Album: I Am the Night by Pantera (1985)
Genre: Thrash Metal | Style: Metal | Mood: Boisterous
Format: Album

Description: I Am the Night is the third album by heavy metal band Pantera, released in August 16, 1985. (see 1985 in music) on record and cassette. Any CD release is a bootleg transferred via vinyl or tape. This album is where some of Pantera's faster and heavier influences were becoming more apparent, especially on the title track and "Down Below" (which was re-recorded for their next album Power Metal). Guitar solos took on character, hinting at Dimebag's later style. It was also the last album to feature lead singer Terry Glaze. Commercially the album faired considerably well for an early Pantera album selling around 25,000 copies and managed to attract more notice from the attention of the heavy metal press due to its heavier musical style, and the band made their second music video for the track "Hot and Heavy".

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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I Am the Night is the third album by heavy metal band Pantera, released in August 16, 1985. (see 1985 in music) on record and cassette. Any CD release is a bootleg transferred via vinyl or tape. This album is where some of Pantera's faster and heavier influences were becoming more apparent, especially on the title track and "Down Below" (which was re-recorded for their next album Power Metal). Guitar solos took on character, hinting at Dimebag's later style. It was also the last album to feature lead singer Terry Glaze. Commercially the album faired considerably well for an early Pantera album selling around 25,000 copies and managed to attract more notice from the attention of the heavy metal press due to its heavier musical style, and the band made their second music video for the track "Hot and Heavy".

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