Day of Reckoning (Pentagram album)

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Day of Reckoning
Pentagram Day of Reckoning.jpg
Studio album by
Released1987
Genre Doom metal
Length34:30
Label Napalm Records (original)
Peaceville Records (reissue)
Pentagram chronology
Relentless
(1985)
Day of Reckoning
(1987)
1972–1979
(1993)
Remaster cover
Pentagramday.jpg
Professional ratings
Review scores
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Day of Reckoning is the second studio album by American doom metal band Pentagram. It was released in 1987 by Napalm Records. It was re-released by Peaceville Records in 1993, and in 1996 as part of a two-disc split CD with Relentless , and then again in 2005 as a digipak CD. Joe Hasselvander originally played drums on only one track, "Burning Savior", with Stuart Rose recording the drums on all the rest. Hasselvander re-recorded drums on all tracks (except "Burning Savior") for the 1993 Peaceville Records reissue. [2] The original mixes with Rose on drums only appear on the Napalm Records vinyl version and an original cassette edition made in Canada, and have never appeared on CD.

Contents

Track listing

(Songwriters listed in brackets.)

Original

  1. "Day of Reckoning" (Bobby Liebling) - 2:43
  2. "Broken Vows" (Victor Griffin) - 4:38
  3. "Madman" (Liebling) - 4:37
  4. "When the Screams Come" (Liebling) - 3:42
  5. "Burning Savior" (Griffin, Liebling) - 9:08
  6. "Evil Seed" (Griffin) - 4:17
  7. "Wartime" (Griffin) - 5:25

Reissue

  1. "Day of Reckoning" (Liebling) - 2:43
  2. "Evil Seed" (Griffin) - 4:39
  3. "Broken Vows" (Griffin) - 4:38
  4. "When the Screams Come" (Liebling) - 3:43
  5. "Burning Savior" (Griffin/Liebling) - 9:08
  6. "Madman" (Liebling) - 4:18
  7. "Wartime" (Griffin) - 5:22

Lineup

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References

  1. AllMusic review
  2. "Pentagram at Black Widow Records". Archived from the original on October 6, 2007. Retrieved May 16, 2007.