Pentagram - First Daze Here/First Daze Here Too

I Only See The Graveyard Dancer Who Lead Me Down Into The Abyss

#59a) Pentagram - First Daze Here (2001)

 1. Forever My Queen
 2. When the Screams Come
 3. Walk in the Blue Light
 4. Starlady
 5. Lazylady
 6. Review Your Choices
 7. Hurricane
 8. Livin' in a Ram's Head
 9. Earth Flight
 10. 20 Buck Spin
 11. Be Forewarned
 12. Last Days Here

59b) First Daze Here Too (2006)

 Disc 1

 1. Wheel of Fortune
 2. When the Screams Come
 3. Under My Thumb
 4. Smokescreen
 5. Teaser
 6. Little Games
 7. Much Too Young to Know
 
Disc 2

 1. Virgin Death
 2. Yes I Do
 3. Ask No More
 4. Man
 5. Be Forewarned
 6. Catwalk
 7. Die In Your Sleep
 8. Frustration
 9. Target
 10. Everything's Turning to Night
 11. Take Me Away
 12. Nightmare Gown
 13. Cartwheel
 14. Cat & Mouse
 15. Show 'em How


theme time again, this time adam_biedermann got to choose and he went with 70s. at first i thought "cool, that'll finally get me to listen to some Pentagram" a band that i've been meaning to check out for a while now. however my enthusiasm was quickly curbed when i discovered that though Pentagram formed in '71 and released a few singles, they didn't actually release a full length until 1985. curses... luckily Relapse came to my rescue with this 3 disc collection of recordings spanning '71 to '76, which covers what many consider the "classic" line-up of the band, Bobby Liebling on vocals, Vincent McAllister on guitar, Greg Mayne on bass and Geof O'Keefe on drums. these discs contain some of the 7" tracks as well as a bunch of demos and practice space recordings, or warehouse recordings as the band refers to them.

Pentagram was formed in '71 by Bobby and Geof who were both unhappy with their current bands. over the next 5 years the band entered the studio several times, wrote nearly 80 original songs, broke up and reunited without ever getting a contract or any real mainstream recognition. it's a shame because this is some great old school metal, the first wave when metal bands still had big fuzzy blues riffs and big fuzzy hair. these guys were basically America's lesser known version of Black Sabbath who, along with Blue Cheer, are cited as big influences on the band. in this collection of early stuff you can hear the band kind of bounce between more traditional 70s hard rock and that early metal sound.