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DISGRACELAND

Pentagram: Demons, Curses, and Doom

DISGRACELAND

Jake Brennan

True Crime, Music, Society & Culture

4.613.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In 1971, a teenage metalhead named Bobby Liebling flipped a five-pointed star upside-down, gave his band a cursed name, and summoned a sound so heavy it would echo for generations. But for Bobby and his bandmates, doom metal wasn’t just a genre – it was a prophecy. Drug addiction, jail time, sabotage, and strange hauntings followed, all as the myth of Pentagram grew louder underground. This is the story of the greatest band you’ve never heard – and the curse they could never shake. For a full list of contributors, visit ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠disgracelandpod.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ To listen to Disgraceland ad free and hear an exclusive mini-episode about Bobby Liebling's wild night with the Rolling Stones, become a Disgraceland All Access member at ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠disgracelandpod.com/membership⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠. Sign up for our newsletter and get the inside dirt on events, merch and other awesomeness - ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠GET THE NEWSLETTER⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Jake and DISGRACELAND: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠X⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ (formerly Twitter)  ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook Fan Group⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠TikTok To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:06.8

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0:22.2

Disgrace Land is a production of Double Elvis.

0:36.5

This is a story about inversion, about what happens when you take something ancient, something

0:43.1

sacred, and you turn it upside down. It's about the sound of doom echoing from the basement

0:49.8

of a suburban Virginia home. It's about mystery tapes and cheap pawn shop stereos,

0:56.5

about the thin line between myth and memory.

1:00.4

It's a story about drugs, demons,

1:03.6

and deals that may or may not have ever gone down.

1:07.6

And it's also a story about a curse,

1:10.5

one which may have been cast the moment a certain name was spoken out loud.

1:15.8

That name was Pentagram, a band that was supposed to be louder and heavier than anything else.

1:24.0

But instead became a whisper on a worn-out cassette.

1:28.1

Their music passed from one true believer to the next.

1:31.9

Great music.

1:33.4

Unlike that music, I played for you at the top of the show.

1:36.3

That wasn't great music.

1:38.4

That was a preset loop from my Melotron called Haunted Star MK2.

1:47.7

I played you that loop because I can't afford the rights to Maggie May by Rod Stewart. And why would I play you that specific slice of feels like the

1:54.1

first time cheese could I afford it? Because that was the number one song in America on Halloween 1971.

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