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I Vow Lest I Die Tomorrow

If Iiiiiii diiiiiiie tomorrooooooooow!
I'd be alriiiiiight, because I beliiiiiiieve!
That after were goooooooone!
The spirit carries OOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!

Album Rating: 4.5

Hvent listend this in so long. Might give it a shot later. I saw them on this tour man. Shit was absolutely killer.

Album Rating: 4.5

it's killer

Album Rating: 4.5

Hot take but Pantera's version of Planet Caravan > original

That is a hot take, but a lot of the time I tend to agree.

Album Rating: 4.0

Jammed this in full again yesterday and damn there's so many riffs on here I want to learn how to play

Album Rating: 4.0

After only having heard their radio stuff a buddy showed me Slaughtered and I couldn't believe it. Shit goes hard af

So weird to think a band like this had "radio stuff"

Album Rating: 4.0

The bigger hits still get played on my local rock radio.

Album Rating: 4.5

"So weird to think a band like this had "radio stuff""



That's why I don't understand the notion that metal died in the 90s. Like there was so much extreme metal the shared the same space as grunge and hard rock stuff on Headbanger's Ball

Metal very specifically died in 1996, or at least that's when its fate was sealed vis-a-vis mainstream relevance

Album Rating: 4.5

Yeah after the fall of nu metal, metal receded deep into the underground, and have kept it that way for a while. Anything that does try to get popular nowadays loses the respect from the underground but never reaches the mainstream

Album Rating: 4.0

Metal was still fairly mainstream in the metalcore/post-hardcore days.

Curious if you have any examples of metalcore bands that saw mainstream success in the late 90s/2000s, I thought most of the stuff that actually got radio play was much more on the pop-punk/emo side of the genre but I wasn't rrally around at the time so I'm open to being corrected there

Either way, by "metal died in '96" I meant to say the telecommunications act basically spelled the end for indie/punk/metal artists crossing over to the mainstream. Most of my favorite metal is from the 2000s but none of it had a chance of reaching a wide audience, even though a lot of it was more accessible than Pantera

Album Rating: 4.0

Well I'm counting more than just pure radio play as being mainstream. Warped Tour was absolutely huge and there were also things like Headbangers Ball and good ol Hot Topic. Guitar Hero also popularized a lot of metal songs. I know a girl at work that grew up on Guitar Hero and loves songs like F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X. and My Curse even though she'd never listen to anything like that now.



The pop punk stuff was more popular for sure, but the mid 00s were a great time to be a casual metal fan. It could be that I'm remembering it rosier than it actually was.

Album Rating: 4.5

This is why this album and the subsequent 2 albums are just Pantera trying to up the ante in terms of heaviness in an attempt to go against the grain and against the mainstream as well as the death of metal in general.

Album Rating: 4.0

Being born in 93 I'd say from 7th grade through high school (mid to late 2000's) that metalcore/deathcore may not have been getting radioplay like that but it certainly had a pretty strong following. Specifically in 7th and 8th grade the halls were littered with kids in JFAC, Bullet For My Valentine, As Blood Runs Black, Black Dahlia Murder, Devil Wears Prada, etc... T shirts. I don't know what is needed to qualify as mainstream but in that era at least you really have to factor in how important Myspace was for music blowing up around that period. I feel like that's really the era when radio pretty much died also. I tuned out of the radio in 5th grade and I feel like by the time we hit 7th and 8th most of my peers had too

Interesting points all around, especially re:guitar hero

Honestly yeah the Napster/myspace era was quite kind to heavy music, not sure if I'd really say any of it was "mainstream", (meaning the artists were known public figures and people heard their music without actively seeking it out), but if nothing else it definitely delayed the genre's slide into relative obscurity

Album Rating: 4.0

The guitar hero point is definitely a solid one too. Played the hell out of that game and it definitely would drill those songs into your head over time lol