Vulgar Display Of Power

Im a 44 white male who has spent a lifetime listening to a wide variety if music and have 6 albums left in this project. If i suddenly decided to become a metal head at this late stage it would be more likely to be a mid life crisis or large bang to the head. This is well done and with lits of ebergy but im comfortable in my choices and this is not for me.

First time listener and I think I get the Pantera love now, but think it will only tickle my pickle in the right mood.

I just missed this band, since I was no longer keeping up with metal after graduating from high school (4-5 years before Pantera landed on the scene). This album is transitional from "musical metal" to complete trash (the first Metallica albums). I would have liked it when I was in high school, but not now. One wonders whether the escalating norm-breaking in metal music was a harbinger of what was to come on a much broader scale in the world? We went from Maiden/Priest with harmonies and operatic singing to Pantera with screaming instead of singing and the first flirting with the idea that musicality might be optional and then to early Metallica where screams are replaced by hoarse sounds and musicality is avoided at all costs. Foreshadowing of what was to start in the 90s (or was it in the 80s?) and culminate in the second coming of Trump where all norms were broken and the result was chaos.

I love metal, but Pantera has never really been my cup of tea. I would say I like them, generally, but I rarely seek them out, and I have my reasons. I don't really like their production style, I don't really like Phil Anselmo's voice, or lyrics all the much. Hell, I just don't really like Phil Anselmo. But I do think Pantera deserves their place in the pantheon of metal acts. And it's really just for one reason. The riffs. Holy shit, Dimebag Darrell could write riffs.His technical abilities are obviously there, but there's such an understanding of restraint and raw power in his writing that most guitarists never really figure out. Look at Walk. The main riff for walk is literally a single note, which is bent. And it's one of the most iconic metal riffs ever. Look at the sheer weight of This Love's Breakdowns, or look at By Demons Be Driven's jackhammer riff. Listen to the staircase riff on A New Level. I don't even know if this is my favorite Pantera album for riffs (it might be Far Beyond Driven, but there are *absurdly* good riffs on every Pantera album from Cowboys on), but the library of riffs here is an absolute master class in riff construction. On this factor alone, Vulgar Display Of Power utterly soars. Not like one of my favorite metal albums or anything, but one which isn't being removed from the pantheon anytime soon.

I don't want to listen to white men screaming if they can't even be funny about it. They could be funny but if they are I don't know because I can't understand what they're saying. What they would like to communicate to me sonically is not funny. 1 point for being from Arlington. I can hold space for the nerdy men of my childhood who thought they were so hardcore in this particular way. Some sick riffs.

Pointless for me to go beyond track one. Thinking about, my pant era was probably from the age of two to 12. Since then it's only been boxers.

Not as good as Cowboys From Hell, but still a banging record.

metallica is niet voor mij

Not for me this one. Almost unlistenable.

I liked this more than I anticipated. I appreciate being able to understand what he’s screaming and hearing a melody. Having had my formative early adult years during the height of Nu metal, I much prefer this.

Nice and heavy. I've preferred this to most hard rock albums I've had on the list so far. It is clear how they inspired the genre over the coming years and decades. Still it's not my type of music and I wouldn't listen again but I enjoyed the one off listen.

Some better than others but blended together

Nice metal but nothing standout

Heavy metal tout ce qu'il y a de plus basique

Sans surprise, le métal c'est pas mon truc 2/5

Det fanns ett göteborgsband i början av 90-talet som hette Psychobeta Buckdown, dom skulle senare ombildas lite och bli LOK. Deras programförklaring var i alla fall att dom spelade container - hårt, tungt och otympligt. Det passar för Pantera också.

Man får acceptera att det finns folk som gillar det här. Men jag gör det inte.

Jag mer eller mindre avskyr det. Orkar lyssna på delar av alla låtar men fan inte på dem i sin helhet. Det är en nog så stor ansträngning.

Totalt meningslöst

Listening to this album is a lot like getting punched repeatedly in the head, although maybe less enjoyable. Pummelling, repetitive (read boring) drop-D riffs, double kickdrums along with lots of screaming and piss-poor lyrics does not make for a fun almost-hour. I now know why these guys passed me by in the early 90s.

