Walk

When Pantera first found success, they found their pals were treating them a little different as they thought the fame had gone to their heads. Frontman Phil Anselmo explained to Kerrang: "I wrote this when Pantera were first getting a lot of attention. I came back from touring and my friends had taken it upon themselves to think that I'd changed as a person into this big rockstar. 'Walk' was me telling them to shove that attitude up their ass."

The main riff was written while the band was warming up for a show on guitarist Dimebag Darrell's practice amp when Phil Anselmo shouted, "We gotta write some s--t for this new album." Dime immediately started playing the opening riff, and Vinnie tapped the drums on the wall. They were filming for the home video and caught it all on tape to remember the riff.

The Vulgar Display Of Power album (the name comes from a quote from the 1973 movie The Exorcist) was released a year after Metallica issued The Black Album, which was wildly successful but veered slightly askew from the thrash sound of their previous work. Pantera's album pleased those thrash fans, which rewarded them by buying over 2 million copies of Vulgar. In the book Survival of the Fittest: Heavy Metal in the 1990s, Pantera bass player Rex Brown said: "When we put out Vulgar, we've got this huge following, and there's a little, itty-bitty hole here where we can possibly jump through and carry the genre that we loved."