Metal Magic

Metal Magic is the debut studio album by American heavy metal band Pantera, released on June 10, 1983 by Metal Magic Records. Like the band's next three releases, it is musically oriented toward a glam/heavy metal sound influenced by Kiss and Van Halen, rather than the groove metal style they became famous for playing in the 1990s. The album was released on the band's own label (also called Metal Magic) and produced by Jerry Abbott (under the alias "The Eld'n"), a noted country music songwriter and producer, and father of "Diamond" Darrell and Vince Abbott, who were 16 and 19 years old, respectively, at the time of release.

Reception

In a retrospective review for AllMusic, Eduardo Rivadavia gave Metal Magic a largely negative ranking of 1.5 stars out of a possible 5. He described the album as "exceedingly average hard rock and metal misfires" with only two promising songs in "I'll Be Alright" and "Widowmaker". Furthermore, the album's "strongest asset" even in these early years was Dimebag Darrell's guitar playing.

Track listing

All credits adapted from the original LP.

Personnel

Pantera

• Terry Glaze – vocals, guitars
• Darrell Abbott – guitars
• Rex Rocker – bass
• Vince Abbott – drums

Production

• Jerry Abbott – production, engineering, mixing
• M.C. Rather – mastering
• Recorded at Pantego Sound, Pantego, Texas

References

1. Power Metal (album)
2. Pantera
3. Projects in the Jungle
4. Jerry Abbott
5. Dimebag Darrell
6. I Am the Night (album)
7. List of heavy metal festivals
8. Pantera discography
9. Heavy metal music
10. Death Magic Doom
11. List of nu metal bands
12. Magic realism
13. Watain
14. Rex Brown
15. Bad Magic
16. Black metal
17. Portal (band)
18. Metal Gear
19. Magic Dragon
20. Brandon Sanderson