Fifty-plus years into one of the most improbable careers in heavy music, Pentagram is calling it. The Last Rites Tour — what the band is billing as their “Farewell Run Across the United States” — comes to Rochester on Wednesday, May 26, 2027. Doors open at 6 PM at Montage Music Hall, 50 Chestnut St., and this is worth clearing your calendar for.
About Pentagram
If you know Pentagram, you already know the weight of this. If you don’t: they’ve been at it since 1971, out of Alexandria, Virginia, and they helped build the entire architecture of American doom metal — a direct peer to Black Sabbath and Witchfinder General, part of what the doom metal world calls the “big four” alongside Candlemass, Saint Vitus, and Trouble. Frontman Bobby Liebling is the sole original member still standing, and his presence onstage is genuinely unlike anything else in heavy music. If you’ve seen the clip making the rounds, you already know exactly what I mean.
Their most recent album, Lightning in a Bottle, came out in 2025 — their 10th studio record — and the current lineup behind Liebling is stacked: Tony Reed on guitar (Mos Generator), John “Scooter” Haslip on bass, and Henry Vasquez on drums, who has logged time with Saint Vitus and Spirit Caravan. These are not fill-in players. This is a real band playing a real farewell.
Support comes from Today Is the Day, the noise rock institution out behind their 14th album, Never Give In. The pairing is confirmed for the Rochester date. Two heavy acts, one 16+ night.
About the Venue
Montage Music Hall is a 400-capacity club in downtown Rochester at 50 Chestnut St. — the right-sized room for a band whose dates were already mostly selling out before they accidentally went viral. For the Rochester and Finger Lakes region, this is one of the more consequential heavy shows of the year.
Tickets & Pricing
Tickets are available via Etix. Pentagram’s Last Rites Tour dates were mostly selling out before the viral moment brought them a second wave of attention — don’t sit on this one.