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higher.  False Thrash - 2%  TrooperOfThrash, March 8th, 2007
Pantera is an interesting band that surely cannot be generalized
like any other. Their first albums were certainly not unique or
special and were merely hair metal; the trend of the time. With
Cowboys From Hell they changed their sound to fit the mainstream
once again now that hair metal had begun fading away into
obscurity. When Darrel Abbott was shot down while preforming
with his false metal band, Damageplan, in 2004 his and Pantera's
popularity skyrocketed overnight as scenester teenagers began to
embrace him post-death.  Surely a band that is as popular as
Pantera must be good, correct? No, this album is just a pathetic
display of awful music that somehow gets called a classic metal
album. Listening to another false metal band - Lamb of God or
Slipknot perhaps - it is far easier to pick out the Pantera
influence than i