Reinventing the Steel

In Australia a two-disc Tour Edition of the album was released. The first disc consists of the album proper, while the second is an unofficial hits compilation. This is now a collector's item. An edited version of the song "Death Rattle" was used on an episode of SpongeBob SquarePants titled "Pre-Hibernation Week". This track was also featured on SpongeBob SquarePants: Original Theme Highlights, released August 14, 2001.

Lyrics and style

Reinventing the Steel contains lyrics mostly about the band itself, as on "We'll Grind that Axe for a Long Time" (where the band members tell about how they have kept it "true" throughout the years, while many of their peers "sucked up for the fame") and "I'll Cast a Shadow" (about Pantera's influence on the genre). There are also songs about their fans, like "Goddamn Electric" and "You've Got to Belong To It". "Goddamn Electric" mentions Black Sabbath, and Slayer, two of the band's main influences. The band members dedicated Reinventing the Steel to their fans, whom they viewed as their brothers and sisters.

Cover art

The cover art is a snapshot taken from the video of "Revolution Is My Name", the first single of the album.

Other notes

Unlike other Pantera releases, two b-sides were recorded during the Reinventing the Steel sessions, those being "Avoid The Light" and "Immortally Insane", found on the Dracula 2000 and Heavy Metal 2000 soundtracks, respectively.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	^[1]
Alternative Press	^[2]
The Austin Chronicle	^[3]
Blabbermouth.net	8/10^[4]
Chronicles of Chaos	7/10^[5]
Entertainment Weekly	B+^[6]
NME	6/10^[2]
Q	^[2]
Robert Christgau	^[7]
Rolling Stone	^[8]

It reached number 4 on the Billboard 200 chart, number 8 on the Top Canadian Albums chart, and number 5 on the Top Internet Albums chart. The album's fifth track, "Revolution Is My Name", reached number 28 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Tracks. The album was certified gold by the RIAA on May 2, 2000,^[9] however, the album has yet to reach platinum status, making it Pantera's only major label studio album not to reach sales of 1,000,000.

Rolling Stone (5/25/00, p. 73) - 3.5 stars out of 5 - "Metal-revivalist....relying on the genre's primal elements of rage and analog noise...chopped up with squealing dissonance....brutal enough to please underground purists and familiar enough for weekend headbangers."^[8]

Entertainment Weekly (3/24/00, p. 102) - "...resumes their scorched-earth policy with vigor....dropping aural anvils [along] with a dash of inventiveness..." - Rating: B+^[6]

Q magazine (6/00, p. 112) - 3 stars out of 5 - "Pantera's attempt to upgrade [Judas Priest's] British Steel-era pure metal spirit....unequivocal heavy metalness."^[2]

Alternative Press (7/00, pp. 108–9) - 5 out of 5 - "An undiluted, unvarnished slab of riffs paying distinct homage to Judas Priest's British Steel, and not just in a titular sense, but in basic song construction."^[2]

CMJ (4/3/00, p. 32) - "Crammed with everything they've used to revolutionize metal....so old-school it could have been easily made in between the quartet's back-to-back classics."^[2]

NME (4/15/00, p. 34) - 6 out of 10 - "An unfashionably old-school metal album....it's Pantera's bid to herald the rebirth of bullet-belt, cut-off denim metal....It's a solid album, oozing drunk-as-hell metal spirit."^[2]

Track listing

All songs written and composed by Pantera^[10].

No.	Title	Length
1.	"Hellbound"	2:41
2.	"Goddamn Electric"	4:56
3.	"Yesterday Don't Mean Shit"	4:19
4.	"You've Got to Belong to It"	4:13
5.	"Revolution Is My Name"	5:15
6.	"Death Rattle"	3:17
7.	"We'll Grind That Axe for a Long Time"	3:44
8.	"Uplift"	3:45
9.	"It Makes Them Disappear"	6:21
10.	"I'll Cast a Shadow"	5:22
Total length:		43:53

Japanese edition bonus track
No.	Title	Length
11.	"Hole in the Sky" (Black Sabbath cover)	4:17
Total length:		48:10

Personnel

Pantera

Phil Anselmo – lead vocals
Dimebag Darrell – guitar, backing vocals
Rex Brown – bass guitar, backing vocals
Vinnie Paul – drums

Additional musicians

Kerry King – outro guitar on "Goddamn Electric"

Technical personnel

Sterling Winfield – producer, engineer, mixing
Dimebag Darrell – producer, engineer, mixing
Vinnie Paul – producer, engineer, mixing

Chart performance

Album

Chart (2000)	Peak position
Australian Albums Chart^[11]	2
Austrian Albums Chart^[12]	26
Canadian Albums Chart^[13]	8
Dutch Albums Chart^[14]	55
Finnish Albums Chart^[15]	3
French Albums Chart^[16]	21
German Albums Chart^[17]	18
Irish Albums Chart^[18]	31
New Zealand Albums Chart^[19]	10
Norwegian Albums Chart^[20]	14
Swedish Albums Chart^[21]	27
Swiss Albums Chart^[22]	84
UK Album Chart^[23]	33
The Billboard 200^[13]	4

Singles

Song	Chart (2000)	Position
"Revolution Is My Name"	US Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks	28
"Revolution Is My Name"	UK Rock Chart	20
"I'll Cast a Shadow"	US Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks	37
"I'll Cast a Shadow"	UK Rock Chart	15

References

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↑ Krgin, Borivoj. "Pantera - Reinventing the Steel". Blabbermouth.net. Retrieved 2012-05-24.
↑ Schwarz, Paul (2000-08-12). "Pantera - Reinventing the Steel : Review". Chronicles of Chaos. Retrieved 2012-12-24.
↑ 6.0 6.1 Hiltbrand, David (2000-03-24). "Reinventing the Steel Review". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2012-05-13.
↑ Christgau, Robert. "CG: Pantera". RobertChristgau.com. Retrieved 2012-12-24.
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Studio albums	Metal Magic Projects in the Jungle I Am the Night Power Metal Cowboys from Hell Vulgar Display of Power Far Beyond Driven The Great Southern Trendkill Reinventing the Steel

Live albums	Official Live: 101 Proof

Extended plays	Walk Alive and Hostile E.P. Hostile Moments

Compilations	Far Beyond the Great Southern Cowboys' Vulgar Hits!

Box sets	Driven Downunder Tour '94 – Souvenir Collection

Singles	"Cowboys from Hell" "Cemetery Gates" "Psycho Holiday" "Mouth for War" "This Love" "Hollow" "Walk" "I'm Broken" "Planet Caravan" "5 Minutes Alone" "Becoming" "Drag the Waters" "Suicide Note Pt. I" "Floods" "Cat Scratch Fever" "Revolution Is My Name" "I'll Cast a Shadow" "Piss"

Video albums	Cowboys from Hell: The Videos For Those About to Rock Vulgar Video 3 Watch It Go 3 Vulgar Videos from Hell

Related bands	Arson Anthem Damageplan Down Gasoline Hellyeah Necrophagia Rebel Meets Rebel Southern Isolation Superjoint Ritual Viking Crown Eibon

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