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Two years later their fourth album ''Power Metal'' (1988) got released, which was the first album to have Phil Anselmo on vocals. It was a different approach compared to the three previous albums. It had elements of speed metal<ref>https://www.laweekly.com/unpopular-opinion-its-time-to-talk-about-how-terrible-pantera-are/</ref>.
Two years later their fourth album ''Power Metal'' (1988) got released, which was the first album to have Phil Anselmo on vocals. It was a different approach compared to the three previous albums. It had elements of speed metal<ref>https://www.laweekly.com/unpopular-opinion-its-time-to-talk-about-how-terrible-pantera-are/</ref>.
=== Commercial breakthrough years ===
==== [[Megadeth]] attempts to hire Dimebag Darrell (1988) ====
After the release of ''Power Metal'', the band decided to try get signed by a major record label. Atco Records signed them.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20080118035838/http://www.officialpantera.com/</ref> After that, they then developed and invented the groove metal sound on their major-label groundbreaking fifth album ''Cowboys from Hell'' (1990). It was a new subgenre of metal, they had left their glam metal influences behind for mid-tempo thrash metal dubbed "power groove" (groove metal). Two years later it was followed up with an even heavier album ''Vulgar Display of Power'' (1992) achieved more popularity for the band. The album after that ''Far Beyond Driven'' (1994) then debuted at number one on the Billboard 200.<ref>https://allmusic.com/artist/pantera-p5099/charts-awards?table=SEARCH</ref>
Shortly after ''Power Metal'' got released, the thrash metal band [[Megadeth]] needed a new guitarist and phoned Darrell "Dimebag" Abbott, to join the band. Darrell insisted that his brother, Vinnie Paul, be included. However, Megadeth had already hired Nick Menza as their drummer so Darrell declined the offer, and [[Dave Mustaine]] instead decided on Marty Friedman.<ref>https://metalinjection.net/latest-news/dave-mustaine-recalls-almost-hiring-dimebag-vinnie-paul-for-megadeth-in-1988</ref>
=== Commercial breakthrough years (1990 -)===
==== ''Cowboys from Hell'' ====
After the release of ''Power Metal'', the band decided to try get signed by a major record label. Atco Records signed them.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20080118035838/http://www.officialpantera.com/</ref> After that, they then developed and invented the groove metal sound on their major-label groundbreaking fifth album ''Cowboys from Hell'' (1990). It was a new subgenre of metal, they had left their glam metal influences behind for mid-tempo thrash metal dubbed "power groove" (groove metal). ''Cowboys from Hell'' is considered by fans as the band's "official debut album".
===== Touring ======
To promote their latest album, Pantera began the ''Cowboys from Hell'' tour alongside thrash metal acts [[Exodus (band)|Exodus]] and [[Suicidal Tendencies]]. In 1991, Pantera performed onstage with fellow heavy metal band [[Judas Priest]]. Pantera also opened for other bands like [[Sepultura]], [[Fates Warning]], [[Prong]], [[Mind Over Four]], and [[Morbid Angel]], and co-headlined a North American tour with Wrathchild America.<ref>http://metallipromo.com/pantera.html</ref> The band eventually landed a billing for "Monsters in Moscow" with [[AC/DC]] and [[Metallica]] in September 1991, where they played to a crowd of over 500,000 in attendance to celebrate the new freedom of performing Western music in the Soviet Union shortly before its downfall three months later.
==== ''Vulgar Display of Power'' and ''Far Beyond Driven'' ====
Two years later ''Cowboys from Hell'' was followed up with an even heavier album ''Vulgar Display of Power'' (1992) , which achieved more popularity for the band and cemented its reputation in the metal community, along with singles like "This Love", a haunting ballad about lust and abuse, "Walk", which would go on to be one of the band's most popular songs. The album would receive significant radio airplay. The album entered itself at the American charts at No. 44.<ref>https://allmusic.com/artist/pantera-p5099/charts-awards?table=SEARCH</ref> Pantera went on tour again, visiting Japan for the first time in July 1992 and later performing at the "Monsters of Rock" festival co-headlined by Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath in Italy. This is around the time when Darrell Abbott made his nickname "Dimebag Darrell.
Two years later, their new album ''Far Beyond Driven'' (1994) then debuted at number one on the Billboard 200.<ref>https://allmusic.com/artist/pantera-p5099/charts-awards?table=SEARCH</ref> The album's first single "I'm Broken" earned the band's first Grammy nomination for "Best Metal Performance.". This album was taking a more extreme direction in their groove metal sound, with having elements of thrash metal and death metal in the album. Pantera began touring again, starting in South America, along with being accepted into another "Monsters of Rock" billing.
