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Dance/Techno Artist MOBY On What Made PANTERA So 'Unrelentingly Dark'

May 10, 2008

Former punk, metalhead and current mega-selling dance/techno artist MOBY recently spoke to Classic Rock magazine about one of his metal albums of all time PANTERA's "The Great Southern Trendkill" (1996).

"The first time I heard PANTERA was [1994 album] 'Far Beyond Driven'," he said. "I always feel weird lumping PANTERA into the speed-metal genre. They were so qualitatively different from anyone else. They occupied their own niche.

"'The Great Southern Trendkill' is so unrelentingly dark. The lyrics of 'War Nerve' are the most unrelentingly evil lyrics you can imagine. They make church-burning Norwegian Satanists sound like Sunday school teachers. It's just that whole vituperative expression of anger and rage. PANTERA even managed to be, dare I say it, kind of funky at times. One of the ways they were able to get such a huge guitar sound was because [Dimebag] Darrell double-tracked all his guitar parts.

"I got to know PANTERA a little, too. I was in Dallas in 2002 and had a night off, so we went to go see Tommy Lee [MTLEY CRE] perform. I'd known Tommy for awhile, so we were just hanging out afterwards, when Darrell and Vinnie [Paul, PANTERA drummer] came backstage with a bunch of Hell's Angels. We all started drinking, then went to the strip club that PANTERA own and we had this long, crazy, whiskey-fuelled night. At some point, about four in the morning, Darrell, Tommy and I in our completely devastated state decided to start a band. We just thought that was the best idea anyone had ever had. Of course, nothing came of that except a hangover that lasted for days."

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