089: Pantera The Great Southern Trendkill Album Dive

PANTERA is one of the few bands to raise the bar consistently and continuously with each album. THE GREAT SOUTHERN TRENDKILL is the most “everything” Pantera album. It’s easily the angriest, heaviest, darkest Pantera album EVER and is, most indubitably, the “kick in the jimmy” that the Metal world was in dire need of in the mid 90’s after grunge and alternative music effectively “declawed” Metal and turned it (for the most part) into some watered down, tame, “domesticated” shadow of its former self.

JOIN US as we celebrate the obnoxiously abrasive audacity that is Pantera’s 8th studio album and see if you don’t feel transcendentally relaxed & refreshed afterwards (trust us, you will).

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Show Notes:

(00:00) – #arewerolling? #fuckyeah See also the #lastepisode #tomorrowwillbetoday #backwagon #jackwagon #backshadowing #timetravelling / Another pending #albumdive and some #EVH #trivia (#acdc #powerage) / ***What did YOU think when you first heard The Great Southern Trendkill?*** (#tooextreme #grower #allheatnoflavor) / A serious increase in darkness on this record compared to prior #PanterA releases / ***CALL METAL NERDERY NOW AT (980) 666 – 8182*** CALL NOW!!!*** #screamfortheballs and/or #screamfromtheballs / A #voicemail from a #metalnerderypodcast #listener (thank you for that!)

(06:13) - #albumnumbereight (5th with Philip H. Anselmo) / #shoutout to #analcunt for #returningthefavor and the #grindcore #documentary (Slave to the Grind, not to be confused with the #skidrow album of the same name) and also Seth Putnam #tangentionalalityismness / Still #groovemetal but also ultra-abrasive #hail to Terry Date / A note from Ron regarding a new favorite from #theriblounge

(09:43) – Released May 7, 1996 / Produced by Terry Date and recording dates (NOTE: vocals and music recorded separately. Lyrics recorded at #nothingstudios / #avulgardisplayofpantera was fucking KILLER!! #HAIL to #philiphanselmoandtheillegals / #bustthruthis / The Alex #ooooh of Creeped-out-ness (Nothing Studios is an 85 year old funeral home) and a #ridiculously #longreach for an #intentional #blackalbumreference that wasn’t even really that tangentionally related to #theblackalbum / The #decor of the #nothingstudios / #dontdenythepowerof #Dime / #criticalreception #startledturtle / The actual spoken part of “Living Through Me (Hell’s Wrath)” used to be on the interwebs and now it’s unfindable…if you find it CALL US AT 980-666-8182 and READ THOSE LYRICS and we’ll play your voicemail on a future episode!!!*** / #downunder / #waitwhat that was wrongly #pronunciationized

(17:00) – The process of purchasing music compact discs in the mid 1990’s and getting to the point of actually PLAYING the compact disc musics you purchased in the mid 1990’s / #youpullitout and then you #putitin and then…#welldone / The Great Southern Trendkill (still groovy, but definitely angry as all fuck! #badass #perfectsetup) / #PanterA sans #melody (and the memo to the #metal #world to pick up their game and #overcome their #limitations / #ftw War Nerve #truly #ftw #lookhere

(23:00) – This is definitely a #headphones #album / and now, a song that is #onehundredpercent #relevant #today Drag the Waters #leftturn (it’s the #waitwhat of #riffs #hahaha #hashtag #hashbags #tags and #bags) and the video directorial debut of #Dimebag #herewego #WWDDD (that’s “What would Dime do, Dude?”) / #magictentacles #almost / 10’s (#isntitobvious its about #drugabuse definitely #dark #metalnerderyASMR) and the explanations about some of the songs #recordscratch… 10’s isn’t so much a “slow” song as it is ultra fucking “creepy” / #fuckyourcancelculture #GFY #cancelculture #tipoftheslongue / Say ALL of that again…#dragonballz #doomy.

(32:08) – 13 Steps to Nowhere (#ultracreepy #notasoftintro #readthoselyrics) #Predator is on backing vocals / Very visual (#what?) / Suicide Note Pt. I (and the #classact that is #philiphanselmoandtheillegals #hail #leftturn) This is definitely NOT your typical #acoustic #ballad #wrongpedia / It’s like “Going to California” via Hell / and now for #evendarkerpart2 Suicide Note Pt. II #getyousome #blackdog.

(41:56) - #reinventingthemetal (that will never not be funny!) #keeper #tickler / Living Through Me (Hell’s Wrath) and the #energy of the #Trendkill album (Use those #headphones #overandover) / Floods (also very visual…based on true events as “reported”) and an #incredibly #ranked #guitarsolo #recordscratch #hilarious and an #actual #legitimate #blackalbumreference for the show #augusttwelfth #ohno Floods (con’t) and that #guitarsolo (Very tastefully done)

(55:09) – The Underground in America and #fuzz #readthoselyrics and tuned down an entire step with that low E string dropped another whole step (Standard D tuning with a Dropped G equals #somuchheavy) / (Reprise) Sandblasted Skin and endless layers of fuzz / #softoutro / No tracking changes needed / #softoutroreintro /#production #commentary #okayturnitoffnow