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The Heavy-Metal Texas USA-based outfit Pantera, Spanish for 'Panther',
started out as a local club cover-band in 1981, consisting of vocalist
Lee Glaze, guitarist Darrell 'Diamond' Abbott, bassist Rex 'Rocker' Brown
and drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott.
Two years later the foursome released their debut album "Metal
Magic" which was supported with their first national tour alongside
Dokken and Quiet Riot.
"Projects In The Jungle" followed in 1984 and a year later was
released "I Am The Night", the last album on which Glaze appeared.
The remaining members spent the next years looking for a new vocalist,
finally in 1988 Pantera returned to action with Philip Anselmo on vocals
and released their fourth album, "Power Metal".
Two years later, the band, emerged with a radical change in direction
releasing the Atco Records debut "Cowboys From Hell", the record
was supported by tour dates in America and Europe.
The band's audience continued to grow and their sixth effort, "Vulgar
Display Of Power", crashed into the top 50 of The Billboard 200 Albums
chart, by the time this record sold in excess of 2 million copies in U.S.
alone.
After the founder member Diamond Darrell decided to change his name to
Dimebag Darrell, the group released the next album, "Far Beyond Driven",
which arrived in the spring of 1994 and shot to #1 on The Billboard Top
200 chart, the record was also well received in the U.K. where climbed
into the top 3 of the National Albums chart; its single, the cover of
Black Sabbath's "Planet Caravan",
reached the #21 on Active Rock chart.
1996's "The Great Southern Trendkill" was another commercial
success, the album hit #4 on Billboard's Top 200 list and made top 20
in Britain.
In the following years the group released two live albums and frontman
Anselmo started his own projects.
Pantera returned in the top 40 of Active Rock chart in the second half
of 1999 when released, as a single, the cover of Ted Nugent's "Cat
Scratch Fever", a song taken from the soundtrack of the movie "Detroit
Rock City".
In March of 2000 the group re-emerged with a new studio effort entitled
"Reinventing The Steel" which reached the #4 slot on The Billboard
Top 200 chart, it included the Mainstream Rock top 30 hit "Revolution
Is My Name".
At the start of 2003 the Abbott brothers announced their new project,
New Found Power, that was later re-christened Damageplan.
On 9 December tragedy struck the band; just before Damageplan
took the stage at a club in Columbus, Ohio a young man shot Dimebag Darrell
with a handgun a number of times at close range; three other people were
killed including the band's head of security.
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