Pure metal riffage, thrash-rips, neck-wrecking headbanging.
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Yesterday Don’t Mean Shit
Reinventing the Steel
They put this thing behind the chorus.
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Living Through Me
The Great Southern Trendkill
This IS the chorus.
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Use My Third Arm
Far Beyond Driven
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Dom / Hollow (Live)
Official Live: Pantera 101 Proof
Even Phil knew what was up.
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Five Minutes Alone
Far Beyond Driven
Only one of the best songs ever written, partly because…
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Five Minutes Alone
Far Beyond Driven
We have back-to-back killers on the same track.
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I’m Broken
Far Beyond Driven
Pick up a guitar for the first time. Play this. Pick up a guitar for sound check. Rip this. No better way to start a song other than maybe Whole Lotta Love.
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This Love
Vulgar Display of Power
When I first joined a band in early high school, my friend and bassist David Kline swore this was one of the best riffs of all-time. Thank you, Kline, for the introduction.
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Strength Beyond Strength
Far Beyond Driven
When I think of thrash metal or groove metal and how Pantera might have invented it but probably perfected it, this is the riff that comes to mind.
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I’m Broken
Far Beyond Driven
No way you thought I wasn’t coming back to this song.
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Cowboys from Hell
Cowboys from Hell
Don’t worry, we’re coming back to this song…
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Cemetery Gates
Cowboys from Hell
Beauty and the beast.
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Cowboys from Hell
Cowboys from Hell
No chance I’m putting down the guitar without playing this.
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The Great Southern Trendkill
The Great Southern Trendkill
Pantera goes number 1. People worry they’re going to sell out, go soft. Instead, they open their album with this track. As brutal as you like to start with the perfect riff to close it out. It’s the entire Pantera ethos in one track with one context.