Reinventing the Steel
Occupation
- Vocals: Phil Anselmo
- Guitar: Dimebag Darrell
- Bass: Rex Brown
- Drums: Vinnie Paul
Reinventing the Steel is the ninth and final studio album by the American thrash metal band Pantera. The album was released on 14 March 2000 by East West Records. It reached as its predecessor, The Great Southern Trendkill number four on the Billboard 200, the song Revolution Is My Name 2001 was nominated for the Grammy Award for Performance Best Metal.
Formation and style
In Reinventing the Steel brothers Vinnie Paul and Dimebag Darrell production took over for the first time even without strain producer Terry Date. Sterling Winfield acted as co - producer. In the booklet Date but is thanked for " telephone Inspiration". The band took a lot of time until she was satisfied with the result. Slayer guitarist Kerry King played a Outtro of the Goddamn Electric. According to the booklet this happened backstage at Ozzfest in Dallas on 13 July 1999 in one take. In the next Lyrics Black Sabbath and Slayer be mentioned literally. Several texts are about the band itself and its setting. The album is also dedicated to " the fans ", referred to as "brothers and sisters ". Musically, it builds on without major innovations to the classic albums.
Reception
Frank Albrecht of Rock Hard magazine called Reinventing the Steel as " the optimum plate to properly blow off steam once again ." The band had " concentrated on their traditional strengths ," the album was "not a poor imitation " of Cowboys from Hell and Vulgar Display of Power. The production was " top notch ". He evaluated with nine out of ten. Steve Huey of Allmusic missed his hand the freshness of these albums and saw the Reinventing the Steel is not on par with those. The plate is in a " predictable manner " good. He missed three out of five stars. Gregory Britsch of Laut.de awarded four out of five stars and wrote: " The steel was certainly not reinvented, but just Dimebags virtuoso guitar playing can always come up with some moments of surprise. "