Metal Blade
2011
1. Treat Me Right
2. Call The Man
3. Into The Ground
4. 8
5. Everything's Turning To Night
6. Windmills And Chimes
7. American Dream
8. Walk In The Blue Light
9. Horseman
10. Death In 1st Person
11. Nothing Left
12. All Your Sins - Reprise
Pentagram are a classic name in American doom metal and I've liked them well enough over the years. The only problem with this band is they're not a very consistent producer of new material to say the least. Then when they do release music half of it is re-recordings of their old stuff. You've gotta admit there is a lot of living off past glories with this band. I like to call this band disease Diannoism, but at least their music is better.
Now let's get down to the music and the album. This is pretty enjoyable I have to say. If you want a groovy American stoner/doom album than you could do a lot worse. This isn't exactly anything new in many ways, but I like the sound and the songs are good if sometimes familiar. This isn't really anything to actually measure up to the band in their classic period, but fans of the band will find some worthy material here. If you want to sit back and relax with somewhat retro sounding groove stuff than you could do worse than this. Probably a good album to enjoy something green to.
To sum this album up... it's Pentagram and it ain't bad. If you like this band and stoner/doom stuff than this is pretty cool. Not anything to bring the band back to the forefront and maybe not the full original album some fans are craving, but a good sounding listen. Basically a good album if you don't read into it/overanalyze it too much.
Highlights: Call The Man, Treat Me Right, Windmills And Chimes
Rating - 3.5/5
2. Call The Man
3. Into The Ground
4. 8
5. Everything's Turning To Night
6. Windmills And Chimes
7. American Dream
8. Walk In The Blue Light
9. Horseman
10. Death In 1st Person
11. Nothing Left
12. All Your Sins - Reprise
Pentagram are a classic name in American doom metal and I've liked them well enough over the years. The only problem with this band is they're not a very consistent producer of new material to say the least. Then when they do release music half of it is re-recordings of their old stuff. You've gotta admit there is a lot of living off past glories with this band. I like to call this band disease Diannoism, but at least their music is better.
Now let's get down to the music and the album. This is pretty enjoyable I have to say. If you want a groovy American stoner/doom album than you could do a lot worse. This isn't exactly anything new in many ways, but I like the sound and the songs are good if sometimes familiar. This isn't really anything to actually measure up to the band in their classic period, but fans of the band will find some worthy material here. If you want to sit back and relax with somewhat retro sounding groove stuff than you could do worse than this. Probably a good album to enjoy something green to.
To sum this album up... it's Pentagram and it ain't bad. If you like this band and stoner/doom stuff than this is pretty cool. Not anything to bring the band back to the forefront and maybe not the full original album some fans are craving, but a good sounding listen. Basically a good album if you don't read into it/overanalyze it too much.
Highlights: Call The Man, Treat Me Right, Windmills And Chimes
Rating - 3.5/5
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