Pantera's Vulgar Display of Power
Next year it will be 30 years since this legendary album was released. After having made a mark on the heavy metal world with "Cowboys From Hell", Pantera took on the role of heavy metal royalty with "Vulgar Display of Power". Metal is par excellence the translation of violence into music. All genres and sub-genres related to metal cannot help but raise hardness and roughness to their fundamental characteristics; and there is a whole story of sound research to try to create the most violent, most aggressive, most brutal sound: increasing the speed, the granitic, the distortion of the riffs; hyperbolizing the rhythms; scarring the cantata with the liberating and primitive assault of the screams. Genres such as grindcore and the most deviant fringes of black metal testify how metal can stage the most atrocious and devastating projections of the soul, sometimes reaching the limit of the audible. Yet already in 1992, a group of Texan agitators had found the perfect mus