Genres: Alternative Pop/Rock, Heavy Metal, Alternative/Indie Rock, Stoner Metal, Doom Metal Active: 80's, 90's Formed: in Los Angeles, CA
Candlemass, Pentagram, Trouble, Sleep, Cathedral, Spiritual Beggars, Electric Wizard, Church of Misery, Goatsnake, Fireball Ministry, Las Cruces, Brain Police, Sons of Otis, Serpent, Penance, Count Raven, Cemetary, Witchfinder General, Solitude Aeturnus Church of Misery, Grief, Serpent, Scrid, Abdullah, Rascal Basket, Dream Death, Sleep, Cold Mourning, Bloodhorse, Acrimony, Mystick Krewe of Clearlight, Fireball Ministry, Reverend Bizarre, The Kiss of Death, High on Fire, Winter, Bathory, Godflesh |  |
One of the leading American doom metal acts of the '80s (along with Trouble and the Obsessed), Saint Vitus was cursed with public indifference throughout their decade-plus career, which both started and ended in frustrating obscurity. Originally formed as Tyrant in 1979 by vocalist Scott Reagers, guitarist Dave Chandler, bassist Mark Adams, and drummer Armando Acosta, Los Angeles' Saint Vitus was named after a medieval boy saint whose beheading and violent death-throes gave rise to the gruesome expression ("Saint Vitus Dance," also the name of a Black Sabbath song from the Vol. 4 album). Though they couldn't help but be slightly influenced by the SoCal hardcore scene thriving all around them (especially on their early releases), the quartet was a card-carrying disciple of Sabbath's dreary doom metal commandments, specializing in amazingly slow, ponderous power chords and a highly unfashionable biker image.
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Release: February 5, 2009
Label: St. Vitus
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Release: July 26, 2005
Label: Southern Lord Records
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