#Primal Concrete Sledge

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7:42 AM EDT May 15, 2025:

Pantera - "Primal Concrete Sledge" From the album Cowboys From Hell (July 24, 1990)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

★★★★

File under: Musique Concrete

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Pantera - Primal Concrete Sledge

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Music Review: Cowboys From Hell by Pantera

Cowboys From Hell is one of Pantera's first commercial sucesses. Pantera is a very riff-focused band, those riffs being the most interesting part of most Pantera song. This record is a lot more emotional than Vulgar Display of Power, which is even more sludgy and riff-focused. In contrast, Cowboys from Hell has some softer guitars and less intene drums around the middle of the album in tracks like "Cemetery Gates." Also, a lot of tracks on Cowboys from Hell have a faster tempos most of the time. Some standout tracks from this record include "Primal Concrete Sledge," because it tends to emulate elements of Pantera that I liked from Vulgar Display of Power. Other standouts include "Message In Blood" and "Clash with Reality" for it's dynamic use of changes in time signature and groove.

Here are my individual track ratings:

Cowboys From Hell - 17.75

Primal Concrete Sledge- 18.5

Psycho Holiday- 18

Heresy- 14

Cemetery Gates- 14.25

Domination - 15

Shattered- 15.06

Clash With Reality - 18.63

Medicine Man - 18.75

Message In Blood - 18.66

The Sleep- 17.5

The Art of Shredding - 17

Which gives us an ATR of 16.95

As of reviewing this album, my top 10 list of records is as follows:

Mr Morale and The Big Steppers - Kendrick Lamar (19.1)

SCARING THE HOES - JPEGMAFIA and Danny Brown (19.07)

I LAY DOWN MY LIFE FOR YOU - JPEGMAFIA (18.56)

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy - Kanye West (18.11)

good kid, m.A.A.d city (Deluxe Edition) - Kendrick Lamar (18.01)

Why Can’t We Be Friends - WAR (17.87)

CHROMAKOPIA - Tyler, The Creator (17.98)

Discovery - Daft Punk (17.98)

Spirit Phone - Lemon Demon (17.83)

TOTO - Toto (17.76)

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Listened to a lotta new albums lately. Other than that literally nothing is new, went to a club fair at my school but nothing really interested me. There were also literally no music clubs. But enough about me here's the reviews. There's a LOT of bands this time, I'm sorry I should be doing these as I listen and not just letting it all build up.

Bands Mentioned Below: Alice In Chains, The Cure, Slipknot, Pixies, Pantera,

Dirt - Alice In Chains

Them Bones: 9/10

Dam That River: 9/10

Rain When I Die: 10/10

Down In A Hole: 9/10

Sickman: 10/10

Rooster: 10/10

Junkhead: 9.5/10

Dirt: 10/10

God Smack: 10/10

Untitled: N/A

Hate To Feel: 10/10

Angry Chair: 9/10

Would?: 9/10

Overall Score: 10/10, Favorite Song(s): All of them but to choose favorites of the favorites:

Three Imaginary Boys - The Cure

10:15 Saturday Night: 9/10

Accuracy: 8.5/10

Grinding Halt: 10/10

Another Day: 9/10

Object: 10/10

Subway Song: 8/10

Foxy Lady: 10/10

Meathook: 11/10

So What: 10/10

Fire In Cairo: 10/10

It's Not You: 10/10

Three Imaginary Boys: 10/10

The Weedy Burton: 8/10

Overall Score: 10/10, Favorite Song(s):

Trompe le Monde - Pixies

Trompe le Monde: 10/10

Planet of Sound: 9/10

Alec Eiffel: 9/10

The Sad Punk: 8.5/10

Head On: 8.5/10

U-Mass: 9/10

Palace Of The Brine: 9/10

Letter to Memphis: 9.5/10

Bird Dream of The Olympus Mons: 8/10

Space (I Believe In): 9.5/10

Subbacultcha: 9/10

Distance Equals Rate Times Time: 8.5/10

Lovely Day: 8/10

Motorway To Roswell: 8.5/10

The Navajo Know: 9/10

Overall Score: 9/10, Favorite Song(s):

