Reviews (page 8 of 8)
More like trash metal, am I right?
Not for me
Nah, aint no metal kid.
Not a fan of being screamed at for an hour.
muito barulhento, 1,5
Utter crap
1/5
I just do not like Metal. And whilst this I found this slightly more enjoyable than other metal albums as not quite so lyrically dumbits still a 1 for me. Top of the shit pile but unfortunately still shit.
A new level of fucking hostility that is not love, for me.
Fuck sake.
Proficient guitar playing but the only way I could tolerate this was by imagining I was torturing my sadistic directors with it Edit: quite like the ballady ones if I picture Mike Patton singing them
Awful. It doesn’t even sound that heavy to me. It sounds thin and trebly with hardly any bass. The production is so smooth and polished that it lacks any edge. They should try listening to SWANS or My Bloody Valentine. I hate the guitar sound, hate the drum sound and hate the vocals. One point for the guitar solos that I do actually quite like.
Not for me.
2/10. Not my thing at all.
Boring. Didn’t find any songs even kind of good.
Noisy crap
You might not be able to judge a book by its cover, but you certainly can with this album.
Not my thing.
Volume - 1 Interest - 0 Vulgar Display of Bleagh!
Not my bag, certainly, but is this even good? They use the same guitar tone on every single song. Whatever. I don’t get it nor am I sad about it
What the hell? I guess I live in a hole with regular people. I've certainly got no mouth for war and find this sound fucking hostile and hollow. It is simply no good.
Pantera gonna do what Pantera gonna do. True to the album name, it is in fact a vulgar display of power. I don't understand the motivation to make music like this, but I know it has appeal with disaffected humans whose mothers didn't love or protect them (see: "Got shit on, pissed on, spit on, stepped on"). Screaming guitars, pounding drums, and growling lyrics with none of the charm of say a White Zombie. The album is sort of like getting stabbed repeatedly with a fork.
I preferred when a band needed cool songs to make it cool or not. Now you just have to put on a voice, say fuck every line and wear black and bahm you're cool, easy as that.
Musically I'm here for it. Vocals just not for me
Boring as sin
Made it just over half way through but couldn't take any more. This is not to my taste at all. I hate the vocals especially.
There have been albums with one good track. This album is one track. I suspect it has just one chord.
Nope. Worse than Nine Inch Nails.
We don’t need this fascist groove thang.
Oh come on. Seriously? What a load of shite. What is that silly singing? The lyrics sound like a teenager trying to big himself up because he's so insecure and spotty. The guitar is relentlessly samey. The drums are so intricate and fast - yet tappy-tappy in the production. Oh boy. Laughable.
Det går inte lyssna färdigt på detta. Det är så jävla dåligt.
Just not my style
Good for not falling asleep on the train when I didn’t want to, not good for lyricism
I think that I like metal and not heavy metal, this was too much yelling for me
After 20 years of giving Metal a shot, I think it's just not gonna click for me. Sorry, Ethan. I like the vibes, but hate the sounds. Metallica abandoned their thrash metal sound for a more commercially accessible one their self-titled album in 1991, one that I enjoy as far as hard rock goes. Pantera viewed this as a disappointment and an opportunity to fill a gap and produce this record. I understand that there is a distinct subculture to which this is a good thing, but not to my ears.
Horrible.
This isn't really helping me enjoy metal more, especially not thrash metal.
Never got Pantera.
Awful, I did give it my best go though!!
I can repeat my last review about RAP...
Get fucked Pantera
Yeah fuck this. I don’t want my listening dollars to go towards this band fronted by a white supremacist Nazi shit head. Pantera died with Dimebag and that’s where it can stay
Not really my thing at all
Music for 12 year old white boys who’s mom is a real “bitch” for making him do his homework.
Non merci.
Unlistenably horrid.
Me niego a escuchar más. He llegado a Fucking Hostile. Vulgar todo, como el propio nombre del disco.
