Editing Vulgar Display of Power (section)

==Title and artwork==
The title of the album is taken from a line in the 1973 film ''[[The Exorcist (film)|The Exorcist]]''.<ref name="revolver2010-7"/><ref name="vulgar20">{{cite magazine|url=http://loudwire.com/panteras-vulgar-display-of-power-turns-20/|title=Pantera's 'Vulgar Display of Power' Turns 20|magazine=[[Loudwire]]|first=Amy|last=Sciarretto|date=February 25, 2012|access-date=October 17, 2022}}</ref> (Priest: "If you're the Devil, why not make the straps disappear?". Girl: "That's much too vulgar a display of power, Karras.")<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-04-11 |title=The Exorcist: The 5 Scariest Quotes (& The 5 Most Profound) |url=https://screenrant.com/the-exorcist-movie-best-quotes-scary-profound/ |access-date=2022-07-16 |website=ScreenRant |language=en-US}}</ref> In April 2007, the title was used for the book ''A Vulgar Display of Power: Courage and Carnage at the Alrosa Villa'', which includes many Pantera song titles as chapter headings. The book details the incidents leading up to the [[Columbus nightclub shooting|murder of Dimebag Darrell]] in 2004.<ref name="murderbook">{{cite news|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news.aspx?mode=Article&newsitemID=88441|title=DIMEBAG Murder Book Now Available On GOOGLE|work=[[Blabbermouth.net]]|date=January 14, 2008|access-date=May 24, 2012}}</ref><ref name = "googlebook">{{cite book| last = Armold| first = Chris| title = A Vulgar Display of Power: Courage and Carnage at the Alrosa Villa| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=s_VDMQAACAAJ| year = 2007| publisher = MJS Music & Entertainment| isbn = 9780976291770 }}</ref>

The album's cover depicts a man being punched in the face and was shot by photographer Brad Guice, who also shot the cover photo for ''Cowboys from Hell'';<ref name="revolver2010-7"/> Dimebag Darrell originally came up with the idea while playing around with a photocopier, and moving a photo around on the bed of the photocopier as the lamp was moving to get a distorted, smeared look of the face on the photo.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGHGv6kvFlc|title=Pantera Tell The Story of 'Vulgar Display of Power' [Full Documentary]|date=September 15, 2023 |via=www.youtube.com}}</ref> The band told their label that they wanted "something vulgar, like a dude getting punched".<ref name="revolver2010-7"/> The first version of the cover that the label brought to the band showed a boxer with a boxing glove, but the band did not like it, so the label produced a second version, with the bare fist.<ref name="revolver2010-7"/> A popular rumor stirred up by Vinnie Paul was that the man on the cover was paid $10 a punch and was hit in the face a total of 31<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/N2K-AS-2iAk Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20161230115631/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2K-AS-2iAk Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web|title=Vinnie Paul Wikipedia Fact or Fiction|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2K-AS-2iAk|website=YouTube| date=November 30, 2016 |publisher=Loudwire}}{{cbignore}}</ref> (Rex Brown claiming 32)<ref>Archived at [https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/6X1zH9rNEYM Ghostarchive]{{cbignore}} and the [https://web.archive.org/web/20161214213937/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X1zH9rNEYM&gl=US&hl=en Wayback Machine]{{cbignore}}: {{cite web|title=Rex Brown Wikipedia Fact Or Fiction|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6X1zH9rNEYM|website=YouTube| date=December 14, 2016 |publisher=Loudwire}}{{cbignore}}</ref> times to get the right picture.<ref name="revolver2010-7"/> However, Guice dispelled this when he confirmed that the man, a hired model named Sean Cross, was never actually hit.<ref name="revolver2010-7"/>