Compiled by Claudio Fernández and Jorge Cabieses. Pentagram was formed in Santiago de Chile in the mid 80s, as the country still lived under the repressive regime of General Pinochet, which, in a paradox turn, made a very peripheral and difficult underground scene a synonym of political resistance and rabid artistic creation. The unofficial circles of exchange of Chilean extreme metal demo-tapes towards the international centers of musical validation (particularly Canada, Germany and Scandinavia, where a lot of Chileans were living in forced exile) in a short time made Pentagram's musical innovation - within a still developing genre, soon to be internationally dubbed Death Metal - begin to be cited as an important influence for similar bands that were already enjoying worldwide recognition, raising Pentagram to the status of an internationally revered cult-band. In the diversity of styles that publishers Claudio Fernández (Contadini Peruviani,...