All Over Tonight--RealAudio

**UMR Review Poll Winner**
Pantera's second "hair metal" release, and still two albums away from Phil Anselmo's band debut. The vocalist here is Terry Glaze, who sounds a good deal like an early, gritty Joe Elliot. In fact, a good deal of the music in general reminds of 'High n' Dry' era Def Lep. There's also maybe some edged Crue circa '83 or '84, as well.
This is a totally different band and sound from what the metal world associates with Pantera, and this early-career span of releases is actually a good example of a band not making it big--because if they had, we may have never gotten to hear 'Vulgar Display', 'Cowboys From Hell', and the like. Regardless of that, though, there is still a bit of charm here. If you take the release at face value for what it is -- a mid-80's hair metal album -- it's actually not all that bad a collection of tunes. It's just not Pantera, is all.
Opening track "All Over Tonight" is good, and the steady "Like Fire" follows suit. "Heavy Metal Rules" is thick and anthem-like, and other decent showings include "Only a Heartbeat Away," the screaming instrumental "Blue Light Turnin' Red," and the title track.

TRACK LIST: All Over Tonight/Out For Blood/Blue Light Turnin' Red/Like Fire/In Over My Head/Projects in the Jungle/Heavy Metal Rules/Only a Heartbeat Away/ Killers/Takin' My Life