Pentagram To Release New Album "Lightning In A Bottle" In January 2025
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American doom metal pioneers Pentagram has announced a brand new studio album, entitled "Lightning In A Bottle." The record is scheduled to be released through Heavy Psych Sounds on January 31st. In anticipation of the release, the band has released a new song, "Thundercrest," which premiered earlier today at Metal Sucks. Listen to it here.
The band states: "This is our brand new single after long years. It's called 'Thundercrest' and it follows in the intensity and heavyness our passion to play heavy music. We hope that the song gives you the intensity like driving straight through a brick wall."
The 10th Pentagram album sees founding frontman and doom figurehead Bobby Liebling leading a new cast of players that includes guitarist/producer Tony Reed (Mos Generator, Big Scenic Nowhere, etc.), drummer Henry Vasquez (Legions of Doom, Saint Vitus, Blood of the Sun, etc.) and bassist Scooter Haslip (Mos Generator, Saltine). It would be hard to overstate the energy the new band brings to songs like "Live Again," "Solve The Puzzle" or "In The Panic Room," but Lightning in a Bottle is unmistakably a Pentagram record, of course in Liebling’s unremittingly charismatic performance and the groove conjured to back it.
Recorded with Reed at the helm, Lightning in a Bottle recalls the best of what has allowed Pentagram to cast an influence across decades and generations of musicians, bands, and worshippers of Riff, and as just their third studio release in the last 15 years, it’s not a moment to neglect as they dig into a cut like "Dull Pain" or "Lady Heroin," the latter of which is a naked reconciliation on the part of Liebling with a lifelong addiction to opiates that’s become an inextricable part of the Pentagram story. As he wonders in the lyrics, “Lady Heroin, have I seen the last of you?” it becomes difficult to know whether the separation would be through sobriety or death, and that ambiguity becomes part of what makes the song so striking.
It’s not all brooding, even if it is doom. "Thundercrest" is brash and the nodding title-track brings to mind past glories without actually reliving them. The central message, any way you want to look at it, is that no matter how much the band has been through over the last half-century-plus, they remain a singular force. "Lightning In A Bottle" might not be the first Pentagram reboot, but it brings fresh ideas and dynamic to one of doom’s most classic, formative acts, and as soon as you hit play, the band absolutely own the moment of their own making.
Tracklisting:
1. Live Again
2. In The Panic Room
3. I Spoke To Death
4. Dull Pain
5. Lady Heroin
6. I'll Certainly See You In Hell
7. Thundercrest
8. Solve The Puzzle
9. Spread Your Wings
10. Lightning In A Bottle
11. Walk The Sociopath
12. Start The End (Digipak and deluxe edition bonus track)
13. Might Just Wanna Be Your Fool (Digipak and deluxe edition bonus track)
14. Lady Heroin pre-edit rough mix (Digipak and deluxe edition bonus track)
(Source: www.metalunderground.com)
