Psycho Holiday

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"Psycho Holiday"
Single by Pantera
from the album Cowboys from Hell
ReleasedJuly 24, 1990
Recorded1990
Genre
Length5:19
Label Atco
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s) Terry Date
Pantera singles chronology
"Cemetery Gates"
(1990)		"Psycho Holiday"
(1990)		"Mouth for War"
(1992)

"Psycho Holiday" is a song by the American heavy metal band Pantera, released as the third and final single from their 1990 album Cowboys from Hell . It is the third song on the album.

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Background

"Psycho Holiday" is in the key of F#. [1] Vocalist Phil Anselmo's voice ranges in pitch from G4 to F6. [2]

Music video

A video was made for the song, released on the 1991 VHS Cowboys from Hell: The Videos . It was later re-released on the 1999 DVD 3 Vulgar Videos from Hell . The video was directed by Paul Rachman. [3]

Reception

Malcolm Dome of Metal Hammer considered "Psycho Holiday" to be one of the ten best Pantera songs, writing that the band proved they could be melodic, nasty and musically simple but creative. [4] Dom Lawson, also of Metal Hammer, ranked it the 26th-best Pantera song, calling it an "unhinged classic". [5]

AllMusic writer Eduardo Rivadavia considered "Psycho Holiday" to be one of the three highlights from the album. [6]

Track listing

  1. "Psycho Holiday" – 5:19
  2. "Cowboys from Hell" (live) – 4:07
  3. "Heresy" (live) – 4:48

"Psycho Holiday" was mentioned in the Cherrie Lynn book Unleashed. [7] In the video game WWF WrestleMania 2000 , the menu theme seems to emulate the song.[ citation needed ]

Personnel

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References

  1. ↑ "Psycho Holiday". Musicnotes.com. March 10, 2008.
  2. ↑ "Psycho Holiday". Musicnotes.com. March 10, 2008.
  3. ↑ 3 Vulgar Videos from Hell (DVD). Elektra Records. November 23, 1999.
  4. ↑ Hammer, Malcolm Dome2018-06-25T09:25:00 175Z Metal. "The 10 best Pantera songs of all time". Metal Hammer Magazine.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ↑ Hammer, Dom Lawson2019-02-04T13:05:16Z Metal. "The 50 best Pantera songs ever". Metal Hammer Magazine.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  6. ↑ "Cowboys From Hell - Pantera | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic.
  7. ↑ Lynn, Cherrie (July 24, 2017). Unleashed. Entangled Publishing, LLC. ISBN   9781640632356 – via Google Books.
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