The 1st track is a 3/5, not a bad song, just not a fan of heavy metal, so I wouldn't add this to my main playlist. The 2nd track is a 3/5, it's not a bad song, just something I wouldn't go out of my way to listen to. The 3rd track is a 3/5, it's not a bad song, just something I wouldn't go out of my way to listen to. The 4th track is a 3/5, it's not a bad song, just something I wouldn't go out of my way to listen to. The 5th track is a 3/5, it's not a bad song, just something I wouldn't go out of my way to listen to. The 6th track is a 3/5, it's not a bad song, just something I wouldn't go out of my way to listen to. The 7th track is a 3/5, it's not a bad song, just something I wouldn't go out of my way to listen to. The 8th track is a 3/5, it's not a bad song, just something I wouldn't go out of my way to listen to. The 9th track is a 3/5, it's not a bad song, just something I wouldn't go out of my way to listen to. The 10th track is a 3/5, it's not a bad song, just something I wouldn't go out of my way to listen to. The 11th track is a 3/5, it's not a bad song, just something I wouldn't go out of my way to listen to. I would give this album a 3/5, it's not a bad album, I'm just not a fan of metal.

This was pretty poor. A runt clone of Metalllica, nothing more. No originality here whatsoever. The same song over and over. If you like obnoxious grunting from your “singer”, repetitive beats and mediocre guitar work, this might be the album for you.

FUCK YES!

better than i thought. RE - SPECT - WALK - WHADDAYA SAY

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Don't analyze it. I'm not sure you're ever going to get some great breakdown of the quality of the musicality here. This is straight forward, no excuses groove metal. The riffs hit hard but aren't overly complex. The solos scream over everything. Phil hasn't yet become completely drugged out of his mind and going around and making really, really questionable decisions. Vulgar Display of Power falls on the same plane as Metallica's Black Album. It's influential for a generation, just probably in a different direction. But you can't talk about 90s and later metal without discussing Walk. You either like it or you don't. Not sure there's much use in trying to convince anyone otherwise. My favorite? No, not at all. But better than a lot of things I've rated a four.

wow krass gut!! hey sven der geht an dich! c

1 star

Ось і Пантера) Бо стільки розмов)

From Aretha to this? Hard pass.

guetes metal album es hat mich gepacht die lieder von pantera

It rocks.

Just meh

Rad 4/5

This is an album that meant so much to me in my youth, a truly heavy album. I remember the lyrics for ‘walk’ were on one of the loading screens for my friend’s copy of ‘Goal’ on the Amiga(?), so strangely i also associate this with weaving past defenders as Roberto Baggio. The first half of this album is so impactful. The sheer aggression of tracks like ‘New Level’, ‘Mouth for War’ and of course ‘Fucking Hodtile’ are just a joy. ‘This Love’ presents some light and shade switching from the anger displayed elsewhere to something more akin to the sound if bands like Alice in Chains or even Soundgarden. Just as that has eased you into complacency’Rise’ arrives to remind you just how fast they can hit. There is no denying that ‘Walk’ is the standout track here, showcasing the strengths of the individual members from Vinnie’s pounding drums to Dimebag’s soaring riffs, this is still a song i revisit frequently to let off steam.

The clanging of pots and pans as I tidied my kitchen cupboards made this infinitely more tolerable.

I enjoy the heaviness of the instrumental, especially the tone on the rhythm guitars. Not a particularly fan of the vocals as it's just not my thing really (it always feels like you're heaving singers destroy their vocal chords in real time) and, as always, I could do without the noodling solos. High point for me was probably Walk. I would normally read the lyrics while listening to a 1001 Album, but I had the distinct feeling that would cause me to downgrade the score, so I've gone on pure reaction. And it's fine. 3/5

No! Absolutely not

Awesome album

Even as a pre-teen with a passing interest in metal, this album was a 'no' for me, despite Dimebag Darrell getting a LOT of press in Guitar World.

Pure anger and violence. The rhythm section steps off solidly throughout, and Dimebag Darrel lays down some heavy riffs. The vocals growl and rage, even a love song is just pissed off. Great weightlifting music: testosterone thrown around like a hardcore mosh pit.

Evil conservative Rage Against The Machine doesn't exis--

My last album was Bug by Dinosaur Jr. This is better but somehow comes out with the same score. Lyrically stronger for me but musically about the same. The community rates the about the same and I am now also. Perhaps I was too generous yesterday....

