New - Pentagram - Demos - 2xLP

Few bands in the history of underground metal have had as profound an influence on the genre with as limited a discography as Pentagram of Chile. Not to be confused with the U.S. doom band of the same name, whose origin predated its South American death metal counterpart by just over a decade, the Chilean entity officially recorded a grand total of two demos and an EP during the two-plus years of its original existence. The context of the band's formation and short-lived existence in a geographically and politically isolated and repressed country lent increased improbability to its eventual attainment of cult-like status. Its scarce output and insularity notwithstanding, Pentagram has been deservedly cited as a major influence on more prolific outfits such as Napalm Death, Entombed, Pentacle, Dismember, and many more. Pentagram originated in 1985 as the creation of founding members Anton Reisenegger (vocals/guitars) and Juan Pablo Uribe (bass/guitars), who were around the ages of fifteen or sixteen at the time. Pentagram's early output was a high-tempo, aggressive type of death metal, similar to that of Necrovore, but with a more screamed vocal delivery. It is NWN's great honor to refocus well-deserved attention on Pentagram's original existence with its release of "Demos," a double-LP featuring "Demo #1" and "Demo #2" in their entirety, along with a 1985 rehearsal and a live recording from 1987. Additionally, this release includes a 32 page booklet containing full-color band photos, flyer reproductions, and a complete biography of those early days. Although this period of the band's existence was relatively short and not overwhelming in terms of its volume of recorded output, "Demos" is a fitting tribute to the outsize influence that Pentagram has had on its peers and the genre of extreme metal overall in the four decades since its inception. (Nuclear War Now Records #748)