Pantera

Pantera's last bumpin' and grindin' offensive of mid-tempo headbang and mosh pit balladry has no time for setups or the personal musical expression Anselmo had been messing with on Far Beyond Driven and Trendkill. Nonstop topped-out groove, featuring little in between, Reinventing the Steel is just impossible to listen to without moving around, and the dudes come off as the funkiest rock band since ZZ Top. Fittingly, their last song is "I'll Cast A Shadow," about the influence they were having on music, a legacy now extending well into the present day.

When Pantera belter Philip Anselmo sings, "It's like religion without a Bible," on "Hellbound,"
he could be talking about his own band. As Anselmo says in the midst of his metal-revivalist
rant "Goddamn Electric," Pantera tap into a part of you that's "always sixteen" and restore
your trust "in whiskey and weed and Black Sabbath." Despite the title of their tenth album,
the great thing about these terrifying Texans is that they don't, in fact, reinvent... More >