Pentagram

Gorgoroth | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 13, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Century Media
• ASIN: B00000ID2T
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #112,977 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Begravelsesnatt

2. Crushing the Scepter (Regaining a Lost Dominion)

3. Ritual

4. Drõmmer Om Dõd

5. Katharinas Bortgang

6. Guldrelokk

7. (Under) The Pagan Megalith

8. Maaneskyggens Slave

Editorial Reviews

Limited Edition re-issue of the 1993 album. Gorgoroth's brand of black metal is straight-ahead, primal pounding, with the scuzzy guitar grind and bleeding-throat vocals that typify the genre at its most basic. Includes the songs 'Ritual' and 'Crushing The Scepter (Regaining A Lost Dominion)'. Back On Black. 2006. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars True, evil, norwegian black metal!!!, April 30, 2003

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en norsk kis (Ottestad, Norway) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pentagram (Audio CD)

Holy macarony, this is a sick album! Incredibly brutal!
The thing that really strikes you is the twisted sick vocals of Hat.
Damn, these vocals are by far the sickest you'll ever hear!

Check out their demo "A sorcery written in blood".
EVEN MORE EVIL!!!

5 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Ambitious and conceptually advanced metal, March 18, 2002

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death metal and black metal "death metal and ... (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pentagram (Audio CD)

This album is a presentation of a worldview condensed into a half-hour of sound. Its power is its storytelling, in that each song serves as part of an unfolding vision of the mindset of these individuals. Vocals are a screech which cannot be replicated elsewhere, and guitar work favors fast arpeggios with deliberately understated use of melody. From fast simple songs to intricately designed poems in which the final three tones synthesize a melodic foreshadowed earlier in the work, this band dominate black metal with creativity and emotional lucidity.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A blistering debut, October 23, 2002

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Brian Sanders (Rochester, New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pentagram (Audio CD)

Gorgoroth are perhaps one of the most underrated bands out there. I suppose that this is because this album was released after black metal as a whole had already started its decline into commercialism, so it is easy to overlook this gem amidst all of the more well-documented bands. However, Pentagram, in my opinion, easily stands up to the greats of Gorgoroth's predescessors. I would put it up there with such classics as Darkthrone's "A Blaze in the Northern Sky", and other such great black metal albums. The vocals are perhaps the most blistering, viscious screeches ever to be put on a recording, the drum work is excellent, and while overall the music is quite simple, it is quite powerful, and very well suits the vocals. Anyone wanting to hear some of the most intense, viscious black metal around would be well advised to check out this album.