Saint Vitus (band)

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Saint Vitus
Genre(s) 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
Debris, Inc.
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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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 Acosta (drums), but soon changed their name to Saint Vitus after the song "St. Vitus' Dance" by Black Sabbath. Their main influences were Sabbath and Black Flag.

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 three 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 one album, C.O.D. before being replaced by original Vitus vocalist, Scott Reagers. Reagers recorded vocals for the band's final album, Die Healing.

Chandler has recently resurfaced in a new band, Debris, Inc., along with Trouble bassist Ron Holzner.

On July 1st, 2003, the classic Born Too Late line-up (Weinrich, Chandler, Adams, Acosta) played a gig at Double Door in Chicago.[1] The performance was recorded and released on a DVD that is distributed through Chandler's current band, Debris, Inc.

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  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
Albums and EPs
Compilations
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