Changes

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".  

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 ======

===== 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.

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.