PENTAGRAM — Be Forewarned (review)

PENTAGRAM — Be Forewarned album cover Album · 1994 · Doom Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4/5 ·
Time Signature
A timeless heart...

Genre: heavy metal / doom metal / hard rock

Get ready for another night of satanic bongripping with the madman Bobby Liebling and his maniac minions.

Like on the previous releases, Pentagram blend traditional metal with doom metal and stoner rock on "Be Forewarned", which strikes me as being a bit more rock and a bit less doom than "Relentless" and "Day of Reckoning", but it also has a more brutal production which suits the primitive and dirty rock sound of this album.

The first two tracks are more on the stoner and groovy side of things, while the first really doom-ladden track is track number three "Ask No More", which is followed by the equally doom-ladden but slightly more uptempo "The World Will Love Again". This album also contains the Pentagram classic "Vampyre Love" which is a heavy, yet catchy and melodic heavy metal track with an awesome chorus riff and equally awesome verse riff. "Lifeblood" takes us from the land of catchy rock to the depths of gloomy doom metal with its heavy oppressive intro, and while the tempo gets faster, it still reeks of doom and gloom which is also the case of "Petrified". "Wolfsblood" elegantly combines groove and doomy heaviness and is actually a really cool track, which also applies to "Frustration" and "Bride of Evil" and the dark ballady title track, which also contain some vaguely blues-based parts.

This fine album is commended to fans of doom metal, stoner rock/metal and traditional metal, and should especially appeal to fans of Black Sabbath and Cathedral.
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