re: Bands whose sound changed dramatically: cite evidence

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Pantera, started on Power Metal but full effect on CFH.

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The most evolved band for me.
Started out glamish.
Mastered and practically redefined heavy metal with Cowboys.
Shaped a new genre with Vulgar.

As mentioned in another thread, my best friend who I went to see Pantera with used to be in Razor White with Phil. This was the original Razor White when Phil was like 16 or 17, when they first started out. My buddy was a lead guitarist and ended up being in a few well known local bands (the biggest being Dark August) that gigged from Texas to Florida, opened for some pretty big bands, and got a song on a compilation album.

But he said from the very start, he knew Phil was going to be the guy who would hit it big no matter what. He said Phil played some guitar but couldn’t do any of fancy lead stuff, but if they were working on a new song, Phil would pull out a guitar and come up with crazy chord progressions or arrangements and be like, “What if we did this?” Said he always came up with unique, brilliant stuff.

ETA: Another story was that their drummer got ahold of Cowboys from Hell when it first came out. Their band was setting up for a gig and they put CFH on over the PA system. He said everyone just stopped in their tracks and was like,”What the hell is that!???… That’s PANTERA????” It was just such a jump from their previous stuff and unlike anything they’s heard before.