Editing Pantera (section)

===Musical style===
Pantera's music, starting with 1990's ''[[Cowboys from Hell]]'', is generally considered [[groove metal]], a genre they pioneered.<ref name="VH1">{{cite web |url=https://www.vh1.com/news/h0tfpf/90s-post-thrash-groove-metal-scene |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220524053141/https://www.vh1.com/news/h0tfpf/90s-post-thrash-groove-metal-scene |url-status=live |archive-date=May 24, 2022 |title= Hidden Gems: Rediscovering The '90s Post-Thrash Groove Metal Scene |publisher=[[VH1]] |author=Coyled |date=August 12, 2015 |access-date=February 4, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.kerrang.com/features/every-pantera-album-ranked-from-worst-to-best/ |title=Every Pantera Album Ranked From Worst To Best |work=[[Kerrang!]] |date=December 6, 2019 |access-date=February 4, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/how-vinnie-paul-and-pantera-revolutionized-the-art-of-metal-666086/ |title=How Vinnie Paul and Pantera Revolutionized Heavy Metal |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |last=Epstein |first=Dan |date=June 23, 2018 |access-date=February 4, 2021}}</ref><ref name="LouderSound">{{cite web |url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/how-pantera-went-from-a-glam-band-to-redefining-metal |title= Pantera: how an ex-glam band from Texas redefined metal |work=[[Louder Sound]] |last=Lawson |first=Dom |date=December 21, 2018 |access-date=February 4, 2021}}</ref> The band's early albums in the 1980s were primarily [[glam metal]],<ref name="LouderSound" /> while the first album with Phil Anselmo, 1988's ''[[Power Metal (album)|Power Metal]]'', toned down the glam influences and was primarily a traditional heavy metal album,<ref>{{Cite web |last=DiVita |first=Joe |date=2020-09-25 |title=Watch Pantera Crush Judas Priest Cover Live With Rob Halford |url=https://loudwire.com/pantera-cover-judas-priest-rob-halford-1997/ |access-date=2024-01-17 |website=[[Loudwire]]}}</ref> described as a "bridge" between the band's old and new style.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wiederhorn |first=Jon |date=2019-06-24 |title=31 Years Ago: Pantera Release 'Power Metal' |url=https://loudwire.com/pantera-power-metal-album-anniversary/ |access-date=2023-06-20 |website=[[Loudwire]]}}</ref> Pantera has also been cited (along with others, such as [[Testament (band)|Testament]], [[Sepultura]], and [[Machine Head (band)|Machine Head]]) as being part of the second wave of [[thrash metal]] from the late 1980s to early-to-mid 1990s,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/thrash-metal-book-due-in-september/|title='Thrash Metal' Book Due In September|work=Blabbermouth.net|access-date=April 23, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/30-essential-thrash-metal-bands-that-arent-the-big-four|title=30 Essential thrash metal bands that aren't the big four|work=[[Classic Rock (magazine)|loudersound.com]]|access-date=October 22, 2019}}</ref> though Anselmo has rejected this label.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1991/04/12/grooving-thrash/|title=Grooving Thrash|access-date=March 18, 2024|work=[[Chicago Tribune]]|date=April 12, 1991}}</ref>

Pantera toured on [[Ozzfest]] as main stage acts twice; the band played at the second annual Ozzfest in 1997 and the fifth Ozzfest in 2000. Over the course of their career, Pantera's members became known for their excessive partying and debauchery, even acquiring an official drink called the "Black Tooth Grin". The "Black Tooth Grin" ("Black Tooth", "The Grin", or "BTG", alternatively), named after lyrics from [[Megadeth]]'s "[[Sweating Bullets (song)|Sweating Bullets]]", is a mixture of [[Crown Royal]] or [[Seagram|Seagram 7]] [[whisky]] (or both) and [[Coca-Cola]]. Conversely, Brown noted that the band never drank in the studio, in order to stay focused writing and recording.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q82fv_fMnQ|title=Icons: Rex Brown of Pantera|date=December 9, 2022 |via=www.youtube.com}}</ref>

Aside from their post-glam, thrash metal influences, the band members cite heavy metal pioneers [[Black Sabbath]] as one of their favorite bands. As a tribute, Pantera has recorded three different covers of Black Sabbath songs (all from the [[Ozzy Osbourne]] era). The first was "[[Planet Caravan]]", a slower, quieter song planned for the first Sabbath tribute album, ''[[Nativity in Black]]'', that eventually became the final track on ''Far Beyond Driven''. The band performed Sabbath's "Electric Funeral" on the second ''Nativity in Black''. A previously unreleased cover of Sabbath's "[[Hole in the Sky (song)|Hole in the Sky]]" was included on the band's 2003 compilation album, ''The Best of Pantera: Far Beyond the Great Southern Cowboys' Vulgar Hits!'' Pantera's affinity for Black Sabbath is also shown through the lyrics, "Your trust is in whiskey and weed and Black Sabbath", in "Goddamn Electric". 

