Reinventing Hell: The Best of Pantera

Reinventing Hell: The Best of Pantera is a compilation album by the heavy metal band Pantera, released in 2003. The compilation includes an audio CD of sixteen tracks, plus a DVD with twelve music videos, two of them live. This album is the European version of The Best of Pantera: Far Beyond the Great Southern Cowboys' Vulgar Hits! and is almost identical. It has different artwork and a cardboard slip-over cover. It also has different tracks to its 'US Twin'.

1 Track listing
2 DVD music videos
3 Album notes
4 Credits

[edit] Track listing

All tracks by Pantera unless noted otherwise.

"Cowboys from Hell" – 4:06
"Domination" - 5:04
"Cemetery Gates" – 7:03
"Mouth for War" – 3:57
"Walk" – 5:16
"This Love" – 6:34
"Fucking Hostile" - 2:49
"Becoming" – 3:07
"I'm Broken" – 4:24
"5 Minutes Alone" – 5:51
"Planet Caravan" Black Sabbath cover (Osbourne, Iommi, Butler, Ward) – 4:04
"Drag the Waters" – 4:57
"Where You Come From" – 5:13
"Revolution Is My Name" – 5:19
"Immortally Insane" – 5:12
"The Badge" (Poison Idea) – 3:56

Tracks 1 - 3 are found on Cowboys from Hell.
Tracks 4 - 7 are found on Vulgar Display of Power.
Tracks 8 - 11 are found on Far Beyond Driven.
Track 12 is found on The Great Southern Trendkill.
Track 13 is found on Official Live: 101 Proof.
Track 14 is found on Reinventing The Steel.
Track 15 is found on Revolution Is My Name or the Heavy Metal 2000 soundtrack.
Track 16 is found on Far Beyond Driven (Japanese and Driven Downunder Editions Only) or 'Planet Caravan Part 1' and 'Planet Caravan Part 2' or 'The Crow Soundtrack'.

[edit] DVD music videos

"Cowboys from Hell"
"Psycho Holiday"
"Cemetery Gates"
"Mouth for War"
"This Love"
"Walk"
"5 Minutes Alone"
"I'm Broken"
"Drag the Waters"
"Domination" [Live]
"Primal Concrete Sledge" [Live]
"Revolution Is My Name"

[edit] Album notes

Dimebag Darrell :-

(On Pantera's success)"The thing about us is that we always stayed on the ground level with the fans, I'm a fuckin' fan myself - and we always had great interaction with them. They're us, we're them, and we're all stronger than all."

Vinnie Paul :-

(On Cowboys From Hell) "Cowboys is where everybody came into their own, along with the full-blown Pantera sound, that was actually the first song we wrote for the record. Basically it was abut us coming out of Texas and being out of place. People don't think of Texas as being a hot spot for heavy metal - they think of New York or L.A. or something like that - so it just seemed like the obvious concept for us."

Dimebag Darrell :-

(On style) "Now you could hear the chunk and the double-kick and all that stuff, that was one of those things that me and Vinnie perfected for a long time - the abrupt, tight, chugging stuff with the rhythmic breaks cuttin' iand out. Seems like a lot of people caught on to that after we brought it to the table."
(Style continued) "We've always done a bunch of musically diverse things, we were just showing a broader side f the band, the more melodic stuff we can do."
(On creating Vulgar) From going and playing sows all across the country, seeing what our material did to people, and what elements moved the crowd and did the most damage, that kind of set us up for Vulgar Display of Power."
(On creating Vulgar) "We just went in and said, 'We're gonna kill this motherfucker."

Vinnie Paul :-

(On Philip's Style) "I think the one thing Philip did the very best is that he always wrote straight from the heart. He never candy-coated anything or had a bullshit way of saying anything in his lyrics."
(On Far Beyond Driven) "We drove ourselves, that's for sure, we didn't debut at #1 for any other reason than all the fans we had made on tour. We still weren't a radio band or anything like that, so it was strictly word-of-mouth and the live shows that did it."

