Pantera To Release ‘Vulgar Display Of Power’ Deluxe Edition & Unveil Video For Lost Recording 'Piss'
Friday, 13 April 2012
Written by Jon Stickler
February 25th marked the twentieth anniversary of the release of Pantera’s ‘Vulgar Display of Power’, a landmark album widely acknowledged as one of metal’s most enduring and influential masterworks. Recorded by singer Philip Anselmo, guitarist “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott, bassist Rex Brown and drummer Vinnie Paul, the album features several of the group’s most iconic songs including ‘Walk’, ’Mouth For War’, ‘This Love’ and ‘Fucking Hostile’.
To celebrate the release, Rhino channels the album’s relentless blitzkrieg of musical aggression onto a two-disc Deluxe Edition. The CD includes the original album remastered and ‘Piss’, an incendiary blast of vintage Pantera from the original recording sessions. It remained lost until Vinnie Paul rediscovered the track while going through the band’s vault.
Along with the unreleased song, the Deluxe Edition also features a DVD containing unreleased video footage of the quartet performing six songs at the Monsters of Rock show in Reggio Emilia, Italy on September 12th 1992.
The set list draws almost exclusively from ‘Vulgar Display of Power’ (‘This Love’, ‘Rise’, ‘Mouth For War’), but also includes the title track from their previous album ‘Cowboys From Hell’ and a melding of ‘Hollow’ (from ‘Vulgar Display of Power’) and ‘Domination’ (from ‘Cowboys From Hell’) which was a live staple of the band. Video footage of Pantera performing live during this era is extremely rare, making the DVD one of the few ways to see them in their prime. The DVD also contains all three official music videos from the album.
Released on May 14th on Rhino, the CD/DVD set will also be available digitally. The full track-listing for the ‘Vulgar Display of Power’ Deluxe Edition is:
CD:
Mouth For War
A New Level
Walk
Fucking Hostile
This Love
Rise
No Good (Attack The Radical)
Live In A Hole
Regular People (Conceit)
By Demons Be Driven
Hollow
Piss (previously unreleased)
DVD:
Mouth For War (Live in Italy)
Domination/Hollow (Live in Italy)
Rise (Live in Italy)
This Love (Live in Italy)
Cowboys From Hell (Live in Italy)
Mouth For War (video)
This Love (video)
Walk (video)
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