It seems as if they have been put through filter after filter to point where you can't even hear the original sound anymore. The remaining songs either fall into Pantera's usual (though improved) Southern groove or faster versions of such. As I grew and discovered new types of music, especially metal, my interest in Pantera sort of faded. is one of the band’s often overlooked records, but at a time when heavy metal was out of fashion, Pantera stayed true to their roots and delivered a classic in the process. I once heard someone refer to these people as ‘bro-metal’. but I’m totally okay with it at this point. Floods deserve another speech, without emphasizing that alone worth buying the album. This album features extensive overdubbing, but I don’t feel that it takes away from the quality at all. Ah, Pantera, a source for controversy, mainly from the media's accusations of Anselmo being a racist. The riffs are uninspired and nothing really clicks here. Whether you want to blame this album's fury on a bunch of people calling Phil a racist, or on the joys of heroin addiction, or on both, it doesn't really matter because either way it works. Essentially, rather than Anselmo shouting about how 'HE'S GONNA FUCK YOU UP!' That was more than 12 years ago, I was very young and just got into metal music, I wasn't prepared for such an outpour of rage in music form; at the time I thought heaviness in metal music came more from the speed at which notes where unleashed upon you or from the complexity of the songs rather than from the volume and intensity of them. Sometimes they sound like something Black Sabbath would have done, other times they may remind you of Kiss, combined with Pantera's characteristic raw groove. Oddly enough, a smart usage of this is actually in the first part of the most aggressive song, "Suicide Note" where an easy-going, slow country piece is played to lull someone into a feeling of relaxed sorrow before exploding into part 2, which is as extreme as this album gets with shredding, squealing guitars and vocals that sound like they're straight off of a grindcore record. One example of this is Phil’s screams, which again do not detract from the album. repeatedly. The demonic shrieking pulled off by Phil is highly indicative of black metal, only accentuated by the layered screams he does. Drag The Waters is more of the same, but it’s quite catchy all the same. In this album, fortunately, Rex' bass lines are allowed their place in the spotlight along with all the other instruments; and I say fortunately because he does such a great job it would have been a shame to mix it out of the final product like had happened in the previous records. What totally ruins the album is the excessive shrieking and screaming by the frontman and the less than satisfactory riffs; “Drag the Waters” with its chugging riffwork and swinging rhythm, sounds stale and feels like an updated recording from Sepultura’s Chaos A.D. Phil’s vocals on the song are thick, hoarse and powerful bellows, probably the only saving grace of the track; while the song is catchy, it’s not really memorable in any way. The Great Southern Trendkill Pantera. After the listener gets a feeling of what the album will be like, War Nerve, Phil's angry song against the media, hits the listener with a groovy, brilliant riff, and this song is angrier than the last. II" but "Drag the Waters" showcases this as well. It actually would have made a great swansong because honestly, "Reinventing the Steel" was a highly lacking album that I personally could do without. Another thing, this album probably has the clearest and heaviest production of any Pantera album. This is a very fitting vocal performance for the sheer hatred that Anselmo is spewing forth. This alone gives them points in my book as many bands had seen fit to pander to left-wing propaganda in recent years and basically suck the cock of socialism with their music. "Its on sale at the fucking dollar store!" The brief moments of genuine entertainment are quickly suffocated by Anselmo's insufferable (and overly layered) pig-like exhalations, and many of the tracks fade in to plodding, mid-tempo passages that showcase the worst aspects of the album: hokey, soulless death-grooving that would come off as comical were it not for your ears being on the receiving end of the joke. Well, this same guy is now back with a vengeance and an infected throat filled with spite and hate towards the whole fucking world and with an overwhelming desire to destroy it. Phil Anselmo’s vocals are no longer as authoritative and dominant as the previous three releases, but the bile and resentment he spews forth is as palpable as ever. ’13 Steps to Nowhere’ is one of those songs I never thought much of. The fact with this album is that its heaviness doesn't come from how fast