How is life a few years removed from the movie? He then gave us an update on success as a near senior citizen and admitted to a new addiction: streaming movies. On the upside, he’s remained sober and recently given performances with longtime collaborator Victor Griffin that would be incredible even if you weren’t a 60-year-old that by most accounts shouldn’t be with us (check out a photo gallery from dB contributor Raymond Ahner here).ĭecibel met Liebling on his RV in San Francisco and gave him a few packs of Fig Newtons to break the ice.
Liebling has struggled since the film, including a bout with depression and separation from his wife Hallie.
While the film had a happy ending everyone knows that after the credits roll life continues. But that's the past, and according to their three-album signing with Metal Blade, there's still more to come.The hard road of Pentagram frontman Bobby Liebling, who has fought the real demons of addiction for decades, was well chronicled in the documentary Last Days Here as well as J. Hearing Pentagram's slow, gloomy melodies propelled by the thick, buzz-y weight of classic doom riffs, it's not hard to imagine how they influenced virtually an entire genre. The band's 1970s origins loom like a monument to history and nostalgia, but as the record unfolds, Last Rites exudes a timeless aura, so the date of individual compositions is indeterminate and irrelevant (though the recordings are new, some of the material is apparently vintage).
Bluesy, gritty hard rock and resonant leads bleed into steamroller heaviness and graveyard imagery throughout Last Rites, the vocals of founding member Bobby Liebling merging seamlessly with the instrumental substrate in a near-continual flow that soothes the soul. Rough roads aside, the hype around their latest release is well-earned. Published Last Rites is a rumbling mass of laidback power, a somewhat surprising pleasure considering Pentagram's four-decade-long rollercoaster ride of a career: much delayed signing, respect without success, revolving line-up, drug addiction and near-death experiences.
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