Rhino is reinventing Pantera's final album as a remixed and expanded edition this fall, for its 20th anniversary.

Reinventing The Steel, released in the spring of 2000, is coming back October 30 as a bonus-packed 3CD set that pairs the remastered original album with a brand-new remix by the band's longtime producer Terry Date. (This album was one of their only heavy metal works not to be produced by Date, who had collaborated with the group since 1990's Cowboys From Hell.) The set also includes 19 bonus tracks, including rare radio edits of songs, five covers from the same era released on various compilations, and an instrumental rough mix of the album. A 180-gram double-vinyl version, limted to 5000 copies and slated for January 8 of next year, will pair the new mix with a bonus LP of the five covers and three of the radio edits.

The group's fifth album to feature the classic lineup - brothers "Dimebag" Darrell Abbott and Vinnie Paul on guitar and drums, vocalist Phil Anselmo and bassist Rex Brown - was less turbulent than its predecessor, 1996's The Great Southern Trendkill. (Anselmo, struggling with substance abuse issues, chose to record his vocal tracks separately once the band had laid down their tracks.) But Abbott later compared the sessions to "pulling teeth...[Anselmo] didn't like any of the material, and it was always just like this head-butting contest." Nonetheless, critics enjoyed another round of Pantera's signature groove metal, and Reinventing The Steel matched Trendkill's Billboard chart peak of No. 4 (although it was only certified gold by the RIAA compared to the platinum discs their last four releases earned).

While Pantera's last years were also troubled - a European tour was canceled in the wake of the September 11 attacks and Anselmo threw himself into side project work after telling the Abbott brothers he was planning on taking a break - the brothers bounced back with a new group, Damageplan, in 2003. Tragedy struck a year later when Dimebag was shot and killed during a club gig. But Pantera's groundbreaking rock sound remains beloved by many, with each of their ATCO/EastWest albums having received bonus-packed expanded editions from Rhino.

Three of Date's new mixes can be heard above, and the album can be pre-ordered below.

Reinventing The Steel: 20th Anniversary Edition (EastWest/Rhino, 2020)

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Disc 1: New Terry Date Remix (previously unreleased)

1. Hellbound
2. Goddamn Electric
3. Yesterday Don't Mean Shit
4. You've Got To Belong To It
5. Revolution Is My Name
6. Death Rattle
7. We'll Grind That Axe For a Long Time
8. Uplift
9. It Makes Them Disappear
10. I'll Cast a Shadow

Disc 2: Remastered Album and Bonus Tracks

1. Hellbound
2. Goddamn Electric
3. Yesterday Don't Mean Shit
4. You've Got To Belong To It
5. Revolution Is My Name
6. Death Rattle
7. We'll Grind That Axe For a Long Time
8. Uplift
9. It Makes Them Disappear
10. I'll Cast a Shadow
11. Goddamn Electric (Radio Mix)
12. Revolution Is My Name (Radio Edit)
13. I'll Cast a Shadow (Radio Edit)
14. Goddamn Electric (Radio Edit)

Tracks 1-10 released as EastWest Records America 62451-2, 2000
Track 12 from EastWest Records America promo CD single PRCD 7421-2, 2000
Track 13 from EastWest Records America promo CD single PRCD 7458-2, 2000
Track 14 from EastWest Records America promo CD single PRCD 7446-2, 2000

Disc 3: Bonus Tracks (* previously unreleased)

1. Avoid The Light
2. Immortally Insane
3. Cat Scratch Fever
4. Hole In The Sky
5. Electric Funeral
6. Hellbound (Instrumental Rough Mix) *
7. Goddamn Electric (Instrumental Rough Mix) *
8. Yesterday Don't Mean Shit (Instrumental Rough Mix) *
9. You've Got To Belong To It (Instrumental Rough Mix) *
10. Revolution Is My Name (Instrumental Rough Mix) *
11. Death Rattle (Instrumental Rough Mix) *
12. We'll Grind That Axe For a Long Time (Instrumental Rough Mix) *
13. Uplift (Instrumental Rough Mix) *
14. It Makes Them Disappear (Instrumental Rough Mix) *
15. I'll Cast a Shadow (Instrumental Rough Mix) *

Track 1 from Dracula 2000: Music From The Dimension Motion Picture - Columbia CK 85322, 2000
Track 2 from Heavy Metal 2000: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - Restless 01877-73733-2, 2000
Track 3 from Detroit Rock City: Music From The Motion Picture - Mercury 314 546 389-2, 1999
Track 4 from "Revolution Is My Name" Japanese CD single - EastWest AMCY-7261, 2000
Track 5 from Nativity In Black II: A Tribute To Black Sabbath - Divine Recordings/Priority P2 26095, 2000