Power Metal [Import]

Pantera | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Original Release Date: 1988
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• ASIN: B0009OE9AO
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,123 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #77 in Music > Hard Rock & Metal > Thrash & Speed Metal

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pantera : Proud To Be Loud In 1988, February 6, 2006

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Alex "Watch it Go" (MI) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Power Metal (Audio CD)

What you think of this album(if you can find it) will depend on if your a hardcore fan or not. As for myself, I love Pantera!! They changed the path of metal with skull crushing albums like VULGAR DISPLAY OF POWER, FAR BEYOND DRIVEN, and REINVENTING THE STEEL. But 1988's POWER METAL sounds alot like a mix between early Metallica and Judas Priest(Not that thats a bad thing). Alot of people forget that Pantera were a run of the mill hair metal band in the early 80's with albums like I AM THE NIGHT and METAL MAGIC. POWER METAL is different though, it is the first to feature Phil Anselmo on vocals and the whole band go for a more heavier approach. Dimebag Darrell plays phenomenal guitar work here(As usual) and even sings on the last song P.S.T 88 and sounds alot like early James Hettfield singing. Songs like OVER AND OUT, WE'LL MEET AGAIN, DOWN BELOW, DEATH TRAP, HARD RIDE, and BURNN show that with Phil Anselmo on board there was alot of gelling going on. So I would just have to say to listen to POWER METAL with an open mind if your not a hardcore fan, because it really isn't anything like their later work. It is really interesting and exciting to see where one of the best bands of metal started from, and then to see how far they went. I highly reccomend! ROCK IN PEACE DIME

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pantera Almost Found Themselves, November 4, 2007

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A. Capistrant "Skull Splitter" (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Power Metal (Audio CD)

Pantera

Power Metal (1988)

Review: After a fateful meeting with James Hetfield, Diamond Darrel wanted Pantera to get heavy. "I Am The Night" in '85 was still glam, but wanted to get metal. Getting better. Now after hiring new vocalist Phil Anselmo, Pantera wants to achive an excellent level of metal.

They did it. Despite the corny looking cover picture, this is actually really decent. The previous Pantera albums were heavily glammed up, but here Pantera ditched almost all of that and replaced it with fast and high paced drumming, excellent bass, intricate thrash riffs, and metal vocal shrieks. This isn't Power Metal, no, this is a re-awakening. Phil's vocals here are intense and the shrieks are just right. Phil really had what it takes back then and it shows! Diamond's leads are just killer. Every lead here is definetly worth it alone. Listen to the thrash riffing in the tune, one of my Pantera favorites, "Over and Out". Pantera delivers all out excellent thrash. It's all out menacing. There are a few glam moments here, but are so few and far in between. With tunes like "Over and Out" and "Death Trap", Pantera got their wish to be metal. Even in the final tune "P.S.T. '88", Darrel sings here and had a pretty decent voice.

Overall, Pantera's soul searching came to a near end here. It wasn't till two years later when Pantera reached their pinnacle and finally found themselves. I Highly recommend Power Metal. The only shame is that Pantera ingnored this just because of the silly picture. This is an excellent album!

13 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars And it all started HERE!, May 21, 2005

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L Salisbury (Maryland United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Power Metal (Audio CD)

After three RATT soundalike LPs (Metal Magic, Projects In the Jungle and I Am the Night) Pantera got Phil on vocals and gave us Power Metal. This sounds more like the band we all knew n loved in the 90s than their other 80s efforts but this 88 album still hardly predicts their 90s sound- although at times it does sound like a rough ROUGH blueprint for Cowboys From Hell. Worth buying for hardcore Dimebag fans.