▶️Pantera The Great Southern Trendkill Review◀️

▶️Pantera The Great Southern Trendkill Review◀️

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Alright so in honor of Dime’s passing I want to welcome you to Pantera week right here on the channel. Yes that’s right im reviewing every fucking Pantera record in depth because in my opinion this is among one of the best metal bands in history if not THE best and of course Pantera is one of these bands. So tonight im starting off with my personal favorite album “The Great Southern Trendkill” Now this album was released in 1996 on EastWest Records. This was also the album that began to see a great division within Pantera and this was largely due to Phil Anselmo’s ongoing battle with heroin. Which I cannot fault him for because at this time he had 2 blown out herniated discs in his back and was doing ANYTHING to get rid of the pain including abusing alcohol and drugs.

But this is beside the point because was has resulted here is Pantera’s most visceral, brutal, violent and uncompromising record that set the tone of “NEVER RESTING ON THEIR LAURELS” Its an absolute beast from start to finish and it’s a huge fuck all to every trend in metal and to this day it is easily the best anthem to “Fuck the mainstream metal scene of America” So the album opens with the absolute beast “THE GREAT SOUTHERN TRENDKILL” and we are treated to one of the heaviest groove metal anthems of all time. Phil bellowing and screaming about how no trend in the world can buy him and his visceral anger and disgust towards the media and the music industry is on full display here. Dime, Vinny and Rex are absolutely stellar as hell and know exactly how to deliver punishment and rage in a way that was never done like this back in 1996. The album just continues to punish you in every sense of the word. This is darkness incarnate from a Texas point of view along with a New Orleans lunatic on the brink of drug fueled suicidal despair. How on earth was this album made without each of them going off the deep end is far beyond me… But they didn’t.

However, this is Pantera at their most pissed off, depressed, dark and hateful and I can definitely see why they band was in such disarray as this record was recorded. You can certainly feel the division between the band in the sound and overall direction of the album. It just seems like Phil is so “Far away” and he wasn’t even in the studio with Pantera when the recorded this record. Venom and pure acidic bile from Phil made this album a sheer brutal masterpiece and the emotions on this record are so fucking honest and pure that they literally rip your heart right out, spit in your face.. stomp your skull in and leave you a bloody battered mess on the fucking ground.. and you know what? I wouldn’t have it any other godamned way.

Dimes riffs are just infectious and brutal, couple this with Vinnys drumming, Rex’s savage bass and Phils drug fueled insanity and you have a recipe for the perfect storm that absolutely obliterates everything in its fucking wake. The sheer amount of rage is earth shattering and It just makes my neck break from headbanging madness and makes the hair on my neck stand up from its brutal honesty and emotional impact that this record has on me. Alright so lets listen to suicide note parts 1 and 2…. Enjoy ladies and gentleman.

The Great Southern Trendkill is easily Pantera's best album. Its predecessors had both their weak and strong points to them, but this giant amongst them all is Pantera's most solid record to date. This was because of its uncompromising attitude as I mentioned before and The mix of groove and some thrash metal with acoustic parts is just so fantastic. It's not just one thing that makes this album so good. Every aspect of the album has something good to contribute here. Despite a few bumps here and there, The Great Southern Trendkill will always be my favorite Pantera album.