In a 2019 interview with ''[[MetalHammer]]'', the band explained that their move away from glam began in early 1988, when Anselmo played "[[At Dawn they Sleep]]", by [[Slayer]], for Darrell Abbott. Subsequently, Anselmo's vocals became inspired by [[Agnostic Front]] and [[Black Flag (band)|Black Flag]], and the instrumentalists by Slayer, [[Voivod (band)|Voivod]], [[Faith No More]]'s ''[[The Real Thing (Faith No More album)|The Real Thing]]'' (1989) and [[Soundgarden]]'s ''[[Louder Than Love]]'' (1989).<ref name="loudersound 2019">{{cite web|url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-story-behind-cowboys-from-hell-by-pantera|title=The Story Behind: Cowboys From Hell by Pantera|publisher=[[Metal Hammer|Loudersound]]|date=December 3, 2019|access-date=June 21, 2023}}</ref> Pantera's other influences or inspirations include [[AC/DC]],<ref name="loudersound 2020">{{cite web|url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/dimeradio-dimebag-darrells-top-tracks-as-chosen-by-vinnie-paul|title=These were Dimebag Darrell's 10 favourite songs, according to Vinnie Paul|publisher=[[Metal Hammer|Loudersound]]|date=December 3, 2019|access-date=June 21, 2023}}</ref> [[Accept (band)|Accept]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wpdh.com/german-heavy-metal-legends-accept-make-hudson-valley-return/|title=German Heavy Metal Legends Accept Make Hudson Valley Return|publisher=[[WPDH|wpdh.com]]|date=December 3, 2019|access-date=June 21, 2023}}</ref> [[Aerosmith]],<ref name="musicradar 2017">{{cite web|url=https://www.musicradar.com/news/rex-brown-the-10-records-that-changed-my-life|title=Rex Brown: the 10 records that changed my life|publisher=musicradar.com|date=August 15, 2017|access-date=June 21, 2023}}</ref> [[Anthrax (American band)|Anthrax]],<ref name="ultimateguitar 2023">{{cite web|url=https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_music_news/panteras_cowboys_from_hell_album_has_been_certified_double_platinum_in_the_us.html|title=Pantera's 'Cowboys From Hell' Album Has Been Certified Double Platinum in the U.S.|publisher=[[Ultimate Guitar]]|date=June 1, 2023|access-date=June 21, 2023}}</ref> [[the Beatles]],<ref name="musicradar 2017" /><ref name="ultimateclassicrock 2011">{{cite web|url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/pantera-phil-anselmo-beatles-kiss-influences/|title=Ex-Pantera Singer Phil Anselmo Cites Beatles, Kiss as Early Influences|publisher=[[Townsquare Media|Ultimate Classic Rock]]|date=July 18, 2011|access-date=June 21, 2023}}</ref> [[Biohazard (band)|Biohazard]],<ref name="Daniels, 2013">{{cite book |last1=Daniels |first1=Neil |author-link=Neil Daniels |title=Reinventing Metal The True Story of Pantera and the Tragically Short Life of Dimebag Darrell |date=August 2013 |publisher=[[Rowman & Littlefield]] |quote=Leaving overzealous fan debates aside, Pantera spent much of 1990 touring in support of Cowboys from Hell. Their first major cross-country jaunt was with thrash bands Exodus and Suicidal Tendencies; after that, they toured with Mind over Four and Prong. Among the venues they played that year was the Ritz in New York City. Phil believed New York was the wildest place the band played—and also the toughest. It was also a great place for Pantera to check out artists and bands that inspired Pantera, among them Slayer; Biohazard; Sepultura; Prong; Sick of It All; Agnostic Front; and Anthrax.}}</ref> [[Black Sabbath]],<ref name="Grow, 2014">{{cite magazine |last1=Grow |first1=Kory |title=PANTERA LOOK BACK AT 20 YEARS OF 'FAR BEYOND DRIVEN' |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/pantera-look-back-at-20-years-of-far-beyond-driven-241999/ |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |date=March 27, 2014 |access-date=13 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180718144523/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/pantera-look-back-at-20-years-of-far-beyond-driven-241999/ |archive-date=2018-07-18 |quote=We were really on a Black Sabbath trip, so "I’m Broken" has a lot of "Black Sabbath influence." I'll say that with this disclaimer: Anything Pantera set out to do, it always ended up sounding like Pantera, no matter what influenced us, because we would never lift anything directly. It was always our interpretation of things. Also, around this time, I had introduced the Melvins to the rest of the guys in Pantera. I was privy to their first record, Gluey Porch Treatments, and their second one, Ozma. So I turned them guys onto that record, and I didn't expect them to like it at all. But right off the bat, it was Vinnie Paul who spoke up and said, "Wow, that’s a pretty fucking heavy drum sound."