I Am the Night (album)

I Am the Night
Studio album by
Pantera
ReleasedAugust 16, 1985 (1985-08-16)[1]
RecordedMay–June 1985
StudioPantego Sound (Pantego, Texas)[2]
Genre
Length37:51
LabelMetal Magic
Producer
Pantera chronology
Projects in the Jungle
(1984) 		I Am the Night
(1985) 		Power Metal
(1988)
Singles from I Am the Night
  1. "Hot 'N' Heavy"
    Released: December 1985 (as 12" single)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
AllMusic[5]
Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal7/10[6]
The Encyclopedia of Popular Music[7]
Rock Hard8.5/10[8]

I Am the Night is the third studio album by American heavy metal band Pantera, released on August 16, 1985, through Metal Magic Records.[1] It was made available only on vinyl and cassette, with any subsequent CD releases being bootlegs transferred from the vinyl or tape originals.

It was the last Pantera album to feature lead singer Terry Glaze. The track "Hot and Heavy" was released as a single and promoted with the band's second music video.

The album sold around 25,000 copies, which was considered high for an independent release.[9]

Metal Hammer included the album cover on their list of "50 most hilariously ugly rock and metal album covers ever".[10]

Artwork

Simon Young of Metal Hammer gave his assessment on the figure present on the album's cover artwork: "We've been up late and that is definitely not 'the night', no matter how many Black Tooth Grins were imbibed during the ideas meeting for this... whatever this is."[11]

Reception and legacy

I Am the Night is generally not held at the same level of esteem as some of Pantera's later releases. Eduardo Rivadavia of AllMusic gave the album two and a half stars out of five, and wrote: "As with all of Pantera's 'forgotten' albums, it is invariably Darrell's playing that makes these growing pains more tolerable, and also helps to make sense of how they became one of the only heavy metal bands in history to grow more commercially successful by becoming more extreme."[12]

Track listing

All credits adapted from the original LP.[2]

All tracks are written by Pantera.

Side one
No.TitleLength
1."Hot and Heavy"4:06
2."I Am the Night"4:27
3."Onward We Rock!"3:56
4."D*G*T*T*M" (Darrell Goes to the Movies)1:43
5."Daughters of the Queen"4:16
Side two
No.TitleLength
6."Down Below"2:49
7."Come-On Eyes"4:13
8."Right on the Edge"4:06
9."Valhalla"4:05
10."Forever Tonight"4:10
Total length:37:51

Personnel

All credits adapted from the original LP.[2]

Pantera
Production

References

  1. ^ a b Daniels, Neil (January 1, 2000). Reinventing Metal: The True Story of Pantera and the Tragically Short Life of Dimebag Darrell. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4803-6273-4.
  2. ^ a b c I Am the Night (LP sleeve). Pantera. Arlington, Texas: Metal Magic Records. 1985. MMR1985.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  3. ^ "Pantera Before Pantera: Forgotten Glam Metal Days". Ultimate Guitar. September 26, 2018. Retrieved December 26, 2024.
  4. ^ Ewing, Jerry (January 15, 2019). "Every Pantera album ranked from worst to best". Metal Hammer. Retrieved May 26, 2021.
  5. ^ Rivadavia, Eduardo. "I Am the Night - Pantera | Songs, Reviews, Credits". AllMusic. Retrieved July 2, 2014.
  6. ^ The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. November 1, 2005. p. 258. ISBN 978-1894959315.
  7. ^ The Encyclopedia of Popular Music. Vol. 6. MUZE. 2006. p. 401. ISBN 978-0-19-531373-4.
  8. ^ Stratmann, Holger (1985). "Review Album: Pantera - I Am the Night". Rock Hard (in German). No. 16. Retrieved May 26, 2021.
  9. ^ Wardlaw, Matt (March 21, 2013). "Rex Brown Goes In-Depth About His New Book and the Legacy of Pantera". Loudwire. Retrieved April 1, 2023.
  10. ^ Young, Simon (May 9, 2023). "The 50 most hilariously ugly rock and metal album covers ever". Metal Hammer. Future plc. Retrieved December 9, 2024.
  11. ^ Youngpublished, Simon (May 9, 2023). "The 50 most hilariously ugly rock and metal album covers ever". Louder. Retrieved August 4, 2025.
  12. ^ I Am the Night - Pantera | Album | AllMusic, retrieved August 4, 2025


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