![]() ![]() It's difficult to find a way out during the first half's onslaught, where material from Pantera's definitive early-'90s output snaps its jaws around your ankle. But since it's chronologically arranged, it's also the perfect introduction for anyone not yet familiar with the Cowboys From Hell. Even if it's a little heavy on material from Far Beyond Driven and Reinventing the Steel (these albums get four songs, while others get between one and three), the true zenith of each Pantera album is duly represented, making Best of Pantera the essential testament to the band's destruction of metal's precepts. Best of Pantera further defines that timeline, and marks in blood and spilled booze the band's place in history. The 1990 album marks the real beginning of Pantera, simply because it records for posterity the moment when the Texas quartet began to truly, consciously kick ass. ![]() Combining the titles of the band's output since 1990 - and discounting the four albums that came before that - fully admits what fans and the band have been winking and nudging about since the sea change of Cowboys From Hell. "Far Beyond the Great Southern Cowboys' Vulgar Hits!," the subtitle to Pantera's best-of reads. ![]()
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