Relentless
by Pentagram (US)

Album
Relentless by Pentagram
Year: 1985
Release date: 1985-00-00
Overall rank: 7,178th   Overall chart history
Average Rating: 
73/100 (from 47 votes)
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Accolades:
Award Top albums of 1985 (89th)
Award Top albums of of the 1980s (1,009th)
Award Best albums of all time (7,178th)

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Relentless is ranked as the best album by Pentagram.

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Relentless rankings summary
Overall rank: 7,178th | 1980s rank: 1,009th | 1985 rank: 89th  Overall chart history
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Relentless forum mentions

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From BestEverAlbums 08/11/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5401): By Repo
“Today's chart of the day Top 100 Greatest Music Albums by ) 1. by by by (1963) 4. by (1981) 5. by (1970) 6. by (1969) 7. by (1971) 8. by (1983) 9. (1986) 10. by (1965) 11. by (1984) 12. by by (1963) 14. by (1978) 15. by (2009) 16. by by (1969) 18. by (1941) 19. by (1977) 20. by (1951) 21. by (1956)…”
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From Repo 10/23/2023 03:29 in Rank 'Em: The Beach Boys
“Repo's Top Ten Metal Albums of 1985 10. The best crossover album ever. 9. European Power Metal starts here. 8. A lesson to us all. Don't FUCK with Dave! 7. Starting new genres can be fun. 6. the thrasher's thrash album. 5. Beats out even Saint Vitus and Trouble for best Doom album of '85. 4.…”
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From 11/16/2012 00:01 | #55139 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
What an excellent heavy metal/doom metal album! Such an underrated band and they should have been so much bigger even in their own time. They leave that haunting Black Sabbath taste, but with better vocals. Sign of the Wolf and Relentless are the best tracks on here, but all are good.
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As far as imitating Black Sabbath goes, these guys did a pretty damn good job. I'm gonna go ahead and file this in my head under "enjoyable".
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From 10/09/2022 02:03 | #290306 | TOP COMMENT Help Vote up your preferred comments and the comments with the most votes will be flagged.
The best way to describe this is a combination of earliest 'Sabbath' and hard rock/proto-metal band 'Dust.' It's not bad but does sound quite flat and drab throughout. Would of benefited massively from better production.
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