I was a big Pantera fan in high school. my friends were only interested in talking about avenged sevenfold and lamb of god. This left me in the peculiar position where I, the guy who listened to 90s mtv groove metal, was engaging in boundary-work to differentiate myself from the plebs. this was ca. 2009
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Cowboys, while their least embarrassing tape in retrospect, is still a 5/12 on the esch scale; Vulgar and FBD are garage workout music; Trendkill is the thrash metal equivalent of a later wu-tang album, i.e., when they started emailing their verses to RZA; Reinventing is maybe the most vapid album I've ever pretended I've listened to