Comments on: JUMPING DARKNESS PARADE: DAATH’S EYAL LEVI ON HIS MOST INFLUENTIAL METAL RECORDS OF ALL TIME (THE EARLY DAYS)

By: stackedpanda

stackedpanda — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:47:21 +0000

VDOP, concur. First metal album I got (went in to get Metallica after hearing them on the radio, none in stock), purely because of the cover… short time later (after being hassled for liking them by everu ,am amd his dog) EVERYONE buys FBD, and I found Carcass – Heartwork. No matter who they influenced down the track (and lets face it, blaming Pantera for 5FDP is like blaming Faith No More for Incubus) and what THEIR legacy ends up being, they are always going to be MY gateway drug.

First influential albums for me (all bought in first month after Pantera – VDOP):
Sepultura – Chaos AD
Faith No More – Angel Dust
Alice in Chains – Dirt
Fear Factory – SOANM
SYL – Alien
Death – Symbolic

By: dimentian

dimentian — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 23:35:15 +0000

Sepiltura’s ARISE was a kick in the ass for me. SO many riffs and time changes in any given song. really kept my attention. Cowboys from hell was so different to what I was used to. Can’t tell ya how much I partied and played sega genesis to that shit. It will turn you into a drunk!!!!!!! Badass!

By: StoneMonkey

StoneMonkey — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:04:14 +0000

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL THIS IS SOME NEW STUFF RIGHT HERE

By: Razze

Razze — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 12:01:10 +0000

you’re so right about pantera!
but there are some very tight bands out there, I’ve seen facless last night, I was like. Dude is this the album on playback? wtf?

By: Stone the Crow 1990

Stone the Crow 1990 — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:34:10 +0000

Haha yeah, well you know there’s just so many sub genres of metal now these days and they keep adding up. Speaking of Megadeth, I heard they might do a U.S. tour with Slayer this year. I’d love to see that especially since there was all this supposed “beef” between Dave and Kerry.

Next time you guys tour, you should bring out Behemoth with you.

By: Stone the Crow 1990

Stone the Crow 1990 — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:24:33 +0000

nope, just stating my opinion

By: \m/Eluveitie\m/

\m/Eluveitie\m/ — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:18:35 +0000

You really don’t have to stretch that much to play the intro, the chords aren’t too crazy

By: Farhaad Esfandiary

Farhaad Esfandiary — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:13:21 +0000

If anything I’d be a poser if I said any metal or rock album influenced me early on. I wasn’t listening to any of that till I was a junior in high school.

By: Eyal Levi

Eyal Levi — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:41:08 +0000

Crunk is just southern slang for something that hits really fucking hard and in a musical sense with a lot of groove. There’s no such thing as “crunk” metal. Funny that you would ask me to describe it. Its just slang.

I don’t like Hellyeah. I love Down.

I’m glad you have your opinion on Southern Trendkill and all that but I was merely speaking about the albums which influenced ME to get into this genre of music when I was a wee lad.

By: Shinaain

Shinaain — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:04:47 +0000

…And I don’t know about bad, either. The point that I’m ham-handedly trying to get across is that more than one band of debatable quality (for the record, I’m all about Pantera and VH both, but to each their own) has inspired numerous shitty offspring.

See, THIS travesty of commenting is what happens when you’re posting (distracted and on the sly) at work. I’ll stop now.

By: Shinaain

Shinaain — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:00:06 +0000

I don’t know about simplistic, but much the same can be said of Van Halen [back when they still mattered (RIP)].

By: zhitnik

zhitnik — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:52:58 +0000

You would probably be surprised how many of your favorite metal bands were influenced by Pantera in some ways. Even that goofy Dungeons and Dragons metal you like.

By: Ziltoid

Ziltoid — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:14:36 +0000

Oh, I know they influenced a lot of bands. they just made really simplistic, bad music that inspired a lot of simplistic, bad music.

By: zhitnik

zhitnik — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 19:04:37 +0000

Did you just ask yourself a question then answer it?

By: zhitnik

zhitnik — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:42:43 +0000

Well subjective definitions aside, my point about its influence is still there, whether you like it or not.

By: Stone the Crow 1990

Stone the Crow 1990 — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:31:12 +0000

I love Down but can’t stand HellYeah. HellYeah is pretty much a tired parody of Pantera where Down does something different.

By: Stone the Crow 1990

Stone the Crow 1990 — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:29:04 +0000

Eyal, what exactly is crunk metal? Are you talking about those (insert prefix)core bands that rip off Pantera like Throwdown, A Perfect Murder, etc? To each their own but I thought The Great Southern Trendkill was a much more influential album than Vulgar Display of Power, not to mention that Walk has been overplayed to death. Though it’s weird to think that Pantera made the best music when they were going through their roughest times like when Phil distanced himself from the band and overdosed on heroin. That all happened during the Trendkill era.

Are you a Down or Hellyeah fan?

By: Ziltoid

Ziltoid — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:15:55 +0000

There’s a reason I didn’t mention Pantera in my post. I’ve summed up why they’re horrible too many times to count. Well put, Biff. And zhitnik, it’s not “brutal” by any standards.

By: zhitnik

zhitnik — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:10:21 +0000

Hey now, just because you got beat up by a bunch of jocks in high school who liked Pantera doesn’t mean you need to hate :-) In all seriousness though, it isn’t exactly Pantera’s fault that they made good metal that appealed to the masses somewhat as well. Taking Vulgar aside, minus the redneck beer can smashing thing, it is a brutal album that paved the way for many current metal bands, I’m sure (even the good ones).

By: zhitnik

zhitnik — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 18:06:51 +0000

Oh cmon, they got bad, but they still werent as bad as Metallica in the 90′s. Risk was terrible, but the rest of the shit they released was at least black album level (which is still terrible mind you, but not quite as shitty as “Low Man’s Lyric”, or “Ronnie”. On top of that, Megadeth has been coming back with some heavier thrashier shit since 04 when The System Has Failed came out, and even moreso with United Abominations a couple years ago. No, it isn’t Rust in Peace II, but to say they wussed out as much as Metallica is a pretty hard sell. Don’t forget also, the more albums you sell, the more castigated you get when you get all lame-ass. Megadeth may have been as good or better than Metallica in their prime, but they had nowhere close to the fanbase.