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No desire. We are too old to enjoy that screaming😫
Um.. no thanks. Never caught on to the incessant screaming at the top of ones lungs - maybe to drown out the lack of creativity?
Oh, I know this one! There was a time when I thought this was scary, then I went through a metal phase and thought it was pretty good, and now I recognize Pantera as a band with a tragic history and a problematic singer and a sound that is very much of its era
Thrash metal isn't my thing. Nothing good ro say about this album 1
Definitely had to FF through this one. I would venture to guess based on most of the 5-star reviews that if you were not a teenager in high school (especially if you dabbled in substances) when this came out, you “missed the boat.” Not one thing I could grab onto, though I tried.
Nope.
Fuck this neo-nazi adjacent shit. Everyone who likes this album is an asshole.
Just no
The glam metal thing didn't work out for them so they decided to get all hard instead? I mean I guess they succeeded, but at what cost? I'll tell you what cost: nu-metal.
Unlike the Anthrax album I did make it all the way through this one. Don’t know why though. Awful.
1/10, not for me - too much screaming
Can't stand it when vocalists sing like Cookie Monster. Music was a bit interesting, but the vocals kill it for me.
Oh they wanna be a hardcore punk band sooooo bad! There's a lot of metal with better riffs, better lyrics and better vocals then this. Oh well, at least the title is accurate.
Not interested
1 i hate metal. the guitar solos are the only redeemable thing about this album but even then they're just meh. the "singing" is so annoying though god if they'd just toned it down a lil on the screaming i could have added at least one extra star. fave songs: ://
Not at all
My knee-jerk reaction when I saw Pantera crop up: "Ugh." But I had the same reaction when Megadeth's "Rust in Peace" appeared, only to be pleasantly surprised by it. Maybe this would be a similar experience. The first track on the album is "Mouth for War," and I was once again pleasantly surprised. Solid drums, great guitar ... maybe I'll like this after all. Aaaaand then Anselmo's vocals kicked in and my fleeting optimism was bashed into a thousand pieces. I just can't listen to this kind of stuff. It's just yelling. Or growling. Or both. But if you were to ask me what I thought incels, school shooters, and white supremacists listened to, this would be it. I'm not implying the band (or the majority of their fans) share those views, but this just sounds like toxic masculinity in musical form. I can't even think when shit like this is playing. It's way too aggro, which is a shame, because the instrumentals are solid. This gets 4 stars for the instrumentals and negative infinity for the vocals. HARD pass.
I made it through the whole album although this is really not my jam. I don’t hate it but it doesn’t appeal to me.
Oooof, this was not good.
The riff isn't bad, then the lead yeller starts yelling. He obviously wants to be Hetfield, but he also has this dramatic thing going. Good metal drags you in to an experience. Cliched metal is intensely boring. This is next-level cliche.
Really? Can’t think even the band would think this was what they were put on this earth to do.
Oh, lord. I try to be reasonably in-depth with these reviews, and to give each album a fair assessment on its own terms, but I also reserve the right to not over-analyse something too much if I just plain don’t enjoy it. And here we are with Pantera’s “Vulgar Display of Power”, an eminent entry in thrash metal. I’ve never been a fan of the genre and this one was never going to convert me. Hated the thin, compressed sound. Hated the unbearable bellowed vocals. Hated the lyrics. Hated the hatred. See the guy in this oh-so-profound album cover, with the fist in his face? I think Pantera want that to be all of their naysayers across the 51 minutes of this album. Confronted by their almighty rage! I just ended up bored, thinking ahead to reviewing Supertramp instead. If you like it, good for you. I just couldn’t. Could barely listen through, so was determined to make reviewing it as little a chore as possible.
Just no
NON. En plus d'être un putain de nazi, le chanteur chante comme s'il était constamment constipé. En plus, le groupe n'est pas si bon et il n'y a qu'une chanson vraiment mémorable dans le lot. NULACHIER PREFS : Walk, This Love MOINS PREF : Hollow
Listened to a couple songs. Just never going to be my thing.
Me niego a escuchar más. He llegado a Fucking Hostile. Vulgar todo, como el propio nombre del disco.
Accidentally listened to the wrong Pantera album first---Cowboys From Hell is better than this (2 stars for Cowboys). A lot of tough-guy asshole posers I knew in high school loved this album. It's not the worst album on the list but there's not much here to like; removing the vocals might get it another star.
Not for me. I had to listen to it one track at a time. I can appreciate a song at a time to a degree, but listening to the full album is incomprehensible to me.
Ooh! You're hard. I don't like heavy metal macho posturing. I don't like this. Next.
Refused to listen.
Although I’m not a fan, there’s something to be said for the classic metal feel of this. And I’d never realized how truly sad, isolated, and lonely the lyrics are.
Glad that's over. Not for Williams.
100% NOT my bag.
Made it 30 seconds and no more. Just cannot abide that style of singing
Dnl
A lot sounded the same
Awful
Nope - not for me.
Pain.
just couldn't
Fuck that was a slog. My throat hurts.
I wasn't expecting to like this album, and by and large even trying to listen with an open mind, I was right. The good bits: some of the guitar riffs are pretty catchy, and the drumming is fairly epic. The main bad bit that renders the whole thing somewhat unpleasant is the vocals. I guess I just don't get the appeal but I don't find screamed gravelly vocals particularly fun
I tried - I really did - just not my thing. While it has a rhythm and beat to it, I don’t totally understand this music.
Since 10 seconds in I was just hoping for it to end.
