April 29, 2000
REINVENTING THE STEEL
By MIKE ROSS

REINVENTING THE STEEL
Pantera
(Warner)

When today's metal bands are either playing with symphonies or rapping - you decide which is worse - it's refreshing to hear a band that still knows how to deliver real headbanging tunes.

Yes, heavy metal should be fast. It should be angry. It should be loud. It should mutilate sacred cows and leave the carcasses rotting in the fields for fools to wonder if aliens might be responsible. These are not rules - they are physical laws. Pantera follows them to the letter on a sharp-edged, high-flying album that begs to be turned to 11.

Track Listing 1.Hellbound
  02.Goddamn Electric
  03.Yesterday Don't Mean Shit
  04.You've Got To Belong To It
  05.Revolution Is My Name
  06.Death Rattle
  07.We'll Grind That Axe For A Long Time
  08.Uplift
  09.It Makes Them Disappear
  10.I'll Cast A Shadow