Album: Power Metal by Pantera (1988)
Genre: Thrash Metal | Style: Metal | Mood: Boisterous
Format: Album

Description: Power Metal is the fourth studio album by heavy metal band Pantera, released in 1988 through Metal Magic Records. It is the first Pantera album to feature Phil Anselmo on vocals, as part of a line-up which would last until the band's official split in 2003.

Artist Background: No band affected the metal world more so than Pantera during the early to mid-'90s. Beginning with its 1990 album Cowboys From Hell, the post-thrash band put to rest any and all remnants of the '80s metal scene, almost single-handedly demolishing any notion that hair metal, speed metal, power metal, et al., were anything but passé. Sure, a lot of critics point toward Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit" and the subsequent alternative rock explosion as the death knell of '80s-style metal, but ... Part of the Arlington, Texas, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Thrash Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Related Artists: Damageplan, Slayer, Metallica, Sepultura

Music Scene: Part of the Arlington, Texas, USA music scene. Emerged in the 1980s era. Associated with Thrash Metal movement. Known for Metal style.

Tags: Thrash Metal, Metal, Boisterous, 1980s, Album

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Power Metal is the fourth studio album by heavy metal band Pantera, released in 1988 through Metal Magic Records. It is the first Pantera album to feature Phil Anselmo on vocals, as part of a line-up which would last until the band's official split in 2003.

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