Rock Band Weekly: Pantera's 'Great Southern Trendkill'

by Griffin McElroy on May 21st 2010 10:40AM

If your unique vocal style mostly consists of blood-curdling screams and primal, scratchy howling, then your ship has finally come in. This week, heavy metal outfit Pantera's album "The Great Southern Trendkill" is added to the Rock Band catalog. You can pick up the whole kit n' caboodle for 1280

($15.99), or grab each pack piecemeal-style, like you've been able to do since the dawn of time.

Click past the jump to see all the tracks included on the album.

Xbox 360 / Wii / PS3
Available: May 25

The Great Southern Trendkill (Album) (1280

/ $15.99):

"The Great Southern Trendkill" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
"War Nerve" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
"Drag the Waters" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
"10's" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
"13 Steps to Nowhere" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
"Suicide Note Pt. II" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
"Living Through Me (Hell's Wrath)" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
"Floods" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
"The Underground in America" (160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)
"(Reprise) Sandblasted Skin"(160 / 200 Wii Points / $1.99)

*Track packs not available for purchase on Wii; all tracks sold individually.

Tracks also available in Lego Rock Band Music Store.

Tags: dlc, harmonix, Microsoft, music, Nintendo, pantera, rhythm, rock-band, rock-band-2, rock-band-weekly, the-great-southern-trendkill, Wii, Xbox-360

Reader Comments (47)

Yuck. This was about 2 albums after the band (and the genre) peaked. Pass.

What? Are you freakin crazy? Reinventing the Steel was their best album.

Good album, but not the best.

Yeah I know, Magic Metal was tooooootally their best stuff bro!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal_Magic

A few of the songs on GSTK are some of my favorites. I don't think it was the best overall album, but still awesome. Reinventing the Steel was really really good too.

Vulgar display of power and Cowboys from hell are my personal favorites....hope those or some songs from those come soon.

Not my kind of metal, but I'm sure this is going to make a lot of people happy.

Not something I'm personally interested in but I know there were a lot of people waiting for Pantera that are going to be quite happy about this announcement.

hoping this opens a floodgate for some more :D

Not their best album but still worthy

baby sea tuna - you are wrong my friend. This is Pantera's best album from beginning to album (just a smidge better than Far Beyond Driven). Chalk full of some of the heaviest riffs I've ever heard. I really don't know anyone who would be able to pull off the vocals for most of this album (the heavy stuff at least), but in terms of guitar and drums, this is a win. Good stuff.

Oh, and Dimebag rocks harder than any guitarist out today.

Nope. I'm dating myself here, but I saw these guys 3 times throughout their career, the first time when I was about 16, and they basically peaked between Vulgar Display of Power and Far Beyond Driven. It was when they found their niche and before Phil Anselmo became a hardcore junkie and legally died (twice, if I'm not mistaken.)

By the time this album came out, I was so disinterested in them that someone had to convince me to go to the show with the prospect of a free ticket. The upside was that their popularity had waned to the point where the show was at a MUCH smaller venue than I'd seen them at before so at least I got to dive off the stage a couple of times, which was something I never could have done when they were playing stadium shows.

I'm not gonna lie - I'm a big Pantera fan, but the one time I saw them live (on one of the many Black Sabbath reunion tours), I was really disappointed. Didn't love the song choices, and couldn't believe there was another drummer (I could see) behind the stage, helping Vinnie Paul out during some songs.

Anywho, I should have originally made it clear that I realize TGST is far from the most popular choice in terms of Pantera albums. I've just always been a sucker for the heavier, more raw stuff. To each their own, I s'pose!

Correction:

Dimebag rocked.

RIP

Gotta go with Baby Tuna here. This is a disappointment to me. Vulgar or Driven would have been the preferred choices for me. Vulgar especially, as it stands as one of the best metal albums of all time. Floods is a great track though.

I'm fully aware he's dead, Enosoma. And I stand by what I originally said - the stuff he made with Pantera still rocks harder than most anything put out today.

