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
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 1994 the Obsessed unleashed
The Church Within their powerhouse third full-length and major-label debut for Columbia. Thanks to the record company s backing the Maryland-based doom crew guitarist/singer/guru Scott Wino Weinrich, bassist Guy Pinhas and drummer Greg Rogers gained much wider exposure. All of a sudden, a nation of metalheads, grunge fans and alternative kids were getting turned on to the Obsessed s signature blend of Sabbathian heavy jams, galloping rippers and speed-freak solos. But the D.C. punks already knew what was up.