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Pantera, Rijnhal, Arnhem, Netherlands, March 15, 1991
photograph by Niels van Iperen/Getty Images
December 28, 2020
Revolver has teamed with Pantera for exclusive colored vinyl pressings of the band's classic albums plus a new Pantera collector's issue. Quantities are extremely limited — get yours before they're gone!
Pantera's fifth album, 1990's
Cowboys From Hell, was a huge turning point for the band — a powerful groove-metal mission statement and crucial stepping-stone in the Texas crew's rise to Nineties metal dominance.
Since forming in 1981, the Abbott brothers — Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul — had been refining their glam-infused heavy-metal sound (and Eighties hair-metal look) over three albums that also featured bassist Rex Brown and singer Terry Glaze. By the mid-Eighties, Glaze was out. After a few false starts with other singers, the guys recruited New Orleans transplant Philip Anselmo to track 1988's