Slipknot - Slipknot (self titled)

742617000027: N/A

(sic): 10/10

Eyeless: 10/10

Wait And Bleed: 9/10

Surfacing: 8.5/10

Spit It Out: 10/10

Tattered And Torn: 10/10

Me Inside: 10/10

Liberate: 9/10

Prosthetics: 9/10

No Life: 8.5/10

Diluted: 8.5/10

Only One: 10/10

Scissors: 9.5/10

Eeyore: 10/10

Overall Score: 10/10, Favorite Song(s):

Vulgar Display Of Power & Cowboys From Hell - Pantera

(Vulgar Display of Power)

Mouth for War: 9/10

A New Level: 10/10

Walk: 10/10

Fucking Hostile: 10/10

This Love: 9/10

Rise: 10/10

No Good (Attack The Radical): 8.5/10

Live in a Hole: 9/10

Regular People (Conceit): 9.5/10

By Demons Be Driven: 10/10

Hollow: 9.5/10

Overall Score: 9.5/10, Favorite Song(s):

By Demons Be Driven (Audio Limit Ran Out, wuh oh)

Hollow

(Cowboys From Hell)

Cowboys From Hell: 9/10

Primal Concrete Sledge: 7.5/10

Psycho Holiday: 10/10

Heresy: 10/10

Cemetery Gates: 8/10

Domination: 9/10

Shattered: 8/10

Clash With Reality: 10/10

Medicine Man: 9/10

Message In Blood: 8.5/10

The Sleep: 9.5/10

The Art of Shredding: 9.5/10

Overall Score: 9.5/10, Favorite Song(s):

Psycho Holiday, Domination, Clash With Reality

Thoughts:

Got a lot of first time listens here. Alice In Chains exceeded my expectations by a lot. I was expecting them to be just alright but they ended up being damn near perfect. I think it's because they're very similar to Nirvana with their style, and Nirvana is my current favorite band. The Cure and The Pixies both were surprising. Wish and Doolittle both were good but not great and so for the next two albums both being 10/10 and 9/10s is amazing. Slipknot also surprised me but then again every heavy metal band so far has been so surprising, I've never been one for heavy metal but I'm finding myself liking it a lot as of recent with bands like Slayer, Megadeth, etc. Pantera I'll admit is good but a little generic, I think that they'll grow on me however. Overall, some really good albums. Next ones I'm listening to are gonna be bands I've already heard, I'm planning on it being Cranberries, Destroy Boys, maybe Green Day??? Another Smashing Pumpkins album, we'll see if they go 6/6 for 10/10s, and I do also want to listen to Suffocation, another heavy metal band.

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3, 11, 14 for music asks?

THANK YOU FOR THE ASKS!! :)

3. A song you’d choose to introduce someone to your favorite genre

This is a really hard question since I have a bunch of favourite genres, but I'll go with Industrial and Death Metal !

for Industrial, I would recommend one of my favourite songs ever.. New Breed by Fear Factory!

and for Death Metal, I would say Baptized in Blood by Death since Scream Bloody Gore was the gateway album for me to get into the genre :)

11. A song that makes you dance

THERE'S SO MANY!!!! I will go with Fuel My Fire by The Prodigy though! I love this album so much, it's banger after banger and I really reccomend if you like electronic dance music!

14. A song you love to sing along to

Hard pick once again! In general I love singing along to Pantera albums, so I'd say Primal Concrete Sledge (which is also the song my username is based on!)

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F, S

thank youuuu ♡

F- favorite song?

all time: march of the black queen - queen

currently: primal concrete sledge - pantera

S- song last listened to

doin‘ alright - queen

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Exhorder: The Law (1992)

Here it is, kids: arguably the best Pantera album recorded by a band other than Pantera.

As many of you know, Exhorder’s 1992 sophomore LP, The Law (and its predecessor, Slaughter in the Vatican, for that matter), bear an uncanny resemblance to Pantera’s concurrently released Cowboys from Hell and Vulgar Display of Power, and there was absolutely zero coincidental about it!

