Reinventing the Steel

Unsurprisingly, there is very little "reinventing" going on here—PANTERA are content to happily regurgitate every single good idea they've had since their much-acclaimed Vulgar Display of Power release (arguably their finest effort to date),and to their credit, they do it extremely well. On the first couple of listens, much of this come across as just a generic copy of the group's past recordings, from the production to the actual musical ideas, but deeper probing uncovers a slew of subtle ho...

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