PENTAGRAM's 'Relentless' Inducted In DECIBEL Magazine's 'Hall Of Fame' Series

May 21, 2010

PENTAGRAM's legendary, genre-defining offering "Relentless" is the latest album inductee in Decibel magazine's prestigious "Hall of Fame" series, which explores landmark albums in the badass pantheon of extreme music. In an interview with J. Bennett for the story, frontman Bobby Liebling recalls a period of intensive drug-abuse prior to the album's recording.

Bobby Liebling: What happened was that I had just quit the band that was known as the 'high voltage' era of PENTAGRAM. I walked out during the end of the one of the songs one night, and never came back. I used to be a prima donna, I was very temperamental. So, I quit the band, taking all the songs and the name. That was in 1979. I was shooting dope like crazy then. I wasn't smoking crack because it hadn't been invented yet, but I was shooting a lot of cocaine, a lot of heroin. I was a madman at the end of '79 into '80 and I got an abscess on my finger, so they had to take part of it off. At this point, all the veins in my arms and legs were gone —fingers, palms, feet, all that. The day I got out of the hospital, I went right out and started shooting dope in my neck. I [eventually] blew out all the veins in my forehead also. [Laughs] I'm a walking miracle, man. God let me live twice."

The full "Hall of Fame" article on "Relentless" is featured in the June issue of Decibel magazine, on newsstands now, and available for purchase here.

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