The band told their label that they wanted "something vulgar, like a dude getting punched". The album's cover is a photo of a man being “punched“ in the face and was shot by photographer Brad Guice, who also shot the photo for the Cowboys from Hell cover. The book details the incidents leading up to the murder of Dimebag Darrell. In April 2007, the title was used for the book A Vulgar Display of Power: Courage and Carnage at the Alrosa Villa, which includes many Pantera song titles as chapter headings. The title of the album is taken from a line in the 1973 film, The Exorcist. Keep that shit away from me." Title and artwork The lyrics for the song were inspired from these people's attitude toward the band Anselmo's message to them was, "Take your fucking attitude and take a fuckin' walk with that. Following this tour, the band returned home and found that some friends thought that rock stardom had gone to their heads. Darrell had played the riff during a soundcheck while Pantera was touring for Cowboys from Hell and the rest of the band loved it. The riff for " Walk" is played in a time signature of 12/8.
Pantera felt they had an opportunity and a gap to fill they wanted to make the heaviest record of all time. When Metallica released their self titled album in 1991, Pantera considered it a letdown to fans because they believed Metallica abandoned the thrash metal sound heard in previous albums. Musical style and lyrics ĭrummer Vinnie Paul said that Cowboys from Hell was really close to the "definitive Pantera sound". Although guitarist Darrell Abbott was credited on the album with nickname "Diamond Darrell", during the recording of the album he had dropped that nickname and assumed "Dimebag Darrell", and bassist Rex Brown dropped the pseudonym "Rexx Rocker". They travelled to New York City to master the album at Masterdisk. The band then returned to the studio to continue work on the album.
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Īfter being in the studio for two months, Pantera were invited to open for Metallica and AC/DC at the 1991 Monsters of Rock free concert in Moscow, Russia's Tushino airfield on September 28, 1991. The rest of the songs were written in the studio with little preproduction and demoing. Before Date came in to work on the album, the band had demoed three tracks, "A New Level", "Regular People (Conceit)" and "No Good (Attack the Radical)". Date also went on to produce the band's following two albums, Far Beyond Driven (1994) and The Great Southern Trendkill (1996). The album was produced by Terry Date, who specializes in the rock and metal genres and had worked with the band on Cowboys from Hell. In 1991, Pantera returned to Pantego Sound Studio to record their second release under Atco, Vulgar Display of Power. The band's 1990 major label debut, Cowboys from Hell, demonstrated a change in their musical direction, from their 1980s material influenced by hard rock or glam metal bands like Van Halen and Kiss to a new similarity to bands like Slayer, Metallica and Black Sabbath.