Can we at least acknowledge the immense impact and influence he’s had on the metal genre as a whole?
>twang twang>WEEEEEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-rumble rumble
>>129639872I never gave much of a shit about that one controversy but I do hate him now because it's obvious Pantera's "reunion" tour was more shameless and cynical than the fact that Slipknot is still going.You never even heard about it because everybody knew it wasn't really Pantera.They needed a fuck ton of supporting acts to feel confident they would sell out venues (if i am not mistaken they were the supporting act for some of them)I get that their reunion wasn't going to fill up the O2 arena and have tickets auctioned off for 5 figures but this was just blatant "yeah nothing else I do sells, time to call Rex"
Everything that ruined metal is documented in this one album. This album paints a picture of AC/DC shirt wearing pickup truck drivers heading to the meth house after swigging too much malt liquor while watching a marathon of Maury and Dog the Bounty Hunter. It's this single piece of drunken bafoonery that sapped all the creativity out of metal by showing people that they too can make money by playing groove based rock with faux-aggressive vocals and throwing pot leaf designs on t-shirts. It is the prototype for Korn.Lyrically, everything that's wrong about metal now is found here. Phil Anselmo in all his heroin addled wisdom thought that, instead of coming up with something interesting to talk about, the mundane themes about the "tough street life" would resonate more with the hip-hop culture of mainstream America and, unfortunately, he was right. This was one of the key elements that were needed to allow angry suburban youth and meth head trailer park dwellers to relate with the stupidity of Pantera.This is barely metal aside from some guitar playing techniques. Pantera is really just groove based rock in how the focus is placed on sparse 2 note rhythm riffs being played for a "swaggering" hip-hop derived feel that will allow suburban kids to "get down with it". It is an urbanized version of banging on rocks in a wasteland. By removing all the intellectual aspects out of metal and dumbing it all down to a series of chugga chugga noises and hillbilly solos.When the home videos are more memorable for the jokes than the music, you know this band wasn't good. Unfortunately, jokes and some pot leaf design t-shirts were all it took to sell this "cool" album about "real street topics" to the impressionable morons of the day. The birthplace for Limp Bizkit rests in this album
>>129640510Not a single lie spoken
>>129639872Yes, that fucking piece of shit. Talks about white power while he himself looks like a mutt. Tosser.