Dimebag Darrell :-

(On Far Beyond Driven) "We couldn't get airplay and nobody gave a fuck about it, but the fans sure did, we wrote the record for them."
(on I'm Broken) "a sound check - one of them ones where i'd walk in with a hangover from ripping it up night after night with everyone in every town, that's where a lot of the best riffs I ever wrote came from. I just played the first riff I thought of, Vinnie started kickin' in on it, Rex joined in - we didn't write the entire song on the spot, but we kept on toying with it and finally worked on it once we got into the studio."

Vinnie Paul :-

(On 5 Minutes Alone) "There was a guy in the front row in San Diego who was heckling Phil. Philip had finally had enough, so he incited the crowd to jump this guy's ass and beat the shit out of him on the spot, so he sued us. And when his dad called our manager , his exact quote was, 'You just give me five minutes alone with that Phil Anselmo guy and I'll show him who's bg daddy around here.' Phil's response was, 'You just give me five minutes alone with that cat' dad and I'll whoop his ass.' That's where that song came from."
(On The Badge) "We grew up playing many cover tunes and so many bands were our favourites, we would play all these songs in our rehersal studio and finally decided we should record some of that stuff, in case we ever had an opportunity to use it for something."

Dimebag Darrell :-

(On Drag the Waters) "That song is about a lifetime of dealing with people that you can't tell what they're really comin' at you for, or what their motives really are, you've got to drag the waters to get to the bottom and find out the truth."

Vinnie Paul :-

(On the bonus track) "It was justsomething a little more special for the fans, we knew that after four studio albums, and all that touring we'd done, a live record was definitely due, but to make it a litt bit more interesting, we wrote a couple of new songs for it.

Dimebag Darrell :-

(On I'll cast a shadow) "Usually we write, the songs come together really fast, but sometimes you'llbe drilling at one for hours before you realize it ain't workin'. This was one of those. we put it on a back burner, finished up all the other tunes, then went back to give it one more pull. We rearranged it, threw a few new parts in, and it really brought it to life. I think it ended up being the baddest-ass song on the whole record."

Vinnie Paul :-

(On Imortally insane) "We grew up around a bunch of the great Texas blues players and the blues bands around here, and all those elements stay ine you and start comin' out after a while."

Dimebag Darrell :-

(On Pantera's legacy) "Every time I hear a kick drum with that extra slap on top, or that chainsaw sound on the guitar, Iknow where it came from, we're just glad we can hand it down and everyone else can bring some new shit to the table and keep passing it on. I'm glad we could actually put a stamp out there that everybody could get a pull off of."

[edit] Credits

Mark McKenna – Art direction
Vinnie Paul – Drums, producer, mixing, engineer
Matt Lane – Mixing assistant
Ulrich Wild – Engineer
Phil Anselmo – Vocals
Sean Beavan – Assistant engineer
"Dimebag" Darrell – Guitar, producer, mixing
Neil Zlozower – Photography
Lamont Hyde – Assistant engineer
Jay Blakesberg – Photography
Sevie Bates – Art direction
Sterling Winfield – Producer, engineer, mixing assistant, mixing, assistant engineer
Steve Woolard – Discographical annotation
Emily Cagan – Project assistant
George Desota – Photography
Kenny Nemes – Project assistant
Steve Pokorny – Remastering
Joe Giron – Photography
Karen Ahmed – Compilation producer
Rex Brown – Bass
Valerie Valera – Project assistant
Randy Perry – Project assistant
Ginger Dettman – Project assistant
Hiro Arishima – Liner notes
Terence Butler – Arranger
John Atashian – Photography
Dorothy Stefanski – Editorial supervision
Ashely Maile – Photography
Bob King – Photography
Terry Date – Producer, engineer, mixing
Kim Davis – Compilation producer
Dan Hersch – Remastering
Tony Iommi – Arranger
Tim Kimsey – Mixing assistant
Ted Nugent – Arranger
Ozzy Osbourne – Arranger
Pantera – Arranger, Producer, mixing
John Kirkpatrick – Compilation producer