PENTAGRAM — Last Rites (review)

PENTAGRAM — Last Rites album cover Album · 2011 · Traditional Doom Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
3/5 ·
Warthur
The career nadir of Show 'Em How coincided with a low point on Bobby Liebling's life in general; happily over the subsequent years he would really turn things around for himself (as depicted in the documentary movie Last Days Here), and bring forth a pretty decent new Pentagram album in the form of Last Rites. In classic Liebling style, he would later piss away any goodwill generated - it's hard to come back from a prison conviction for abusing your mother - but in the moment, this felt like a bit of a turnaroumd.

It's solid doom metal of the sort we have come to expect from Pentagram. This means that you shouldn't expect anything staggering original, with Liebling still, after all these years, finding bits and pieces from the group's 1970s years to give a proper studio treatment to (Walk In Blue Light, for instance). It's got a fun, funky stomp to it, but it's hard to treat a band as mere goofy fun when stuff like that elder abuse rap is part of the picture.
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