Reception
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Allmusic | |
Blabbermouth.net | 8/10 |
Entertainment Weekly | B+ |
It reached number 4 on the Billboard Top 200 charts, 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, 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."
Entertainment Weekly (3/24/00, p. 102) - "...resumes their scorched-earth policy with vigor....dropping aural anvils with a dash of inventiveness..." - Rating: B+
Q magazine (6/00, p. 112) - 3 stars out of 5 - "Pantera's attempt to upgrade British Steel-era pure metal spirit....unequivocal heavy metalness."
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."
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."
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."
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