audiObelisk: Agnosis Premiere Pentagram Cover Featuring Dave Sherman From New EP
Now here’s an ethic I can get behind. In their ultra-gnarly cover of Pentagram‘s classic “All Your Sins” from the new A Painful Pattern EP, revived NYC doomers Agnosis joined forces with Earthride vocalist Dave Sherman, slowed the song down, and made everything sound as nasty as possible. And they succeeded. What was already a legendary song is turned into an inhuman meatgrinder of doomed agony. Each riff cycle feels like punishment.
And Sherman, whose name has become synonymous over the years with Maryland doom — you simply can’t have one without the other —
does total justice to madman Bobby Liebling in his guest vocals. He sounds like he’s in pain, and the utter hopelessness of the song is reconfirmed in each line. When he says, “You’re gonna burn now,” I believe it.
I’ll always have a soft spot for Agnosis, whose Hecate EP was released more than a half-decade ago. I remember well seeing them lay waste on many occasions to the middle room of the old Knitting Factory in Manhattan (as opposed to the new one in Brooklyn) and other venues around the city. For bassist Andrew Jude — who’s since gone on to contribute to projects like Archon, Tides Within, Queen Elephantine and others — starting the band up again must feel like coming home.
Joined in Agnosis by guitarist/vocalist Austin Lunn and drummer A.L. Lunn, Jude was kind enough to let me host “All Your Sins” for streaming, which you’ll find on the player below. Enjoy:
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“All Your Sins” comes from the new Agnosis EP, A Painful Pattern, which is set for digital release Nov. 15 (more info to come) with a CD issue to follow in December. The tracklisting is as follows:
1. The Weight of Distrust (4:35)
2. The Path of Repeated Failures (6:47)
3. Writing by Candlelight (13:27)
4. All Your Sins (feat. Dave Sherman) (7:41)
wow that was super heavy. I remember when Ogre and Agnosis toured together, Ogre did a great Pentagram cover with Sherman on vocals at some of their shows, maybe not the ones with Agnosis though…
I was at a load of those Knitting Factory shows too! Cools to see them back togther.
Awesome, Agnosis returns!
That was Heavy!!