PENTAGRAM- s/t 7" (Chainsaw Murder Records, Switzerland, 1987)
I know how much most of you hate Metal - that’s why I keep posting it. Wouldn’t it be an obscene idea to run a music blog that pleases its masses of faceless consumers?
PENTAGRAM were from Chile and their one and only life time 7″ came out in Schwitzerland. It was produced by Marco Suremannn, a true maniac and ex-Hellhammer roadie (spent a lot of his personal money on the band before he finally got fed up with the manners of Tommy Fischer Warrior, one of the most shameless whores the music business has ever spat out). Suremann, or Dinosaur as he was called, once tried to live solely off Coca Cola and gummi baers (jelly babies). When you walked into his flat, it was all (and I mean ALL) painted black, with a huge pentagram on the floor - except for a bright white kitchen, filled with Coca Cola and packs of gummi bears. This special diet would last for months, some say for a full year.
It was in this time that he released this monster of a 7″. Dirty, rough as hell, brutal and dry to the bone Death Metal the way it was supposed to be. Some Slayer riffing, but basically everything was kept simple and effective. “Demoniac Possession” is such a whirlitzing avalanche of a song, it’s got to be one the genre’s timeless highlights - music of this intensity just isn’t being produced no more!
The band’s guitarist and driving force, Anton, was definately the chilean version of Les Evans - everybody and his mother traded tapes with him.
A few years ago, some guy from Belgium released a full LP of PENTAGRAM material, including studio outtakes. Still, this 7″ is perfect and the LP was surely nice, but it was also unnecessary. The band also had a rehearsal demo tape which absolutely destroyed. One day, when I feel like chasing off the powerpoppers for good, you might hear it.
PS: “Eric Killer” - that’s me.
Dave wrote:
METAL !!!!!!
Posted on 15-Dec-06 at 3:20 pm | Permalink
Charles wrote:
GREAT!!!!! never heard of this band before but it’s amazing!!!
Posted on 15-Dec-06 at 4:10 pm | Permalink
Anonymous wrote:
Pentagram rules! I have their Death Metal Holocaust Live tape laso from 1985! This EP kills! The missing 3rd track is also cool one!
-Henri-
Posted on 16-Dec-06 at 2:14 pm | Permalink
Anonymous wrote:
natas natas natas 999 upside down
Posted on 17-Dec-06 at 6:53 am | Permalink
AnalOwls little monster wrote:
natas natas natas 999 upside down
Posted on 17-Dec-06 at 6:53 am | Permalink
Slobodan Burgher wrote:
masses of faceless public LOL!
I like i
Posted on 17-Dec-06 at 7:25 am | Permalink
Puttagram wrote:
“chasing of the powerpoppers” are they hanging around this blog? and will they stay away for good if you decide to to post that destroying killer shredding tape? I hope so. who like the powerpoppers. they’re more evil then natas herself. keep the metal alive and destroy the pop inside everybody. killer!
Posted on 17-Dec-06 at 8:01 am | Permalink
Nagiants40 wrote:
Hey Erich amazing Blog you have here man..
I linked your blog on my , take a look… at Hangover hard..
Thanks for your music..
Posted on 17-Dec-06 at 10:29 am | Permalink
Anonymous wrote:
Fucking awesome post Erich. You must’ve been into the same music I was back in early ’80’s and later. I also was into Punk at that time. Please keep posting these gems!
Posted on 17-Dec-06 at 1:47 pm | Permalink
Erich wrote:
Yer welcome, guys. And yeah - I guess we kinda were all into the same stuff 20some years ago (we with taste).
Posted on 18-Dec-06 at 4:19 am | Permalink
Anonymous wrote:
ich bin ein metal guru
Posted on 18-Dec-06 at 1:57 pm | Permalink
Luc wrote:
Thy almighty Pentagram!!! One of my favorite metal bands of the 80s. Brings back fond memories of my tape trading days. I still have the original 7″ and I recently bought the CD with both demos and live material…
Erich, any plans to reprint (or upload hi-res scans of) old Megawimp issues?
Posted on 20-Dec-06 at 7:00 am | Permalink
Erich wrote:
Cheers Luc - I was actually thinking of making the old MEGAWIMP issues available in digital form, including the very first, unpublished, 80something pages issue. It’s all a matter of time, I guess ….. Is the CD you’re speaking of identical with the vinyl version?
Posted on 20-Dec-06 at 7:32 am | Permalink
Luc wrote:
Cool. Actually I haven’t seen the vinyl version of the Pentagram discography so I can’t compare. The CD is on Picoroco Records and has both demos + a couple of live tracks.
Posted on 20-Dec-06 at 8:57 am | Permalink
Anonymous wrote:
I have the EP, LP and CD. So yeah LP and CD trx are the same but CD booklet is cool with pictures and story/lyrics.
-Henri-
Posted on 22-Dec-06 at 1:12 pm | Permalink
Anonymous wrote:
Erich - did you also contribute to German Deathfuck magazine?
-Henri-
Posted on 22-Dec-06 at 1:14 pm | Permalink
Anonymous wrote:
This is nuckin futs ,Thanks I like it a lot .Machina (USA)
Posted on 06-May-07 at 7:59 pm | Permalink
ThrashChile wrote:
This is the chilean thrash metal…
pentagram, necrosis, betrayed and more…
Posted on 20-May-08 at 6:00 pm | Permalink