Cowboys From Hell: The Demos
The album contains all the necessary demos for the final recording of their major label debut, Cowboys from Hell. The track listing in the demo differs from the album version. The intro track on the demo does not appear on the final album version, though it has been used as an intro song for many Pantera shows worldwide. The album version also contains the songs "Primal Concrete Sledge" and "Clash with Reality", which do not appear on this demo. Another important note is that the demo has been classed as self produced in the section marked label.
The demos were released on the band's 20th anniversary edition of their major label debut. The demos of the deluxe version, however, feature the same tracklist as the original demos, although the "Intro" has been replaced by a previously unreleased track, "The Will To Survive", that was written during the same sessions but resembles a sound closer to their previous album effort Power Metal (1988) than the groove metal sound evident on the other demos. The demos were re-released on Black Friday 2010 and were limited to 3,000 180-gram pressings, with the vinyl including the custom cover and demos of the original tracks, as well as the previously unreleased demo cut, “The Will To Survive”.
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