==== Tensions and final years ====
==== Tensions and final years ====
The band faced tensions with one another when the vocalist Phil Anselmo got addicted to heroin to relieve back pain in 1995, he nearly died from an overdose on stage a year later.<ref>http://docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/ST/lib00155,0EAF9099EDD696F6.html</ref> During these times the band only put out two albums ''The Great Southern Trendkill'' (1996) and ''Reinventing the Steel'' (2000). After that the band went on hiatus in 2001, and disbanded in 2003.<ref>https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/dimebag-darrell-pantera-is-officially-over/</ref>
The band faced tensions with one another when the vocalist Phil Anselmo got addicted to heroin to relieve back pain in 1995, he nearly died from an overdose on stage a year later.<ref>http://docs.newsbank.com/g/GooglePM/ST/lib00155,0EAF9099EDD696F6.html</ref> During these times the band only put out two albums ''The Great Southern Trendkill'' (1996) and ''Reinventing the Steel'' (2000). ''The Great Southern Trendkill'' is considered the bands heaviest and most overlooked album, with elements of death metal and grindcore in some of the songs. ''Reinventing the Steel'' was considered a generic groove metal album. After that the band went on hiatus in 2001, and disbanded in 2003.<ref>https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/dimebag-darrell-pantera-is-officially-over/</ref>
==== Death of Abbott brothers ====
==== Death of Abbott brothers ====
On December 8, 2004, the guitarist Dimebag Darrell was shot and killed while performing onstage with his band Damageplan.<ref>http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1494653/20041209/damageplan.jhtml?headlines=true</ref> The other Abbott brother, Vinnie Paul, died of heart failure in 2018.<ref>https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/obituary/8462386/vinnie-paul-dead-pantera-damageplan-hellyeah</ref>
Shortly after Pantera disbanded, guitarist Dimebag Darrell and drummer Vinnie Paul formed a new band named Damageplan, with vocalist Pat Lachman and bassist Bob Zilla. Damageplan released their first and only album ''New Found Power'' in 2004. 44,000 copies were sold in its first week.
On December 8, 2004, the guitarist Dimebag Darrell was shot and killed while performing onstage with his band Damageplan.<ref>http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1494653/20041209/damageplan.jhtml?headlines=true</ref> The other Abbott brother, Vinnie Paul, would go on to form the band Hellyeah after Dimebag's death. However, Vinnie Paul died of heart failure in 2018, and Hellyeah would go on an hiatus after that.<ref>https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/obituary/8462386/vinnie-paul-dead-pantera-damageplan-hellyeah</ref>
=== Reunion ===
=== Reunion ===
== Musical Style ==
== Musical Style ==
Pantera is considered a groove metal band, as well as being the pioneers of the genre.<ref>http://www.vh1.com/news/45371/90s-post-thrash-groove-metal-scene/</ref> The band's early albums in the 80s were glam metal with Kiss and Van Halen influence along with New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) influence.<ref>https://www.loudersound.com/features/how-pantera-went-from-a-glam-band-to-redefining-metal</ref> Pantera can also be described as thrash metal.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20071013203859/http://rollingstone.com/artists/pantera/albums/album/241961/review/5941528/the_great_southern_trendkill</ref> Groove metal is an offshoot of thrash metal, being more mid-tempo, downtuned guitars, and screaming. ''Cowboys from Hell'' is considered standard groove metal, while ''Vulgar Display of Power'' has elements of thrash metal. ''Far Beyond Driven'' has elements of death metal and ''The Great Southern Trendkill' has death metal and grindcore elements.
Pantera is considered a groove metal band,<ref>https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/how-vinnie-paul-and-pantera-revolutionized-the-art-of-metal-666086/</ref> as well as being the pioneers of the genre.<ref>http://www.vh1.com/news/45371/90s-post-thrash-groove-metal-scene/</ref> The band's early albums in the 80s were glam metal with Kiss and Van Halen influence along with New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) influence.<ref>https://www.loudersound.com/features/how-pantera-went-from-a-glam-band-to-redefining-metal</ref> Pantera can also be described as thrash metal.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20071013203859/http://rollingstone.com/artists/pantera/albums/album/241961/review/5941528/the_great_southern_trendkill</ref>
Groove metal is an offshoot of thrash metal,<ref>http://www.vh1.com/news/45371/90s-post-thrash-groove-metal-scene/</ref> being more mid-tempo, having downtuned guitars, and screaming. ''Cowboys from Hell'' is considered standard groove metal, while ''Vulgar Display of Power'' has elements of thrash metal.<ref>https://www.guitarworld.com/artists/gw-blog-pantera-release-vulgar-display-power-20th-anniversary-edition-today</ref> ''Far Beyond Driven'' has elements of death metal and ''The Great Southern Trendkill'' has death metal and grindcore elements.<ref>http://www.chroniclesofchaos.com/reviews/albums/2-149_pantera_the_great_southern_trendkill.aspx</ref>
Despite being a glam metal band in their early years, the band has perceived themselves as never "selling out" or giving into trends. This is most noticeably highlighted in the themes and title of ''The Great Southern Trendkill''. Anselmo said:
"We've survived every fu##ing trend—[[heavy metal]], "grunge metal", funk metal, rap metal—and we're still here. We put everyone on notice that we don't fu## around. Our fans know we're true right down to the fu##ing core."<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20131101044450/http://pantera.com/band.htm</ref>
Aside from their glam and thrash metal influences, the band cites [[Black Sabbath]] as one of their favorite bands.
== Discography ==
== Discography ==