Fucking Hostile

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"Fucking Hostile"
Song by Pantera
from the album Vulgar Display of Power
ReleasedFebruary 25, 1992
Recorded1991
Genre
Length2:48
Label Atco
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Terry Date

"Fucking Hostile" is a song by American heavy metal band Pantera. It was released in 1992 on their album Vulgar Display of Power , and is a live favorite of the band. [6]

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Background

"Fucking Hostile" is a protest song that criticizes those who abuse their authority and power, such as political figures, religious leaders and parents. [7]

The song's distorted vocals were inspired by the Nine Inch Nails song "Head Like a Hole" and were achieved by running the mic through a Tascam 4-track cassette recorder and turning up the preamp. [8]

Reception

Loudwire ranked "Fucking Hostile" the third best Pantera song, stating it "operates off a punk-rock battery and is one of the band's fastest". [9]

Dom Lawson of Metal Hammer ranked "Fucking Hostile" number 8 on his list of the 50 best Pantera songs. He writes that it "was so much more extreme than anything else mainstream metal had to offer in 1992 that it took your breath away. Today, it still makes us want to run through a brick wall." [10] Malcolm Dome, also of Metal Hammer, considered it to be among the 10 best Pantera songs of all time. [11]

Billboard included the song on their list "10 of Vinnie Paul's Hardest-Rocking Songs, From Pantera's Picks to Hellyeah's Hits", and stated it's proof Paul "was just as great as a straight-ahead thrash drummer, and it's one of the reasons this is one of Pantera's best-known songs." [12]

Covers

American rock band New Years Day covered "Fucking Hostile" in 2018 on their EP Diary of a Creep. [13] In 2019 the band performed an acoustic cover of the song. [14] [15]

American thrash metal band Slayer and Phil Anselmo performed a cover of the song live in Athens, Greece on July 2, 2013, after the band invited him on stage to celebrate his 45th birthday. [16]

Personnel

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References

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  2. ↑ "27 Years Ago, Pantera Take Metal to a New Level with Vulgar Display of Power". February 25, 2019. Retrieved May 25, 2019.
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  9. ↑ Sciarretto, Amy (December 8, 2014). "10 Best Pantera Songs". Loudwire.
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  13. ↑ Childers, Chad (January 3, 2018). "New Years Day Salute Influences With 'Diary of a Creep' EP". Loudwire.
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