Dog shit
Dog shit
This album is the reason I harbour so much skepticism towards metal as a genre. The tough-guy basic as fuck vocals and lyrics irritated me to no end. The rhythm of the album barely changes from that chugga chugga style, and at 52 minutes, it feels seriously slow. If anything, it made me appreciate the Iron Maiden album I had prior to this far more.It has nothing in particular to say, and even then, it says it badly. 04/06/24
By choice, I don't listen to explicit content. 0/5
Too aggressive and screamy for my taste. Not something I enjoy listening to at all. There is decent musical cohesion and okay instrumental performances, which almost make it a 2, but the lyrics seem almost like a parody of metal, and the rhytms are really quite simple and repetitive, making it feel tedious. So this ends up as a 1.
Sorry, y’all. I just don’t know how anyone takes this music (or at least these vocals) seriously. 1.5/5
DNF not for me. Two songs in an I had anxiety.
It's a "no" for me, guys. I'm sure someone appreciates this music and I'm just not big enough into thrash metal to enjoy this album. The best song on the album is "Fucking Hostile" because that's what making me listen to this album ever again would be described as.
Listened. Ears feel bashed. Words just slurried around like a bad concrete experience, all gravel and debris. Swearing, thrashing, guttural throat wounds shouting into my ear. Again, this is not my thing. No wish to repeat.
I really don’t like metal
As músicas do álbum estão bem de acordo com a proposta sugerida pela nome e capa (inclusive, tenho que admitir que o conjunto do nome do álbum e da foto é muito impactante). Porém, apesar de casarem com a temática do álbum, ao ouvir as músicas na sequência elas ficam progressivamente mais insuportáveis. O instrumental energético fica repetitivo - e as vezes realmente ruim - ; a vocal gritando vai perdendo o impacto e a cada música e se torna irritante, e, para finalizar, na primeira metade da última música existe uma tentativa melódica horrível, apenas para voltar ao formato já desgastado no fim dela. Eu daria 2 estrelas pelas música / partes interessantes e pelo tentativa de manter um fio temático ao longo do álbum, mas depois que vi que o vocalista fez saudações nazistas no palco e que um dos símbolos recorrentes da banda é a bandeira dos confederados, preferi arredondar para 1 estrela mesmo
a quiet rainy day inside with hot cocoas was, in retrospect, probably not the appropriate environment to be judging this one, but ah well
Headbanger Honeymoon. Real crap
Not my kind of music, to be honest, but let's give it a chance. No, I did not care for that. 1/5
Too heavy for me. Loud pounding guitar and screaming vocals. Not my cup of tea thank you
No es mi rollo
I do my best to listen to everything thrown out me on this project, but some of these genre's push the limits of actual music. Vocals are unbearable. Had to move on quickly from this one.
Nothing much for me here, a white power version of Slayer. Sorry no.
Shidt
From the first note, it’s obvious that this ruined hard rock for the next 25 years at least. The sound of butt rock, but with more precision, but it doesn’t make me love it. It’s just heavy chugs, and yet not slow enough to give a beat down vibe. It just sounds like the music of a Gen X alcoholic plays in his garage while he lifts weights, annoyed that he doesn’t have a six pack but happy his arms make him look like he could punch a bouncer for kicking him out after he hits on a group of 19 year olds. There are brief glimpses of a more speed/thrash sound that I enjoy a lot more, but they feel more tacked on than sincere. Makes sense, since Pantera themselves said they saw this album as an opportunity to “fill a void” created by Metallica post-Black Album. Also I hate these solos. They take the worst lessons from Van Halen and exaggerate them beyond comprehension. Like it’s worse then Slayer, and that’s saying a lot. I swear I really love metal, I love punk, I love thrash and groove, I love all the subgenres this is pulling from. I just don’t think Pantera is for me; it’s so obvious their influence was brief and bright, and while that’s important to include in a book like this, it doesn’t mean the album holds up with time.
I am not angry enough at the world to have enjoyed this.
