Description

2010 reissue with a bonus live cd

Pantera’s breakthrough album, Cowboys from Hell, is largely driven by the band’s powerful rhythm section and guitarist Diamond Darrell (as he was then known)’s unbelievably forceful riffing, which skittered around the downbeats to produce unexpected rhythmic phrases and accents, as well as his inventive soloing. Phil Anselmo displayed a vocal range that could switch from a growling shout to a high falsetto — listen to him match Darrell’s harmonic squeals at the end of “Cemetery Gates.” The album gradually becomes more same-sounding as it goes on, but the first half, featuring such brutal slices of thrash as “Psycho Holiday,” “Primal Concrete Sledge,” and the title track, pretty much carries its momentum all the way through.

Track list:
1. Cowboys From Hell
2. Primal Concrete Sledge
3. Psycho Holiday
4. Heresy
5. Cemetery Gates
6. Domination
7. Shattered
8. Clash With Reality
9. Medicine Man
10. Message in Blood
11. The Sleep
12. The Art of Shredding

Disc 2:
1. Domination-live at Foundations Forum, California 15th of September 1990
2. Psycho Holiday-live at Foundations Forum, California 15th of September 1990 3.
The Art Of Shredding-live at Foundations Forum, California 15th of September 1990
4. Cowboys From Hell-live at Foundations Forum, California 15th of September 1990
5. Cemetary Gates-live at Foundations Forum, California 15th of September 1990
6. Primal Concrete Sledge-live at Foundations Forum, California 15th of September 1990
7. Heresy-live at Foundations Forum, California 15th of September 1990
8. Domination-live at Monsters Of Rock, Moscow, Russia 1991
9. Primal Concrete Sledge-live at Monsters Of Rock, Moscow, Russia 1991
10. Cowboys From Hell-live at Monsters Of Rock, Moscow, Russia 1991
11. Heresy-live at Monsters Of Rock, Moscow, Russia 1991
12. Psycho Holiday-live at Monsters Of Rock, Moscow, Russia 1991