Phil Anselmo On The ‘Vulgar Display Of Power’ Album Cover
Get the latest issue of Metal Hammer to get the full story behind Pantera’s landmark album!
The latest issue of Metal Hammer goes behind the scenes of one of the greatest and most influential heavy metal albums of all time – Pantera’s ‘Vulgar Display Of Power’.
In this snippet, Phil Anselmo reveals how the cover for the record came to be.
“We told our label we wanted a picture of something vulgar, like this dude getting punched in the face,” said Anselmo. “Then the label brought us the first version of the album cover, which was a boxer with a punching glove, and we were like, ‘Wrong, dude. It’s gotta be street.’ They got it right with the second version, and one of the people at the label told us this dude was paid $10 a punch, and it took 30 real punches to his face to get the perfect image.”
To get the full story of how the album came to be (from the demo stage to what they think of the record now), get this month’s issue of Metal Hammer.
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lol. 30 real punches. btw its gr8 album cover, even that the face of the “dude” got dark blue
id have taken 30 punches for free if it meant i would be on the cover of a pantera album
That hurts just reading about it.
i went to school wit that fella.
I always thought it was Dimebag on the Cover
zzzz this story is not news MH. get with the times. true Pantera fans already know the stories behind every Pantera album cover.
FAH Q: If nothing is news to you at all on this site why do you keep coming back to it LOL
i’d definitely have to agree with you metalhatmatt..i’d be one happy woman!
*cheers&passes*
I’m more interested in knowing how much they paid the dude for doing the pix on what was going to be the original “Far Beyond Driven” sleeve. I’d be after a bit more than a tenner, believe me…
http://www.sleazeroxx.com/censored/far.shtml
I’m calling bullsh*t on the guy getting actual punches.
that dude is my next door neighbour
And people accuse Pantera fans of being dense…