the songs are, or how heavy the distortion of the guitar is (well, maybe just a little bit), it's not something that was thought over and then conveyed in the studio. A The Great Southern Trendkill az amerikai Pantera metalegyüttes nyolcadik stúdióalbuma, amely 1996. május 7-én jelent meg az EastWest Records kiadásában. The same goes for Anselmo - he compliments his usual tough singing style with a lot of screams and shrieks. Well, my response after just 10 seconds into the first song could be translated in English as "Holy Fucking Jesus what the fuck?" However, I think what I love most about this album is that there isn't one song that is completely filler. And, for the record, I, as I bet almost everybody else out there, have in all these years listened to stuff that was played faster, louder and with heavier production (and even with more layers of guitars), but nothing comes even close to the brutality of this album, the lethal dose of hate that T.G.S.T.K. This album differs from their previous albums in that it is a concentrated album. This solo is too beautiful to describe. So, if you're looking to be bummed-out both lyrically and musically, and want to forget the heady days of "Shattered" and "Fucking Hostile", then this album is for you. Next up, its War Nerve and its a change of tempo. The brother Vince, on drums, is unleashed, with difficult and heavy rhythms, sometimes fast (with a dominating double bass), sometimes filled with Groove sounds. He even gets an acoustic section on Suicide Note that is probably the best bit of compositional work he's ever done. THE GREAT SOUTHERN TRENDKILL T-SHIRT is unavailable. The record is also layered in its vocal affects, which gives songs like "13 Steps to Nowhere" and "Sandblasted Skin" a demonic feel. I've heard albums that were a lot louder and heavier than this, but as for angrier, I can't say that I have. "Let the war nerve break" says Phil at the second song and that's exactly what's happening in the chorus of "13 steps to nowhere" (who have some vary hard lyrics like "A backwards swastika/The black skin riddled in lead/A Nazi Gangster Jew/It beats a dog that's dead") and "Suicide Note pt.2" who combines with the acoustic pt.1 to a songs which talks about the 2 sides of suicide - suicide as the escape from life by drugs in part 1, and suicide the cowardly act in different way to die in part 2. As far as Phil goes, he sounds like he's hugging the toilet the whole time, and his lyrics were just what he was spewing! Of course it bloody is! My listening experience was altered as I tried to search for traces of his bass tones within the wave of guitars drums and Anselmo's screams. The finish is an amazing outro, worthy end of the best song of the band's career, in my opinion. And if the lyrics are pure manifests of anger then the music is the most appropriate I could think of. To put it candidly, Pantera had finally got themselves a set of enemies worthy of the blind rage that they exhibited on this album, the mainstream media and the political left. Thankfully, Pantera seemed to regain a sense of humour and (more importantly) some self-awareness for their next and final release, Reinventing the Steel. It's such a concentrated effort that it is almost a concept album, and that concept is HATE(and drugs). It almost sounds like the last song didn’t end and just went into one of those shitty –core sounding breakdowns Pantera was busy pioneering. Turn it up loud and say it proud - 'THE TREND IS DEAD'! Trivia: - The album peaked at #4 on the Billboard 200. The guitar work is closest to Far Beyond Driven but slower. So about now you should be tired of this onslaught of aggressive music, right? The album mixes the classic groove metal, trademark of the Texas band, with death, thrash, doom influences and a hot and sweaty sound, clear of southern matrix. It turns out that perhaps this album was hyped a bit too much, for even though there is nowhere near as much awful "groove" type stuff, this isn't that "far" removed from the previous album. I cannot recommend this highly enough. Particularly on the faster tracks, Anselmo has pumped a good deal of black metal style shrieks, which work a lot better than the quasi-Hetfield meets proto-metalcore sound that he had exhibited on the last 2 albums. Listen free to Pantera – The Great Southern Trendkill (The Great Southern Trendkill, War Nerve and more). 