Pantera

Pantera is a popular heavy metal band from Texas. This four-piece band has churned out a slew of albums, beginning with their first major label album in the early 1990s, Cowboys From Hell, and extending to their latest, Reinventing the Steel[?], in 2000. In that time, the band has toured the world, saw the rise and fall and subsequent rise of metal[?].

Up to Vulgar Display of Power, Pantera's music was fairly strictly along the lines of classic heavy metal -- with singing and screaming in the vocals (although the screaming is more high pitched than is normally found in nu-metal vocals, for example) and the extravagant riffs and solos[?] of guitarist Dimebag Darrell. However, Phil Anselmo[?]'s vocals in particular have developed considerably since then, becoming more and more influenced by the singer's black metal influences.

They have toured as part of the Ozzfest[?] (both in the United States and United Kingdom) and with support from Powerman 5000.

Discography

• Metal Magic[?] (1983)
• Projects In The Jungle[?] (1984)
• I Am The Night[?] (1985)
• Power Metal[?] (1988)
• Cowboys From Hell (1990)
• Vulgar Display of Power (1992)
• Far Beyond Driven[?] (1994)
• The Great Southern Trendkill[?] (1996)
• Official Live: 101 Proof[?] (1997)
• Reinventing The Steel[?] (2000)