Personally, I love the Pantera from "Cowboys from Hell", that album is a 10/10 for me and I believe they managed to find a good middle ground between their classic heavy metal groove and the more thrashy approach to music that they were looking for back then. Didn't have the chance to listen to Pantera back in the day, so I'm pretty new to the band. I've yet to get into Vulgar and their other stuff but what I've listened so far it kicks balls
Went full retro and never looked back