Arguably the Cowboy’s from Hell’s darkest release lyrically was 1994’s “Far Beyond Driven” with vocalist Philip H Anselmo suffering from a pair of ruptured discs in has back and degenerative disc disease and numbing the pain with alcohol, heroin and prescription medication and perhaps the cover art which depicts the act of trephination is a
When Philip H. Anselmo spoke to Loudwire Magazine in 2014 about the meaning behind “Becoming” from the seventh studio album by Pantera, he said “The most popular heavy metal bands in the world at that time were, in my estimate and definitely all of our estimates, playing the game. … They had reached this pinnacle;
Time for a classic. Arlington Texas quartet Pantera were without doubt one of the biggest bands in Metal. There influence is felt far and wide and when we’re still talking about a band whose run was from 1981 to 2003 some 15 years on, there must have been something decent about them. As of August 2017 they had sold 60 million albums World wide,