No
If you've ever wondered how it would sound if literally every song on an album was screamed instead of sung, you now have the answer. Is it good? Not really.
too much shuting. not my taste
Meh. Kinda boring, really. The album sounds like it was made by a bunch of conservative small dick racist texas good ole boys, which is pretty close to accurate. The only reason to include it would be to illustrate how bad metal can be. 1/5
Head banging, heavy metal
No
Nan le metal c’est vraiment compliqué. J’ai attaqué l’album en me disant que je ne savais pas du tout ce que faisait Pantera et au bout de 20 secondes je me disais que je savais en fait exactement ce que faisait Pantera. Et ce son de guitare, ces riffs répétitifs, ce rythme spécifique metal qu’ils reprennent tous à l’identique me file des boutons. Les paroles n’arrangent rien avec une colère un peu ras des paquerettes, qui m’évoque celle d’un adolescent boutonneux qui ne supporte pas la nouvelle femme de son père et qui lui hurle “de tout façon t’es pas ma mère” en lui claquant au nez la porte de sa chambre. Ensuite il mettra le disque de ce groupe à fond pour énerver toute la maison et parce qu’il n’ y a qu’eux qui le comprennent et qui savent exprimer sa haine de ce monde de merde. Tout ça pour qu’au final le chanteur fasse un salut nazi en hurlant “white power” sur scène. Blaireaux.
Greatly dislike the screaming vocals. Tried to listen to the entire album in full but had to skip through most tracks after bearing through about 40 seconds of each number.
Nope..
not for me
Deeply and probably deliberately unpleasant. Get out of my ears!
Negative stars are needed to accurately rate an absolute steaming pile of dogshit like this.
heavy
No desire. We are too old to enjoy that screaming😫
Um.. no thanks. Never caught on to the incessant screaming at the top of ones lungs - maybe to drown out the lack of creativity?
Oh, I know this one! There was a time when I thought this was scary, then I went through a metal phase and thought it was pretty good, and now I recognize Pantera as a band with a tragic history and a problematic singer and a sound that is very much of its era
Thrash metal isn't my thing. Nothing good ro say about this album 1
Definitely had to FF through this one. I would venture to guess based on most of the 5-star reviews that if you were not a teenager in high school (especially if you dabbled in substances) when this came out, you “missed the boat.” Not one thing I could grab onto, though I tried.
Nope.
Fuck this neo-nazi adjacent shit. Everyone who likes this album is an asshole.
Just no
The glam metal thing didn't work out for them so they decided to get all hard instead? I mean I guess they succeeded, but at what cost? I'll tell you what cost: nu-metal.
Unlike the Anthrax album I did make it all the way through this one. Don’t know why though. Awful.
1/10, not for me - too much screaming
Can't stand it when vocalists sing like Cookie Monster. Music was a bit interesting, but the vocals kill it for me.
Oh they wanna be a hardcore punk band sooooo bad! There's a lot of metal with better riffs, better lyrics and better vocals then this. Oh well, at least the title is accurate.
Not interested
1 i hate metal. the guitar solos are the only redeemable thing about this album but even then they're just meh. the "singing" is so annoying though god if they'd just toned it down a lil on the screaming i could have added at least one extra star. fave songs: ://
Not at all
My knee-jerk reaction when I saw Pantera crop up: "Ugh." But I had the same reaction when Megadeth's "Rust in Peace" appeared, only to be pleasantly surprised by it. Maybe this would be a similar experience. The first track on the album is "Mouth for War," and I was once again pleasantly surprised. Solid drums, great guitar ... maybe I'll like this after all. Aaaaand then Anselmo's vocals kicked in and my fleeting optimism was bashed into a thousand pieces. I just can't listen to this kind of stuff. It's just yelling. Or growling. Or both. But if you were to ask me what I thought incels, school shooters, and white supremacists listened to, this would be it. I'm not implying the band (or the majority of their fans) share those views, but this just sounds like toxic masculinity in musical form. I can't even think when shit like this is playing. It's way too aggro, which is a shame, because the instrumentals are solid. This gets 4 stars for the instrumentals and negative infinity for the vocals. HARD pass.
I made it through the whole album although this is really not my jam. I don’t hate it but it doesn’t appeal to me.
Oooof, this was not good.
The riff isn't bad, then the lead yeller starts yelling. He obviously wants to be Hetfield, but he also has this dramatic thing going. Good metal drags you in to an experience. Cliched metal is intensely boring. This is next-level cliche.
Really? Can’t think even the band would think this was what they were put on this earth to do.
