[kj] Pantera (WAS: 1000 SUNS Outside Gate and PHANTASMAGORIA)

[Alex Smith]

Technically, Judas Priest were defending the faith way prior to Sepultura.

And Darrell probably spent a lot more time with dimebags than he did with diamonds.

Alex in NYC


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>From: "B. Oliver Sheppard" <bigblackhair at sbcglobal.net>

>Sent: Feb 27, 2007 1:00 PM

>To: "A list about all things Killing Joke (the band!)" <gathering at misera.net>

>Subject: Re: [kj] Pantera (WAS: 1000 SUNS Outside Gate and PHANTASMAGORIA)

>

>I thought defending the faith in the 90s was Sepultura's job. :)

>

>I could be biased because, again, they're from around here, seemed to 

>opportunistically jump on a quasi-hardcore bandwagon after "punk broke" 

>in 1991 (a east according to Geffen records), turning from hair metal to 

>suddenly doing covers of Poison Idea -- and the members still own their 

>strip club here in Dallas, which has a nasty reputation.

>

>Ah, fuck it. Biased or not, I really just don't like their music. 

>Whether it was when Dimebag Darrell called himself Diamond Darrell or 

>when he turned his name into something more street tough and 'hard.'

>

>-Oliver

>

>

>

>Javier Garcia wrote:

>>  To pick an important place in the Metal world among bands like Guns'n 

>> Roses and a -not so powered- Metallica wasn't a tiny thing... they 

>> were like the "Defenders of the Faith" of the nineties.

>>

>

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