The lead single and title track from Pantera’s fifth album effectively served as a mission statement for a new phase of their career, announcing who they were and what they were hoping to achieve.
Released in 1990, Cowboys From Hell was the sound of the Texan band drawing a line through the four glam-influenced records they’d released during the ’80s and starting afresh, with a more aggressive sonic template that would lay the blueprint for the ‘groove metal’ movement that soon followed.
