2024 double black vinyl edition of Be Forewarned, Pentagram’s 1994 album of supreme Doom.

 

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Starting life in the early 1970s, US band Pentagram are one of the most enduring and influential underground bands in Heavy Metal history. Influenced by British bands The Groundhogs & Black Sabbath, their own unique take on Doom Metal has subsequently influenced everyone from Paradise Lost to Cathedral. Peaceville signed the band in the early 1990's and released the 3 classic albums, ‘Relentless’, ‘Day Of Reckoning’ & ‘Be Forewarned’ before the two also reunited once more for the well-received 2015 comeback opus, 'Curious Volume'.

 

‘Be Forewarned’ was an acclaimed follow-up of heavy metal & doom-fuelled riffing combined with dark lyrics from the ever enigmatic frontman Bobby Liebling. The album was originally released in 1994, & included some of the band’s strongest material to date, with Pentagram's trademark riffs and hooks ever-present on classics such as 'Wolf's Blood' and 'Bride of Evil', with a portion of the featured tracks originally conceived back in the 1970’s.