The band sees the return of their original vocalist, Scott Reagers, as well as the addition of new bassist Pat Bruders (DOWN, ex-CROWBAR), who join long-time drummer Henry Vasquez and founder/guitarist Dave Chandler. They are true trailblazers, a motley crew who took Sabbath’s blueprint, married it to punk ethos and grit and created some of the greatest doom albums that the world has ever seen.
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The delicacy on the surprisingly mellow “A Prelude to…” is a damn-near lullaby, and his grizzled snarl throughout “Last Breath” helps seal the deal for the darkest song the band has done since “Sloth.”Vitus fans always seem to divide fairly equally between favoring the Reagers or Wino years, but it’s the former who has his name anchored to Vitus’ most tumultuous and decaying moments, and it’s quite wonderful to hear Reagers in such fine (/shambling) form again.Sadly, founding member Armando Acosta and his Cimmerian crown are now thunder-drumming in the great beyond, but Henry Vasquez does a remarkable job of retaining an extremely similar approach to driving the rhythm with hammer-fists, and newest member Patrick Bruders (Down) provides a VERY impressive amount of bubbling bass in the absence of original four-stringer Mark Adams, who was unfortunately diagnosed with Parkinson’s at the end of 2018.
But by God, doom and punk are two great tastes that taste great together, and if Last Rites Co-Owner; Senior Editor; Handsome & Interesting Man; Just get evil all the time.Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.Mors Vincit Omnia: A Spotlight On Sentient Ruin Laboratories, Part 2Last Rites’ Facebook Albums Of The Week: May 5th – May 11th I'm buying one of the best albums of last decade again for the 4th time. It sounds…unkempt, but that’s probably because he bangs that frazzled mop as hard in the studio while recording as he does on stage, and he’d probably look at the recording engineer as if they’d just given birth to a kangaroo if any suggestions to clean up got thrown around. The band itself remains sorely under-appreciated amidst a sea of more fashionable acts, which has always been doom’s way, …
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The band itself remains sorely under-appreciated amidst a sea of more fashionable acts, which has always been doom’s way, but even compared to their peers in an already relatively narrow landscape, Saint Vitus has always represented a terrifically curious deviation.Consider the origin story.
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City Park 8. Record/Vinyl + Digital Album - The Obelisk Surely there’s more of a backstory, but the overall subject matter behind Outside of a fairly anomalous stretch around 2005 / 2006, doom has always had a fairly narrow core audience, and Saint Vitus has proven time and again that they’re quite capable of tightening that attendance even further.
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Of course, protests in the modern age include people protesting over protests, and also protesting over the removal of the McRib, so maybe it’s simply a case of four “seasoned” humans doing what we seasoned humans do best: yell at people who are incessantly yelling.
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