}}</ref> [[Dark Angel (band)|Dark Angel]],<ref name="Loudwire 2018">{{cite web|url=https://loudwire.com/bands-who-influenced-pantera/|title=10 Bands Who Influenced Pantera|publisher=[[Loudwire]]|date=November 8, 2019|access-date=June 21, 2023}}</ref> [[Def Leppard]],<ref name="Loudwire 2018" /> [[Faith No More]],<ref name="loudersound 2019" /> [[Peter Frampton]],<ref name="ultimateclassicrock 2011" /> [[Humble Pie]],<ref name="musicradar 2017" /> [[Iron Maiden]],<ref name="ultimateguitar 2023" /><ref name="GuitarWorld 2013">{{cite web|url=http://www.guitarworld.com/60-minutes-dimebag-darrell-compiles-his-ultimate-compilation-cd|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151017075212/http://www.guitarworld.com/60-minutes-dimebag-darrell-compiles-his-ultimate-compilation-cd|url-status=dead|archive-date=2015-10-17|title=60 Minutes: Dimebag Darrell Compiles His Ultimate Compilation CD|publisher=[[Guitar World]]|date=August 20, 2013|access-date=June 21, 2023}}</ref> [[Judas Priest]],<ref name="loudersound 2020" /><ref name="Loudwire 2018" /><ref name="GuitarWorld 2013" /><ref name="Loudwire 2022">{{cite web|url=https://loudwire.com/pantera-cowboys-from-hell-album-anniversary/|title=32 Years Ago: Pantera Find Their Voice With 'Cowboys From Hell'|publisher=[[Loudwire]]|date=July 24, 2022|access-date=June 21, 2021}}</ref> [[King's X]],<ref name="loudersound 2020" /><ref name="ultimateguitar 2023" /> [[Kiss (band)|Kiss]],<ref name="loudersound 2020" /><ref name="ultimateclassicrock 2011" /><ref name="Loudwire 2018" /><ref name="GuitarWorld 2013" /> [[Led Zeppelin]],<ref name="musicradar 2017" /> [[Megadeth]],<ref name="ultimateguitar 2023" /> [[Melvins]],<ref name="Grow, 2014" /> [[Mercyful Fate]],<ref name="VH1 2015" /> [[Metallica]],<ref name="loudersound 2020" /><ref name="ultimateguitar 2023" /><ref name="VH1 2015">{{cite web|url=https://www.vh1.com/news/5s1gm0/pantera-cowboys-from-hell-facts|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220819044734/https://www.vh1.com/news/5s1gm0/pantera-cowboys-from-hell-facts|url-status=live|archive-date=August 19, 2022|title='Cowboys From Hell': 25 Facts About the Pantera Classic|publisher=[[VH1]]|date=July 24, 2015|access-date=June 21, 2023}}</ref><ref name="GuitarWorld 2013" /><ref name="Loudwire 2022" /> [[Michael Schenker Group|the Michael Schenker Group]],<ref name="GuitarWorld 2013" /> [[Minor Threat]],<ref name="VH1 2015" /> [[Motörhead]],<ref name="G, 2005">{{cite web |last1=G |first1=Doug |title=Philip H Anselmo; On Behalf of Darrell Lance Abbott-Pt. I |url=https://www.metalunderground.com/news/details.cfm?newsid=11734 |access-date=13 November 2024}}</ref> [[Ozzy Osbourne]],<ref name="loudersound 2020" /><ref name="GuitarWorld 2013" /> [[Overkill (band)|Overkill]],<ref name="Revolver 2020" /><ref name="ultimateguitar 2023" /> [[Prong (band)|Prong]],<ref name="Daniels, 2013" /> [[the Rolling Stones]],<ref name="musicradar 2017" /> [[Savatage]],<ref name="ultimateguitar 2023" /> [[Saxon (band)|Saxon]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/the-10-best-saxon-anthems-chosen-by-biff-byford|title=The 10 best Saxon songs chosen by Biff Byford|publisher=[[Metal Hammer|Loudersound]]|date=July 19, 2015|access-date=June 21, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/12-top-saxon-songs-as-chosen-by-saxons-biff-byford|title=12 Top Saxon songs as chosen by Saxon's Biff Byford|publisher=[[Metal Hammer|Loudersound]]|date=June 4, 2019|access-date=June 21, 2023}}</ref> [[Sepultura]],<ref name="Daniels, 2013" /> [[Sick of It All]],<ref name="Daniels, 2013" /> [[Testament (band)|Testament]],<ref name="ultimateguitar 2023" /> [[Pat Travers]],<ref name="loudersound 2020" /><ref name="GuitarWorld 2013" /> [[Robin Trower]],<ref name="G, 2005" /> [[Van Halen]],<ref name="loudersound 2020" /><ref name="Loudwire 2018" /><ref name="GuitarWorld 2013" /> [[Venom (band)|Venom]],<ref name="Loudwire 2018" /> and [[ZZ Top]].<ref name="musicradar 2017" /><ref name="loudersound 2019" /><ref name="Loudwire 2018" /><ref name="VH1 2015" /><ref name="GuitarWorld 2013" />