10 Rock Albums That Artists Want You To Forget About

No other band has had a course correction as drastic as Pantera did back in the early '90s. With head hellraiser Phil Anselmo in tow, these good old boys from Texas turned in some of the most ferocious metal bangers of the modern age, from the major spit of Vulgar Display of Power to the doubling down on Far Beyond Driven. However, there was a bit of a dark period before the core lineup actually came together.

While many people might look at Cowboys From Hell as the group's debut record, their initial beginnings were on Metal Magic, where they were on a completely different sonic trip. Complete with a different singer in Terry Glaze, this album is the sound of a bunch of young metalheads doing their best impression of the hair metal movement that was sweeping the nation at the time. Though Dimebag Darrell and Vinnie Paul are still in prime form, everything is set on pretty mode for this outing.

If you told any seasoned metalhead in the '90s that this record was done by the same people who gave us tracks like Cemetery Gates and Walk, chances are you'd see a lot of questionable looks. There's no real way of measuring the impact that Pantera has had on the metal community, but compared to their more feeble beginnings, this feels almost like looking at your old embrassing pictures from high school, only in the form of music.