History Music / Pantera

* CoolMeetsAwesome: ''Rebel Meets Rebel'', the collaboration between country musician DavidAllenCoe and 3/4 of the guys in Pantera, is probably the first album ever to combine Outlaw Country music with GrooveMetal.

* TheBandMinusTheFace: Dimebag, Rex Brown and Vinnie Paul released an album called ''Rebel Meets Rebel'', with vocals and lyrics provided by country singer DavidAllanCoe.
* TheNineties: Their GrowingTheBeard period.
* TheStoner: Every member of the band used drugs to some extent, although Phil definitely took it the farthest; becoming addicted to heroin and even briefly dying of an overdose (before being revived by paramedics).

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* CreatorBreakdown: ''The Great Southern Trendkill'' was recorded during a time of tension within Pantera. Philip Anselmo had started distancing himself from his bandmates and was using heroin to deal with his chronic back pain. When recording the album Anselmo recorded his vocal tracks at a studio (owned by [[NineInchNails Trent Reznor]]) in New Orleans while the rest of the band recorded their parts in Dallas. These tensions can be heard on the album; which uses overdubs to give some songs a "demonic" sounds. There are also no less than 3 songs about drug abuse.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The change on the style of the band. Initially they were a HairMetal band that was heavily influenced by bands like Van Halen, KISS, and Judas Priest. But in 1986 Metallica released the album ''Master of Puppets'' and Slayer released ''Reign in Blood'', these groundbreaking thrash metal albums inspired Dimebag, Vinnie, and Rex to move the band in a darker and heavier direction. Original lead singer Terry Glaze did not agree with the change in style and left Pantera. Phil Anselmo was hired as Glaze's replacement, and the rest is history.

* CoverVersion: "Electric Funeral", "Hole In The Sky" and "Planet Caravan", all of these by Music/BlackSabbath, and "Cat Scratch Fever" by Ted Nugent.
** The Pantera home videos also feature clips of them performing "Grinder" by JudasPriest, "Cold Gin" by {{Kiss}}, and "Raining Blood" by Music/{{Slayer}}.

* CreatorBreakdown: ''The Great Southern Trendkill'' was recorded during a time of tension within Pantera. Philip Anselmo had started distancing himself from his bandmates and was using heroin to deal with his chronic back pain. When recording the album Anselmo recorded his vocal tracks at a studio (owned by [[NineInchNails Trent Reznor]] in New Orleans while the rest of the band recorded their parts in Dallas. These tensions can be heard on the album; which uses overdubs to give some songs a "demonic" sounds. There are also no less than 3 songs about drug abuse.

* CreatorBreakdown: ''The Great Southern Trendkill'' was recorded during a time of tension within Pantera. Philip Anselmo had started distancing himself from his bandmates and was using heroin to deal with his chronic back pain. When recording the album Anselmo recorded his vocal tracks at a studio in New Orleans while the rest of the band recorded their parts in Dallas. These tensions can be heard on the album; which uses overdubs to give some songs a "demonic" sounds. There are also no less than 3 songs about drug abuse.

* MohsScaleOfRockAndMetalHardness - Usually at 7-8. Sometimes crosses into 9. Even "Cemetery Gates" and "This Love" would be as high as a 6. "Planet Caravan" is one of the very, ''very'' few songs that dips as low as 2 (granted, it was already like this with Black Sabbath). According to the album sleeve, the members of Pantera were already anticipating negative remarks from hardcore metal listeners for that song.

Pantera was one of the most popular and influential HeavyMetal bands of TheNineties [[hottip:*:although this is the period where [[GrowingTheBeard they made their definitive sound and essence.]]]], from Texas. Starting as a HairMetal [[OldShame band]], they changed their style after replacing original singer Terry Glaze with Phil Anselmo in 1988. They disbanded in 2003, and any hope of reunion was dashed after the murder of guitarist Dimebag Darrell Abbott in December 2004.

* HotBlooded: The change from HairMetal to HeavyMetal (or GrooveMetal, if you want to go techical) which started with their fourth album, ''Power Metal''.

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** The Pantera home videos also feature clips of them performing "Grinder" by JudasPriest, "Cold Gin" by {{Kiss}}, and "Raining Blood" by {{Slayer}}.

+Music/{{Anthrax}}, Music/BlackSabbath, Music/Exodus, Music/IronMaiden, Music/JudasPriest, {{Kiss}}, {{Megadeth}}, Music/{{Metallica}}, {{Motorhead}}, Music/{{Saxon}}, {{Slayer}}, TedNugent, VanHalen, Music/{{Venom}}, {{ZZ Top}},

+Music/{{Anthrax}}, Music/BlackSabbath, Music/IronMaiden, Music/JudasPriest, {{Kiss}}, {{Megadeth}}, Music/{{Metallica}}, {{Motorhead}}, Music/{{Saxon}}, {{Slayer}}, TedNugent, VanHalen, Music/{{Venom}}, {{ZZ Top}},

* FanBoy: Dimebag was such a huge KISS fan that he got a picture of Ace Frehley tattooed on his chest. When he finally got to meet Ace during a photo shoot for ''Guitar World'' magazine Dimebag asked Ace to autograph the tattoo. Immediately after the photo shoot was over, Dime went to the nearest tattoo shop and had them make the autograph permanent.

+Music/{{Anthrax}}, Music/BlackSabbath, Music/IronMaiden, Music/JudasPriest, {{Kiss}}, {{Megadeth}}, Music/{{Metallica}}, {{Motorhead}}, Music/{{Saxon}}, {{Slayer}}, VanHalen, Music/{{Venom}}, {{ZZ Top}},

* DarkerAndEdgier: The change on the style of the band. Initially they were a HairMetal band that was heavily influenced by bands like Van Halen, KISS, and Judas Priest. But in 1986 Metallica released the album ''Master of Puppets'' and Slayer released ''Reign in Blood'', these groundbreaking trash metal albums inspired Dimebag, Vinnie, and Rex to move the band in a darker and heavier direction. Original lead singer Terry Glaze did not agree with the change in style and left Pantera. Phil Anselmo was hired as Glaze's replacement, and the rest is history.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The change on the style of the band.