Vulgar Display of Power by Pantera
Performed by: Pantera
Editorial Reviews:
Probably the heaviest album ever to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart, Pantera's Vulgar Display of Power proved that, even in an era of alternative rock supremacy, heavy metal fans were still a force to contend with. Blending eerie, surging grooves influenced by Black Sabbath with thrashy speed metal riffs, Pantera created a bleak, oppressive disc that captured both ends of the speed spectrum without resorting to cliché, abrupt tempo shifts. Guitarist Diamond Darrell plays with as much crunch as the best Metallica, while vocalist Phil Anselmo screams loud enough to satisfy any GBH fan. Coupled with Vinnie Paul's insistent, double bass-drum onslaught, you're left with a record that's a dentist's wet dream--an album that'll shake the fillings out of even the strongest teeth. --Jon Wiederhorn
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Customer Rating:
Summary: All you need is PanterA's greatest hits compilation
Comment: This is very good for a PanterA album, one of the better of the six released with Phil Anselmo (including "Power Metal"). The reason I give this album only 3 stars is because I feel that the album is already practically completely represented in "Far Beyond the Great Southern Cowboys' Vulgar Hits", PanterA's greatest hits album. Everything you need to own from this album is on there. All the "PanterA essentials" as one may call them. "Mouth for War", my personal favorite song from this album is already on "FBtGSCVH" as well as the signature hit single "Walk", and the thrashy semi-ballad "This Love". The only song on there not available is "F*cking Hostile" whihc I suggest you purchase and download right away as you ARE misssing outnot having that song.
If you're trying to have every PanterA album in a collection, then this album is for you. If you like loud as hell, balls to the wall, pure thrash metal in it's rawest, loudest, most extreme form, then buy this album, however I simply believe this is already summed up in "Far Beyond the Great Southern Cowboys' Vulgar Hits".
Overall: This is a kick-@$$ PanterA album andI'm nott saying it isn't, I'm simply typing what a CD review SHOULD be: "a fan's response to an album that includes heavy comparisons and contrasts with other albums of the same band's discography".
Thanks for reading and I encourage you to get out there immediately and purchase both "F*cking Hostile" as an mp3 and then out it on a blank CD as well as buy "Far Beyond the Great Southern Cowboys' VUlgar Hits" if you don;'t already have both of them. Also, the latter is great for any PanterA collector, Beginning Pantera fan, or DIehard PanterA fan as it includes a DVD that features a bunch of PanterA music videos and some live footage, as well as a brief biography of the band's career, AND, some of the baddest, most awesome, excellent, Kick-@$$ songs PanterA has ever written! Purchase both today!
Screw "Vulgar Display of Power", byuy them instead!
Customer Rating:
Summary: This defines power metal.
Comment: When it comes to sheer bone-crushing ear-shattering turn-your-brain-into-jello no holds barred savage power, THIS is it! At the same time, the music is precise, the band members play absolutely tight, the equipment setup is near perfect and the energy levels are through the roof.
This is my absolute favourite metal album of all time. Almost every song is a masterpiece of song writing, musical talent and raw unbridled power. Incidentally this is my best pick-me-up album when I'm feeling down.
To me, the only other Pantera songs at this level of awesomeness are Floods, domination, cowboys from hell, 5 minutes alone, and war nerve.
Sick of listening to the garbage churned out by metallica and the likes, I turn to "classics" like VDOP - it is simply perfect, brilliantly composed and executed.
Dimebag RIP :( Miss you.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Top 20 Metal Album Of all Time!!
Comment: This was the best of all Pantera's work, I love all the albums but this one hands down is the best. I would rate this album with Slayer's South of Heaven, Black Sabbath's Paranoid, Metallica's Master of Puppets, or Anthrax's Among the Living!! This is real metal raw and in your face, the way it should be!! There's a lot to love on this album Phil's piss & vinegar vocals, and Dimebags (R.I.P.) skull crushing guitar work. Mouth for War, Walk, and By Demons Be Driven will having your grinning in sinister delight!! Grab a copy of this album, and let your aggression flow!!
Customer Rating:
Summary: WALK!
Comment: This is pantera's masterpiece the best metal of the 90's.If you love metal trust me this is the one you should truly get every song punches your face away especially Walk!You could be into death/trash/metalcore/extreme metal or any kind of metal except nu metal screw that stuff,and you will love this if you call yourself metal listen to this!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Best Heavy Metal Album of it's Time
Comment: Vulgar Display of Power followed the album Cowboys From Hell. Cowboys is a great album. It's kind of an intro to what Pantera is all about which has to be respected. But to me, when Vulgar came out I was entering me Senior year of high school so I was 16/17 at the time and I remember buying this on cassette tape when it came out. It was a warm day and I rolled down my windows and popped in VDOP.
