Pantera
12 May 2000
Exactly. Pantera - tonight playing to a tumult of
old-school metal heads and ultra-cool skater kids - demand an entirely unique
lexicon; a language that truly conveys the sheer Neanderthal hideousness of
their molten aural onslaught.
"GRRAARRGGHHRRURRR!" bellows bearded lungsmith Phil
Anselmo, immediately and effortlessly hitting the nail on its angry head.
Without the eco-warrior agenda of Sepultura or the dorks-in-shorts
rap-isms of the Korn/Limp Bizkit brigade, Pantera have
found their brand of unreconstructed gore-core discord cast into the metal
wilderness. Current album 'Reinventing The Steel' - tonight played in its
(near) entirety - has thus seen the redoubtable rednecks dig their furious heels
even further into metal's primordial mire.
In the face of sports metal's lame irony filings, it's a
ferociously intense, refreshingly simple thing to behold; a monosyllabic,
slavering beast that has no agenda beyond the redemptive pursuit of noise.
"GRRAARRGGHHRRURRR!" howls Anselmo again during
cast-iron closer 'Cowboys From Hell'. The zeitgeist may have gone
thataway, but Pantera's righteously dumb voice is as eloquent as ever.
Sarah Dempster
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