I was expecting to not like it, and the first few minutes lived up to that billing. I persevered, as this list has taught me to at least listen to a few tracks before forming an opinion. It got better. Track 3 - Walk - actually had me nodding along. After that it was pretty much 50/50 in terms of good and bad tracks. I'm not at all interested in hearing it again, and I was relieved this is their only album included in the list, but I'm glad it came up and I got to hear it once.

It is fast, loud, with high energy which I believe is the goal. I just don't like it at all. 2 stars or D-.

Listened before?: i may have heard a track or two in passing, but i'm not certain Mouth for War - 4/5 A New Level - 5/5 Walk - 5/5 Fucking Hostile - 4/5 This Love - 5/5 Rise - 4/5 No Good (Attack the Radical) - 3/5 Live in a Hole - 4/5 Regular People (Conceit) - 4/5 By Demons Be Driven - 3/5 Hollow - 4/5 Average score: 4.1/5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐ after further listening, i did recognize that i knew Walk and This Love from listening in passing (likely the radio or something) i wasn't sure how much i'd enjoy this album at first, they kind of sounded like Metallica ripoffs to me at first. however, i was pleasantly surprised to have liked this for the most part. if these guys are ripping off Metallica, they're doing a pretty good job. i'd come back to a handful of these tracks again in the future

Marginellt bättre än megadeath. Lite råare. Men det är fortfarande inte riktigt min kopp te när det kommer till rock. Så det blir ändå bara "ok". Skulle aldrig sätta på frivilligt.

Absolute power and strenght in a single record. Peak testosterone booster. The album cover is fucking wild. No Good (attack the radical), New Level, Walk and Mouth for War best best tracks. The riffs in this one are freaking amazing. The vocalist would be able to cause a full mayhem with that voice and lyrics.

I don't really like metal, but ignoring lyrics, I wouldn't mind listening to this again.

Not really my thing, but it’s pretty good

I’m not an angry angsty teenage boy so this album doesn’t really have anything to say to me

true metal! one of my favourite.

Pretty solid!

I really feel like I could’ve gone my whole life without hearing this and I’d be okay

If you are not a follower of machismo thrash as a competitive sport, the two Pantera songs you need to hear are people covering "Cowboys from Hell" (seek out the hurdy gurdy version on YouTube) and "Cemetery Gates" (not a Smiths cover, unfortunately) neither of which are on this album. Also, the production is terrible.

I never got especially warm vibes from Phil Anselmo, then he did that thing where he shouted “white power” from the stage. Then there’s the band’s use of Confederate flags in its merch, and the fact Dimebag Darrell played a guitar decorated with it. Who knew metal attracted degenerates? So that’s the cloud hanging over this band for me. Which is too bad, because the music is actually good. Anselmo’s a capable screamer, the guitar riffing is legit, and I can appreciate the band’s role in helping redefine metal for the 90s after the wreckage of the Sunset Strip hair-and-spandex scene. In small doses I even like it.

If i wanted to hear this type of music without the macho metal poses, I'd just listen to Helmet. So think I'm gonna do that instead.

Not complicated, but pretty awesome

Wouldn’t be my go to, but enjoyable at times.

Never really listened to Pantera but I liked it more than I expected. High 3.

Ah, some straight metal. No need to over-analyse this too much. Thrashy roots but generally a bit slower with some grooves. So a thrash/groove metal middle ground? A New Level hints at Slipknot to come. Ha, listening while walking and then Walk comes on locks right into my stride. Satisfying Also feels akin to Sepultura from around the same time. Best track - A New Level 3.5 stars - call it 4. A decent metal album that I would spin again

2 stars because I'll begrudgingly admit it prob belongs on this list because of it's importance to the history of heavy metal, but Phil Anselmo is a nazi ass-hat, and Douchebag Darrell often played a guitar festooned with the confederate flag. This is music for racist aggro-rednecks.

Not for me

I tried to go with an open mind. I tried not to dismiss it outright and hate it. To a certain extent it worked. I think that out of the heavy metal albums that I had for this project this was one of the heavy”better” ones - surely helped by the fact that I counted at least two more “chill” moments, though they stood out so much I almost had to do a double take to make sure my spotify hadn’t switched to playing something else (I mean the Nirvana vibes at the start of This Love and then the Guns n Roses ones in the last track, even if by no means are they “mellow” influences by any stretch of the imagination). Of course this is still not enough for me to fully enjoy it, but I will admit that it was better than I feared.

