Vulgar Display of Power is the sixth studio album by the heavy metal band Pantera. Released on February 25, 1992 through Atco Records, it was the band’s second collaboration with producer Terry Date, after having previously worked with him on their breakthrough album Cowboys from Hell (1990).
The album was well received by both critics and fans, and is Pantera‘s highest selling album to date and would eventually be certified double platinum. It is often considered one of the most influential heavy metal albums of the 1990s. In 2017, Rolling Stone ranked Vulgar Display of Power 10th on their list of The 100 Greatest Metal Albums of All Time. Several of its tracks have become among the band’s best known, such as Mouth for War, A New Level, Walk, Fucking Hostile, and This Love. The band’s 1990 major label debut, Cowboys from Hell, demonstrated a change in their musical direction, from their 1980s material influenced by hard rock or glam metal bands like Van Halen and Kiss to a new similarity to bands like Slayer, Metallica and Black Sabbath.
Tracklist:
- Mouth for War
- A New Level
- Walk
- Fucking Hostile
- This Love
- Rise
- No Good (Attack the Radical)
- Live in a Hole
- Regular People (Conceit)
- By Demons Be Driven
- Hollow
Pantera
Phil Anselmo: vocals
Diamond Darrell: guitars
Rex Brown: bass
Vinnie Paul: drums, engineering, mixing, production
Technical
Terry Date: engineering, mixing, production
Howie Weinberg: mastering
Doug Sax: vinyl mastering
Brad Guice: photography
Joe Giron: photography
Bob Defrin: artwork
Larry Freemantle: design
Darrell Lance Abbott (August 20, 1966 – December 8, 2004)
Vincent Paul Abbott (March 11, 1964 – June 22, 2018).
