PENTAGRAM — Be Forewarned (review)

PENTAGRAM — Be Forewarned album cover Album · 1994 · Doom Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4.5/5 ·
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Once again PENTAGRAM took their sweet time to release their third album BE FOREWARNED which came out a full seven years after their previous. This time it’s understandable because of the fact that many of the members were moonlighting in other bands, such as Joe Hasselvander joining Raven back in 87. The band continue their doom metal assault tactics with crushing riffs and Sabbath inspired occult lyrics. The band has really developed itself at this point into a force to be reckoned with and personally i find this to be my favorite PENTAGRAM album in the entire discography.

What works well with this one for me is simply the songwriting. Nothing is radically different from what came before, but metal music has a propensity to attain classic status or total thumbs down on subtleties. In this case PENTAGRAM just upped their melodic doom metal approach to the point where i find the balance reaches an equilibrium that makes me wanna listen to it more often. One of my all time favorite PENTAGRAM tracks is on this album, the sublime “Frustration” with its ingenious blend of doom metal riffage, acoustic mood setter and beautiful female vocal background.

Another thing i love about this album is that despite being a Sabbath type of album, it really suspends that obviousness where the band really feels like it is a force in the metal world that stands on its own. It simply is an extremely satisfying early doom metal album that may not rank as the apex of the sub-genre but it is one that i really grown to love to put on regularly. The title track is actually from the 70s and appears in its primeval form on “First Daze Here (The Vintage Collection).”
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