Pantera - 10's

My foes, they can't destroy my body.

Album: The Great Southern Trendkill [8th album]
Recorded: Texas & New Orleans
Genre: Metal, Groove Metal
Album Release: May 7th 1996
Length: 4:49
Producer: Pantera & Terry Date
Vocalist: Phil Anselmo [age 27]
Label: Elektra Records & East West Records

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Australia (albums): #2 [certified gold]
Finland (albums): #4
New Zealand (albums): #4
UK (albums): #4 [1x silver]
USA (albums): #4 [1x platinum]
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Credits

Bass, drums, guitar

Details

• The Great Southern Trendkill would be the fourth and final Pantera album produced by Terry Date. The band felt themselves ready to handle production duties from that point on and appointed the brothers Dimebag Darryl (guitar) and Vinnie Paul (drums) to steer their next effort.
  
  The Abbott Brothers did a stand-up job on what would be Pantera final album, Reinventing the Steel (2000), and had led the band long before Anselmo joined in 1986 as a fresh-faced 18 year old. The Abbott brothers had formed Pantera while still in high school, handling production on their first three albums. 
  
  
• Pantera started as a glam metal group moving towards a heavier sound when they replaced original singer Terry Glaze with Phil Anselmo. Their first three albums are glam metal, though what is now thought of as Pantera began with their fifth release Cowboys From Hell. The band themselves refer to Cowboys as their official debut.
  
  
• By 1996 the relations between the members of Pantera were at breaking point. In order to keep things civil, Phil Anselmo, who was addicted to heroin, recorded his parts for The Great Southern Trendkill in New Orleans, while the rest of the band recorded together in Texas. They made the album without stepping foot in the same state but it was still too close for comfort.
  
  
• '10's' is about Phil Anselmo's fight with heroin addiction. A 10 refers to an amount of heroin. The song mimics a life of constant battle, with defiance expressed in the chorus 'my foes, they can't destroy my body' only to be followed by the defeated 'cement to dirt, disgusted with my cheapness.' The line depicts Anselmo's once firm resolve to stop using [cement] crumbling into dirt under the pestering weight of addiction.
  
  
• Terry Date would go on to produce now classic metal albums such as White Pony (2000) by Deftones.
  
  

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