Metal Hammer are honored to pay tribute to the one and only Dimebag Darrell on December 16th. We've rounded up some of the biggest and best names from the world of metal to unleash their interpretations of the hardest and heaviest tracks from the Pantera back-catalogue.
The full tracklisting runs: 01. Zakk Wylde - "Suicide Note, Pt. 1" 02. Machine Head - "----ing Hostile" 03. Malefice - "I'm Broken" 04. Avenged Sevenfold - "Walk" 05. Evile - "Cemetary Gates" 06. Five Finger Death Punch - "A New Level" 07. Biohazard - "Mouth For War" 08. Sylosis - "Strength Beyond Strength" 09. Chimaira - "Slaughtered" 10. Unearth - "Sandblasted Skin" 11. Throwdown - "Becoming" 12. Kiaus - "This Love" 13. This Is Hell - "Rise"
We spoke to Machine Head frontman Robb Flynn about their decision to cover the "Vulgar Display Of Power" classic, "----ing Hostile."
"It was either that or 'Strength Beyond Strength' from '�Far Beyond Driven,'" said Flynn. "In the end, we decided that we wanted to do a classic. We chose '----ing Hostile' because it's two and a half minutes of pure, raging metal. It's short, fast and brutal.�
"There's some real intricate riffing parts in there," continues Flynn. "We'd jammed it before but we'd never sat down and analyzed it properly. I think we did a great job on it."
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