Revolver
has teamed up with The Obsessed for an exclusive Transparent Blue with Black Smoke vinyl variant of their classic album The Church Within
In the early Eighties, Washington, D.C. s music scene was pretty clearly split between longhairs clinging to the supercharged Seventies sounds of heshers like Zeppelin and Sabbath and a new crew of short-cropped kids diving headfirst into the hardcore punk scene of Minor Threat, Bad Brains, Black Flag and more.
It was during this time that Scott Wino Weinrich launched his now-iconic stoner doom crew the Obsessed in nearby Potomac, Maryland. His band s heavy-as-hell headbanging sound (and biker-tough looks) should have put him in diametric opposition to the hardcore kids except that Wino s no bullshit approach (and genuine love of both heavy metal and punk) actually