While there’s no way to prove this beyond a reasonable doubt (and, as we know, history is written by the victors), this New Orleans’ quintet are widely credited with establishing the fundamental groove metal blueprint (smudged by southern sludge) that their nemesis subsequently perfected and rode all the way to the heavy metal big leagues.

Not only were Kyle Thomas’ enraged roaring and self-empowering lyrics absolute ringers for fellow N.O.L.A. native Phil Anselmo, but Vinnie LaBella and Jay Ceravolo’s muscular, molten lava rhythm guitars likely contributed to Diamond Darrell’s transformation into Dimebag Darrell. 

Though I will say, knowing that inspiration can also be a two-way-street, that The Law’s blood-red cover art sort of looks like cross between Pantera’s I Am the Night (1985) and Power Metal (‘88) albums.

Meaning that the jury is still out (and probably always will be), but it doesn't take a musical genius to realize that both bands were mining a very similar vein at exactly the same time -- one that saw the brutal values of thrash and death metal honed to a groove-oriented, bluntly focused approach. 

And Exhorder's second LP showed marked improvement over their flawed debut; pushing the boundaries of their aggressive sound so as to radically broaden their dynamic and melodic range, without losing touch with its core elements. 

Prime examples included the title track, “Soul Search Me,” the alternately thrashy and sludgy “Unforgiven,” and “(Cadence Of) The Dirge, ” all of which employed a dizzying array of neck-snapping starts and stops with the monolithic force of a “Primal Concrete Sledge” -- oops! 

But Exhorder weren’t averse to trying new things, so while the tangled riffs of “I Am the Cross” recalled prog-thrashers Dark Angel, the elastic guitar licks and slap-bass of “Un-Born Again” fell in with countless other bands (Mordred, Mind Funk, Saigon Kick, Faith No More, etc.) that were flirting with the short-lived funk metal craze of the time.

Yet the most conspicuous number here was Exhorder’s surprisingly faithful rendition of Black Sabbath’s “Into the Void,” which stands in stark contrast to the mold-breaking, risk-taking experiments all around it, but was likely requisitioned for that very reason by the good folks at Roadrunner Records. 

All of the above made The Law a valiant effort that would go down as a minor extreme metal classic of the early ‘90s, and yet it still couldn’t prevent Exhorder from breaking up a short time later, no doubt feeling robbed (and they wouldn’t be the last) by their old friend Anselmo as Pantera shot to fame.

But this wouldn’t be the last fans heard of singer Thomas, who went on to front the excellent (if short-lived) Floodgate, before joining Chicago doom gods Trouble, then southern fried stoned rockers Alabama Thunderpussy, and finally helming a partial Exhorder reunion for 2019’s Mourn the Southern Skies album.

p.s. -- Some of these words evolved from my All-Music Guide review of The Law.

More Exhorder: Slaughter in the Vatican.

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Primal Concrete Sledge | Pantera

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7:11 AM EDT March 11, 2025:

Pantera - "Primal Concrete Sledge" From the album Cowboys From Hell (July 24, 1990)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

★★★★

File under: Musique Concrete

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Pantera - Primal Concrete Sledge

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ALBUM REVIEW: God’s Hate – God’s Hate - Closed Casket Activities

ALBUM REVIEW: God’s Hate – God’s Hate – Closed Casket Activities

Well, God’s Hate has gone out of their way to make sure you don’t confuse their sophomore LP with anything else on the rack. You know the one, God’s Hate (Closed Casket Activities) featuring the track ‘God’s Hate.’ And yes, that was a record store joke. If you don’t know what that means, ask your parents. It’s fitting too considering that the stuff on God’s Hate recalls an era before streaming or…

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Pantera - Primal Concrete Sledge (Official Live Video)

RIP Dimebag & Vinnie

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I can't be the only one who loves when Corey Graves makes Pantera references when talking about Braun Strowman....

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Pantera - Primal Concrete Sledge