Correction corrected.

Oh! And I just noticed - there's no Suicide Note Pt. 1. What's the deal with that? Anyone know? Fantastic tune ..

Ya I'm a little disappointed that song isn't in there but I can also understand why lyrically speaking. I haven't bought anything for RB for quite some time now but this is the album that really got me into Pantera and will crack my wallet open for RB.

I'd love to see Vulgar Display of Power up there. But I haven't played Rock Band in ages anyway, just nice to see some Pantera represented.

Miss ya' Dimebag! Baddest dude to ever shred a guitar.

He's up there in the metal pantheon rocking out with Dio, Randy Rhoads, Cliff Burton, and The Rev (say what you want about A7X, he was a decent drummer. Vinnie Paul even gave him props).

About time! I'd prefer Cowboys From Hell or Vulgar Display of Power, but I'm not complaining!

Seems OK but Cowboys from Hell would have been a better choice.

Gonna pick up Floods and maybe Drag the Waters.

This makes me wish I had Rock Band rather than Guitar Hero. Mind you, I personally think Vulgar Display of Power was the best Pantera album ever, it's still awesome to see GST as a playable thing.

Seems a really odd choice, as even non-Pantera fans would recognize songs like "Walk" or "I'm Broken"

Ha! Off topic, but badass avatar man!

Good to see Pantera's 10s love that song from DBZ broly :D

Just to throw my 2 cents in on this debate. Far Beyond Driven > Vulgar Display > Cowboys from Hell.

I always thought this was the only band I ever knew who got better with every album (for the first 3 anyways).

I thought Reinventing the Steel was REALLY good. Great Southern Trendkill I find wasn't as good as the others at first, but it grew on me quite a bit quickly. But Reinventing the Steel blew me away from day one.

I agree with most others, this album is a strange choice for the first Pantera on Rock Band, I would much rather have Cowboys From Hell, Vulgar Display of Power or Far Beyond Driven, this album was when I knew the band had lost it, I remember selling the CD back to the store pretty quickly on this one. I won't be picking this up but would have picked up any of the above-mentioned albums.

So much better than Green Day -_-

Good thing we have choice, right?

oh yeah, I'm taking 13 steps to nowhere.

I'll leave a suicide note (1) when I get there.

Sure would like me some Vulgar Display of Power and some Cemetary Gates. But Trendkill should still be plenty of fun to play.

Still, can we PLEASE get "Walk" one of these days?!?

Walk would've been my track of choice too. I can hope that they're saving it for Rock Band 3.

So should I take it to meant that there are no Pantera tracks available for Lego Rock Band?

I wonder why...

/sarcasm

I was about to say that this album is terrible, but then I realized I was confusing it with Cowboys From Hell, which was awful. I forgot this album even existed once I graduated high school and left my angst behind.

I wish they used one of their earlier albums... I remember alot of music in Doom sounding oddly familiar... ;)

Not the album I would have picked, but I'm happy they got Pantera at all. If I got to pick, I'd probably go Far Beyond Driven.

Was hoping for Vulgar Display of Power. Disappointing.

Would've rather seen Vulgar Display of Power or Cowboys From Hell, but any Pantera is great.

Aw, man! I was totally looking forward to playing these in Lego Rock Band...

/s

Great. They finally come out with some Pantera, and its this album. There are 2 better ones before it that should be ahead of this.

sweet now if they add Walk I will be all set

I too wish & hope for Vulgar & Far Beyond well every pantera song ever!. BUT i see this as PanterA being PanterA. Trendkill was their statement album. Staement being "we dont give a shit what you want heres metal up your ass". Trendkill is the best album to come out first in terms of what pantera stood for.

RESPECT

Hell yeah! Suicide Note Pt 2 and Floods are going to be awesome!

where can you buy these?

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Rock Band Weekly: Pantera's 'Great Southern Trendkill'

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