Subject:      Multi-talented Mike reviews Pantera
From:         egglike@aol.com (Egg Like)
Date:         1997/07/30
Message-ID:   <19970730204401.QAA24569@ladder01.news.aol.com>
Newsgroups:   alt.music.goo-goo-dolls
[More Headers]


http://www.allstarmag.com

Pantera 
Official Live -- 101
Proof 
(EastWest/Elektra) 

"I'm Broken" 

The fifth major-label release from this Arlington, Texas metal band
captures them doing what they do best -- playinglive. These songs are
culled from all four studio releases, and the band has also included two
new  studio tracks ("Where You Come From" and "I Can't Hide"), both of
which demonstrate that Pantera has no  intention of diluting  their sound
anytime soon. In fact, on each record, the singing -- courtesy of Philip
Anselmo, he of the scariest vocal  howl this side of some bad Friday the
13th-ish horror film -- has become more scarce as the screams and growls
have increasingly taken control. (Then again, that could be attributable
to the live element here.) Of the live tracks the two standouts are the
always- charged "I'm Broken" and the brutal crowd pleaser "Fuckin'
Hostile."Although this album offers little in the artistic development 
department, it does reinforce the fact
 that Pantera is the  metal- band antidote for listeners who think
Metallica is wimpy and Slayer just  plain silly. 

                                    -Mike Malinin