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A FIST IN THE FACE OF GOD - PENTAGRAM


A week of very Christian sun has forced the troglodyte metallers back into the lairs of misanthropic winter from whence they came. Don't despair just yet, young malefic minds. I have uncovered one of South America's greatest lost treasures, Chile's Pentagram

Pentagram formed in Santiago in 1985 in the midst of General Pinochet's barbaric military dictatorial regime, where they regularly had shows shut down by the megalomaniac police. This was a massive hindrance to their power as an unholy metal force; they only ever played live shows outside Santiago twice. Similarly, they recorded just two demos and six tracks, total. It's not much of a legacy for a band that took the death metal genre so far at a time when thrash was still reaching its peak. This is 80s deathrash at its best.

In 1987 singer "Behemoth" Reisenegger traveled to Belo Horizonte in Brazil to meet with fellow tape traders Max and Igor Cavalera to discuss a possible record deal. Apparently he signed with Point Rock records; however, following his return to Chile, he never heard from them again. The group disbanded shortly thereafter, playing their final shows in 1988.

  Pentagram - "Spell of the Pentagram"

†ROCKWELL†