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Original Pentagram Guitarist and Founding Member Loses Battle With Cancer

posted Jun 2, 2006 at 12:31 AM by deathbringer.  (15 Comments)

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Vincent McAllister, the guitarist and a founding member of seminal American Doom Metal band PENTAGRAM, has lost his battle with cancer at the age of 51.

McAllister played guitar in the classic '70s PENTAGRAM lineup that also included vocalist Bobby Liebling, bassist Greg Mayne and drummer Geof O'Keefe. His recorded works can be heard throughout the various PENTAGRAM collections.

McAllister was highly respected as a guitarist and person amongst his peers. McAllister had spent the past few years working on material in his home studio and planning to return to playing again with former PENTAGRAM members O'Keefe and Mayne.

You can find more news on Vincent McAllister on bedemon.com.

Source: Blackmetal.com

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15 Comments on "Original Pentagram Member Loses Battle w/ Cancer"

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1. psythe writes:

ohh man, that sucks! and he was planning on playing again, too! fvckin cancer. happens to the best of us.

R.I.P. Vin.

# Jun 2, 2006 @ 12:35 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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2. Azazel_Begotten writes:

RIP brother...

\,,/ \'''/

# Jun 2, 2006 @ 9:04 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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3. slayerdisciple writes:

cancer takes another one down, first shuldiner now mcallister

# Jun 2, 2006 @ 12:05 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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4. D00ML0RD writes:

People don't realize how important he was to doom and hard rock on the whole. His influence is vast and he will be remembered.

# Jun 2, 2006 @ 1:07 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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5. unknown writes:

schuldiner died from a brain aneurism not cancer

# Jun 2, 2006 @ 2:42 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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6. psythe writes:

does it matter how they died, really? focus on the bigger issue, dude.

# Jun 2, 2006 @ 9:27 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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7. rulin kmadd writes:

that is bad news the singer od as well if i am not mistaken.

# Jun 3, 2006 @ 2:13 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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8. KORNDOGG writes:

RIP!

# Jun 3, 2006 @ 3:35 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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9. voodoo tribe writes:

rest in peace

# Jun 6, 2006 @ 9:27 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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10. andycat33 writes:

Just this year my youngest son gave me a copy of First Daze Here. It is wonderful to know that even as I enter my 60's there is music and bands that I can come to fresh. Although we attach the personalities of our artists too tightly to our likes and dislikes it is the art, their music that lives beyond the fragility of our temporal existence. Maybe Vincent is jamming w/Jimi Hendrix or Vincent Crane or Jim Morrison or the endless stream of the lost creative genuises who have been in our midst. Vince, I feel privileged to have shared in your life. Thank you and wait for us all.

# Jun 6, 2006 @ 9:00 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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11. psythe writes:

that was a wonderful post, andy. I really enjoyed reading that. thankyou.

# Jun 6, 2006 @ 11:04 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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12. kady_666 writes:

RIP always and have fun wherever you are im sure u will rock the place?????

# Jun 8, 2006 @ 5:40 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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13. jew killer 666420 writes:

f*** this is sad sh**. why did we have to be born in this generation anyway. we will all miss out on the technology for immortality as we are rotting in the ground. f***

# Jun 11, 2006 @ 8:53 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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14. TempestPrincess writes:

........RIP...........

i'll meet you in the Hell

f*** yeah!!

# Jun 12, 2006 @ 1:24 AM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address
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15. Spyridon Kaprinis writes:

"I am the spirit that always denies! And rightly so; for everything that comes to be deserves to perish..." [Goethe, "Faust"]

Rest In Peace, Vincent McAllister...

# Jun 18, 2006 @ 7:04 PM ET | IP Logged Reveal posts originating from the same IP address

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