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[John Kimble]

Reinventing the steel is so bad, not the worst offender in this thread by any means but such an odd choice for a band that big. It just smacks of budgetary constraints or rushing to meet a deadline. I could certainly have seen it as a Hellyeah cover though.
Odd as well because while I don't think their other covers were amazing, they were certainly iconic.

[The Great Cull]

Reinventing is a bag of shite. They were a spent force by then. I remember being gutted when I first bought it. Another stinker with a skinkier cover from the same year is The World Needs A Hero. Most of the 80s and 90s bands had run out of juice by then.

[Pagan Saviour]

Must update the title got caught out with that regurgitate yolk in work today

World needs a hero is god awful - artwork is horrific too.

[Carnage]

I've always thought this was particularly shite.

[Giggles]

I think that's pretty cool actually.

Anyways, here's some heavy moo-tal:

[Mower Liberation Front]

[astfgyl]

Reinventing is a bag of shite. They were a spent force by then. I remember being gutted when I first bought it. Another stinker with a skinkier cover from the same year is The World Needs A Hero. Most of the 80s and 90s bands had run out of juice by then.

I was so gutted with Reinventing.. I really was but I went back a couple of years ago and while it's still not great, I've forgiven it somewhat but that's probably just being strung out for new stuff by them.

The cover is unforgivable though even now after all this time

[Eoin McLove]

Reinventing is shockingly bad on the artwork front and fairly throwaway as an album but you could at least advance the case that they moved directly against the trend of nu metal with that album by referencing old school metal. Still a poor album overall.

[Trev]

Dance Of Death surely takes the prize

Apart from BNW and AMOLAD all the reunion album covers have been pretty shit. The Eddies on the last two have been decent ideas, but with no background they just look unfinished.

[Carnage]

I like Death On The Road's cover, but then they had a long way to go compared to the preceding album.

[Ducky]

My biggest peeve is what the fuck is Eddie supposed to be holding in his right hand on The Final Frontier's cover? A tiny space wrench? It's also so narrow it doesn't fit the proportions right either.

[Thorn]

A lot of these covers I can let go or even like because they have a certain naive charm or youthful Metal cheesiness like the Hallows Eve  for example but Reinventing The Steel is a whole other level of awful. Worst thing on the thread no question. Eddies post Riggs are a a pale, nay, cartoonish imitation of the real deal.

[GravyCapone]

Another stinker with a skinkier cover from the same year is The World Needs A Hero.

TWNAH came out in 2001 but yeah it's not a great album at all, Reinventing was 2000

[John Kimble]

Reinventing is shockingly bad on the artwork front and fairly throwaway as an album but you could at least advance the case that they moved directly against the trend of nu metal with that album by referencing old school metal. Still a poor album overall.

Yeah, I'd be hard pushed to remember anything off that album, but to be fair they didn't go down the route of Machine Head or Fear Factory. It's a bang average album but it's certainly not nu-metal.

[Eoin McLove]

Reinventing is shockingly bad on the artwork front and fairly throwaway as an album but you could at least advance the case that they moved directly against the trend of nu metal with that album by referencing old school metal. Still a poor album overall.

Yeah, I'd be hard pushed to remember anything off that album, but to be fair they didn't go down the route of Machine Head or Fear Factory. It's a bang average album but it's certainly not nu-metal.

Yep, it was in fact, if nothing else, a statement of intent. They were making it clear that they weren't a part of that movement. I listened to it recently, or a few songs anyway, and it's grand. Catchy and fun but it can't stand up beside Cowboys, Vulgar or Far... Beyond Driven (you just can't successfully abbreviate that one, can you    )