The first song with the double bass drums of Mouth for War pushed my rear speakers to the limit. I actually had to re-wind the beginning because I couldn't believe what I was hearing. No other metal tape pushed the limits of my speakers like that before. I wasn't even past the first sone and had to listen to it again.
I was so impressed by the album being a heavy Metallica/Megadeth/Danzing guy at the time, I had to drop this nuclear bomb on my friends. Well, it spread like a cancer and all my friends who heard it ran out and bought it as well.
The grunge scene cripped the metal scene greatly which sucks, so for me Vulgar Display of Power is the apex, yes the apex, of when HEAVY METAL reached it's greatest point. Other albums such as Metallica's Black Album (1 year earlier), Megadeth's Symphony of Destruction, and Danzing III: How the Gods Kills all came out around the time of Pantera's Vulgar Display of Power.
Black Sabbath, Metallica, Anthrax, Megadeth, Slayer, Danzig, Suicidal Tendencies were all metal greats. Pantera helped carry metal to the top of the mountain with this album (VDOP). To me things haven't been the same since. Yea, we have bands like Korn, Slipknot, Mudvayne, Disturbed, System of a Down, Soulfly, etc...but it will be a long time before we see metal greats again. I heard talks were just starting over e-mail with Phil and Dimebag about patching things up and maybe playing again as Pantera after their bitter break-up. It's unfortunate some douche bag with a gun had to murder Dimebag. The guy obviously had issues and blamed dimebag for Panter'a break-up. If the guy had a clue they were in the starts of trying to work things out for a possible re-union. Now that will never happen. Seems every nut has a gun these days. Music like Pantera is about getting together at shows with people going through the same B.S. of life. We all have stress, issues, anger, etc. and music is suppose to be the release for that. Your not suppose to act it out in the form of violence.
Anyway, great album. I would rank Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath best metal album of the 70's, Metallica's Master of Puppets best metal album of the 80's, and Pantera's Vulgar Display of Power as the best metal album of the 90's. RESPECT - WALK - ARE YOU TALKING TO ME!!?
EAN: 0075679175823
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Label: Atlantic / Wea
Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Atlantic / Wea
Release Date: 1992-02-25
Studio: Atlantic / Wea
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Editorial Reviews:
Probably the heaviest album ever to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard album chart, Pantera's Vulgar Display of Power proved that, even in an era of alternative rock supremacy, heavy metal fans were still a force to contend with. Blending eerie, surging grooves influenced by Black Sabbath with thrashy speed metal riffs, Pantera created a bleak, oppressive disc that captured both ends of the speed spectrum without resorting to cliché, abrupt tempo shifts. Guitarist Diamond Darrell plays with as much crunch as the best Metallica, while vocalist Phil Anselmo screams loud enough to satisfy any GBH fan. Coupled with Vinnie Paul's insistent, double bass-drum onslaught, you're left with a record that's a dentist's wet dream--an album that'll shake the fillings out of even the strongest teeth. --Jon Wiederhorn
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 | Master of Puppets |
Spotlight customer reviews:
Customer Rating:
Summary: All you need is PanterA's greatest hits compilation
Comment: This is very good for a PanterA album, one of the better of the six released with Phil Anselmo (including "Power Metal"). The reason I give this album only 3 stars is because I feel that the album is already practically completely represented in "Far Beyond the Great Southern Cowboys' Vulgar Hits", PanterA's greatest hits album. Everything you need to own from this album is on there. All the "PanterA essentials" as one may call them. "Mouth for War", my personal favorite song from this album is already on "FBtGSCVH" as well as the signature hit single "Walk", and the thrashy semi-ballad "This Love". The only song on there not available is "F*cking Hostile" whihc I suggest you purchase and download right away as you ARE misssing outnot having that song.
If you're trying to have every PanterA album in a collection, then this album is for you. If you like loud as hell, balls to the wall, pure thrash metal in it's rawest, loudest, most extreme form, then buy this album, however I simply believe this is already summed up in "Far Beyond the Great Southern Cowboys' Vulgar Hits".
Overall: This is a kick-@$$ PanterA album andI'm nott saying it isn't, I'm simply typing what a CD review SHOULD be: "a fan's response to an album that includes heavy comparisons and contrasts with other albums of the same band's discography".
Thanks for reading and I encourage you to get out there immediately and purchase both "F*cking Hostile" as an mp3 and then out it on a blank CD as well as buy "Far Beyond the Great Southern Cowboys' VUlgar Hits" if you don;'t already have both of them. Also, the latter is great for any PanterA collector, Beginning Pantera fan, or DIehard PanterA fan as it includes a DVD that features a bunch of PanterA music videos and some live footage, as well as a brief biography of the band's career, AND, some of the baddest, most awesome, excellent, Kick-@$$ songs PanterA has ever written! Purchase both today!
