021: Album Dive: Pantera Vulgar Display of Power

The perfect THRASH-GROOVE metal album; a piece of art from start to finish, Pantera’s Vulgar Display of Power is quite possibly one of THE most important albums in the 90’s chapter of The Book of Metal and is certainly a unanimous Metal Nerdery favorite. There will never be another band with as much power and precision as Pantera, and there will never be another album as powerfully precise as Vulgar Display of Power. JOIN US as we dive into the tracks, the production, and the power that was vulgarly displayed in such an incredibly metal way on one of the most incredibly important metal albums of all time.

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00.00: Intro/ (Yes, we agree) Metal Nerdery Album Dive: Pantera’s Vulgar Display of Power and the tour lead up to the album’s release/Master of Puppets of the 90’s

05.37: 02/25/1992: a New Level of Awesomeness!!!/Vinnie Paul’s drum production and the interplay of Vinnie and Dime/ (It’s moving…)/Accentuate

10.56: Singles from Vulgar Display of Power/Pantera’s Roadhouse Blues

13.40: 09/28/1991: GO WATCH PANTERA LIVE IN MOSCOW!! (Domination and Primal Concrete Sledge)/Making a quantum leap in almost every way

16.02: Origin of the album title and the punch in the face/The Pantera Home Videos

20.02: Leading up to the release of Vulgar and the video for Mouth For War/the proliferation of Walk and Dime’s message of Metal/Dime just threw something out in 12/8 time (huh!?)/Foreshadowing…/More foreshadowing…

25.12: Piss (04/12/2012) and “What’s in a Riff Casserole?”/Who DID Pantera NOT get along and/or tour with!?/Pantera with White Zombie opening and the treatment of opening bands

32.32: Double Platinum! (Also Platinum in Austria!)/ Not enough anesthesia…/Best Heavy Metal album of 1992 (and a multitude of other listicles)

36.09: Mouth for War and Pantera’s epical album openers! /The first “True” Pantera album of the Pantera Era

39.45: A New Level/The Nuances between riffs

42.42: Walk (in 12/8): Dime is a genius: easily The Rifflord of The 90’s/ (future Metal Nerdery foreshadowing)

46.18: 1, 2, 3, 4… (FUCKING HOSTILE!!!!)/There’s something to a very clearly articulated message (Thank you for that, Phil!)

49.12: This Love (those riffs…)/Pantera’s epicus/the 2nd side of VDoP (deeper cuts…do you hear that?)/tour memories

55.50: Cue up the Celtic Frost, get a refill and RISE!!/A Pantera show: it’s organic; it moves as one!!/Metal Nerdery gives many gracious thanks to Pantera for coming to Atlanta so many times back in the 90’s!!!!/and we also give thanks and commendments to Dorothy/The guys listen to RISE while Matt was “Celtic Frosting”

59.53: No Good Attack the Radical (Pantera Prerequisite #1)/the magic of Dime/Milley’s new pasta recipe for the fall

1.03.03: Live in a Hole, Dime and The Cringe Chord (aka Stinky)

1.05.27: Regular People (Conceit) and Rex’s Big Beefy Bassy Bottom end/Reinventing the Steel Tour Memories

1.08.58: Adam’s exception to the 10 song rule/By Demons Be Driven and The Mule Riff/Dime: Riff Lord AND Riff Virtuoso

1.11.21: Hollow and an Extreme Pantera-ized version of Light and Shade/Summon the Thimble Master!

1.17.30: Pantera’s use of dynamics to build crushing riffs/Metal Nerdery Salutes Pantera (More Metal Nerdery Foreshadowing…a Pantera Megasode!!)/CONTINUE TO SPREAD THE WORDERY ABOUT THE METAL NERDERY!!!/(The Metal Nerdery Loincloths are still in the design phase; go to www.metalnerdery.com/merch for more modern alternatives to loincloths.)