Review Your Choices (Dig)

Pentagram | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 27, 2009)
• Original Release Date: 1999
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Season of Mist
• ASIN: B001ILDEB2
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #315,099 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Bobby Liebling and Joe Hasselvander from Virginia whip up their most depraved sounding album on the fourth Pentagram full-length. Total doom.

YEAR: 2008

Customer Reviews

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Review on this choice, May 31, 2002

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Crypt "thecrypt777" (Arkham) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Review Your Choices (Audio CD)

What's not to love about Pentagram? They are one of the loudest and most monolithic rock & roll bands ever. Plus they have one of the greatest and most overlooked vocalists in Metal, who just happens to be a dead ringer for Vlad The Impaler. Feedback drenched, droning dinosaur riffing at it's best. Bobby sure knows how to come up with some seriously eeeeeevil sounding melodies. This is PURE heavy metal. Dark, demented, and frighteningly heavy...

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Heavy, heavy, heavy. Worth the extra $, October 1, 2003

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Music Expert "tom807" (East Coast, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Review Your Choices (Audio CD)

I know it looks a bit expensive, but it's imported from Italy, for chrisakes. I guess Pentagram is a bit difficult to work with, so all their albums are on different labels. That said, this is a recent recording of new and old Pentagram songs. Some of them are newly penned, but some of them date from the 1970s and 1980s, as any true Pentagram fan will recognize a few songs from the early days. It doesn't matter. And it hardly matters that all the instruments are played by one dude, and Bobby L. does all the singing (and the bulk of the songwriting). Joe is a very good guitarist, a killer drummer, and the remake of the old songs, especially Review Your Choices comes across as brutal as you'd hope it would. Plus, Bobby sings pretty darn good for an old man.
Don't miss this CD if you are a fan of Pentagram, or if you want your idiot neighbor's lawn to die.

1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Lacks the Soul of "First Daze", May 29, 2004

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J.J. Kilroy "devon_maloy" (Dallas, TX USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Review Your Choices (Audio CD)

Get "First Daze Here (1971-1975)" by Pentagram, instead. I've listened to that album thousands of times, over and over. So doomy, so heavy, so catchy, so bluesy, great stuff.

But on "Review Your Choices", the vocalist seems to have lost his touch. The vocal parts seem about as catchy as on the earlier recordings, but the vocalist's performance is very much lacking.

The musical instrumentation and structure on "Review Your Choices" is very good. The album is super high-fi, great for playing at a party. Very expensive recording sound. Big Big Big Guitars, Big Big Big tight fast Drumming, Big Big Big Bass, but only "decent" vocals from a vocalist whose style I adore.

After listening to "Review Your Choices" about ten times, and realizing it was bereft of "that old black-magik", I traded it back to the CD store, the very next day for Iron Maiden "KIllers" and I am very happy I did.

There is a strange interview with the vocalist at the end of the album, and it sounds to me like he has permanently scortched his mind and being with hard-drugs. Very sad.