Pentagram 2005 "Show em How"

This heavy retro metal composure should not be slipped under the dirt. Bobby Liebling and his crew known as Pentagram have done it again... at a time when I was immersing myself in the new speed metal sounds this CD was slipped into my discman for a relieving breath of doom heaviness. Pentagram are the “American Black Sabbath” as labeled by Hank Williams. This is a band that I feel the mainstream music lovers might have missed so that’s one reason why I want to write about them. Their first musical releases where in the early seventies and then in the eighties they resurrected to produce a splatter of powerful music. This latest release has an early 70’s flavor to it but still maintains those heavy guitar riffs that Tony can’t take all the credit for. The outstanding part of this CD is the lead singer really exercises his voice. The song “City Romance twists you into the possibility that a street person with a mouth full of marbles is serenading you. Then on other songs you get the feel of the blues. Janis Joplin comes to mind on a few songs but Bobby survived a thousand times the drugs Janis ever did… and barely lived to sing about it! Seriously since I got this CD I have listened to it three times a day… Plus IRON. Just like the multivitamins in your diet, Pentagram is an essential part of your daily intake. Hunt it down and buy some… especially this new one “SHOW EM HOW”
-ricky Jak