Pantera had a gift for outdoing themselves with every song and every album. Just when you thought it couldn’t possibly be any heavier, they come around the corner and prove you wrong. FAR BEYOND DRIVEN, Pantera’s 3rd release (post Power Metal) blends the intensity and thrashy groove of Vulgar with the aggression and brutal heaviness of Trendkill. (No wonder it went to Number 1!!!)

JOIN US as we dive in, talk about the tracks, the production, the heaviness and the vulgar vulgarity that we all know and love courtesy of the metal band that OWNED heavy music in the 1990’s.

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Show Notes:

(00:00): Pantera Far Beyond Driven (you should have seen the ORIGINAL album cover…)/Released 03/22/1994 (spring with a fall feel)/HOW does Pantera keep outdoing themselves!?/Pantera: The New Age of Thrash/Well see what happened was…#metalnerderyASMR (Wait, WHAT!?)

(05:35): Pantera “pre-Cowboys”/I am the night and  #POWERMETAL/Fastest selling album EVAHHHH!!! Went to #1 on Billboard!!!/***GO WATCH PANTERA IN MOSCOW!!!***/A note on Wikipedia regarding the “original” album cover artwork/The PMRC’s blundering move of metal marketing GENIUS!!!

(11:13): Have you ever seen the video for Planet Caravan? / The juggernaut that is Pantera and releasing new songs before the release of the new record / ***GO WATCH METAL GRASSHOPPER!!!***/The best name for a Pantera tribute band EVAHHHH / R.I.P. Mule Camp Tavern / #cancerboogers

(17:52): #39!? Ummm, don’t you feel like.../ The Metallica of the 1990’s/Pantera stew/The Badge (Poison Idea): BONE US track on the Japanese version of Far Beyond Driven and some various tangentionally tangentional related tangents while Matt goes to Frost/#blackdog

(28:22): The Tracks (but first, the crickets) and #goindown/STRENGTH BEYOND STRENGTH (#killeropener)

(33:32): BECOMING (#cantbeloudenough) / The gloriousness that is Dime / FIVE MINUTES ALONE (and the story behind the song) and an important message (#DontBeAnAsshole #readthoselyrics) / The evolution of Pantera’s sound from album to album / The awesome Riff Lord Savantitude of Dimebag #thatmanisablessin

(43:00): I’M BROKEN (those riffs!!!) / GOOD FRIENDS AND A BOTTLE OF PILLS (Wait, WTF!?) Dark and  Fun and definitely NOT like the first 4 songs!!

(48:07): HARD LINES and  SUNKEN CHEEKS (#eviler #evilocity) / SLAUGHTERED (#workoutmix) #backshadowing #foreskinning / 25 YEARS (the 1st half vs the 2 nd half)

(59:06): SHEDDING SKIN (#breakupsong) /USE MY THIRD ARM (definitely some death metal gravy in the Pantera stew) / Moving towards the more aggressive sound of Trendkill/

(1:05:45): THROES OF REJECTION (another Pantera #breakupsong): Ending the song on A crescendo of hatred / WHY did Pantera have to “justify” including Planet Caravan in the liner notes of Far Beyond Driven!?!? It didn’t need to be needed… #noteven/PLANET CARAVAN/Nerd Out and Thank you and Good Night/#easteregg