Arlington, VA · doom metal

Pentagram

1 upcoming festival

Proto-doom lifers whose long-delayed recognition arrived decades after the riffs did — still summoning the '70s dark.

Pentagram began in the Washington, D.C. area in the early 1970s around vocalist Bobby Liebling, playing heavy, Sabbath-indebted rock well before doom metal existed as a named genre. The band recorded steadily but released almost nothing at the time, and its earliest material only reached a wider audience decades later through archival compilations that made the case for Pentagram as one of American doom's founding acts.

Liebling has remained the constant through a long series of lineups and long gaps in activity. His struggles with addiction and the band's eventual return to touring were documented in the film Last Days Here, which brought Pentagram a level of attention it had never had in its first two decades.

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