Far Beyond Driven 1994 Album

Pantera

For the most part, unlike the front-loaded Vulgar Display of Power, this piece of plastic more than delivers on its’ promise of brain-thumping, brutal-riffing, yet enveloping AND interesting heavy metal all the way through. The recognizable, “radio-friendly” tracks (the term is relative, of course) still lie at the beginning of the disc, where you find catchier affairs like “Strength Beyond Strength”, “Becoming”, and “5 Minutes Alone". Unlike the previous disc, you start to notice there’s more groove to these tunes, and less regimentation. The video for "I'm Broken" got a ton of airplay which made the song the de facto single. It has a BIG riff and the band going full bore on what would turn out to be their anthem. Then the surprise at the end is “Throes of Rejection” segueing into a nice, mellow cover of Black Sabbath’s “Planet Caravan”.