Feel the doom of Pentagram
Sixteen-ton riffs and what do you get? Forty years older and much deeper in debt. Such are the trials of doom rock forebears Pentagram, whose origins span back to the early '70s. With tunes that trudge by like a funeral procession and former guitarist Victor Griffin's drop B tuning, the band's monolithic, bottom-heavy buzz was the direct antecedent to acts such as St. Vitus, Trouble and Candlemass. Drug abuse long dogged frontman Bobby Liebling, limiting the band's career prospects, but these days, they're back with a new record, "Last Rites," and an old, familiar heaviness. See Pentagram at 7 p.m. Sunday at the Cheyenne Saloon, 3101 N. Rancho Drive. Tickets are $13; call 645-4139.
-- By JASON BRACELIN
