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Pantera
Band Arlington United States Formed 1982 US groove metal band, Arlington, TX
Pantera formed in 1982 in Arlington, United States. Pantera has 82 chart appearances on 38 radio countdowns from 12 stations on RockLists, spanning 1990–2026. The most successful song on radio countdowns is “Walk”, which appears on 25 lists with a best position of #4. In total the artist has topped 1 countdown. The station that charted Pantera most often is Studio Brussel (Flanders, Belgium), with 36 appearances. The artist’s biggest year on year-end countdowns was 1997.
Pantera spent the '80s as a glam metal band, and then they got serious. The band came out of Arlington, Texas, built around the Abbott brothers, guitarist Dimebag Darrell and drummer Vinnie Paul, with Rex Brown on bass, and cut three albums with singer Terry Glaze that went nowhere. Hunting for something heavier, they brought in Phil Anselmo, made Power Metal in 1988 and landed a deal with Atco.
Cowboys from Hell, in 1990, is the record they call their real debut, and it's where the new sound took shape: mid-tempo, muscle-bound riffs that grind instead of gallop, Vinnie's drums hitting like a pile driver and Anselmo barking over the top. "Cowboys from Hell" and "Cemetery Gates" set the pace. Vulgar Display of Power, in 1992, got heavier and meaner still, with "Walk" stomping out a groove you could march an army to and "Fucking Hostile" living up to its name. They're credited with building groove metal and taking it to the masses, and Far Beyond Driven debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 in 1994.
Anselmo's back pain and heroin addiction drove the band apart through the late '90s, and after Reinventing the Steel in 2000 they split in 2003. On December 8, 2004, a gunman murdered Dimebag mid-set at a Damageplan gig in Columbus, Ohio, and Vinnie Paul died in 2018. Anselmo and Brown revived the name in 2022, with Zakk Wylde and Charlie Benante filling the Abbotts' places.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs by Pantera on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Walk | 25 | #4 | – | 1997 | |
| 2 | Cowboys from Hell | 22 | #1 | 1 | 1997 | |
| 3 | Cemetery Gates | 11 | #6 | – | 1997 | |
| 4 | Planet Caravan | 8 | #42 | – | 1997 | |
| 5 | This Love | 6 | #30 | – | 1997 | |
| 6 | Fucking Hostile | 3 | #41 | – | – | |
| 7 | I'm Broken | 1 | #38 | – | – | |
| 8 | 5 Minutes Alone | 2 | #47 | – | – | |
| 9 | Revolution is My Name | 1 | #38 | – | 2000 | |
| 10 | Piss | 1 | #88 | – | 2012 | |
| 11 | Five Minutes Alone | 1 | #927 | – | – |
Albums with charting songs
Where each song was first released, from MusicBrainz.
Year-end chart timeline
Combined year-end countdown points per year. Taller bars mean more songs placing higher across more stations.
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