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..."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 [along] with a dash of inventiveness..." - Rating: B Entertainment Weekly (3/24/00, p.102)
- "...resumes their scorched-earth policy with vigor....dropping aural anvils [along] with a dash of inventiveness..." - Rating: B Q (6/00, p.112)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...Pantera's attempt to upgrade [Judas Priest's] BRITISH STEEL-era pure metal spirit....unequivocal heavy metalness..." Q (6/00, p.112)
- 3 stars out of 5 - "...Pantera's attempt to upgrade [Judas Priest's] 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..." 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..." 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 (Magazine)
(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..." NME (Magazine)
(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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