Oh, lord. I try to be reasonably in-depth with these reviews, and to give each album a fair assessment on its own terms, but I also reserve the right to not over-analyse something too much if I just plain don’t enjoy it. And here we are with Pantera’s “Vulgar Display of Power”, an eminent entry in thrash metal. I’ve never been a fan of the genre and this one was never going to convert me. Hated the thin, compressed sound. Hated the unbearable bellowed vocals. Hated the lyrics. Hated the hatred. See the guy in this oh-so-profound album cover, with the fist in his face? I think Pantera want that to be all of their naysayers across the 51 minutes of this album. Confronted by their almighty rage! I just ended up bored, thinking ahead to reviewing Supertramp instead. If you like it, good for you. I just couldn’t. Could barely listen through, so was determined to make reviewing it as little a chore as possible.
Just no
NON. En plus d'être un putain de nazi, le chanteur chante comme s'il était constamment constipé. En plus, le groupe n'est pas si bon et il n'y a qu'une chanson vraiment mémorable dans le lot. NULACHIER PREFS : Walk, This Love MOINS PREF : Hollow
Listened to a couple songs. Just never going to be my thing.
Me niego a escuchar más. He llegado a Fucking Hostile. Vulgar todo, como el propio nombre del disco.
Accidentally listened to the wrong Pantera album first---Cowboys From Hell is better than this (2 stars for Cowboys). A lot of tough-guy asshole posers I knew in high school loved this album. It's not the worst album on the list but there's not much here to like; removing the vocals might get it another star.
Not for me. I had to listen to it one track at a time. I can appreciate a song at a time to a degree, but listening to the full album is incomprehensible to me.
Ooh! You're hard. I don't like heavy metal macho posturing. I don't like this. Next.
Refused to listen.
Although I’m not a fan, there’s something to be said for the classic metal feel of this. And I’d never realized how truly sad, isolated, and lonely the lyrics are.
Glad that's over. Not for Williams.
100% NOT my bag.
Made it 30 seconds and no more. Just cannot abide that style of singing
Dnl
A lot sounded the same
Awful
Nope - not for me.
Pain.
just couldn't
Fuck that was a slog. My throat hurts.
I wasn't expecting to like this album, and by and large even trying to listen with an open mind, I was right. The good bits: some of the guitar riffs are pretty catchy, and the drumming is fairly epic. The main bad bit that renders the whole thing somewhat unpleasant is the vocals. I guess I just don't get the appeal but I don't find screamed gravelly vocals particularly fun
I tried - I really did - just not my thing. While it has a rhythm and beat to it, I don’t totally understand this music.
Since 10 seconds in I was just hoping for it to end.
Oh gosh. I just pretty much suffered through this album and hated every moment. My 10 yo daughter asked me why anyone would listen to this, and I suggested it would annoy your parents and that could be fun? "Poor parents!" she said. Even to annoy my parents I couldn't listen to this.
Nope, this genre of metal is not for me
0/11, 0%
did not really listen
Okay, I've heard it before I die (although it almost killed me). Hopefully I never have to hear this again. 1 star.
Just noise...
I am sure this has an audience who appreciate it, but it's not for me.
This is another one that is not for me. Some moments of the guitar play were okay, but the growling/screaming vocals just leave me hoping each track to please end quickly.
This is not music that speaks to me. I got the gist early on and then had to listen to the rest. Next!
Some of the guitars were good, but the vocals are just so bad I can't listen.
Fans of this album don't need to have their Chuck Norris knowledge acknowledged. They harbor resentment towards the Coen Brothers for lying about Fargo being based on actual events. Don't ask them to explain their body art. You don't have time to hear about their body art. For one thing, they despise the phrase "body art" and just call them "tattoos".
Horrendous
Bit shouty. Exactly what you'd expect from the album name/art.
I hate this style of singing, so it was pretty much unlistenable for me.
It felt like I was under attack, which I suppose was the point. It was more physical experience than music like going on a fairground ride. Once you got over the adrenaline it was just not very exciting or interesting. There is music I like that does similar things but this just felt pointless.
