Vinyl Record
Pentagram - Day Of Reckoning
Pentagram - Day Of Reckoning on LP vinyl. A 1987 record available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel, Ireland.
LP ยท 1987
Available from Kilmorna Collection in Listowel.
Buyer notes: 1987 LP, currently available from the Kilmorna Collection vinyl shelf. Pay for pickup in Listowel or ship within Ireland for EUR 5.50.
Day Of Reckoning is Pentagram's 1987 second album, a lean American doom-metal statement from a band whose legend had already been building through false starts, delayed releases and hard underground reputation. Coming after the material later known through Relentless, the album puts Bobby Liebling's haunted voice against Victor Griffin's granite guitar writing with little decoration and no need for speed-metal fashion. The title track, Broken Vows, Madman and When the Screams Come work through menace with blunt economy, while Burning Savior stretches into the kind of slow, heavy ritual that explains why Pentagram became such a touchstone for doom listeners long after the 1980s passed. The record's history is tangled by later reissues and drum-version differences, but the core album remains clear: a Washington, D.C.-area band turning Sabbath inheritance into something more desperate, more local and more damaged. In 1987, when metal's mainstream story was moving toward thrash virtuosity and arena gloss, Day Of Reckoning sounded stubbornly older, darker and more cursed.
Day Of Reckoning matters because it is one of the defining documents of American doom before the style had a neat revival narrative. Pentagram did not treat heaviness as fashion; the album makes slow riffs, dread and personal ruin feel like a complete musical worldview.
For collectors, Day Of Reckoning is a core Pentagram title because it captures the Liebling-Griffin chemistry in concentrated form. It is especially important for shelves focused on doom lineage: the record connects 1970s Sabbath DNA to the underground scenes that later treated Pentagram as a foundational name.
American doom metal with slow crushing riffs, raw vocals, bleak atmosphere, heavy blues undertow, minimal studio gloss and songs that feel carved out of pressure rather than ornament.
Recommended for: Doom-metal collectors tracing the American underground; Fans of Black Sabbath lineage with a rougher 1980s edge; Pentagram listeners focused on Bobby Liebling and Victor Griffin; Heavy shelves that value cult history over polish.
When was Day Of Reckoning first released? Day Of Reckoning was first released in 1987 as Pentagram's second studio album. Why is Day Of Reckoning important in doom metal? It helped define an American doom approach built on slow riffs, dread and underground grit at a time when much of metal was moving faster and brighter. Which tracks best represent Day Of Reckoning? The title track, Broken Vows, When the Screams Come and Burning Savior give the clearest sense of the album's compact menace and extended doom weight.