The Obsessed

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The Obsessed
General information
Genre (s) Doom metal
founding 1979, 2012
resolution 1995

The Obsessed is a doom metal band. It was founded in Washington, DC in 1979 . The head of the band was Scott "Wino" Weinrich , who repeatedly disbanded the band in favor of other projects. Nevertheless, the band is one of the most important bands of the first generation of Doom Metal.

Band history

The Obsessed emerged in 1979 from a band called Warhorse. Its founding members were Scott Weinrich, Mark Laue, Johnny Reese and Dave Flood, and for a while also the singer Vance Bokis. Bokis wore glam rock clothes and make-up, the band covered pieces by the Beatles and the Sex Pistols at the time . After Bokis left the band and Ed Gulli replaced Dave Flood on drums, the trio around Gulli, bassist Mark Laue and singer and guitarist Scott "Wino" Weinrich recorded the EP Sodden Jackal in 1983 , the band's first official release.

Even before follow-up releases, Scott Weinrich left the band in 1986 to become singer and guitarist with Saint Vitus , The Obsessed broke up. In 1990 Hellhound Records released a compilation of older recordings by the band, at the same time Weinrich left the commercially unsuccessful Saint Vitus and reformed the band with bassist Danny Hood and drummer Greg Rogers (both previously with Acid Clown ). The trio released the studio album Lunar Womb in 1992 , which was relatively successful and gave the band the breakthrough and a contract with the major label Columbia Records . Hood had a motorcycle accident at the time and was replaced at short notice by Scott Reeder , who soon left the band to play with Kyuss .

The Obsessed then recorded their third album, The Church Within, for Columbia with new bassist Guy Pinhas . Despite intensive promotion (videos on MTV, an appearance at Dynamo Open Air and a joint tour with White Zombie ), the success left a lot to be desired and Columbia dropped the band again. After a last EP, Altamont Nation , Weinrich broke up the band again in 1995. Weinrich first founded Shine, then Spirit Caravan , Pinhas and Rogers founded the band Goatsnake together with Greg Anderson . Despite the breakup, since then there have been regular releases of unreleased or rare material, initially mainly on Doom Records, later on Southern Lord . A reunion took place on the occasion of the Roadburn Festival 2012.

Scott Weinrich, who repeatedly had drug problems, was on a tour with his band at the time 'St. Vitus' arrested in Norway and expelled to the US, which resulted in a 5-year entry ban to Europe. He also failed to apply for a new entry permit. For this reason, 'The Obsessed' had to cancel their planned performances in 2019.

Style and reception

The Obsessed are a doom metal band. The music is powerful, as is the singing. Piero Scaruffi describes it with the term “corpse-like lamentations” ( “cadaveric dirges” ).

At first she played in performances a. a. still cover versions , later only songs I wrote myself. Their early style was described as "a mixture of equal parts Stooges , Black Sabbath and Blue Cheer with the occasional thrown in Dead Boys or Dictators cover pieces".

Garry Sharpe-Young counts The Obsessed along with the sister project Saint Vitus and the band Pentagram in an overview of Doom pioneers to a " triumvirate of bands whose reputation still resonates worldwide". In his 2004 standard work Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal , Ian Christe calls The Obsessed an "undiscovered greatness" and tops her 1990 debut in a list of fourteen canonical works of Doom Metal.

In addition to their great influence on the metal genre known as Doom Metal from the mid-1980s , The Obsessed are also considered to be an important influence on the related stoner rock , Jim DeRogatis described their importance here as enormous: “Except for Kyuss, no proto-stoner band is one greater inspiration than The Obsessed. ”.

The Melvins drummer Dale Crover made a guest appearance on a recording of The Obsessed. The Foo Fighters covered Iron & Stone in 2000 on their single Learn to fly .

Discography

Demos

  • Demo 1980
  • Demo 1982
  • Promo demo 1985

Albums

  • The Obsessed ( Hellhound Records 1990)
  • Lunar Womb (Hellhound Records 1991)
  • The Church Within (Hellhound Records / Columbia Records 1994)
  • Sacred (Relapse Records 2017)

EPs / singles

Compilations / Live / Re-releases

  • History of The Obsessed ( Doom Records 1997)
  • Live at the Wax Museum (Doom Records 1997)
  • Incarnate ( Southern Lord Records 1999)
  • The Obsessed reissue w / live '84 CD ( Tolotta Records 2000)
  • History of The Obsessed Volume II (Doom Records 2002)
  • Lunar Womb Reissue ( MeteorCity Records 2006)

proof

  1. ↑ Official homepage .
  2. ↑ a b c d Garry Sharpe-Young : AZ of Doom, Gothic & Stoner Metal , 2003, ISBN 1-901447-14-6 , p. 302.
  3. ↑ roadburn.com : Legendary Doom Pioneers The Obsessed To Reunite For Roadburn Festival 2012 ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed May 20, 2018). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.roadburn.com
  4. ^ Metalreview.com : Review of The Obsessed - Lunar Womb (Retrieved May 20, 2018).
  5. ^ The History of Rock Music - The Nineties (accessed October 11, 2011).
  6. ↑ wormwoodchronicles.com : WINO ( Memento of the original from February 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Accessed October 11, 2011). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wormwoodchronicles.com
  7. ↑ a b Jim Derogatis: Hey, man! Stop Bogartin 'That Joint! - A Beginner's Guide To Stoner Rock , accessed October 13, 2011.
  8. ^ Garry Sharpe-Young: AZ of Doom, Gothic & Stoner Metal , 2003, ISBN 1-901447-14-6 , p. Ii.
  9. ^ Ian Christe : Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal , 2004, ISBN 978-0-380-81127-4 , p. 357.

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