Pantera

In a recent interview with Mike "Radioactive MikeZ" Zara, host of the 96.7 KCAL-FM program "Wired In The Empire", STRYPER frontman Michael Sweet confirmed that he has never paid much attention to METALLICA's music, despite the fact that they are the biggest metal band in the world. He explained (as...

German/Finnish/French thrash metal veterans KREATOR played a special "deep cuts" 1980s set focusing on the band's "Pleasure To Kill", "Terrible Certainty" and "Extreme Aggression" albums on Saturday, May 23 at the Maryland Deathfest XXI at Market Place/Power Plant Live in Baltimore, Maryland. Fan-fi...

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The admission comes as Anthrax begin their latest tour without longtime drummer Charlie Benante

ANTHRAX recruited acclaimed U.K.-based session drummer Darby Todd to sit behind the kit for the band's concert Saturday night (May 23) at the Olympic Athletic Center of Athens (OAKA) in Athens, Greece as the support act for IRON MAIDEN. Fan-filmed video of the performance can be seen below. Longtime...

Pantera have announced Trivium, Bodysnatcher and Cavalera as the openers for their European headlining shows this July. Cavalera will be performing Sepultura's Chaos A.D. in full on the run. Pantera will ...

Release Athens Festival will be hosting an entire summer of shows from Pantera, Megadeth, Garbage, and more.

Those shows will take place around Pantera's run opening for Metallica.

"The most surreal moment at that day was running into Ronnie Wood in the bathroom"

Released in 1996, The Great Southern Trendkill was Pantera’s follow-up to one of their biggest milestones, 1994’s Far Beyond Driven — still the heaviest album to debut at the No. 1 spot on the Billboard album chart. Metal bands of lesser mettle might’ve pumped the brakes on the bone-breaking intensity to deliver a more populist next LP, but stubborn and steadfast, Pantera went the opposite direction. While it’s not without its moments of aching melody — including one of the greatest metal solos of all time — Trendkill nevertheless lunged at the music world with a series of depraved thrashers and venomous grooves about as deadly as the Texas diamondback hissing on its iconic cover art. But what is The Great Southern Trendkill’s deadliest number? With the record having crossed its 30th anniversary, we asked our readers this very question, and they responded accordingly. War Nerve No hate mail for this one — just like the rest of Trendkill, “War Nerve” has been grinding deep into Pantera fans’ essences since it first blasted out the speakers in ’96. Indeed, the faithful have invited its mayhem into their earholes ever since. When it came to the media entities Anselmo was raging against throughout the nasty-grooved batterer — replete with a couple exquisitely leftfield-freaky slow-moshes — Pantera’s frontman was dead set on waging war on foes like never before (“Truly fuck the world for all it s worth/Every inch of planet Earth”). Nevertheless, it became a battle anthem for metalhead masses around the globe. Drag the Waters As the introductory single to Pantera’s eighth album, “Drag the Waters” had the somewhat unenviable position of being measured closely against mainstream-crashing Far Beyond Driven tracks like “I’m Broken” and “Five Minutes Alone.” The good news is that the follow-up was as massive as it was anthemic, the quartet doling out a Southern power-groove that hits like a sledgehammer. It’s not the heaviest track on Trendkill, but it’s a people-pleaser driven by Anselmo’s bulldog roar, a classically rippin’ Dime solo, and world-shaking rhythms from Rex and Vinnie Paul. We didn’t have to drag the waters to find votes for the single, they buoyed up en masse right to the top of our comments. 10s 10/10, no notes. For real, though, “10s” is Southern gloom godhead, a Trendkill standout imbued by one of Anselmo’s most passionately rasp-crooned Pantera performances, as well as layers of eerie guitarmonizing, soul-yearning solo bends and more. Though many of our readers give “10s” a perfect score, the song also sits in the mix with a bunch of other flawless Pantera tracks. While great, it doesn’t take the top spot. Floods There are Dime solos, and then there’s “Floods.” Devastatingly beautiful, the solo had roots in Pantera’s Eighties-era stageshow as a Randy Rhoads-inspired piece of fretboard mastery before finally appearing on-record as a waterworks-inducing set of melodic squeals. While the fluid mid-song showcase marks one of the guitar icon’s most memorable performances ever, don’t forget that Dime and the rest of the band level right into a monstrously dam-breaking back-end mosh right after. Bring on the “Floods” any time of day, we say. Suicide Note, Pt. 2 Fret not, Pantera family: One of the band’s most staggeringly savage and raging songs topped the poll this week. And for good reason. “Suicide Note, Pt. 2” finds a fiery explosion of tempo-pushing thrash beats supporting some of Dime’s most deliriously noisy riffs. Anselmo is in attack mode, though guest screecher Seth Putnam — of infamous grinders A.C., paying back Pantera’s frontman in kind for his guest spots on the Massachusetts band’s 1995 LP, Top 40 Hits — goes wild on the cut, too. No pretension, pure execution — “Suicide Note Pt. 2” is a beast among beasts, and that’s why the fans voted it Trendkill’s greatest cut.

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Metallica launched their first concert of 2026 in Greece over the weekend, treating fans at Athens’ Olympic Stadium to a master-class in thrash. The Saturday (May 9th) performance was preceded by monster opening sets from Gojira and Knocked Loose, and then ‘Tallica took over with a 16-song set stretchin’ as far back as Kill ‘Em All’s “Seek Destroy” and running up to 72 Seasons’ “Lux Aeterna.” Notably, the Athens show was a one-night only affair, rather than played as part of their “No Repeat Weekend” concert staging format. All the same, Metallica brought out the big guns throughout, from “Creeping Death” and “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” to “Master of Puppets” and “One,” to “Sad but True” and the night-closing “Enter Sandman.” Mid-show, bassist Robert Trujillo and guitarist Kirk Hammett went off-script with one of their “doodles”, working themselves through a playful version of Zorba the Greek’s “Zorba s Dance” before attempting Grecian rock outfit Trypes “Den Choras Pouthena.” You’ll find fan-shot footage from the night up above and down below, where you’ll likewise find the setlist details in full (per setlist.fm). Metallica’s European tour continues Wednesday (May 13th) at Bucharest, Romania’s Arena Națională, which will also be with Gojira and Knocked Loose. Their spring run of “M72 World Tour” dates also include shows with Pantera and Avatar. Later in the year, Metallica start staging shows at the Sphere in Las Vegas, Nevada, which continue into 2027. You’ll find all show details here. Metallica setlist 5/9/26:Creeping DeathFor Whom the Bell TollsMoth Into FlameKing NothingLux ÆternaThe UnforgivenFuelKirk and Rob Doodle ( Zorba s Dance and Trypes Den Choras Pouthena )Fade to BlackWherever I May RoamNothing Else MattersSad but TrueOneSeek DestroyMaster of PuppetsEnter Sandman

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Godsmack frontman Sully Erna said in a new interview on SiriusXM's Trunk Nation with Eddie Trunk that the band will be releasing new music, without its original members.

Tickets go on sale this Friday at 10 a.m. local time.