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Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill



8.1 | 903 votes |
Release date: 22 April 1996
Style: Groove metal

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01. The Great Southern Trendkill
02. War Nerve
03. Drag The Waters
04. 10's
05. 13 Steps To Nowhere
06. Suicide Note, Pt. I
07. Suicide Note, Pt. II
08. Living Through Me (Hell's Wrath)
09. Floods
10. The Underground In America
11. (Reprise) Sandblasted Skin
12. Walk [live] [Japanese bonus]

Guest review by
Stuart
Rating:
8.7
Since Phil Anselmo joined Pantera they had gone from strength to strength with sales increasing for each subsequent album and along with their worldwide reputation as a devastatingly violent and energetic live act; this album was highly anticipated in the barren metal years of the mid-nineties. The pressures of success had however, along with excessive alcohol consumption, exhausting touring duties and Phil's drug problems, caused a rift in the band and the recording of this album was anything but a smooth process. What this in-fighting, drug addiction and despair with success spewed forth was one of the most powerful pieces of pure hatred, attitude and anger filled music ever to come out of the American deep south.

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published 01.06.2008 | Comments (7)

Staff review by
ScreamingSteelUS
Rating:
9.7
This album, more than Vulgar Display Of Power, more than Cowboys From Hell, has always been the album that defined Pantera to me. The Great Southern Trendkill finds the band at its heaviest and most Texan, with an enveloping, album-wide sound that keeps sonic continuity from the first track to the last in a way not quite managed by previous albums.

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published 27.07.2018 | Comments (4)

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28.07.2010 - 05:43
Rating: 7
Damage inc.

This has some heavy shit on it
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28.07.2010 - 06:40
Rating: 8
Angelic Storm
Melodious
Without doubt, the heaviest and angriest album that Pantera put out. Its far from perfect, but in it's best moments, its a searing, furious album. And of course, it contains "Floods" which features a truly magical solo from Dimebag. <3
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28.07.2010 - 14:29
Rating: 8
vezzy
Stallmanite
Definitely heavy. Good, energy-packed album.
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04.08.2010 - 03:30
Rating: 10
thewall30

I freakin adore this album, good shit
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08.05.2011 - 08:12
Rating: 8
MickeyDeez79

Today, this album is 15 years old.
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01.03.2012 - 20:52
Rating: 9
Pelagial

Just Floods
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30.11.2012 - 00:11
Illog1cal
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The ballads like "10s" and "Floods" are what saves this album from being mediocre, those songs are up with Pantera's best material. You can tell they had been listening to Soundgarden and Alice in Chains and this is their take on that style but with the trademark Pantera aggression.
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06.12.2012 - 19:11
Rating: 2
bblitz

Total disaster.
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25.03.2013 - 06:14
Lit.
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Written by bblitz on 06.12.2012 at 19:11

Total disaster.

*buzzer*
Wrong!
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25.03.2013 - 12:30
Marcel Hubregtse
Grumpy Old Fuck
Written by Guest on 25.03.2013 at 06:14

Written by bblitz on 06.12.2012 at 19:11

Total disaster.

*buzzer*
Wrong!



INdeed. Okay, it's probably their weakest but from being a disaster.
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15.04.2013 - 19:19
Metropolis_Dream
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Very good album, but their weakest from the 90s. "13 Steps to nowhere" and "Floods" are my favourites here.
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20.02.2014 - 19:39
Rating: 8
moonflash

Floods's outro destroys universes.
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05.03.2014 - 01:19
Rating: 8
Angelic Storm
Melodious
Written by deadone on 21.02.2014 at 00:19

Yeah Floods is a phenomenal song.

Personal favourite is Suicide Note Pt II - that's some extreme shit.


Those two songs are my faves on the album. "Floods" is just beautiful, whilst "Suicide Note Pt II" is a searing cut which sounds totally demented, but in a good way!
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05.03.2014 - 19:49
Rating: 8
pkillerjp

Written by deadone on 05.03.2014 at 01:18

Written by pkillerjp on 04.03.2014 at 23:59

This is the Pantera album metal-archives will tell you is their best. Haha. They try to experiment a lot here, and are clearly fresh out of ideas. Inner turmoil was starting to set in here, and so were Phil's drug problems, and it shows. Easily, the most filler of their prime era releases. Still some nice Dime riffs to be had though, so it's not completely worthless.



