Pentagram
Relentless (2015 Reissue)
Cassette

Review

All throughout the 1970s, America's metal underground had their very own band that sounded very much like Black Sabbath, but never garnered the same amount of mainstream success that they did. They were called Pentagram. They had a cult following and a famously theatrical and histrionic live show, but the fact of the matter was that they were destined for obscurity for one reason: they didn't release an album all decade long. Many reasons have come about for why the band never released an album, many of them related to drug abuse. But thankfully, their very belated debut album Relentless came out in 1985, fourteen years after their formation, it wasn't the influential juggernaut it would have been in 1971. Nevertheless, its late arrival didn't stop it from becoming a doom metal classic. - Metal Crypt 4/5