PentagramREVIEW YOUR CHOICES

Pentagram reminds me of Black Sabbath, but stronger music and stronger words. It's a real shame that Bob (especially) and Joe hadn't done more years ago. Their a strong combination. I just glad Bob got it together enough to start writing again. Stay strong Bob.

Review Your Choices marks the decline of Pentagram. Having completed three brilliant masterpieces (Relentless, Day of Reckoning and Be Forwarned) Victor Griffin excited the band. This left Bobby Liebling and Joe Hasselvander to carry on. Fortunately, Hasselvander is a very capable musician and was able to play drums, guitar and bass and contribute to the song writing process. Unfortunately, even Hasselvander's impressive skills couldn't compensate for Liebling's deteriorating vocal skills. Libling sounds like a retarded Kermit the frog on many tracks and shows just how far gone he was by this point. Despite all these negatives, Review Your Choices is a decent and very heavy album with good production and a few excellent tracks. Its sure beats the two stinkers that followed: Sub Basement and Show Em How...Best tracks: Review Your Choices, Downward Slope, Forever My Queen.

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Pentagram is the best.

I know it looks a bit expensive, but it's imported from Italy, for chrisakes. I guess Pentagram is a bit difficult to work with, so all their albums are on different labels. That said, this is a recent recording of new and old Pentagram songs. Some of them are newly penned, but some of them date from the 1970s and 1980s, as any true Pentagram fan will recognize a few songs from the early days. It doesn't matter. And it hardly matters that all the instruments are played by one dude, and Bobby L. does all the singing (and the bulk of the songwriting). Joe is a very good guitarist, a killer drummer, and the remake of the old songs, especially Review Your Choices comes across as brutal as you'd hope it would. Plus, Bobby sings pretty darn good for an old man.Don't miss this CD if you are a fan of Pentagram, or if you want your idiot neighbor's lawn to die.

Get "First Daze Here (1971-1975)" by Pentagram, instead. I've listened to that album thousands of times, over and over. So doomy, so heavy, so catchy, so bluesy, great stuff.But on "Review Your Choices", the vocalist seems to have lost his touch. The vocal parts seem about as catchy as on the earlier recordings, but the vocalist's performance is very much lacking.The musical instrumentation and structure on "Review Your Choices" is very good. The album is super high-fi, great for playing at a party. Very expensive recording sound. Big Big Big Guitars, Big Big Big tight fast Drumming, Big Big Big Bass, but only "decent" vocals from a vocalist whose style I adore.After listening to "Review Your Choices" about ten times, and realizing it was bereft of "that old black-magik", I traded it back to the CD store, the very next day for Iron Maiden "KIllers" and I am very happy I did.There is a strange interview with the vocalist at the end of the album, and it sounds to me like he has permanently scortched his mind and being with hard-drugs. Very sad.

What's not to love about Pentagram? They are one of the loudest and most monolithic rock & roll bands ever. Plus they have one of the greatest and most overlooked vocalists in Metal, who just happens to be a dead ringer for Vlad The Impaler. Feedback drenched, droning dinosaur riffing at it's best. Bobby sure knows how to come up with some seriously eeeeeevil sounding melodies. This is PURE heavy metal. Dark, demented, and frighteningly heavy...

Dopo aver acquistato la compilation "Turn To Stone" oppure i tre album dai quali ne hanno tratto i brani, questo é il primo cd che consiglio di acquistare agli appassionati di Black Sabbath e doom metal. L'edizione che ho acquistato su Amazon é una ristampa statunitense con due brani aggiunti. Brano preferito: Gorgon's Slave.

Review your choices and listen to this album. Gloomy riffs and brillant solos.