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Pantera - Vulgar Display Of Power | 
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Album info
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Release date:
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21 February 1992 |
Rating:
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8.7 | 537 votes |
Owners:
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775 have it
38 want it
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01. Mouth For War
02. A New Level
03. Walk
04. Fucking Hostile
05. This Love
06. Rise
07. No Good (Attack The Radical)
08. Live In A Hole
09. Regular People (Conceit)
10. By Demons Be Driven
11. Hollow
Top 20 albums of 1992: 10
Review
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Review by Gorey [Guest reviewer]
The world has gone crazy! And we thought that the world had reached the last degree of brutality with the atomic bomb... Ok the comparison is not really cool, but maybe you will change your mind when you hear this carnage called 'Vulgar Display Of Power'. Nevertheless, Pantera were not beginners anymore, as the previous album 'Cowboys From Hell' had been acclaimed by the critics.
The band already settles us down with a 'punchy' cover, a real allegory of the content of the album, which is following a certain artistic logic compared to the previous album. To be clear, the first round is already a masterstroke. 'Mouth For War' is an opening track that looks like a hook of the right in the jaws. Thus the beginning is brutal but it wins the attention, anyway the result truly has balls, and we continue our trip with a smile, but with some lacking teeth and shattered face. I want to warn you that the next rounds are as agitated, for example some not very 'intelligent' tracks like 'Fucking Hostile' or 'Rise'. Here I must salute the great talent of the band, that not only use messy low blows but also real good strikes with speed and a perfect mastery of the instruments.
Even sometimes they can show a bit of subtlety! Everybody's deceived by some elegant feints like 'This Love' and 'Hollow', denying for some time their status of inveterate punchers to adopt an efficient technicity. But no matter, these are only traps destined to introduce violent straight blows with devastating intros like 'Regular People' or splendid uppercuts like 'By Demons Be Driven'. Anyway the sweat on our painful foreheads tells us that this album is a really good heavy challenger, as the major tracks 'A New Level' and 'Walk' show us. The rounds are passing by, and we realize the game won't go to the end, as it stops at the eleventh round. This last round ends up on a KO that kills the poor listener.
As a conclusion, I must admit that Pantera has its own great album with a raw and catchy sound and perfect and never weak drums. I will distribute championship belts to Phil Anselmo, whose voice is the perfect reflection of his original personality, and above all to Dimebag Darrell, author of a good performance, as he plays all the guitar parts of the album really easily.
The ring gods are satisfied, the defaced ones salute you!
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Guest review disclaimer:
This is a guest review, which means it does not necessarily represent the point of view of the MS Staff.
published 26.11.2003 | Comments (11) |
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