This Love (Pantera song)

Infobox Single
Name = This Love


Artist = Pantera
from Album = Vulgar Display of Power
Released = February 25, 1992
Recorded = 1991
Genre = Groove metal
Power ballad
Length = 6:32
Writer = Pantera
Label = Eastwest Records
Producer = Terry Date
Chart position =
Last single = "Mouth for War" (1992)
This single = "This Love" (1992)
Next single = "Hollow" (1992)
Misc = Extra track listing
Album = Vulgar Display of Power
Type = studio
prev_track = "Fucking Hostile"
prev_no = 4
this_track = "This Love"
track_no = 5
next_track = "Rise"
next_no = 6

"This Love" is a popular song by the heavy metal band Pantera. It was first released on the band's best selling album, "Vulgar Display of Power", and later on the band's compilation album, '. A live version was also included on '.

Video

The music video for "This Love" was directed by Kevin Kerslake and shows the band playing on a rooftop while smoke drifts over them. The shot cuts to scenes of prostitution and the chorus shows the band inside, playing on a stage, cutting between this and the rooftop. The prostitute gets into a cab which is occupied by another man, who tries to rape her. From the last moments of the video, it appears that she kills him, because she is seen dragging him from the cab and leaving him by the roadside.

In pop culture

*An uncredited MIDI version appeared in the 1994 computer game "" on Maps 18 and 27. [http://www.doomworld.com/linguica/doomcovers/]
*The music video for this song appeared on MTV's "Beavis and Butt-Head" and is available on "".

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