{"id":480,"date":"2026-03-07T11:03:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T17:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"\/theoutcast\/theoutcast\/reviews\/pentacle-under-the-black-cross\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T16:51:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:51:53","slug":"pentacle-under-the-black-cross","status":"publish","type":"reviews","link":"https:\/\/adkoi.com\/theoutcast\/reviews\/pentacle-under-the-black-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentacle &#8211; &#8220;Under the Black Cross&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pentacle&#8217;s self-denominated &#8220;ancient death metal&#8221; is a celebration of the original death metal spirit: Hellhammer\/early Celtic Frost\/early Death\/Obituary gruff, agonized and brutal growling of the best possible quality with plenty of those of Tom-G.-Warrior-signature &#8220;ugh!!&#8221; The guitars have a serious, crunching, heavy, dark, mid-paced grinding feel. Excellent! Also, the production \/ sound is not primitive; it&#8217;s modern (in a good way!), not a basement recording. It&#8217;s a very full-sounding, in-your-face album. This is highly, highly recommended for death metal people. All Pentacle releases are great and their &#8220;Rides the Moonstorm&#8221; is a true death metal masterpiece. Iron Pegasus Records is not a huge company, so you are better off contacting them directly. I tried to get this at two metal specialty stores. They did not have it and said that they probably will not get it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I sent cash and received the cd quickly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pentacle&#8217;s self-denominated &#8220;ancient death metal&#8221; is a celebration of the original death metal spirit: Hellhammer\/early Celtic Frost\/early Death\/Obituary gruff, agonized and brutal growling of the best possible quality with plenty of those of Tom-G.-Warrior-signature &#8220;ugh!!&#8221; The guitars have a serious,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-480","reviews","type-reviews","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pentacle - &quot;Under the Black Cross&quot; - The Outcast Metal Zine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Pentacle&#039;s self-denominated &quot;ancient death metal&quot; is a celebration of the original death metal spirit: Hellhammer\/early Celtic Frost\/early Death\/Obituary gruff, agonized and brutal growling of the best possible quality with plenty\u2026\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/adkoi.com\/theoutcast\/reviews\/pentacle-under-the-black-cross\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pentacle - &quot;Under the Black Cross&quot; 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