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Pantera - Official Live: 101 Proof

This is Pantera's only official live album,the quality is excelent and the tracklist is great.Too bad they split up..and worse,one of the greatest guitarists in the world passed away...

"Few thrash-metal bands provoke a crowd into frothing fits of rage as effectively as Pantera. The group's first live album, Official Live: 101 Proof, captures the sonic assault that sparks such hysteria. Militaristic beats, jagged riffs and tortured guitar squalls are intertwined with Phil Anselmo's rabid-drill-sergeant vocals, which can build from a staccato bark to an elongated roar. Song tempos alternate between a goose-step march ("Walk," "Becoming") and a full-tilt spring ("Strength Beyond Strength," "Fucking Hostile"), and even the slowest tracks broil with tightfisted fury. Throughout Official Live, Pantera's followers roar with approval as their messiah spews bits of betweensong wisdom like, "May you get high, may you drop acid, may you get laid and all that good shit!" For those who survive the 14 live tracks, the band draws fresh blood on Official Live: 101 Proof with two new studio cuts. Drink up!"(review from rollingstone.com)

Hey,this sounds like Pantera !

Stonedirt - Redneck Blues

This band really sounds like Pantera,especially on the vocal side also having a stoner influence.

(The following bio is from their MySpace):

"Before Stonedirt there was the band called Riuros for over two years. Apart from three members now forming Stonedirt (Balázs, Szilárd and Boldizsár) there was Eniko Tóth (vocalist) and Péter Ertl (guitar). After two demos (Riding The Waves - 2003, After The Storm - 2004) and a lot of concerts it slowly turned out that some of the guys wanted to play something REALLY different. That's why everything changed and soon Eniko and Péter left Riuros. After a period of trying to find a new way, a new name, and most of all a new voice, Endre Tarjányi (also vocalist of Manikin Faint) joined... and Stonedirt was born - with influences like Pantera, Down, Black Sabbath and Black Label Society. Compared to the former band it is much harder and heavier and with a kind of southern stoner taste. Our first demo (JOYGRIND) recorded in september 2005. We recorded three song in 2006. december.(Bonus Thrash, for promotional use) We recorded our first album and made our first video-clip in 2007. The album called: Redneck Blues."(ironically i took this from the sludgeswamp