Editing Metal Magic (section)

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{{Infobox album
| name       = Metal Magic
| type       = studio
| artist     = [[Pantera]]
| cover      = PanteraMetalMagic.jpg
| alt        =
| released   = June 10, 1983<ref name="Loudwire">{{Cite web |last=Wiederhorn |first=Jon |title=39 Years Ago: Pantera Release Their First Album 'Metal Magic' |url=https://loudwire.com/pantera-metal-magic-album-anniversary/ |date=June 10, 2022 |access-date=March 27, 2023 |website=Loudwire |language=en}}</ref>
| recorded   = 
| studio     = Pantego Sound, [[Pantego, Texas]]
| genre      = {{flat list|
* [[Glam metal]]<ref>{{cite web |last=Ewing |first=Jerry |date=January 15, 2019 |title=Every Pantera album ranked from worst to best |url=https://www.loudersound.com/features/every-pantera-album-ranked-from-worst-to-best |access-date=May 26, 2021 |website=[[Metal Hammer]]}}</ref>
* [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]]<ref name="AllMusic">{{cite web |url=http://www.allmusic.com/album/metal-magic-mw0000999246 |title=Metal Magic - Pantera |access-date=July 2, 2012 |last=Rivadavia |first=Eduardo |publisher=[[AllMusic]]}}</ref>
* {{nowrap|[[hard rock]]}}<ref name="AllMusic" />
}}
| length     = 39:37
| label      = Metal Magic
| producer   = [[Jerry Abbott]] & Pantera
| prev_title =
| prev_year  =
| next_title = [[Projects in the Jungle]]
| next_year  = 1984
}}
{{Album reviews
|rev1 = [[AllMusic]]
|rev1score = {{Rating|1.5|5}}<ref name="AllMusic" />
| rev2 = ''[[Martin Popoff|Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal]]''
| rev2Score = 6/10<ref name="martin">{{cite book |last1=Popoff |first1=Martin |author-link1=Martin Popoff |title=The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 2: The Eighties |publisher=[[Collector's Guide Publishing]] |date=November 1, 2005 |location=[[Burlington, Ontario]], Canada |page=258 |isbn=978-1894959315}}</ref>
|rev3 = The Daily Vault
|rev3score = C+<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dailyvault.com/toc.php5?review=2725 |title=The Daily Vault Music Reviews : Metal Magic |access-date=December 23, 2012 |last=Thalen |first=Christopher |work=The Daily Vault |date=January 10, 2005}}</ref>
|rev4 = ''[[Metal Forces]]''
|rev4score = 8/10<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Pantera - Metal Magic |magazine=[[Metal Forces]] |year=1984 |first=Steve |last=Hammonds |issue=3 |url=http://www.metalforcesmagazine.com/site/album-review-pantera-metal-magic/ |access-date=July 2, 2012}}</ref>
| noprose=yes
}}

'''''Metal Magic''''' is the debut studio album by American [[Heavy metal music|heavy metal]] band [[Pantera]], released on June 10, 1983, by Metal Magic Records.<ref name="Loudwire" /> Like the band's next three releases, it is musically oriented toward a [[Glam metal|glam]]/heavy metal sound influenced by [[Kiss (band)|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 [[country music]] songwriter and producer and the father of [[Vinnie Paul]] and [[Dimebag Darrell]] (then known as Diamond Darrell), who were 19 and 16 years old, respectively, at the time of release.