- 01Paranoid“I saw Sabbath on my twelfth birthday, during the Paranoid tour, a gig that changed my life,” Wino said.from the chapter
- 02Sodden JackalAfter a few lineup changes, The Obsessed released the Sodden Jackal EP in 1983, with Wino on guitar and vocals, Mark Laue on bass, and Ed Gulli on drums.from the chapter
- 03Vol. 4Like Sabbath’s Vol. 4 and Sabotage, The Obsessed is tinged with hope and joy but also wallows in anger and hopelessness.from the chapter
- 04Sabotage4 and Sabotage, The Obsessed is tinged with hope and joy but also wallows in anger and hopelessness.from the chapter
- 05The Obsessed4 and Sabotage, The Obsessed is tinged with hope and joy but also wallows in anger and hopelessness.from the chapter
- 06Raw PowerIn 2004, he said, “I was always influenced by the punk energy, but before the punk thing hit, we were already totally into The Stooges, we totally loved Raw Power, we listened to The Saints, The Dictators…I really felt that we could hold our own with the punks, so we tried to prove that at every turn.”from the chapter
- 07“St. Vitus Dance”Formed in 1979 in Lomita, CA, when it was still a grimy industrial town, the band named itself after Black Sabbath’s “St. Vitus Dance,” finding primary influence in the Birmingham quartet.from the chapter
- 08Saint VitusSaint Vitus takes Sabbath’s crawl to a primal extreme, replacing the jazz flourish with Neanderthal simplicity.from the chapter
- 09“Burial at Sea”Saint Vitus reaches peak heaviness in the closer, “Burial at Sea.”from the chapter
- 10“Black Sabbath”The track clocks in at over eight minutes and lumbers at a slower pace than “Black Sabbath.”from the chapter
- 11Hallow’s Victimfrom Saint VitusSST released Saint Vitus’s Hallow’s Victim LP and The Walking Dead EP in 1985.from the chapter
- 12The Walking DeadSST released Saint Vitus’s Hallow’s Victim LP and The Walking Dead EP in 1985.from the chapter
- 13Born Too LateWhen Wino joined, Saint Vitus already had most of Born Too Late written.from the chapter
- 14“Iron Man”In opener “Born Too Late,” Wino sings about social alienation in a narrative similar to “Iron Man,” except it’s grounded in real life, not a sci-fi universe.from the chapter
- 15“Clear Windowpane”Much of the record moves with the foreboding lurch of that track, but there are also faster songs like “Clear Windowpane” and “H.A.A.G.”from the chapter
- 16“H.A.A.G”Much of the record moves with the foreboding lurch of that track, but there are also faster songs like “Clear Windowpane” and “H.A.A.G.”from the chapter
- 17Mournful CriesJust one year later, Saint Vitus put out Mournful Cries, another masterful and genre-defining album.from the chapter
- 18“The Creeps”Opener “The Creeps” finds the quartet returning to its roots by rampaging forth with walls of fuzz punk.from the chapter
- 19VThe quartet released its fifth LP, creatively titled V, on Hellhound in 1990.from the chapter
- 20Lunar WombThe Obsessed signed to Hellhound, unleashing Lunar Womb in 1991.from the chapter
- 21The Church WithinSeeing potential in doom as an untapped market, Columbia signed The Obsessed, putting out The Church Within in 1994.from the chapter
- 22Jug Fulla SunSpirit Caravan released two LPs, Jug Fulla Sun and Elusive Truth, as well as a handful of EPs.from the chapter
- 23Elusive TruthSpirit Caravan released two LPs, Jug Fulla Sun and Elusive Truth, as well as a handful of EPs.from the chapter
- 24ProbotWino also appears on the Probot LP, Dave Grohl’s 2004 project that features the metal heroes he worshipped as a teenager.from the chapter
- 25Lillie: F-65Saint Vitus tentatively got the Born Too Late lineup back together in 2003, though the group didn’t release its next full-length, Lillie: F-65, until 2012.from the chapter
- 26SacredAfter a twenty-three-year hiatus, the original lineup of The Obsessed returned in 2017 with Sacred, an LP that captures the same don’t-fuck-with-me attitude of the trio’s early records, showing a new generation that Wino is a force of nature.from the chapter