Whilst I agree with your assessment, I can't help but really enjoy this one when I listen to it!


I actually went a little hard on it, I just re-listened to it all the way through and there are indeed some really great moments. Dime is still great and Phil is in good form, for the most part. Maybe a high 6 or 7 ranking.
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05.03.2014 - 20:20
Lit.
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Written by pkillerjp on 04.03.2014 at 23:59

This is the Pantera album metal-archives will tell you is their best. Haha. They try to experiment a lot here, and are clearly fresh out of ideas. Inner turmoil was starting to set in here, and so were Phil's drug problems, and it shows. Easily, the most filler of their prime era releases. Still some nice Dime riffs to be had though, so it's not completely worthless.

Disagreed heavily. I for one find this much better than both Far Beyond Driven and Reinventing The Steel. The anger makes it more palpable (and interesting) than either of those albums.
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06.03.2014 - 18:22
Rating: 8
pkillerjp

Written by Guest on 05.03.2014 at 20:20

Written by pkillerjp on 04.03.2014 at 23:59

This is the Pantera album metal-archives will tell you is their best. Haha. They try to experiment a lot here, and are clearly fresh out of ideas. Inner turmoil was starting to set in here, and so were Phil's drug problems, and it shows. Easily, the most filler of their prime era releases. Still some nice Dime riffs to be had though, so it's not completely worthless.

Disagreed heavily. I for one find this much better than both Far Beyond Driven and Reinventing The Steel. The anger makes it more palpable (and interesting) than either of those albums.


Far Beyond Driven has some shaky moments, but Dime is still a riff machine on that album. All in all, I find Trendkill more patchy and the filler is scattered throughout in my opinion. I'm sorry I wasn't even counting Reinventing the Steel, I admit I haven't listened to that one enough to judge it.
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07.03.2014 - 18:24
Rating: 8
pkillerjp

Been listening to Trendkill last few days, my score has went from 6 to 8. I stand corrected, damn fine album, better than I remember. Now for some Reinventing the Steel.
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25.07.2014 - 19:53
MichaelAngeloT

Written by bblitz on 06.12.2012 at 19:11

Total disaster.

fuck you dude!
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25.07.2014 - 20:00
Boxcar Willy
yr a kook
Written by MichaelAngeloT on 25.07.2014 at 19:53

Written by bblitz on 06.12.2012 at 19:11

Total disaster.

fuck you dude!

WHAT?! A different opinion!?! KILL HIM!!¡!



Serioulsy, I'm not a big Pantera Fan, but this is okay. I agree with the earlier comment about filler, which is the problem with every Pantera release.
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12.05.2015 - 17:07
Rating: 8
LeKiwi
High Fist Prog
I enjoyed this more than CFH - more groove and aggression with less filler.

"10's" and "Suicide Note, Pt. 1" were pretty lifeless and - oddly enough - I didn't enjoy "Floods" as much as everyone else seems to have. I thought it was quite boring...even that ending
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02.05.2016 - 08:02
Maco
Pvt Funderground
Their best.
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24.01.2018 - 12:55
Rating: 8
qlacs
"The Quaker"
I was avoiding this record all my life for reasons unknown to me. IMO you have to be angry to really enjoy Pantera, and I usually found other way to quench my fury. But today I put it on and daaamn boy it's so good.
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24.05.2018 - 19:41
Maco
Pvt Funderground
I'm angry so I listen to this.
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27.10.2018 - 22:26
Angelic Man
Account deleted
This album is as bad as their previous groove albums. Maybe the track I respect the most is Drag the Water because of the lyrics, but that does not mean I respect the album. I don't like the first line of the song War Nerve "F the World" and nor should you. S Note I and II are disturbing songs also. As a matter of fact, I don't trust the rest of the album.
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19.04.2020 - 09:34
Rating: 10
MH_WarWizard

A severely underrated album imho, probably my favorite from them. Even so i like all of their albums, with reinventing the steel being the weakest. I just can't get enough of this album, some of my favorites are Suicide note Part 1 & 2, floods and drag the waters. I also love the fucking riff in sandblasted skin, a killer closer.
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28.06.2023 - 17:56
Rating: 8
Jack_Torrance

Sounds like pre Lamb of God, possibly their best album.
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