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Title: Vulgar Display of Ineptitude
Review: In all my years of listening to metal, I never got why Pantera was so revered. What puzzles me even more is that the same people who hold this band on such a high pedastal are so quick to bash nu metal bands like Slipknot and Mudvayne when, in reality, they are pretty much the same thing.Repetitive down-tuned chord progressions passed off as heavy riffing? Check.An annoying vocalist trying to sound like a tough guy, but ending up sounding like a fourth grade school bully? Check.Meat-headed "you don't understand me"/"I'm tougher than you" lyrics? Check.Formulaic song structure? Double check.Face it, people. This band was never anything more than a high-school headbanger MTV band, and a dead guitarist won't change that. All their talk of killing trends and being the defenders of heavy metal was nothing more than a smoke and mirrors act to cover up the truth that they were just as manufactured, if not more, than any "alternative" band of the time.
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