26 Years Ago: Pantera Release 'The Great Southern Trendkill'
Their most vicious album.
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Their most vicious album.
Their most vicious album.
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As Pantera wrote and recorded the songs that would make up their fourth major label album (eighth total) The Great Southern Trendkill – which came out May 7, 1996 – it was clear to anyone within proximity that something was seriously amiss. Drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott, guitarist Dimebag Darrell Abbott and Rex Brown were hard at work in Chasin’ Jason Studio in Dallas, Texas and vocalist Phil Anselmo was hundreds of miles away, recording at Trent Reznor’s Nothing Studios in New Orleans. Any questions about what had divided the once-tightknit musicians was answered on July 13 when Anselm...