The Great Southern Trendkill
by Pantera

The Great Southern Trendkill by Pantera
Year: 1996
Release date: 1996-05-07
Overall rank: 3,331st   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 138 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1996 (67th)
Award Top albums of of the 1990s (548th)
Award Best albums of all time (3,331st)

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Pantera bestography

The Great Southern Trendkill is ranked 4th best out of 12 albums by Pantera on BestEverAlbums.com.

The best album by Pantera is Vulgar Display Of Power which is ranked number 908 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 1,920.

Pantera album bestography « Higher ranked (2,367th)
Far Beyond Driven
This album (3,331st)
The Great Southern Trendkill
Lower ranked (8,531st) »
Reinventing The Steel

(N.B. Bestographies include all albums by an artist (and their variations), but do not include albums ranked outside the top 100,000).

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The Great Southern Trendkill track list

  Track ratings The tracks on this album have an average rating of 84 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).

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The Great Southern Trendkill rankings

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Overall rank: 3,331st | 1990s rank: 548th | 1996 rank: 67th

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Average Rating: 
75/100 (from 138 votes)
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This album is rated in the top 7% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 75.2/100, a mean average of 73.9/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 75.4/100. The standard deviation for this album is 17.8.

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From 06/23/2025 06:08 | #309673 | TOP COMMENT
Yeah, this album was the end Pantera for me. Gave it a try and it just made me viscerally unimpressed. No redeeming features whatsoever and their snarly anger wears a bit thin at this point.
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From 09/19/2021 18:48 | #273949
The one Pantera album I can consistently sit all the way through, and the only one besides Vulgar Display of Power that has no duds. If anyone knows one song from The Great Southern Trendkill, it's Floods, but the title track is massive, Drag the Waters is an absolute jam, and the two part Suicide Note is a rollercoaster.
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From 07/02/2019 22:12 | #238833 | TOP COMMENT
Awesome album that gets better as it goes along. The last 2 songs are my favorites.
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From 11/17/2016 14:03 | #178580 | TOP COMMENT
Extreme and violent, a bit experimental. The best thing about that album is it doesn't sound forced or silly with its aggression some metal bands tent to do.
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From 10/09/2015 17:36 | #151231 | TOP COMMENT
Pantera's best album
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From 12/29/2011 05:42 | #33924 | TOP COMMENT
Probably got to be the angriest album ever
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