Anyone looking for the most extreme and abrasive Pantera album should make a beeline to 1996's The Great Southern Trendkill. Characteristically defiant and contrarian, the band followed up its No. 1 Billboard-charting album Far Beyond Driven with an LP that was far beyond confrontational — musically experimental, sonically bombastic and lyrically scathing. Trendkill was Pantera at their most pissed-off, stubborn and subversive. At a time when Korn, Marilyn Manson and Tool were pioneering new MTV-friendly styles of metal and even Metallica were skewing alternative, Pantera became less accessible and more fucking hostile, writing riffs that were dissonant and disorientating. Phil Anselmo — drawing on his personal pain, isolation and self-loathing — lashed out with unrelenting disgust at society ("War Nerve," "The Great Southern Trendkill"), self-indulgent hipsters ("Drag the Waters," "(Reprise) Sandblasted Skin") and himself ("10's," "Living Through Me (Hell's Wrath"). "It was a bit of a dark-horse record for Pantera, because heavy metal, at the time, was supposed to be on its way out," Anselmo said in a radio interview. "Grunge was the No. 1–selling genre at the time. Heavy metal was being experimented with by different bands, in different ways, and, really, from the Pantera perspective, we really, really,...from News Page https://ift.tt/2KO8rLu https://youbrandinc.com
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