Artist.......: Pentagram
Album........: Motocultor Festival
Label........: n/a
Genre........: Metal
Catnr........: n/a
Source.......: DVBS
Rip.date.....: 2016-01-15
Str.date.....: 2015-08-14
Quality......: 248kbps/48.0kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.pentagramusa.com/
track title time
1. Motocultor Festival 44:58
* Death Row
* All Your Sins
* Sign Of The Wolf
* Forever My Queen
* Lay Down And Die
* When the Screams Come
* Curious Volume
* Dying World
* The Devil's Playground
* Relentless
* Be Forewarned
Runtime 44:58
Size 80.03
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One of the most enduring and influential underground bands in heavy metal
history, Pentagram's career was almost 15 years old by the time they finally
managed to record their first album. Though invariably led by mysterious
frontman Bobby Liebling, the band's volatile membership made it difficult to
maintain any kind of momentum and kept them confined to metal's outer fringes.
But interest in Pentagram's convoluted history continues to grow and their
crucial contributions to the development of heavy metal seem at last to be
receiving some of their late, lamented due.
Pentagram first came into existence in 1971 in Woodbridge, VA, when singer Bobby
Liebling met guitarist/drummer Geof O'Keefe. In the coming months, the duo
played with a variety of local musicians, including guitarist John Jennings,
bassist Vincent McAllister, and drummer Steve Martin, but by early 1972,
McAllister had switched to guitar, O'Keefe took over on drums, and Greg Mayne
joined on bass guitar. This lineup of Liebling, McAllister, Mayne, and O'Keefe
would remain intact for the next six years, and though they occasionally
performed under different names, including Virgin Death, Stone Bunny, and
Macabre (the last of which graced their first single, "Be Forewarned," in 1972),
they always inevitably returned to Pentagram. Another element of stability was
their musical direction, which never strayed too far from the distorted
psychedelic hard rock of heavy metal pioneers like Blue Cheer and the
Groundhogs. A set of independent 7" recordings, "Human Hurricane" and "When the
Screams Come" (this last was never released) preceded their first live
performance on December 15, 1973, by which time a visible Black Sabbath
influence had begun to take hold. Second guitarist Randy Palmer joined their
ranks mid-1974 and his addition coincided with Pentagram's most prolific period
of the decade, including close calls with record deals from both Columbia and
Casablanca Records. But by 1976, Palmer was out (briefly replaced by Marty
Iverson) and all of the band's professional prospects had dried up, leaving
Pentagram to grind to a halt at the end of the year.
After years of silence, Liebling was finally encouraged to resume his career in
mid-1978, when he met a musical soul mate in local drummer Joey Hasselvander,
but it wasn't until Halloween 1981 that Pentagram was truly brought back from
the dead. By then, Hasselvander had joined a new group called Death Row, which
featured a young, Black Sabbath-obsessed guitarist named Victor Griffin. When
Liebling stopped by for a jam, creative sparks flew almost immediately and with
the addition of bassist Martin Swaney, the group officially assumed the
Pentagram name once again. More years of hard work playing in clubs and
composing new material followed, but in 1985, Pentagram finally recorded a
full-length, self-titled debut (minus Hasselvander, who was replaced at the last
minute by drummer Stuart Rose). Later retitled Relentless, the record may have
been dedicated to Blue Cheer, but its contents owed an almost singular stylistic
debt to Black Sabbath and along with its even more accomplished 1987 successor
Day of Reckoning, it helped set the stage for the looming doom metal movement.
Not fast enough for Pentagram to capitalize, however, and following another
lengthy hiatus, a new contract from Peaceville Records finally led to another
comeback via 1994's Be Forewarned LP (featuring a reinstated Hasselvander). But
the musical climate of the time was very unfriendly to heavy metal of any kind,
and the doom scene had never managed to coalesce as expected, leading Pentagram
to another, seemingly final breakup.
Then in 1998, a clandestine, unauthorized collection of early Pentagram demos
and live bootlegs, entitled Human Hurricane, was unexpectedly released,
prompting Liebling and Hasselvander to take action. Both 1999's Review Your
Choices and 2001's Sub-Basement combined new compositions with updated versions
of the band's ancient classics and featured Hasselvander playing every
instrument. The controversy also sparked greater interest in Pentagram's music
and its substantial impact on the heavy metal genre, culminating in the
priceless (and this time fully authorized) collection of long-lost '70s
recordings entitled First Daze Here (The Vintage Collection). Another
compilation, Turn to Stone, arrived later in 2002, compiling material from their
Peaceville albums that had gone out of print in the late 90's.
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