Last Rites

Last Rites is the seventh studio album by American doom metal band Pentagram, released in 2011. It was the first album since 1994's Be Forewarned to feature guitarist Victor Griffin. This album had been in the works for many years under the tentative title Last Rites of the Setting Sun. As indicated in the Last Days Here film, the original plan was to use remaining members Greg Mayne and Geof O'Keefe along with new musicians to round out the lineup for a release on Housecore Records, but things ultimately fell through. Frontman Bobby Liebling announced different songs on Myspace circa 2008 as the album progressed to fruition. The original intention for the album was to feature a lineup of Leibling, Russ Strahan, Mark Ammen and Gary Isom, but that lineup almost entirely changed as 2010 progressed, before recording sessions could be arranged. "South of the Swamp" and "I'm Takin' No More" were written and intended for the album, but ultimately were not included. Hank Williams III was also rumored to appear on the album at one point. "Into the Ground" and "Nothing Left" originated from rehearsal tracks from the first Pentagram lineup, played in a faster and groovier tempo. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_Ri...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)