"Vulgar Display of Power" has been listed as one of the "1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die". Chad Bowar of About.com ranked the album at number one in his list of the "Best Heavy Metal Albums of 1992" stating that "Pantera was head and shoulders above the rest of the field.". He also ranked the album second in the "Best Heavy Metal Albums of the 1990s" list behind Megadeth's "Rust in Peace" (1990). In October 2011, the album was ranked number four on "Guitar World" magazine's list of "The Top 10 Guitar Albums of 1992". The album was ranked number one on "Loudwire"'s "Top 11 Metal Albums of the 1990s" and their "Top 10 Albums of 1992" and the song "Walk" was ranked number seven in their "10 Catchiest Metal Songs". "Loudwire" also listed four of the album's songs in their list of the "10 Best Pantera songs", they placed "This Love" in seventh, "Mouth for War" in fifth, "Fucking Hostile" in third and "Walk" in first. IGN named "Vulgar Display of Power" the eleventh most influential heavy metal album ever on their list of the "Top 25 Metal Albums". They said about the album: