Pentagram - Relentless

You're Soon To Meet The Truth Of Death

#91) Pentagram - Relentless (1985)

 1. Death Row
 2. All Your Sins
 3. Sign of the Wolf (Pentagram)
 4. The Ghoul
 5. Relentless
 6. Run My Course
 7. Sinister
 8. The Deist
 9. You're Lost I'm Free
 10. Dying World
 11. 20 Buck Spin

theme time again, for this round i chose "80s Metal"

Pentagram is another band that has a long, crazy history. i gave part of that history, up to about 1976, in my previous post about them, First Daze Here/First Daze Here Too. after this time period the band was pretty much defunct until '78 when Liebling joined a friends band. they changed the name to Pentagram, recorded a 7" and then broke up about a year later. in 1980 Liebling joined the band Death Row. they released a few demos as Death Row, changed the name to Pentagram in '84 and finally in 1985 the first Pentagram full length was released, 14 years after the band originally formed. when it was first released it was a self-titled album but later when it was reissued the name was changed to "Relentless" and the track order was changed, i'm not really sure why.
this is some great early doom. i love the fuzzed out guitar tone and Liebling has a great voice. there are too many great riffs on this album to go over them all but the opening and closing tracks had some particularly memorable parts. i don't really know what to say about this record, it's a classic and Pentagram is fuckin rad. recommended

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.