Believe it or not, these guys from Texas started out as a GLAM-METAL band! Funny thing is, they didn't get popular until they cut their hair and played real metal (usually it's the other way around.) I've heard that the band is very sensitive about their glam-metal roots, to the point of beating the shit out of fans & interviewers who ask them about it!!!

"Cowboys from Hell"

1. "Cowboys from Hell" (4:06)
2. "Primal Concrete Sledge" (2:13)
3. "Psycho Holiday" (5:19)
4. "Heresy" (4:45)
5. "Cemetery Gates" (7:03)
6. "Domination" (5:02)
7. "Shattered" (3:21)
8. "Clash with Reality" (5:15)
9. "Medicine Man" (5:15)
10. "Message in Blood" (5:09)
11. "The Sleep" (5:47)
12. "The Art of Shredding" (4:16)

This was the band's big breakthrough album, with the songs "Cemetery Gates", "Psycho Holiday" and the title track dominating the airwaves on MTv's Headbanger's Ball. The singer still wore a ponytail back then...

"Vulgar Display of Power"

1. "Mouth for War" (3:56)
2. "A New Level" (2:57)
3. "Walk" (5:15)
4. "Fucking Hostile" (2:49)
5. "This Love" (6:32)
6. "Rise" (4:36)
7. "No Good (Attack the Radical)" (4:50)
8. "Live in a Hole" (4:59)
9. "Regular People (Conceit)" (5:27)
10. "By Demons Be Driven" (4:39)
11. "Hollow" (5:45)

An extremely heavy album, upping the brutality factor from their last one by a factor of TEN. Snippets from several songs, incl. "A New Level" and "Fucking Hostile", were used as theme music for Headbanger's Ball (RIP).

Kilgore does a cover of "Walk" on the ECW: Extreme Music CD -- on that same album, 3 Pantera guys appear as Tres Diablos. I should also mention that Phil Anselmo sang for the side project Down, and guested on an Anal Cunt song (not that that's worth mentioning...)

1. "Strength Beyond Strength" (3:39)
2. "Becoming" (3:05)
3. "5 Minutes Alone" (5:50)
4. "I'm Broken" (4:25)
5. "Good Friends and a Bottle of Pills" (2:54)
6. "Hard Lines, Sunken Cheers" (7:01)
7. "Slaughtered" (3:57)
8. "25 Years" (6:06)
9. "Shedding Skin" (5:37)
10. "Use My Third Arm" (4:52)
11. "Throes of Rejection" (5:01)
12. "Planet Caravan" (4:04)

And if you thought V.D.O.P. was brutal, you haven't heard this album...probably the HEAVIEST album ever done, anywhere! They only slow up on the Black Sabbath song "Planet Caravan", but by then, the damage to your eardrums is done....

...and speaking of Sabbath, Pantera contributed the song "Electric Funeral" to the newly releasd Nativity in Black II tribute; they also covered "Hole in the Sky", which found on mp3 and burned to Digital Puppy #2, but I have no clue where it came from originally. They also have a song on "The Crow" soundtrack.

"The Great Southern Trendkill"

1. "The Great Southern Trendkill" (3:46)
2. "War Nerve" (4:53)
3. "Drag the Waters" (4:55)
4. "10's" (4:49)
5. "13 Steps to Nowhere" (3:37)
6. "Suicide Note Pt. I" (4:44)
7. "Suicide Note Pt. II" (4:19)
8. "Living Through Me (Hell's Wrath)" (4:50)
9. "Floods" (6:59)
10. "The Underground in America" (4:33)
11. "(Reprise) Sandblasted Skin" (5:39)

Without a doubt, this one has got to be the Most Requested CD since the Gallery went live. In fact, I had to put up a special message telling people to STOP EMAILING ME about it, I'll get the damn thing!! Of course, that was a couple years ago, so after awhile I started getting mails saying, "Hey, you said you were gonna get TGST a long time ago, why haven't you gotten it yet?" Geez, you guys. Well, a kind soul from Australia finally filled me up with this CD plus the two followups. Now all you people can go away happy. :)

This disc isn't nearly as heavy as Far Beyond Driven (geez, how could it be?) and even gets curiously experimental on such tunes as "Floods" and "Suicide Note". Nice listen, but I've really fallen out of favor with Pantera's sound lately...just does nothing for me anymore.

"Official Live: 101 Proof"

1. "New Level" (4:24)
2. "Walk" (5:50)
3. "Becoming" (3:59)
4. "5 Minutes Alone" (5:36)
5. "Sandblasted Skin" (4:29)
6. "Suicide Note Pt. 2" (4:20)
7. "War Nerve" (5:21)
8. "Strength Beyond Strength" (3:37)
9. "Dom/Hollow" (3:43)
10. "This Love" (6:57)
11. "I'm Broken" (4:27)
12. "Cowboys from Hell" (4:35)
13. "Cemetery Gates" (7:53)
14. "Hostile" (3:56)
15. "Where You Come From"--studio track (5:11)
16. "I Can't Hide"--studio track (2:16)

Just a live disc with two bonus studio tracks. Who cares.

"Reinventing the Steel"

1. "Hellbound" (2:40)
2. "Goddamn Electric" (4:56)
3. "Yesterday Don't Mean Shit" (4:20)
4. "You've Got to Belong to It" (4:12)
5. "Revolution is My Name" (5:16)
6. "Death Rattle" (3:17)
7. "We'll Grind That Axe for a Long Time" (3:44)
8. "Uplift" (3:45)
9. "It Makes Them Disappear" (6:22)
10. "I'll Cast a Shadow" (5:24)

This disc was hailed as "a return to form", which doesn't make any sense, because they never left it, did they? I guess the music is a lot more solid and cohesive than Great Southern Trendkill, with "Revolution is My Name" being the best tune here by far. ("Whaaat's my naaame???") The rest just kinda goes in one ear and out the other.

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