2 or better but instead is a record revealing the band unraveling at the seams. As said that you can feel and hear the dark cloud that descends on this album happens to benefit TGSTK, it also is to its detriment. Go ahead, buy it. However the only one of these i see as possible filler is 13 Steps to Nowhere. The sludge matrix of the band is very evident in this album. Share on facebook. Then begins the masterpiece: acoustic interlude, followed by (perhaps) the best solo of Dimebag Darrell’s career. Directly after recording their last album, Pantera had caught some shit because of a rant that Anselmo made on the topic of rap music and black pride. With the exception of the title track, Dimebag's solos are pretty much effects and screeches, which are more boring than anything else. While most people i know argue which Pantera album is better, "Cowboys" or "Vulgar", i see The Great Southern as the best piece of music these guys ever record. 1” and 10’s though we already had a glimpse of his “crooning” beforehand on “Hollow” and “Planet Caravan”; his singing on the aforementioned tracks rivals James Hetfield’s performance on “Unforgiven” and “Nothing Else Matters” (of course, Phil always wins in my book). Lyrically, Pantera grew up. It reached #4 on the Billboard Top 200 chart. Being Pantera, there are still grooves here, but songs that are predominantly groove metal, like 'Drag the Waters' or 'Living Through Me' are still bolstered by the aforementioned distilled anger and the production, which I shall come onto later. Drag the Waters and Hell's Wrath are both good examples. Leave your email address if you would like to be notified when it becomes available. Released 3 May 1996 on EastWest America (catalog no. Although I don't think it happened, it sounded as if every last beat Paul played was recorded by itself and looped. Rex, always equal, enriches the whole with his dark and heavy bass riffs. Suffice to say I highly recommend this album. One, they got heavier the more famous they got, which as far as I can tell is pretty much completely unique, and two, perhaps in an old rock band kinda style they were surprisingly diverse; fun groovy tracks mixed in with fairly intense bursts of incoherent anger. £25.00. They really pushed themselves to make something special that was outside of the box. This is the absolute most angry song on the album, and the song where anger fuels it from start to finish. I never feel remorseful for skipping this one, which is what I never do for the next song: Floods. This album was written in a time of tension with the band, and unfortunately, it is heard throughout. This is Pantera at their musical peak. It's not about Satan, dragons, dead lovers etc. II." Aside from the first half of ‘Suicide Note’, the album features two slower songs. Fast drumming, death growls and killer riffs. Not to mention the fact that there are some truly great solos on here. Therefore, there was a wonderful mixture of different arrangements, ranging from the mostly acoustic "Floods" to the ballistic and spastic "Suicide Note Pt. The guitar sound is extremely distorted, and it's furtherly enriched by the use of various effects and of the digital pedals, that prove crucial to build some of the record's best riffs (just think to "Suicide Note Pt.2''). To refer back to the thing about diversity, after Suicide Note's Pt2, youve got the broken down despair of pt 1, the junkie psychosis of Drag the Waters and Hell's Wrath, a whole bunch of leads ripped straight from Kiss and Van Halen albums, so on and so forth. His lyrical content has expanded and the amount of substance in the music has skyrocketed. Yeah, there’s better angry music out there. Voeg The Great Southern Trendkill (Album) toe aan je Rock Band™ songbibliotheek. For someone looking for something catchy, groovy, brutal, and moody at the same time, look no further. Hooray for that album. However, it is "acceptable" to consider "Cowboys From Hell" a good album (which it was) and a slightly smaller but still influential circle deem that finding that "The Great Southern Trendkill" was an unfairly overlooked and underrated album is an acceptable point of view. They all possess merit of some kind, and with perhaps the exception of "Living through Me" manage to avoid becoming mindlessly repetitive or suffer from aimless meandering. Fulfilled by Merchbar Premium Fulfillment. Although not totally not out of the woods as far as “I’m going to chug on an open-E string for a few minutes while Phil yells” shit Pantera likes to pull, the songs here feel more well-written in that it sounds like someone took a moment to write them. The real crowning jewel with this song is its outro. Dimebag also experiments with the guitar tuning, and indeed the last two songs of the album are played in Drop-G, featuring some incredibly groovy and sludgy riffing. