18 albums in and Pentagram are still rockin’ it hard. Heavy, sludgy, gnarly, the guitars are thick and dense and provide a beefy backdrop to what are ultimately classic oldschool hard rock numbers. If Pentagram draw heavily from Sabbath, it’s because they were there at the dawn of metal, way, way back in ’71. Yet there’s a contemporary and classic element that takes the sound and filters it through the amped-to-the-max stoner sludge of acts like Melvins.
The riffs are so heavy, so cranked up, so HUGE, they hurt. There’s nothing curious about the volume: it’s simply decimating. Or, put another way, heavy rock played the way it should be.
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