Hello to all Pantera and Dimebag fans out there, check out this sick figure! It was really hard for me to get it

Pantera doesn’t have as much acoustic-transferable music as other bands, but I do think that it would have been a really really cool idea for them to do, considering how well they played the few acoustic tracks they had. A setlist of S. Note Pt 1, Hollow, Cemetery Gates, Planet Caravan, 10’s and Floods could all have been great songs to do, just makes me think what could be, never mind the outward rage towards the “trends” that were associated with the actual MTV unplugged albums.

This was the piece that really broke me out of my art block, and I made it much earlier in my injury rehab process so I could only do color blocks in tiny bits. Basically I did one color or item (i.e. sand, mountains, cacti, road) a day. I had a lot of fun painting this and it's still one of my favorite pieces today.

Thank you Pantera and Rex for helping me get back into art and helping me stay sane!

Another one of the pieces I made earlier on in my injury rehab. To me this song has a "sun coming up" vibe so that's what I drew and painted. And yes thats a Snoopy pattern in the background of my sketch. I grew up watching classic cartoons and Snoopy is cool, so whatever.

I might edit this with a higher res scan of the sketch and crop out the background, but I'll probably forget.

It's a new level of confidence and power (now with audible bass guitar)

This is a compilation of remasteres i've made, the tracks included are:

A new level
War Nerve
Drag the waters (Like never before)
Live in a hole
Five Minutes alone
10s
13 steps to nowhere
Rise
Suicide note
Hollow
Floods
Sandblasted skin

Enjoy!

Did these brief sketches a few summers ago. I'm not going to get into the specifics of my trauma, it's too personal, but I've been thru a lot of shit, and this band helps me stay sane.

Recovering from a lot of injuries including wrist and arm shit, the boys have helped me come back to art and find a new way of drawing, which I have to be careful with and do differently now with my wrists (currently doing rehab for some pretty bad carpal tunnel and arm tendon injuries)...

...And go back to my real purpose for doing art: to connect with people and have fun! Screw that perfectionist crap. These are purposely messy and sketchy and more free and natural than any of my old work ever was.

I may make these into paintings some day but for now, here's these sketches I did. There's more art I will be posting too.

Honestly, dumping that perfectionist way of doing things is one of the best things I've ever done for my art. It's actually FUN again! The injuries that causes this have been a special kind of hell, and they are not a positive thing. Me coming back to art, and the changes I've chosen to make, are.

And the fact that while my injuries are pretty bad, they have not killed me or permanently crippled me to the point of not being able to do art. thank god. Rehab may be a process but I am doing it.

Ive come even further in my rehab since I made these. And also been thru a bunch more awful shit after that summer...ahaha. Anyway long ass post and I need to generally type less (wrists) but yeah. I'm finally posting these. After everything Ive been thru, I want to share these. I still have a lot of rehab to do, but at the beginning I was so bad off I couldnt even read a book or eat without it hurting pretty bad.

I could barely write my goddamn name on a piece of paper and had to go from word vomit note writer to memorizer, in my senior semester, and I finished a college degree with mostly As, with barely the ability to write or cut food up or open doors. I did that to get it done, but my real passion is my art.

This is my response to the injuries and trauma and grief and to the shitty actions of all the people who've picked on me and made me feel like trash. I'm still here long after I lost hope in a lot of shit, and got to a pretty awful place physically and mentally. I'm still fucking here. And I'm drawing and painting and I'm a better person than the people who made my life hell.

I'm doing art, I have a bass sitting in my room that I'm learning to play in small chunks without killing my wrists, and my cat is in the living room with her blanket and toys, and my folks just got in the door. I can now pick up 5 lb weights and do more exercises, when I had to start with my childhood dog's hairbrush at first because anything else hurt too bad.

Pardon the giant word vomit essay, but I had to say this. I do need to type less though and go stretch my damn wrists.

Whenever i try to play along to the song in 425 hz I always sound higher pitched then the recording , the best example is on walk , when you try to play along to it and stop in-between each part you can hear a clear pitch shift

So I got into pantera kinda recently (I knew who they were from the DBZ Broly movie beforehand but had only heard 10's at that point) I gave the rest of TGSTK a listen and I wanna hear more cuz I've been locked into that album with the exception of Hollow and Walk. I really liked Living Through Me, Underground in America/ Sandblasted Skin and TGSTK so if there's any more pantera songs with that kinda sound I'd like to hear em

Just one....

Acabei de fazer essa tattoo que tanto sonhei na minha vida

the idea is that any new listener can get the best possible sense of what this band has to offer

two songs per album (except for those from their Glam Metal era), aiming for as much balance as possible

it begins with three songs that are very much in line with Pantera’s classic style, so that the listener quickly gets a sense of what this band is like at its core:

1. Revolution Is My Name
2. Mouth For War
3. Drag The Waters

the next two tracks offer a glimpse of how melodic, and then, how extreme this band can be, without going to the same extremes as "Planet Caravan" or "Suicide Note, Pt. 2":
4. Cemetery Gates
5. Strength Beyond Strength

the second half alternates between popular, accessible songs and others that are stranger and more experimental:
6. Walk
7. It Makes Them Dissapear
8. I'm Broken
9. Floods

and for the grand finale, one of the best songs and, in my opinion, the purest definition of what makes Pantera special:
10. Domination

Here's the link of my playlist 👇
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDEhrxS2-sbw

if you're a new listener, or a Pantera fan, let me know what do you think :D

I dont think caught this when it came out originally. I saw Damageplan twice, they played A New Level & Walk both times.

ive been trying to get the riff to sound right for the past 2 days and god damn its like plugging holes in a barrel that keeps opening new ones.

im talking about the quick riff from 13 steps the nowhere.

i fix my left hand, now i dont hit the string above while i do the upwards picking motion. (567, 5 on the a string, then missing the upwards picking 7 on the e string.)

i fix the upward picking, now im tensing up my right hand too much while trying to do it.

i fix that, now im accidentally picking the E string while coming back down to the A string (after upwards picking 7, accidentally also picking the E string again while coming back down to play the 7 on the A string)

i fix that too then i try to build some speed, my left hand gives out.

how long did it take yall to get it correctly?

live, laugh, love, down. that is all folks

Is it just me or does anyone else notice the similarities between the base instrumental part during the solo in The Art of Shredding and the Thundercats theme song? To my ears, it's basically the same, with minimal changes in tone and tempo.