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/::     Artist  :: Pentagram                                              ::\
  ::     Album   :: Curious Volume                                         ::
  ::     Year    :: 2015                                                   ::
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  ::   . Genre   :: Metal                       Source  :: CDDA        .   ::
  ::     Label   :: Peaceville Records          R.date  :: 2015.09.14      ::
 _::__   Cat.nr. :: CDVILEF554                  Size    :: 83,11 MB      __::_
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   .     Quality :: 44,1kHz/Joint Stereo                                   .
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         Website :: http://www.pentagramusa.com/

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  ::      01. Lay Down and Die                                   02:55     ::
  ::      02. The Tempter Push                                   04:09     ::
  ::      03. Dead Bury Dead                                     04:38     ::
  ::      04. Earth Flight                                       02:57     ::
  ::      05. Walk Alone                                         03:21     ::
  ::      06. Curious Volume                                     04:21     ::
  ::      07. Misunderstood                                      03:21     ::
  ::      08. Close the Casket                                   04:13     ::
  ::      09. Sufferin'                                          03:21     ::
  ::      10. Devil's Playground                                 04:38     ::
  ::      11. Because I Made it                                  04:23     ::
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  ::      This is Pentagram's new - well, "new" - album (their first       ::
  ::      studio effort since 2011), and if you like your riffs low,       ::
  ::      slow, and painful, you're going to want to get a taste. Like     ::
  ::      the band's well-received Last Rites, Curious Volume is a         ::
  ::      chimeric beast, a hodgepode of new and old recordings that       ::
  ::      date back to the 70s. The dusty stoner grooves are kept          ::
  ::      intact, nurtured and coddled by Liebling's admirable             ::
  ::      disinterest in leaving them behind. If it ain't broke, don't     ::
  ::      fix it, and no one knows how to wrangle doom, despair, and       ::
  ::      tone like Bobby Liebling.                                        ::
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  ::      He wrote the songs "Lay Down and Die," "Earth Flight," and       ::
  ::      "Sufferin'," whose bluesy swing belies the dire title, in        ::
  ::      the 70s. "Misunderstood" was first aired back in the 80s,        ::
  ::      but never made it to wax until now, and "Because I Made It"      ::
  ::      was written in the 90s. Joined by guitar wizard Victor           ::
  ::      Griffin, bassist Greg Turley, and drummer Pete Campbell,         ::
  ::      Liebling's tortured whine brings these vintage gems back to      ::
  ::      life, and newer tunes see him trying out a new trick or two      ::
  ::      (like the deep, Neil Fallon-esque richness he adds to his        ::
  ::      voice on "The Devil's Playground," for example).                 ::
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  ::      Not every song's a keeper (the 70s-era compositions still        ::
  ::      hold up best) but it's a solid collectioin, and a good           ::
  ::      representation of where Pentagram is now - edging forward,       ::
  ::      but still looking backward.                                      ::
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