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Kerry King Reflects on Pantera's Impact on Metal

1/21/2025

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Kerry King reminisced about his electrifying first jam with Pantera, highlighting their raw talent and a surprising key change in a Slayer track. He praised their groundbreaking 1990 album "Cowboys from Hell," which breathed new life into metal, a sentiment echoed by Mike Portnoy, who credited it with sustaining the genre's momentum in the early '90s.

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Kerry King reminisced about his electrifying first jam with Pantera, highlighting their raw talent and a surprising key change in a Slayer track. He praised their groundbreaking 1990 album "Cowboys from Hell," which breathed new life into metal, a sentiment echoed by Mike Portnoy, who credited it with sustaining the genre's momentum in the early '90s.