Mezarkabul

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Pentagram
Pentagram members
Background information
Origin	Turkey
Genre(s)	Heavy metal, Power metal
Years active	1986–present
Label(s)	RMP / Nuclear Blast Records, Century Media Records, Sanctuary Records, Nepa Müzik, Raks Müzik, Böcek Yapım
Website	thepentagram.net
Members
Murat İlkan (vocals) Hakan Utangaç (guitar) Tarkan Gözübüyük (bass) Metin Türkcan (guitar) Cenk Ünnü (drums)
Former members
Ümit Yılbar (guitar) (deceased) Murat Net (guitar) Ogün Sanlısoy (vocals) Demir Demirkan (guitar) Onur Pamukçu (guitar)

Pentagram (Mezarkabul outside Turkey) is a Turkish heavy metal/power metal band composed of Murat İlkan (vocals), Hakan Utangaç, Metin Türkcan, Tarkan Gözübüyük, and Cenk Ünnü.

1 History
2 Lineup
- 2.1 Current Lineup
- 2.2 Former members
3 Discography
- 3.1 Albums
4 External links

[edit] History

Pentagram was formed in İstanbul in 1986 by guitarist Hakan Utangaç and drummer Cenk Ünnü. By 1987, bassist Tarkan Gözübüyük had joined and they started doing live shows. Their first release came in 1990, with their self-titled Pentagram album. By 1992, a second guitarist Demir Demirkan and vocalist Ogün Sanlısoy were added to the line-up. They released their sophomore album Trail Blazer in the same year and enjoyed a now rapidly-growing fanbase - both in Turkey and worldwide. In 1993, while he was serving the Turkish Army, the first guitarist of the band, Ümit Yılbar, was killed in a battle against terrorists on Mountain Cıraf.

For the next three years, the band toured in their homeland and abroad. In 1995, vocalist Murat İlkan replaced Ogün, and they started working on their next album, Anatolia. Anatolia was released in Turkey in 1997, and several weeks after the release, Century Media approached Pentagram for a worldwide release.

Anatolia was a very strong album, from its booklet (which was showing photographs of children murdered by the PKK terrorist organization) to its lyrics. Pentagram describes the song A Thousand in the Eastland, which is featured in Anatolia, as a requiem to the "scream of a thousand people dying in the East, ignored in the West, where one death becomes a tragedy".

They released a live album in 1998 called Popçular Dışarı (literally Pop musicians out). Guitarist Demir Demirkan departed, and was temporarily replaced with Onur "Mr. Cat" Pamukçu.

They started recording their next album in 2000 in their own studio in Istanbul. Guitarist Metin Türkcan officially joined the band during the recording session. They composed 17 songs, and decided to split it up into two different CDs. In 2001, Unspoken was released worldwide. Bir (One) was released in Turkey only in 2002.

For their releases in Turkey, they use the name Pentagram. However, due to an American doom metal band called Pentagram, they go by the name Mezarkabul (literally Acceptance To Grave) for international releases.