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Pantera The Great Southern Trendkill Snake Logo T-Shirt at the best online prices at eBay! It sounds somewhat like the fillers off of Far Beyond Driven but thankfully the next track, 13 Steps, makes up for it. Phil begins the song screaming "FUCK THE WORLD! It is a solo that borders on Southern rock and one of the best on the album, but definitely not THE best. The start of the album has the ripping title track, which maintains the groove metal ideology but the aggression of Pantera is kicked up a notch. They are chaotic and messy, far from the unified vision realized in the previous album. Not sure why I'm reviewing bands like Slayer, Metallica, and now Pantera recently, but maybe it's because I consider these albums I'm reviewing important. Pantera covers a lot of lyrical ground specifically in calling out the biased media and the sycophantic bands that jumped on the nu metal band wagon. If you're like me and are indifferent to those albums, dive in head first, you're in for a rare groove metal treat. As truthful as the lyrics are, they're often also so on-the-nose to the point of parody - exemplified by the "Suicide Note" two-parter, and the profane, infantile call-outs to 'the media'. It’s like the band took a collective dump with this album, figuratively and literally. The mix of groove and some thrash metal with acoustic parts is just so fantastic. Add to Cart. Ten years later I understood what this album showed me back then, something that at that time unconsciously prompted me to instantly make a copy of it on cassette for my friends to experience what I labeled "The Heaviest Album Ever". This is what happens to a bunch of posers that wish to inflict their “metaller than thou” attitude on the populace. Suicide Note Pt 2 is a good enough example, no one would ever claim that the riffs on display are particularly original or technical- or even all that interesting- but the speed, the attitude, and the furious vocal performance makes the tune a certified neck breaker. Black t-shirt featuring rattlesnake graphic. It’s not shit. Well... I’ll say if you think you can’t stand 40 minutes of the most hate-fueled heavy metal you’ve ever heard, then don’t listen to this. Compare these songs to the really popular tracks from VDoP and FBD (Walk, 5 Minutes Alone, and I'm Broken) and note how they aren't stale and boring as fuck. (Unfornately they succeeded but at least black metal evolved and nu metal died when its audience graduated high school and learned what real metal was.) With any of the other albums, I can find some songs I like here and there, but that's pretty much the extent of it. I said it. Free shipping for many products! It's beautiful and has a somewhat melancholic vibe to it. As an added bonus there is no faked "tough-guy" aspect in either of these albums. There is also a noticeable musical shift here from the "chugga-chugga" grooves and accessibility of Far Beyond Driven. The album is different from their earlier stuff by becoming more brutal, more known to the power of rock and roll and by giving more metal that's rooted with southern music. There is so much anger here. However, for those that don't mind a little bit of modernity in all the right ways, or as Phil puts it, 'blending the '80s and '90's with hate', then I highly recommend this. And thanks to the genre-essential downtuning, even the speedier sections feel flabby and feckless. It actually has substance and the band was still cohesive enough to pump out some solid songs. One reason for this, and indeed one of things I hate most about Vulgar Display of Power and to a lesser extent, Far Beyond Driven, is Phil Anselmo's pretty poor vocals. Dimebag Darrel. Well, pretend you are, because much like a Pantera fan’s brain after looking at an algebra problem, Pantera slows things down a little. The bad blood flowing between Phil and Pantera at the time resulted in the Texan ensemble's angriest and most hateful opus, as it's made clear since the first second of the opening track, where Phil goes immediately all out with a visceral scream that could make burst out the lungs and the throat of an average person. Living Through Me is a modern and calculated thrash, with a chorus that relies on daring guitar riffs by Darrell. Every instrument has been through a fair amount of filtering, with the loudness turned up a lot in the process. "Floods" uses doom-laden country passages to make a song that's heavy just from the thick, dense atmosphere it carries rather than battering the listener with riffs. The hits of the album I am reluctant to call that for they, like this album remains rather forgettable when compared to their other albums. I mean, let's pretend to forget the fact that the sounds of all instruments on "Trendkill" are much thicker, deeper and heavier than they've ever been on a Pantera album; let’s also forget that, on here, carefully orchestrated harmonies, vocal melodies and jaw-dropping guitar solos left place to demonic, keyboard-driven dissonances, unrelenting death-growls and eardrum-raping noises; let's pretend to forget all this, but don't we still remember that Phil Anselmo guy, the same guy that only two years