Saint Vitus (band)

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Saint Vitus

Background information
Genre(s) Stoner metal, Doom metal
Years active 1979-1995
(Reunions: 2003)
Label(s) SST Records
Nuclear Blast Records
Roadrunner Records
Southern Lord Records
Hellhound Records
Associated
acts
Spirit Caravan
The Obsessed
The Hidden Hand
Place of Skulls
Count Raven
Members
Mark Antone Adams
Armando Acosta
Dave Chandler
Scott Reagers
Former members
Scott "Wino" Weinrich
Christian Lindersson

Saint Vitus was a doom metal band from California.

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[edit] Biography

Saint Vitus is known as one of the first doom metal bands, starting out as early as the late 1970s. The band first used the name Tyrant, with Scott Reagers (vocals), Dave Chandler (guitar), Mark Adams (bass), and Armando Costa (drums), but soon changed their name to Saint Vitus. Their main influences were Black Sabbath and Pentagram.

Under this line-up Saint Vitus recorded 2 albums (Saint Vitus & Hallow's Victim) and an EP (The Walking Dead). After The Walking Dead Reagers left the band and was replaced by The Obsessed frontman Scott "Wino" Weinrich (at this time, The Obsessed had only released one 7"). Wino recorded 3 studio albums (Born Too Late, Mournful Cries & V), a live album (Live), and an EP (Thirsty And Miserable, featuring the Black Flag cover of the same name) with Vitus. He left the band in 1991 to reform The Obsessed after Vitus's label, Hellhound Records, released an album of older Obsessed recordings. Christian Lindersson (of Count Raven) left his band to fill in on vocals. He would record only 1 album, C.O.D. (widely considered the band's low point), before being replaced by original Vitus vocalist, Scott Reagers. Reagers recorded vocals for the band's final album, Die Healing.

On July 1st, 2003, the classic Born Too Late line-up (Weinrich, Chandler, Adams, Acosta) played a gig at the Double Door in Chicago [1].

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Rock Detector Saint Vitus page

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Saint Vitus
Scott Reagers | Dave Chandler | Mark Adams | Armando Acosta
Former members: Scott "Wino" Weinrich | Christian Lindersson
Discography
Albums and EPs: Saint Vitus | Hallow's Victim | The Walking Dead | Born Too Late | Thirsty and Miserable | Mournful Cries | V | Live | Children of Doom (C.O.D.) | Die Healing
Compilations: Heavier Than Thou
Related articles
Spirit Caravan | The Obsessed | The Hidden Hand | Place of Skulls | Count Raven
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