Expected more from this. Each song a bit too long and too repetitive to make this a classic

Gay

Cool groove thrash metal album, This was on heavy rotation when I was a teen. Dimebag shreds the guitar, the tempo changes from thick heavy grooves to the thrash keep it interesting. The vocals get a bit grating for me to listen to for an hour though. I hear a lot of grunge elements, has a bit of a Alice in Chains vibe going on in spots. I dig it, not something I would put on heavy rotation now a days though.

First of all, let me focus on the music and forget about the nazi salutes, racist statements, and guitars with confederate flags. Otherwise, this will get 1 star. Now, musically speaking, I really enjoyed the album. I love early Metallica albums (I think "Kill'em All" is their best album), so it's no surprise that I also liked this groove metal album. It is between 4 and 5 stars for me. I enjoyed most of the songs: "Mouth for War", "A New Level" (great guitar intro), "Walk" (there's a good reason why this is one of their classics), "Fucking Hostile" (love the energy), "This Love", "Live In A Hole" (nice groove), or "Sorrow". So, again, really in the 4,5 star range. Probably not enough to reach 5 stars so, at least for now, 4 stars.

While this is a powerful album, it's pretty one-dimensional. Anger. It's just exuding from every pore of the music. And for a groove-metal band, there's surprisingly little groove in the tracks that are the most well known. It's alright, but I don't think it's even the best album the band ever did. I think "Cowboys from Hell" is better and has more personality. This is an angry man screaming on the street corner, not a band. My Rating: 3/5

OK, I tried. There is some metal I can get on with. This isn't it. It sounds well made so it gets a a two, but for me that's being generous. 2/5

When people ask what sort of music I like, I will often say "metal"... But it's a very narrow range of metal I like. I prefer sludgy/psych, etc, to the gated, compressed sound that is popular in a lot of metal now. I want to feel like I'm in a dark cave surrounded by smoke or taking part in a ritual. The aggressive side of metal is less appealing. And the precision - tight playing, gated tones, etc - is something I have zero interest in at all. Listening to this, I can hear the start of that cleaner, more precise trend. I get that people like it. I don't. Back in the day I listed to Far Beyond Driven a bit, and it was something I liked for a while but haven't listened to since the 90's. I never gave this album more than one go back in the day. It didn't prompt me to revisit Pantera. But I can't argue this shouldn't be on the list. It's a classic, foundational album, that just isn't in my lane.

There is no reason for me to be listening to this unless I'm playing Doom.

I wanted to like this, but for "groove metal" the riffs were not very sticky nor chugging. The lyrics of the songs were equal parts thought-provoking and stupid overgenreralizable dribble. 2.4/5 -> 2/5

Sublime, muy potente, muy creativo Lo disfruté de principio a fin, no se lleva el 5 porque hay algunas rolas que siento que no están a la altura de las demás, pero casi que en su totalidad es un álbum de alta categoría Instrumentalmente hablando me parecen muy distintos, no necesariamente buscan ir al compás estándar sino que juega mucho con eso Y también buscan cambiar elementos muy simples en su ejecución pero con gran impacto Disfrutable reescuchable también

A very good thrash metal album—fast, strong, and with great vocals.

Metal in general has a very interesting relationship with me. Theres the stage where you're a teenager, you discover it and it feels like the coolest thing ever, and you feel cool for knowing it. Then you fast forward and either have a new appreciation for it, or wonder, what the hell you were doing during that time. With this record? I'm somewhere in the middle. This is by no means a repulsive record, It absolutely leans closer to good/great than horrible. Walk, Mouth for War, This Love, Fucking hostile are all really good songs that have good replay-ability (especially during workouts!). But I wouldn't go as far as saying this is a masterpiece, or even required listening to be completely honest. 3/5

Simply one of the best (metal) albums of all times.

Heavy as hell. Loved the riffs. The shouting gets a bit much but the instrumentals are great.

