans favorites.
 
That's hard to imagine. Well, I am not a real Pantera fan anyway. Never was much into their later work and I also prefer Cowboys.
 
I've listened to Pantera since I was 14,. They were one of those transition bands that led me from Maiden and Tallica to harder stuff...

I don't prefer Cowboys, but Vulgar Display is no favorite either, I would say it is a toss up between Far Beyond Driven and The Great Southern Trendkill...
 
Unlike Foro, I am a little surprised Vulgar is doing so well.
Yeah, metalheads love them for their lack of compromise, but usually this forum goes for music with more melody and nuance.
In a way, Pantera is a lot like AC/DC. (Cue all the deniers who love one and hate the other)
They only do one thing, but they do it with all the blood and sweat they can muster.
 
I don't agree with that. Many of the bands on the current list only "do one thing" with all the blood and sweat they can muster. Especially a lot more bands than Pantera.
 
I gotta say I'm not familiar with their entire catalogue, but everything I've heard is balls-out, full-on roaring metal.
Who up there is less varied or nuanced?
 
I'd argue that on Superunknown alone, you can find elements of pop, doomy Sabbath-esque sludge, psychedelia, classic metal and Zep, all sprinkled with all kinds of time changes and odd chordings — that's why they can appeal to metal, rock and even prog and pop fans, beyond their "core" alternative audience.

Pantera is straightahead metal and nothing but — and it's the lack of compromise that makes them great. (Just like AC/DC.)
 
mckindog said:
I gotta say I'm not familiar with their entire catalogue, but everything I've heard is balls-out, full-on roaring metal.
Who up there is less varied or nuanced?
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A lot of progressive metal bands will have you believe that they are really experimental and really pushing the envelope when it comes to music - they are really not. They are doing their own thing but usually most of the progressive metal is actually not that progressive anymore.
 
I agree that Pantera weren't the most varied band of all-time, but I wouldn't say they were nearly to the degree of AC/DC. I hear a lot more variation in The Great Southern Trendkill than I do in pretty much any AC/DC album.
 
SixesAlltheway said:
A lot of progressive metal bands will have you believe that they are really experimental and really pushing the envelope when it comes to music - they are really not. They are doing their own thing but usually most of the progressive metal is actually not that progressive anymore.
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This is true. %90 of the "progressive" metal bands around copy Dream Theater.
 
mckindog said:
I'd argue that on Superunknown alone, you can find elements of pop, doomy Sabbath-esque sludge, psychedelia, classic metal and Zep, all sprinkled with all kinds of time changes and odd chordings — that's why they can appeal to metal, rock and even prog and pop fans, beyond their "core" alternative audience.

Pantera is straightahead metal and nothing but — and it's the lack of compromise that makes them great. (Just like AC/DC.)
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I get this, and the time changes are part of why I like them so much. But the overall sound is still the same. I suppose you can spin that as good or bad. I'd like to think of it as good though.

The Flash said:
This is true. %90 of the "progressive" metal bands around copy Dream Theater.
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Might be true for bands like Bad Salad or Circus Maximus but there are a bunch of progressive metal bands that have their own style. Spock's Beard, Symphony X, Haken. To name just three.
 
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