Fear, Emptiness, Decibel: Stream the New Pentagram Flexi Disc!
Before there were blogs there were these things called magazines, and the only metal magazine we still get excited about reading every month is Decibel. Here’s managing editor Andrew Bonazelli…
Bikinis with pentagrams woven into them are great and all, but there’s just no way to successfully insert them in an issue of Decibel. You wouldn’t believe the man hours we’ve spent trying to make that a reality. So, you’ll have to settle for proper-noun Pentagram and their long-overdue-but-totally-gnarly Flexi Series debut in the July issue.
The doom icons are approaching their 45th year of existence (brief hiatuses and name changes notwithstanding). That’s older than almost everybody in our office, which is saying something for how cranky we can get. Their eighth studio album, Curious Volume, is set to drop this summer. In our May issue, bassist Gregg Turley encouragingly says, “[The new record] just has a different feel, and we wanted to get back to heavy songs like ‘Sign of the Wolf.’ ‘Heavy’ is the word here.” So, while we twiddle our thumbs in anticipation, let’s kill some time flashing back to Pentagram’s very beginning. In July’s Decibel, we bang out a heretofore unreleased 1971 rehearsal of “Bang It Out” via the Flexi Series.
Appearing on gold-on-red plastic, this up-tempo proto-doom charger captures the D.C. legends at their most raw and frenetic, establishing the inimitable sound that would make them dB Hall of Famers so many years later with their 1985 studio LP. Curious? Voluminous? If the latter’s true, don’t worry about hitting the gym for happiness. We have a limited amount of single copies of the mag with the flexi available right here.
The July 2015 issue of Decibel also features Lucifer, Fear Factory, and Pig Destroyer, and can be purchased here. But why not just get a full subscription to make sure you never miss one of these awesome flexis?