and one album prior to this was singing about his dad getting drunk and kicking his ass, about his friends turning their backs on him and then, again, kicking his ass... he was essentially singing about him getting his ass kicked. This is most notable in the title track and "Suicide Note Pt. Can I also get away with mentioning that this song has more cowbell? Fans of their usual style won't be disappointed, because "War Nerve" and the single "Drag the Waters" are rock-solid and all about the riffs. II,' 'Living Through Me (Hell's Wrath),' 'Floods,' 'The Underground in America,' '(Reprise) Sandblasted Skin' - … Pack bevat 'The Great Southern Trendkill,' 'War Nerve,' 'Drag the Waters,' '10's,' '13 Steps to Nowhere,' 'Suicide Note Pt. ...I am rambling a bit here, aren't I? If you're going to talk about the 90's, it's worth mentioning the sorry state of metal at the time. This is their culmination, their masterpiece, and undoubtedly the greatest groove metal album of all time. His work makes the songs have more variety and stop the album from sounding monotone. While "Vulgar Display of Power" and "Far Beyond Driven" could get a good thing going at times, they would also become stalled in middle of the road metal. Spin to Win: What's even worse is that part two of this song is just awful. Interestingly, The Great Southern Trendkill was my introduction to Pantera in 1996. Whether or not one enjoys it, it must be respected. When he employs it, he sticks to a mid-low register, with great results, as seen in "Suicide Note Pt.1" and "Floods". For a band stereotyped as a bunch of rednecks doing dumb muscle metal I've always felt it's a surprisingly deep, vulnerable, maybe even beautiful tune, and the way it drifts in and out of loud riffing and nervous, tentative clean parts is pretty great. The three albums I can listen to front to back and enjoy every time remain their fourth full-length album "Power Metal" released back in 1988, which I know the band themselves disown, "Cowboys from Hell", and this album, "The Great Southern Trendkill". Up until 1996, Pantera had garnered huge commercial success with their 3 previous releases and had become one of the biggest names in heavy metal, but now Phil Anselmo had a heroine addiction. Especially the unrelenting screaming of Anselmo (helped by Anal Cunt's Seth Putnam) can result, for the first couple of listens, in a very painful experience. "Floods" remains my favorite Pantera song to this date. Certainly, for many people it might be blasphemy, stressing the great value of his predecessors. And then what to say about "Floods?" The Great Southern Trendkill is the eighth studio album by heavy metal band Pantera. 10’s is one of the more mellow songs here, but is still pretty powerful. 2”; man, I just can’t describe how fucking lame this song is. For one, never have I heard an album with so much attitude, so much vitriol, so much... balls. Way more effective? Be that as it may, I enjoy a few of their albums quite a bit. Not that it won’t be blown out of the water in about 15 minutes with ‘Floods’, which I understand is sometimes called a bad song with a great guitar solo, but I love this fucking song. Also, we have an amazing, oft-overlooked acoustic song in "Suicide Note Pt. In addition to that, Phil Anselmo was not pulling off his newly adopted "tough guy" vocal approach at all and sounded more like a more masculine version of Kurt Cobain, but here he has done something equally rough yet much more metal appropriate with his voice. Characteristically defiant and contrarian, the … It was released in May, 1996 through East West Records. The essence of all metal is anger and if you don't have the fire inside you, then you might as well play a different type of music. This is Pantera's spiritual song revealing mankind's sins and Phil asking for God's wrath, via a world-engulfing flood. Not one song stands out on the record but parts of songs do have their moments for those who have patience. There is first and foremost to be fair, some things to praise about this album. I am very proud of this guy, for the way he handles the groove so fucking tightly, for all the amazing double bass flavour that he adds here and there and for his tasteful, genuinely southern approach to tribal rhythms (listen to the song "13 Steps To Nowhere" to understand what I mean). Possibly the best thing about Pantera here is that more often than not everything locks in well together- the riffs are good enough often enough, Phil is good enough often enough, and the rhythm section continue their excellent streak of form from Far Beyond Driven, tight, often a bit technical but still locking in tight. It is a solo that borders on Southern rock and one of the best on the album, but definitely not THE best. The other star of the show, the legendary Dimebag