Pants. With skid marks.
this album really… confused me because I really hate this kind of metal music, but when I tried to think of what made me hate it, I felt hypocritical since there are other genres I love that have those same qualities I love hard rock (eg. Helter Skelter and Led Zeppelin) I love punk/post-punk (I love Le Tigre and I still need to get around to hearing Kathleen Hanna’s other stuff, Sonic Youth is amazing too, I also enjoy GRLwood’s songs but I hate that the singer is an awful person) I love Industrial (Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor all the way, bro) and I even enjoy some Grunge here and there (mostly Kurt Cobain’s discography which I don’t listen to often since it’s not really for me but when I do hear it I at least appreciate the hell out of it) And this is kinda why Swans is probably my favorite band, they have amazing diversity from album to album they started out as an Industrial Rock band that would shatter your eardrums every chance they could take, then they moved into post-punk and (in my opinion) made the weirdest post-punk for the time, like you got Joy Division that was making the more dark depressing stuff or Talking Heads who loved messing around and breaking the rules and getting kinda weird, but when you listen to Swans’ Children of God, it’s just so far distant and weird from any of the other stuff I’ve heard, it’s amazing to me anyway, after that they made post-rock and without spending forever talking about why I love it, their entire discography is just consistently amazing to me and I recommend you check them out if you’re a fan of Industrial, post-punk or post-rock, there’s probably a few albums they have that you’d enjoy (other super weird bands (that are difficult to label genre-wise) that I enjoy are Xiu Xiu and Kengo Iuchi, but that’s super weird stuff that you’re probably gonna have a hard time enjoying unless you’ve already been down the rabbit hole with other wild stuff) sorry, back to the album ughhhhh… I just hate it and I don’t know why I was even trying to give them the benefit of the doubt and hear their first album before this one and all it did was give me 2 albums to loath today it just sounds so douchey, I fucking hate every song my running theory is that it’s about the fanbase, the awful fucking fanbase like when I listen to this shit all I think of is some fat fuck who’s got his hair grown down to his ass crack, paired with a red bandana and a crusty, cum-stained t-shirt of whatever lame-ass band they need everyone to know they love they think they’re so tough and cool but they’re one big mac away from a heart attack like idk, this just sounds like neckbeard music for neckbeards who think they’re all hard and shit the lyrics sound like they were written by a fourteen year old who watched V for Vendetta (or Fight Club) and got “radicalized” there’s very little to enjoy about an album like this when it comes to a biased little shit like me, I’m gonna give it a 2/10 but even that feels too generous I mean fuck dude, I hated this so much I spent half the review talking about bands that I actually enjoy
HEAVY METAL BY DEFINITION!!!
-The scooped-mid guitar tone is abysmal -The tough-guy posturing is embarrassing for anyone older than 18 -Fucking Hostile sounds like they tried to write a Ride-era Metallica song but forgot the part where Metallica is good -Walk is goofy as hell and has been memed into oblivion at this point -Vulgar display of bad music
Definitely not for me. I couldn't even listen to most of it.
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Absolute pish, hated every minute of it.
Could listen to a instrumental version of this album much easier than this one with screaming. Glad I made it through the end. My ears need a break. Ouch.
Awful. The worst album so far
7th October 2021 Listened while working from Marbella. Not my thing. Got time for heavy metal as a genre, but not for me.
This kind of music is literal torture for me.
Orkar eeeerj
Motorsågs-gitarrer, inget för mig ;)
Ho hum... On etrack is enough really, you know what you're getting. And then there's the slow one...
not for me
Metal isn't for me
I'm not a fan so this is going to be rough. I don't enjoy the vocals at all.
Too screamy for me.
Yeah right, alsof ik hier 52 minuten en 52 seconden naar ga zitten luisteren. Na 3 minuten en 54 seconden was het klaar met deze ellende.
Ik heb het geprobeerd maar was snel klaar met proberen.
bad. screamo
Extremely not for me :/
I don’t like metal. Incoherent screaming isn’t entertaining.
I do not like metal.
Metal is just not for me in most cases.
1992: Walk
die kürzlich erhaltenen guten neuigkeiten bezüglich der zukünftigen lohnarbeit in kombination mit diesem album erwecken das verlangen mein stahlhartes t(d)rittbein in mein müllbefülltes macbook zu rammen. gude pladde.