Description
Peaceville Records
Doom Metal
SAMPLES: www.allmusic.com/album/turn-to-stone-mw0000230793
Tracklist Promo-CD CDVILE 112P:
1. Petrified 5:54
2. Wartime 5:22
3. All Your Sins 4:37
4. Frustration 3:36
5. Burning Saviour 9:07
6. Sinister 4:31
7. Bride Of Evil 4:34
8. When The Screams Come 3:41
9. Relentless 3:48
10. Vampyre Love 3:41
11. Evil Seed 4:39
12. The Ghoul 5:13
13. Wolfs Blood 4:27
14. Madman 4:12
15. 20 Buck Spin 4:19
16. Death Row 4:12
17. Live Free And Burn 3:09
Total: 79:02
Bobby Liebling – lead vocals
Victor Griffin – guitar
Martin Swaney – bass
Joe Hasselvander – drums
5.0 out of 5 stars Pentagram = TRUE Metal,
Children, once again, it is time to trash all of your media hyped, watered down, pop-poser metal CDs and pick up a truly worthy Heavy Metal release. First of all, Pentagram are veterans. They’ve been doing this almost as long as Black Sabbath. They are considered the very first American Doom Metal band. Now about this disk… Its basically a “best of” containing songs from their first 3 albums. The music is rock & roll from the deepest pits. Dark, brooding, angry at times, depressive at others, with a strong blues/jazz influence in the songwriting. The sound comes very close at times to Black Sabbaths first 4 albums. Guitarist Victor Griffin was and still is heavily inspired by Sabbaths Tony Iommi. Not a Black Sabbath rip-off by any means, more like very Sabbath influenced. That means HEAVY, dark, bluesy, and even quite evil sounding. True Heavy Metal in its purest form. This is where its at. Real songwriting. Real substance. Real METAL! True Metal is almost dead in the mainstream which has been literally FLOODED with Korn ripoffs, (c)rap-metal, and other watered down, hollow forms of hard pop music. Support real Metal and get this CD!
5.0 out of 5 stars Picks up where Sabbath left off.,
This a truly great metal act right here, I am glad this band is back to rock us to hell again. Awesome name, great riffs, awesome songs and great vocals this is pure metal.
5.0 out of 5 stars Rock N’ Roll-ish Heavy Metal,
Well, these guys were picked up by Peaceville in the 80s, but actually their career goes back to the early seventies, a time when many bands weren’t even imagined or think about. Pentagram possess a sound which characterises an epoch, much alike Black Sabbath, these guys have a real gift to come up with harmonic passages and some fantastic catchy melodies. When compared with many bands from nowadays, this is of course easy-listening, and this sort of Rock N’ Rollish Heavy Metal isn’t produced anymore at all, so specially to me it is true bliss to put this record spinning and listen to the mid-paced tempos, the harmonic guitars & the exceptional dark feel this band emanates. It brings me back a lot of memories from stuff I listened on vinyl when I was kid, and perhaps for that particular reason I think the music on this album sounds very gloomy and the overall atmosphere adds up a strong doom edge to the all piece. In fact, “Turn to Stone”, is almost like a classic album, Peaceville compiled an anthology of tracks taken from 3 Pentagram releases (all 3 released by Peaceville), “Relentless”, “Be Forewarned” and “Day of Reckoning”, among these albums some absolute classics can be found, case of “All your Sins”, “Death Row”, “Relentless”, etc.
I feel many people who listen to Heavy Metal these days don’t actually have a background on all these great bands, I also have my doubts if people realise that bands like Cream, Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath had a huge blues influence, the songs are of course all dominated by the truly killer riffs and of course by the other vital element, the rhyme-singing lyrics (that seem more to float like a poem) uttered by vocalist Bobby Liebling, which to be honest has many things in common with Ozzy himself.
There is no questioning that Pentagram are a band everyone should acquaint themselves with, whether you’re a fan of Heavy Metal or not, the music is very enjoyable and you’ll have a lot of quality minutes of music ahead.
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