Quote Originally Posted by Mr Soul '68 View Post
Jeez Sludgey, Pantera and Slayer are just plain awful. What do you see in either band? I had the misfortune of seeing Pantera at Donington Monsters of Rock in 1994. Phil Anselmo cannot just cannot sing, he grunts, and shouts, no finesse in his vocal abilities at all, and the band play a tuneless racket at 1000mph. Totally awfuk!! AIC to my ears anyway, were the only half decent band to come out of the Grunge movement
Slayer get a bit of shit because they weren't the most technically gifted band (although Dave Lombardo was/is a superb drummer).

I've gotta say you're way off to call Pantera a tuneless racket though. The heart and soul was always Dimebag, who was an absolutely phenomenal guitar player, and the current iteration of the band (without him and Vinnie) are a shadow. Phil's voice has always been about power rather than finesse, although his vocals on some of Down's stuff is surprisingly melodic.

Each to their own though, of course.

As for Sabbath, everyone's talking about the state of Ozzy when all I could think was how good Geezer Butler still is. Looks like he could smash out a world tour with no issues.