Oh gosh. I just pretty much suffered through this album and hated every moment. My 10 yo daughter asked me why anyone would listen to this, and I suggested it would annoy your parents and that could be fun? "Poor parents!" she said. Even to annoy my parents I couldn't listen to this.
Nope, this genre of metal is not for me
0/11, 0%
did not really listen
Okay, I've heard it before I die (although it almost killed me). Hopefully I never have to hear this again. 1 star.
Just noise...
I am sure this has an audience who appreciate it, but it's not for me.
This is another one that is not for me. Some moments of the guitar play were okay, but the growling/screaming vocals just leave me hoping each track to please end quickly.
This is not music that speaks to me. I got the gist early on and then had to listen to the rest. Next!
Some of the guitars were good, but the vocals are just so bad I can't listen.
Fans of this album don't need to have their Chuck Norris knowledge acknowledged. They harbor resentment towards the Coen Brothers for lying about Fargo being based on actual events. Don't ask them to explain their body art. You don't have time to hear about their body art. For one thing, they despise the phrase "body art" and just call them "tattoos".
Horrendous
Bit shouty. Exactly what you'd expect from the album name/art.
I hate this style of singing, so it was pretty much unlistenable for me.
It felt like I was under attack, which I suppose was the point. It was more physical experience than music like going on a fairground ride. Once you got over the adrenaline it was just not very exciting or interesting. There is music I like that does similar things but this just felt pointless.
Pants. With skid marks.
this album really… confused me because I really hate this kind of metal music, but when I tried to think of what made me hate it, I felt hypocritical since there are other genres I love that have those same qualities I love hard rock (eg. Helter Skelter and Led Zeppelin) I love punk/post-punk (I love Le Tigre and I still need to get around to hearing Kathleen Hanna’s other stuff, Sonic Youth is amazing too, I also enjoy GRLwood’s songs but I hate that the singer is an awful person) I love Industrial (Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor all the way, bro) and I even enjoy some Grunge here and there (mostly Kurt Cobain’s discography which I don’t listen to often since it’s not really for me but when I do hear it I at least appreciate the hell out of it) And this is kinda why Swans is probably my favorite band, they have amazing diversity from album to album they started out as an Industrial Rock band that would shatter your eardrums every chance they could take, then they moved into post-punk and (in my opinion) made the weirdest post-punk for the time, like you got Joy Division that was making the more dark depressing stuff or Talking Heads who loved messing around and breaking the rules and getting kinda weird, but when you listen to Swans’ Children of God, it’s just so far distant and weird from any of the other stuff I’ve heard, it’s amazing to me anyway, after that they made post-rock and without spending forever talking about why I love it, their entire discography is just consistently amazing to me and I recommend you check them out if you’re a fan of Industrial, post-punk or post-rock, there’s probably a few albums they have that you’d enjoy (other super weird bands (that are difficult to label genre-wise) that I enjoy are Xiu Xiu and Kengo Iuchi, but that’s super weird stuff that you’re probably gonna have a hard time enjoying unless you’ve already been down the rabbit hole with other wild stuff) sorry, back to the album ughhhhh… I just hate it and I don’t know why I was even trying to give them the benefit of the doubt and hear their first album before this one and all it did was give me 2 albums to loath today it just sounds so douchey, I fucking hate every song my running theory is that it’s about the fanbase, the awful fucking fanbase like when I listen to this shit all I think of is some fat fuck who’s got his hair grown down to his ass crack, paired with a red bandana and a crusty, cum-stained t-shirt of whatever lame-ass band they need everyone to know they love they think they’re so tough and cool but they’re one big mac away from a heart attack like idk, this just sounds like neckbeard music for neckbeards who think they’re all hard and shit the lyrics sound like they were written by a fourteen year old who watched V for Vendetta (or Fight Club) and got “radicalized” there’s very little to enjoy about an album like this when it comes to a biased little shit like me, I’m gonna give it a 2/10 but even that feels too generous I mean fuck dude, I hated this so much I spent half the review talking about bands that I actually enjoy
HEAVY METAL BY DEFINITION!!!
-The scooped-mid guitar tone is abysmal -The tough-guy posturing is embarrassing for anyone older than 18 -Fucking Hostile sounds like they tried to write a Ride-era Metallica song but forgot the part where Metallica is good -Walk is goofy as hell and has been memed into oblivion at this point -Vulgar display of bad music
Definitely not for me. I couldn't even listen to most of it.
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Absolute pish, hated every minute of it.
Could listen to a instrumental version of this album much easier than this one with screaming. Glad I made it through the end. My ears need a break. Ouch.
Awful. The worst album so far
7th October 2021 Listened while working from Marbella. Not my thing. Got time for heavy metal as a genre, but not for me.
This kind of music is literal torture for me.
Orkar eeeerj
Motorsågs-gitarrer, inget för mig ;)
Ho hum... On etrack is enough really, you know what you're getting. And then there's the slow one...
not for me
Metal isn't for me
I'm not a fan so this is going to be rough. I don't enjoy the vocals at all.
Too screamy for me.
Yeah right, alsof ik hier 52 minuten en 52 seconden naar ga zitten luisteren. Na 3 minuten en 54 seconden was het klaar met deze ellende.
Ik heb het geprobeerd maar was snel klaar met proberen.
bad. screamo
Extremely not for me :/
I don’t like metal. Incoherent screaming isn’t entertaining.
I do not like metal.
Metal is just not for me in most cases.
1992: Walk
die kürzlich erhaltenen guten neuigkeiten bezüglich der zukünftigen lohnarbeit in kombination mit diesem album erwecken das verlangen mein stahlhartes t(d)rittbein in mein müllbefülltes macbook zu rammen. gude pladde.