This album was playing on repeat during the early 90s, but I haven’t played it for decades. As soon as I started listening to it today, I immediately got thrown back 30 years. I feel like the food critic in Ratatouille. What a perfect album. It starts strong, and gets stronger with every track. It is powerful and tough, but never tiring. 35 years later, still 10 out of 10

Good

This album was extremely angry. "Are you talkin' to me? Walk on home, boy..." was a good line. Now I want to go break some shit, in a good way.

right up my alley imagine this, you're flying down the freeway, its sprinkling and a crisp 65 degrees so naturally, you have your windows down and the seat heaters on. Pantera is cranked to full volume as you take the first few sips of your hot black coffee and you can feel the caffeine start to rush through your veins. there's nothing quite like it pretty much the whole album was added to my "Epic Guitar Solos Nd Riffs" playlist. So underrated.

4/10 Shit lyrics screamed at you without much regard for tonality. The riffs are nice, particularly on the opening track.

No. 430/1001 Mouth of War 3/5 A New Level 2/5 Walk 3/5 Fucking Hostile 2/5 This Love 2/5 Rise 2/5 No Good 2/5 Live in a Hole 2/5 Regular People 2/5 By Demons Be Driven 3/5 Hollow 2/5 Average: 2,27 Normally I don't enjoy Trash music at all. This is probably the record from this genre I like most so far.

I know this is a groove metal classic, but those riffs are a lot to sit through. Pantera are impressively tight, yet the constant hammering wears me down instead of firing me up. The guitars certainly make an impression — unfortunately, it’s mostly a headache. By the end, the title feels less like a boast and more like a warning.

nazi bs

In any genre there are those that can and those that can't. This is a prime example of can't. Although the first half of the last track proves they could if they wanted to, but its not enough to raise them above a 1.

There’s nothing here for me at all. There must be a line somewhere where the rock music I absolutely love becomes something I don’t. This is nowhere near that tipping point.

Another Thrash Metal album.... no matter how they keep pushing this sorry genre and calling the item in question groundbreaking becomes a bit of a stretch. Sadly I did make it to the end and there it was, the song where the gruff bloke sings and the grrr grrr metronome of a guitar player playing all soft and melodic. Metallica were doing that in the 80's and it is pretentiously ghastly, its not groundbreaking, its pants. Its worse than that, I'm feeling 'Fucking Hostile', its Y fronts pants - beige ones with white edging like the ones yer mum bought you when you were a small kid and then you are a bit older and still wearing them at 10 years old pants. It left me feeling 'Hollow'. However it is more competent than some with a bit of variety, just for the use of wah wah on occasion I'm feeling generous.

Tough album to rate even before trying to separate the art from the artist. The groove on the album is funfortunate individual songs, but listening to the record as a whole is a very stale/one-note experience. Individual songs stand out as fun, but the album gets boring fairly quickly. I was surprised to find myself enjoying the less popular songs decidedly more than the more mainstream hits. Solid in moments but very uneven. Top tracks: This Love, Live in a Hole

Enjoyed this more than I thought I would! The instrumentals are nice, but the vocal style and lyrics do nothing for me.

Didn't like it as much as I expected but Pantera at their best is still exceptional

Ótima opção para entretenimento infantil. Minha pequena adorou. Eu acho muito pesado, muito mundano. Nota 6. Não dou menos por que fazer musica é difícil.

I took migraine medication a few hours before listening to this - not in preparation, I genuinely had a headache - and maybe it helped. It would be a stretch to say I enjoyed it but it didn't feel like a power drill to the head, which is what I feared going in.

This is not the metal I enjoy. Or even can tolerate.

i don’t love this type of metal genre the famous songs sound just good

The influence of Metallica's Black album of 1991 is central to this, Pantera's sixth album and it certainly signifies a move away from the Van Halen and Kiss early template. I found the album quite heavy going whilst still being impressed by their musicianship and the forward looking vocal approach which dominated metal for the rest of the decade and the millennium. Although grunge was the new rock style of the moment, the 'Big Four' inspired Pantera to break away and have a longer career I guess.......

uma vez eu fiquei com um metaleiro e ele tinha um vídeo cantando pantera #momentos. por algum motivo o gênero não me pega muito, mas gostei de ouvir pra trabalhar e queria uma camiseta com a estampa da capa.

pouco vulgar e muito violento para um homossexual sensível ouvir! acho que metal não é minha praia mesmo; prefiro, falando em praia, bater palma pro pôr do sol