Screw "Vulgar Display of Power", byuy them instead!
Customer Rating:
Summary: This defines power metal.
Comment: When it comes to sheer bone-crushing ear-shattering turn-your-brain-into-jello no holds barred savage power, THIS is it! At the same time, the music is precise, the band members play absolutely tight, the equipment setup is near perfect and the energy levels are through the roof.
This is my absolute favourite metal album of all time. Almost every song is a masterpiece of song writing, musical talent and raw unbridled power. Incidentally this is my best pick-me-up album when I'm feeling down.
To me, the only other Pantera songs at this level of awesomeness are Floods, domination, cowboys from hell, 5 minutes alone, and war nerve.
Sick of listening to the garbage churned out by metallica and the likes, I turn to "classics" like VDOP - it is simply perfect, brilliantly composed and executed.
Dimebag RIP :( Miss you.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Top 20 Metal Album Of all Time!!
Comment: This was the best of all Pantera's work, I love all the albums but this one hands down is the best. I would rate this album with Slayer's South of Heaven, Black Sabbath's Paranoid, Metallica's Master of Puppets, or Anthrax's Among the Living!! This is real metal raw and in your face, the way it should be!! There's a lot to love on this album Phil's piss & vinegar vocals, and Dimebags (R.I.P.) skull crushing guitar work. Mouth for War, Walk, and By Demons Be Driven will having your grinning in sinister delight!! Grab a copy of this album, and let your aggression flow!!
Customer Rating:
Summary: WALK!
Comment: This is pantera's masterpiece the best metal of the 90's.If you love metal trust me this is the one you should truly get every song punches your face away especially Walk!You could be into death/trash/metalcore/extreme metal or any kind of metal except nu metal screw that stuff,and you will love this if you call yourself metal listen to this!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Best Heavy Metal Album of it's Time
Comment: Vulgar Display of Power followed the album Cowboys From Hell. Cowboys is a great album. It's kind of an intro to what Pantera is all about which has to be respected. But to me, when Vulgar came out I was entering me Senior year of high school so I was 16/17 at the time and I remember buying this on cassette tape when it came out. It was a warm day and I rolled down my windows and popped in VDOP.
The first song with the double bass drums of Mouth for War pushed my rear speakers to the limit. I actually had to re-wind the beginning because I couldn't believe what I was hearing. No other metal tape pushed the limits of my speakers like that before. I wasn't even past the first sone and had to listen to it again.
I was so impressed by the album being a heavy Metallica/Megadeth/Danzing guy at the time, I had to drop this nuclear bomb on my friends. Well, it spread like a cancer and all my friends who heard it ran out and bought it as well.
The grunge scene cripped the metal scene greatly which sucks, so for me Vulgar Display of Power is the apex, yes the apex, of when HEAVY METAL reached it's greatest point. Other albums such as Metallica's Black Album (1 year earlier), Megadeth's Symphony of Destruction, and Danzing III: How the Gods Kills all came out around the time of Pantera's Vulgar Display of Power.
Black Sabbath, Metallica, Anthrax, Megadeth, Slayer, Danzig, Suicidal Tendencies were all metal greats. Pantera helped carry metal to the top of the mountain with this album (VDOP). To me things haven't been the same since. Yea, we have bands like Korn, Slipknot, Mudvayne, Disturbed, System of a Down, Soulfly, etc...but it will be a long time before we see metal greats again. I heard talks were just starting over e-mail with Phil and Dimebag about patching things up and maybe playing again as Pantera after their bitter break-up. It's unfortunate some douche bag with a gun had to murder Dimebag. The guy obviously had issues and blamed dimebag for Panter'a break-up. If the guy had a clue they were in the starts of trying to work things out for a possible re-union. Now that will never happen. Seems every nut has a gun these days. Music like Pantera is about getting together at shows with people going through the same B.S. of life. We all have stress, issues, anger, etc. and music is suppose to be the release for that. Your not suppose to act it out in the form of violence.
Anyway, great album. I would rank Black Sabbath, Black Sabbath best metal album of the 70's, Metallica's Master of Puppets best metal album of the 80's, and Pantera's Vulgar Display of Power as the best metal album of the 90's. RESPECT - WALK - ARE YOU TALKING TO ME!!?
Technical Details
Binding: Audio CDEAN: 0075679175823
Format: Explicit Lyrics
Label: Atlantic / Wea
Manufacturer: Atlantic / Wea
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Atlantic / Wea
Release Date: 1992-02-25
Studio: Atlantic / Wea
