Cowboys from Hell is the fifth studio album and major label debuts by Pantera American heavy metal band, released on July 24, 1990 by Atco Records.
Video Cowboys from Hell
Write and record
After being denied "28 times by every major label on Earth," Atco Records representative Mark Ross was asked by his boss, Derek Shulman (who was interested to sign it), to see the band perform after Hurricane Hugo stranded him in Texas. Ross was very impressed with the appearance of the band he called his boss that night, indicating that Pantera had to sign a contract with the label.
Ross on show:
"At the end of the first song, my jaws are on the floor.The sonic power of all that - attitude and music - makes me fascinated.You basically have to be idiots not to think they are amazing. this and do not think, 'Dammit!'? "
Atco Records was accepted but the band had to wait a period of six months before they started recording. They began recording at Pantego Sound Studio in Pantego, Texas from February 1990 and completed a record two months later. The band adopted new sounds and attitudes, and what writing would be the Cowboys from Hell saw the band exploring darker subjects, while the guitar would be heavier, though sometimes back to the metal hair formula. The band recorded Cowboys from Hell: The Demos , a self-produced album demo featuring 11 songs, 10 of which will make the album cut. The last two songs to be written are "Clash With Reality" and "Primal Concrete Sledge", while the song titled "The Will to Survive" will be discarded early in the recording session.
The band felt confident about their material and themselves, eventually feeling that they were making the kind of album they believed. One of the main lines that emerged during the writing was "Cemetery Gates", a seven-minute power ballad that would be the first song to show the diversity and range of Anselmo vocals. Although they've recorded four albums before Cowboys from Hell , Pantera feel that this is their true debut, working with professional producers and big labels for the first time and creating music that not only stole from other similar bands in an effort to attract attention.
Maps Cowboys from Hell
Art cover
The cover art describes the band in an ancient western saloon. In fact, it is a 1910 photo of "Cosmopolitan Saloon" in Telluride, Colorado. Dimebag Darrell is portrayed in the middle of playing the guitar, while Vinnie Paul is eating his sandwich, Rex Brown leaning on the counter table and Phil Anselmo is shown jumping in the air to Brown's left. Anselmo stated that he jumped from a barstool to float high in the air. He also said that it took him about ten times until the cameraman got a shot into the desired style.
Critical reception
The album has been praised by most critics as it will prove to be one of the most influential albums in the metal scene in the 1990s and all time, and will inspire a generation of musicians, especially guitarists. IGN named Cowboys from Hell , the most influential 19th heavy metal album of all time.
They say about the album:
Along with the Vulgar Display of Power , Pantera's fifth album was not only considered one of the best bands, but also one of the decisive albums in the early 90s. Chemical band actually started the gel with collective symmetry here, as pre-Dimebag Darrell (he was known as Diamond Darrell back then) tore his ax rope like a rabid weasel, frontman Phil Anselmo following the type with a chaotic vocal vocal, and the rhythm section of Vinnie Paul and Rex Brown keeps the rhythm in check and the whole mess is glued together with low strength.
AllMusic mengatakan tentang album:
Pantera's breakthrough album, Cowboys from Hell , was largely driven by a strong band's rhythm section and the amazingly powerful Darrell (s) riddleing guitarist, who swirled around the downbeats to produce an unexpected rhythm phrase and accent, as well as his creative solos.
Commercial performance
The album was released on July 24, 1990 and is available in tape, CD, vinyl and Limited Edition versions (same album but in long box). The album will be the band's breakthrough record currently becoming their first album on the chart in 1992, reaching # 27 on the Billboard Music Charts Top Heatseekers. In March 1995 the album entered the Swedish Song Stairs for a week to peak at # 46. Since then the album has continued to achieve Gold certification (500,000 units) and Platinum (1,000,000 units) in the US as well as the Gold status in the UK for 100,000 sales.
Resend
On September 14, 2010 the 20th anniversary edition was released with a remastered mix of original analogue recordings. The extended edition features an unreleased live CD recording bonus and Alive and Hostile EP The deluxe edition has an additional third CD with previously unreleased demo songs "The Will to Survive" (part of the song is then used in the song "This Love" from Vulgar Display of Power ) along with a demo version of ten songs from the original album.
The third disc of the fancy set, Cowboys from Hell: The Demos , was released as a separate limited edition LP vinyl at the same time. It is exclusively available at Metal Club record stores. The album renewal in 2010 reached # 117 on Billboard 200 and # 8 in Catalog Album, which sold 4,200.
Legacy
The album ranked # 11 on the world's largest album of 100 guitar guitars on October 2006 all-time. That ranks # 85 of the best heavy metal albums of all time by Metal-Rules.com. IGN named Cowboys from Hell , the 19th most powerful heavy metal album of all time. It is also credited as "defining" the metal groove.
Tour
Pantera toured with Thrash Output and Suicide Trend. In 1991, Rob Halford performed with the band on stage, leading Pantera (along with Annihilator) to open for Judas Priest at his first European show. They were also opened for bands like Fates Warning, Prong, Mind over Four, and Morbid Angel, and co-headlined a North American tour with Wrathchild America. The band finally received a bill for "Monster in Moscow" with AC/DC, Motley Crue, Metallica, and The Black Crowes in September 1991, where they played for a crowd of over 500,000 in celebration of new freedoms of Western music in the former Soviet Union just before its collapse three months later.
Track list
Semua lagu yang ditulis oleh Pantera (Phil Anselmo, Diamond Darrell, Rex Brown, Vinnie Paul).
Disc 2: CD bonus Edisi Diperluas
Disc 3: Cowboys from Hell: The Demos
Hanya tersedia di edisi 'Deluxe' dan 'Ultimate' dari album
Cowboys from Hell: The Demos
The demo was re-released on Black Friday 2010 and limited to 3,000 180 grams of pressure, with vinyl including custom covers and demos from original songs, as well as unreleased demo pieces, "The Will To Survive".
Track list
All songs written by Pantera.
Note
- The album track demo was also released in 2010, in the 20th anniversary edition of Cowboys from Hell, but with a different track list.
Personnel
Panther
- Phil Anselmo - vokal
- Diamond Darrell - gitar
- Rex Brown - bass, gitar akustik, piano
(track 5) - Vinnie Paul - drum
Technical
- Terry's date - producer, engineer, mixing
- Pantera - producer, engineer, mixing, musician
- Matt Lane - an assistant engineer
- Matt Gililland - an assistant engineer
- Howie Weinberg - audio mastery
Graphics and certification
- Charts (Album)
- Certification
References
External links
- Full Guide to Pantera 'Cowboys From Hell' at Ultimate-Guitar.com
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