PANTERA 'REINVENTING THE STEEL' - LP

Pantera’s ninth and final album didn’t tear up the barbarically groove-smashed blueprint the Texan titans drew up in the Nineties — and for that we’re forever grateful. Dropped in 2000 during the height of nu-metal, the record instead reinforced the band’s steel-eyed savagery, delivering 10 songs of imposing thrash (“Hellbound”), weed-and-whiskey-infused noise-blues (“Goddamn Electric”) and self-reverential sludge-metal singalongs (“I’ll Cast a Shadow”). Anthemic, aggressive, unendingly heavy — Reinventing the Steel firmly secured Pantera’s place in the metal pantheon. Presented on “marbled white and southern flames yellow”-colored vinyl