Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Pantera" in English language version.
We were really on a Black Sabbath trip, so "I'm Broken" has a lot of "Black Sabbath influence." I'll say that with this disclaimer: Anything Pantera set out to do, it always ended up sounding like Pantera, no matter what influenced us, because we would never lift anything directly. It was always our interpretation of things. Also, around this time, I had introduced the Melvins to the rest of the guys in Pantera. I was privy to their first record, Gluey Porch Treatments, and their second one, Ozma. So I turned them guys onto that record, and I didn't expect them to like it at all. But right off the bat, it was Vinnie Paul who spoke up and said, "Wow, that's a pretty fucking heavy drum sound."
We were really on a Black Sabbath trip, so "I'm Broken" has a lot of "Black Sabbath influence." I'll say that with this disclaimer: Anything Pantera set out to do, it always ended up sounding like Pantera, no matter what influenced us, because we would never lift anything directly. It was always our interpretation of things. Also, around this time, I had introduced the Melvins to the rest of the guys in Pantera. I was privy to their first record, Gluey Porch Treatments, and their second one, Ozma. So I turned them guys onto that record, and I didn't expect them to like it at all. But right off the bat, it was Vinnie Paul who spoke up and said, "Wow, that's a pretty fucking heavy drum sound."