PENTAGRAM: ANNOUNCE NEW DRUMMER PETE CAMPBELL

Washington, DC doom metal legends PENTAGRAM have announced new drummer PETE CAMPBELL (replacing SEAN SALEY) as the band is hard at work on a new release.






PENTAGRAM released "Live Rites" (LIVE RELEASE) 9/30/2011 via SVART RECORDS and "Last Rites" 4/12/2011 via METAL BLADE RECORDS.


FROM PENTAGRAM:
It's been too quiet around here lately. Want the scoop? We've completed pre-production on the new album. Some song titles include Dead Bury Dead, Lay Down and Die, Curious Volume and Suffering. Unfortunately, we've had a few setbacks over the last couple of months that have delayed finishing earlier.
After two and half years of playing together, drummer, Sean Saley has decided to leave the band to pursue other interests. We wish Sean the best in everything he sets out to do.
We are set to start the actual recording in about 2 weeks and would like to introduce, Minnesota Pete Campbell to the family. Pete has performed in the studio and on the road with Victor Griffin throughout the last 10 years, so it was a natural transition for all of us. Once the album is complete we are set to hit the road in 2015, throughout the USA, Canada and Europe. See you soon!

FROM PEACEVILLE RECORDS:
OFFICIAL PEACEVILLE RECORDS PRESS RELEASE:
Peaceville Records is proud to announce the re-signing of US metal legends Pentagram for their forthcoming studio album, set to be released summer 2015. The highly influential American heavy metal/doom act fronted by the mysterious Bobby Liebling, formed in the early 1970s, though their debut album - now known as ‘Relentless’ - didn’t see a release until 1985. Through 4 decades of adversity and triumph, Pentagram has become a legendary international act and have firmly stamped their name in the heavy metal history books.

Pentagram recently completed pre-production with Swedish producer Mattias Nilsson at studios in Baltimore, DC and VA with additional vocal and guitar production in Knoxville, TN with Travis Wyrick. Wyrick is a Grammy Award-winning producer who produced their previous album, ‘Last Rites’.

The band comments on the signing:
PENTAGRAM is happy to return to the label that helped relaunch interest in our debut album and introduce us to a new metal audience in the 1990s. Peaceville Records has been an ally to us throughout the past 20 years. We are happy to have them by our side once again as we record our fourth album under their banner. Never properly recorded songs written by Bobby in the 70s will be heard on the album as fresh as they were when they were written over 40 years ago. Brand new numbers by the core of Griffin, Turley and Liebling that were written this fall will appear along the old songs and will produce an album that emcompases the true spirit of Pentagram. Doom is often mistaken as exclusively slow music. If you listen to our classic "doom" album "Relentless", many of those doomed classic are quite fast. One of the magic's of doommetal is to have a faster song seem much slower because of the sheer heaviness of the number. That's what we are going for. The band will sound that they are as much from the street as they are from the sabbath, because, well, we are."

It has also been announced that Sean Saley has decided to step down from the drum throne. "Minnesota" Pete Campbell will step in to complete recording and touring duties throughout 2015. Campbell is best known for his drumming with Victor Griffin's In-Graved, Place of Skulls and stoners Sixty Watt Shaman. Sean made the following statement:
"Three years, around a hundred shows, and many countries later, I have decided to leave Pentagram. I would like to thank Bobby, Greg, and Victor, as well as others who played important parts during my time in the band, like Pellet, Klaus Koschel, and Matt Goldsborough. It has been a huge experience in my life and I've become friends with so many people through my involvement with Pentagram- perhaps the biggest reward of any. I wish the best of luck to the band and I hope 2015 is a banner year for Pentagram. As for me, I'm not done. You'll see me out there again in the near future. Thanks!"

Preceding the still-to-be-titled opus is an extensive DVD release, ‘All Your Sins’, featuring numerous electrifying concerts spanning three decades & over 7 hours, straight from the band’s collection.
This first-ever official video collection recovers, repairs and resurrects the earliest known footage of these doomed metal pioneers and more. Featuring 2 DVDs packed with priceless archive footage, as well as recent shows, ‘All Your Sins - Video Vault’ unearths the rumoured lost visual evidence pent up in the Ram Family vault for decades.

Although always a cult act with a strong and dedicated worldwide fanbase, Pentagram has enjoyed a recent surge in interest due in part to the fly-on-the-wall 2011 documentary, ‘Last Days Here’ following the life, trials & tribulations of Bobby Liebling. The film gained international recognition; travelling the worldwide film festival circuit where it won several awards including “Best Music Documentary” at the International Documentary Film Festival in Amsterdam.

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Wrapping up the new album recordings in the next couple of weeks. Stay tuned for news. In the meantime, we're looking forward to starting the summer in Europe! USA and Canada news coming soon!
May 16, 2015 Orange Co., CA, USA
May 21, 2015 B - Antwerp, Trix
May 22, 2015 GER - Gelsenkirchen, Rock Hard Festival
May 23, .2015 GER - Munich, Backstage Halle
May 24, 2015 GER - Lindau, Club Vaudeville
May 25, 2015 A - Vienna, Arena
May 27, 2015 GER - Leipzig, UT Connewitz
May 28, 2015 GER - Berlin, SO36
May 29, 2015 GER - Hamburg, Klubsen



Thanks-Stay Metal, ,Stay Brutal-\m/ -l-