10 Hard Rock Bands That Made The Same Song Twice

10. Pantera - Down Below

Those only familiar with Pantera from Walk and Cowboys From Hell may have missed the band's earlier stuff, back when they sounded like Motley Crue...

Yep, though it may be hard to believe that the redneck rock outfit now famous for dirty riffs, heavy vocals and, umm, Roman salutes on stage, once had more in common with the spandex-clad hair rockers than they did Lamb of God and Machine Head, it is nonetheless achingly true. And nowhere is this more apparent than on Down Below, a track Pantera recorded twice for 1985's I Am The Night and 1988's Power Metal.

In re-recording, the band largely kept the track the same, but stripped away some of the chorus and reverb, brought the guitars towards the front of the mix, and put their new singer, Phil Anselmo, on vocals. Gone are the Axl Rose flourishes that original singer Terry Glaze laced into each line, but even so, Anselmo -- new to the band and not yet ready to reshape Pantera's sound with the rougher edges of his voice -- still tacks surprisingly close to Glaze's original notes, frequently going Rob Halford-high.

Both tracks are decent entries to their respective albums, but neither have exactly entered the band's hall of fame -- but perhaps they just needed material to pad out the new record...