Far Beyond Driven

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<tr> <td colspan="3" style="text-align: center;">Image:Pantera-FarBeyondDriven.jpg </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="width: 5.2em; text-align: left;">Released</th> <td colspan="2" style="width: 14em;">March 15, 1994</td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="width: 5.2em; text-align: left;">Recorded</th> <td colspan="2" style="width: 14em;">1993</td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="width: 5.2em; text-align: left;">Genre</th> <td colspan="2" style="width: 14em;">Groove metal
Thrash metal</td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="width: 5.2em; text-align: left;">Length</th> <td colspan="2" style="width: 14em;">56:15</td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="width: 5.2em; text-align: left;">Label</th> <td colspan="2" style="width: 14em;">East West</td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="width: 5.2em; text-align: left;">Producer</th> <td colspan="2" style="width: 14em;">Terry Date</td> </tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" scope="col" style="background: [[:Template:Infobox Album/color]];">Professional reviews</th> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="3">

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Far Beyond Driven
Studio album by Pantera

Vulgar Display of Power
(1992)

Far Beyond Driven
(1994)

The Great Southern Trendkill
(1996)

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The original "uncensored" cover that was rejected

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Far Beyond Driven is an album by heavy metal band Pantera. The album was released on March 15, 1994 through East West Records. It is considered one of the most extreme albums ever to debut at #1.^[1] An explicit version of the cover art (seen below) was originally sold but was later replaced due to censorship issues.

Far Beyond Driven took Pantera's music to an even heavier and more extreme style than on previous releases. Much of the shift was due to Dimebag Darrell's more down-tuned and up-tempo playing styles. Anselmo's lyrics of "I'll be a better father than you ever were" may shed some light on his personal life.

The album features a cover version of Black Sabbath's "Planet Caravan" as the closing track, which reached #21 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks and #26 on the UK Singles Chart. The album's fourth track, "I'm Broken", reached #19 on the UK Singles Chart. In the liner notes of the album, all the song's lyrics are printed beside the cover of "Planet Caravan". The liner notes read: "This is a Black Sabbath song off of the Paranoid album. So don't freak out on us. We did the song because we wanted to. It has nothing to do with the integrity of our direction. It's a tripped out song. We think you'll dig it. If you don't, don't fucking listen to it. Thanks. On behalf of the rest of Pantera, Philip Anselmo '94"

This was the first Pantera album with Darrell being called Dimebag Darrell and not Diamond Darrell although in Vulgar Videos he is referred to as Dimebag.

The album is referenced in the Machine Head song "Aesthetics of Hate", the third track from the 2007 album The Blackening.