''Sub-Basement'' is the fifth album by American

doom metal Doom metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than other heavy metal genres.K. Kahn-Harris, ''Extreme Metal: Music and Culture on the Edge'' ...

band

Pentagram A pentagram (sometimes known as a pentalpha, pentangle, or star pentagon) is a regular five-pointed star polygon, formed from the diagonal line segments of a convex (or simple, or non-self-intersecting) regular pentagon. Drawing a circle around ...

. It was released in 2001 by Italian label Black Widow Records.

Joe Hasselvander Joe Hasselvander (born December 30, 1956) is an American musician. He was the drummer of the British Heavy metal music, heavy metal band Raven (British band), Raven from 1987 until 2017 and was a member of the influential American doom metal b ...

played all the instruments, while Bobby Liebling provided all lead and backing vocals. The spine reads "If '' Review Your Choices'' made you sick, ''Sub-Basement'' will take you to the tomb!!!" According to the documentary '' Last Days Here'', the title referenced Liebling's life of living in his parents' sub-basement in

Germantown, Maryland Germantown is an urbanized census-designated place in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. With a population of 91,249 as of the 2020 census, it is the third-most populous community in Maryland, after Baltimore and Columbia, Maryland, Col ...

Track listing

(Songwriters listed in brackets.) # "Bloodlust" (Liebling) – 2:30 # "Buzzsaw" (Liebling) – 2:29 # "Drive Me to the Grave" (Hasselvander/Liebling) – 4:30 # "Sub-Intro" (Hasselvander) – 4:00 # "Sub-Basement" (Hasselvander/Liebling) – 6:00 # "Go in Circles (Reachin' for an End)"(Hasselvander/Liebling/Palmer) – 5:16 # "Mad Dog" (Liebling) – 2:17 # "After the Last" (Hasselvander/Liebling) – 3:43 # "Tidal Wave" (Hasselvander/Liebling) – 4:40 # "Out of Luck" (Liebling) – 3:54 # "Target" (Liebling) – 5:10 # "Review Your Choices" (1999 unreleased outtake) – 3:31 * # "Megalania" (1999 unreleased outtake) – 6:58 * * Bonus tracks on 2008

Season of Mist Season of Mist is an independent record label and record distributor with subsidiaries in France and the United States. The record label was founded in 1996 by Michael S. Berberian in Marseille, France. From the start releasing black metal, pa ...

re-release

Lineup

Bobby Liebling Robert Harold "Bobby" Liebling (21 December 1953) is an American musician. He is the founder, lead vocalist, and only continuous member of the pioneering doom metal band Pentagram (band), Pentagram. He has been referred to as "very much the U.S ...

– all lead and backing vocals *

– all instruments

References

{{Authority control 2001 albums Pentagram (band) albums