Far Beyond Driven
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56:26 min. |
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Far Beyond Driven is the seventh album by the US thrash metal band Pantera . The album was released on March 22, 1994 via Eastwest Records . In total, the album sold over a million times in the United States and went platinum .
style
The song material on Far Beyond Driven is even harder and more brutal than on the two previous albums, the song structures are sometimes more complex. The album contains only with Planet Caravan one unlike the rest of the album extremely quiet Black Sabbath - cover version , which was released as a single.
Emergence
The album was produced by Terry Date in the Dallas Sound Lab, Irving , Texas . The band received a completely free hand from the record company.
“The record company just said: Here's your check - now take a good shot, and we'll be surprised. This is the ideal starting position - no one there who will talk you into it in any way. "
The band stated that one of the reasons they recorded such a hard album was because they didn't want to conform to “mass tastes”. They also went into the studio unprepared and only worked on the songs there. Drummer Vinnie Paul worked as a co-producer. After its release, the album reached number one on the Billboard charts in the United States. The single Planet Caravan peaked at number 26 in the UK and number 21 on the US mainstream rock charts. The second, much heavier single I'm Broken reached number 19 on the British singles chart.
reception
In German rock-hard magazine Götz Kühnemund called Far Beyond Driven Panteras not only “the most technically demanding, but also by far the most courageous album” that would “offend” some listeners. He described the record as the hardest record since Slayer's Reign in Blood and gave it nine out of ten points. Eduardo Rivadavia from Allmusic awarded three out of five stars. Apart from the “well chosen” single I'm Broken , the rest of the songs lack the “iron-fisted discipline and controlled power” of the previous albums. The record did not live up to the hype surrounding them, but outweighed their weight in platinum at the bank.
Track list
- Strength Beyond Strength - 3:39
- Becoming - 3:05
- 5 Minutes Alone - 5:50
- I'm Broken - 4:25
- Good Friends and a Bottle of Pills - 2:54
- Hard Lines, Sunken Cheeks - 7:01 am
- Slaughtered - 3:57
- 25 Years - 6:05
- Shedding Skin - 5:37
- Use My Third Arm - 4:52
- Throes of Rejection - 5:01
- Planet Caravan - 4:04
Artwork
The first edition of the album came out with a cover showing a drill in a human anus . This was quickly withdrawn and replaced with a picture of a drill driven into a skull.
Web links
- Far Beyond Driven at Allmusic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Oliver Klemm: Harter stuff and thin soup , in: Rock Hard, No. 82, March 1994, pp. 12-13
- ↑ rockhard.de: Review Far Beyond Driven by Götz Kühnemund
- ↑ Review Far Beyond Driven by Eduardo Rivadavia at Allmusic (English)