Episode #253 |10.7.25
Pentagram: Demons, Curses, and Doom
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In this episode
In 1971, a teenage metalhead named Bobby Liebling flipped a five-pointed star upside-down, gave his band a cursed name, and summoned a sound so heavy it would echo for generations. But for Bobby and his bandmates, doom metal wasn’t just a genre – it was a prophecy. Drug addiction, jail time, sabotage, and strange hauntings followed, all as the myth of Pentagram grew louder underground. This is the story of the greatest band you’ve never heard – and the curse they could never shake.
Sources
Last Days Here (2011, dir. Don Argott and Demian Fenton)
Pentagram | Design, Shape, Star, Supernatural, Definition, & Meaning (Britannica)
EXCLUSIVE Interview with Bobby Liebling of Pentagram: The Voice of the Head 'Ram (The Obelisk)
American Doom Legend BOBBY LIEBLING Talks Pentagram Past and Future (Doomed & Stoned)
Pentagram (Riffipedia)
Pentagram’s first Australian and New Zealand tour put "on hiatus" over “current allegations” (NME)
PENTAGRAM's Bobby Liebling Arrested For First Degree Assault of "Vulnerable Family Member" (Metal Injection)
Credits
Hosted by Jake Brennan.
Written by Zeth Lundy.
Additional writing by Jake Brennan.
Mixed by Matt Beaudoin.
DISGRACELAND theme song, “Crenshaw Space Boogie,” written and produced by Jake Brennan. Performed by Jake Brennan, Bryce Kanzer, Jay Cannava, and Evan Kenney. Mixed and engineered by Adam Taylor.
*illustrations by Avi Spivak @avispivak