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Projects in the Jungle (1984)

Where the lyrics of Projects in the Jungle take you, and where it was really made.

Pantera's second album came out on Metal Magic Records, a label the band itself owned, a few years before the band's sound changed completely.

Key places

Recording at Pantego Sound, Pantego, Texas (1984)

Recording site Pantego Sound — The album was recorded and mixed at Pantego Sound in Pantego, Texas. The pin marks the town centre, not the exact studio building. Google Maps · Apple Maps

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Album story

Overview

• Projects in the Jungle: second studio album by American heavy metal band Pantera
• Released 27 July 1984 through Metal Magic Records
• Follows the band's debut Metal Magic (1983)
• Ten tracks, opening with "All Over Tonight"
• Recorded and mixed at Pantego Sound, Pantego, Texas
• Jerry Abbott handled production, engineering and mixing

Background

• Sound shares many similarities with Def Leppard's pre-Hysteria sound, Pyromania having come out the year before
• Influences from Judas Priest are also present
• Guitar solos are inspired by Van Halen
• Features many speed metal oriented guitar riffs
• Vocalist Terry Glaze's style is the element most tied to the Def Leppard comparison
• The band made its first music video for "All Over Tonight"

Recording

• Recorded and mixed at Pantego Sound in Pantego, Texas
• Jerry Abbott credited for production, engineering and mixing
• Mastering credited to M.C. Rather

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Tracklist

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Artist

Formation

• Pantera is an American heavy metal band formed in Arlington, Texas, in 1981 by the Abbott brothers, guitarist Dimebag Darrell and drummer Vinnie Paul.
• The band started as a glam metal act and was originally named Gemini, then Eternity, before settling on Pantera.
• Rex Brown joined on bass in 1982 and Phil Anselmo became vocalist in 1986, forming the best-known lineup.

Members

• The best-known lineup was the Abbott brothers with Rex Brown and Phil Anselmo.
• Dimebag Darrell was shot and killed on stage in December 2004; Vinnie Paul died of heart failure in June 2018.
• Currently the band features Phil Anselmo, Rex Brown, and touring musicians Zakk Wylde and Charlie Benante.

Career

• The band pioneered and popularized groove metal in the 1990s with Cowboys from Hell (1990) and Vulgar Display of Power (1992).
• Far Beyond Driven (1994) debuted at number one on the Billboard 200.
• Pantera disbanded in 2003 and reunited with a new lineup in 2022, touring the world since.
• The band has sold around 20 million records worldwide and received four Grammy nominations.

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Reception

At release

• Released 27 July 1984 through Metal Magic Records, a label the band owned

Reappraisal

• AllMusic (Eduardo Rivadavia): called Terry Glaze's vocal style "ear assaulting" and the lyrics "frequently moronic" examples of the era's glam metal clichés
• AllMusic: called the album "a major improvement" over the debut Metal Magic, with much better production clarity and musicianship
• The review credits the gains in clarity and musicianship as signs of Pantera's growing professionalism

Records

• According to Vinnie Paul in 1990, the album sold more than 15,000 copies
• The sales figure comes from a 1990 statement, not from a certification

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Trivia

• Jerry Abbott, father of Diamond Darrell and Vinnie Paul, produced this album as he had Metal Magic, and later I Am the Night and Power Metal.
• The album came between Metal Magic (1983) and I Am the Night (1985), and Power Metal (1988) followed before the sound changed with Cowboys from Hell (1990).
• Metal Magic Records was owned by the band itself.
• The band's first music video was made for "All Over Tonite".

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