“MOUTH FOR WAR”
Pantera
WRITTEN AND RECORDED during the pinnacle of Pantera’s musical powers, this early Nineties groove metal anthem features legendary guitar god Dimebag Darrell laying down pummeling crunch riffs and a characteristically fiery solo, which the goateed axeman performed on his iconic Dean guitar, plugged into a Randall Century 200 solid-state amp rig, set to produce his signature high-gain, mid-scooped tone, with its tight bottom end and long sustain.
A s h e r o u t i n e l y did during this era, Dime recorded this song with his guitar tuned approximately midway between E standard and Eb (or D#) standard, slightly closer to the