"Becoming" is a song by American heavy metal band Pantera from their seventh album Far Beyond Driven.

The song was conceived as an extensive series of high-speed double bass drum exercises by Vinnie Paul, and then guitarist Dimebag Darrell added riffs and a solo based on his first whammy pedal, the Digitech Whammy.

Vocalist and lyricist Phil Anselmo described the song as "gloating ... puffing the chest out ... very tongue in cheek, very much me playing around with words, and throwing a bit of a curveball at the listener".

They had reached this pinnacle; now they were kind of tapering off and writing more commercial stuff, whereas we realized our strong point, once again, was sticking to heavy metal and making it as heavy as our style would allow.

"[3] Rolling Stone called the "badass"[2] song one of Pantera's most powerful and bluesy, a "rhythmic steam roller",[1] with "next-level guitar pyrotechnics".