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Where it sits

First of the nine Pantera records held here. It came a year into a run that began in 1982. 1983 puts it seven years ahead of the genre it is filed under: this tree dates Groove metal from 1990.

From Wikipedia

Metal Magic is the debut studio album by American heavy metal band Pantera, released on June 10, 1983, through Metal Magic Records. Like the band's next three releases, it is musically oriented toward a glam/heavy metal sound influenced by Kiss and Van Halen. The album was released on the band's own label (also called Metal Magic) and produced by Jerry Abbott (under the alias "The Eld'n"), a country music songwriter and producer and the father of Vinnie Paul and Dimebag Darrell (then known as Diamond Darrell), who were 19 and 16 years old, respectively, at the time of release.

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• Groove metal