Darrell, is also remarkable as he employs a lot of flashy guitar tricks. It’s just that I sort of put Pantera fans up there with Slayer fans and Manowar fans as being awful people. Here he has perfected his growling vocals, and even does a few black metal screeches on the faster tracks and never sounds annoying, unlike on VDoP and FBD. Dimebag once again takes center stage with the melodic sound as Brown's sound is choked out. Anyone who claims that "Far Beyond Driven" is one of the greatest metal albums is lowered to about the same level as those who think koRn "used" to be a good band and those who claim that Slayer never sold out. Hell, the last two tracks seem to be tearing up the metal cliche's of the time by ripping on music videos that feature lesbians making out at wild drunken parties while vapid commercial metal plays in the background which seems to be destroying the band's own image in the name of art. This is probably the last heavy Pantera song that can be considered "very good" (I would hesitate to call it "great"). Parental Advisory Explicit Content". Hell, 'War Nerve' literally begins with these words: They are all the more poignant due the odd contrast they share with the rest of the album, and serve as rather shocking numbers to first time listeners, having just come off of this album's usual furious groove (the transition from ballad to typical track here is almost as shocking). he is now shouting about how everyone around him should 'FUCK OFF!'. From Power Metal to Reinventing the Steel, Pantera's discography is one of the most consistently entertaining and enjoyable of any metal band. After it comes the fast opening of "Living through Me (Hell's Wrath)", and after him the amazing rock and roll song "Floods" the shows one of Dimebag best solos. 'The Great Southern Trendkill'. It slows down the pace of the album with Dimebag's clean and melancholy riff. Interestingly, the album actually begins and ends with a more death/thrash style, which shows strongly on the blisteringly-fast "Suicide Note Part 2." The "best" of songs are The Great Southern Trendkill, Drag the Waters, Suicide Note pt. If it just so happens to have very little merit, then allow that to speak for itself. was. I quickly snatched up a brand new copy of "The Great Southern Trendkill" in the clearance bin at a local record store (for only $5). Release Date: 23rd October 2020. The album also showcases a more creative machine that was Pantera at this point in time, including being the band's most varied album post-1991. The atmosphere of this song is just so intense; it's a shame that Pantera did not try something like this again, choosing instead to pursue mindless heaviness. Take it as one will, but it is a hodgepodge of a mess. With a song like that, it begs to know why Pantera couldn't throw in more songs like these in their time which would have undoubtedly improved "Vulgar Display" and "Far Beyond Driven." Phil’s voice works well and although I sometimes think the parts where the line repeats is corny, it doesn’t bother me. His range hasn't returned but he makes his way just fine without it. It changes from grinding verses to thrashy parts that'll make you bang your head instantly. More by Bob Waliszewski. I think it is good and wise to be as positive as can be on a review no matter how bad or good it may be. Although maybe I’m over analyzing, this IS Pantera after all. Phil Anselmo doesn’t strike me as a bigot based on the company he keeps, particularly guitarist Kevin Bond of Superjoint Ritual who is half-black ( a race more often ridiculed by pure black Americans), and a life-long friend named Kirk Windstein is jewish. 2''), slow and goddamn groovy pieces ("War Nerve", "Drag the Waters", the two closing tracks), calmer and acoustic songs ("Floods" and "Suicide Note Pt. After that come the heavy riffs songs "War Nerve" and "Drag the Water". The heyday of thrash was gone, and we didn't even have nu-metal to at least put people in the right direction. This album was a definitive mark on the music scene during the mainstreams shift from alternative grunge to rapcore, and is just a brutal assault on all your senses. This isn't really one for the faint of heart (Pantera at their worst never were) or those who prefer the old school (Cowboys From Hell is right up that road). Despite a few bumps here and there, The Great Southern Trendkill will always be my favorite Pantera album. The Great Southern Trendkill's Phil Anselmo is too cool to be singing about cheap horror cliches. Not only are the guitars heavy, but they are just played...better. "Suicide Note Pt. Dimebag's verse riff combined with Phil's hostility towards humanity, creates the most sad feeling of any Pantera song, until we get to the solo. Suicide Note, Pt. 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