Wino

”It blows my mind to realize that so many people in a genre I would have previously described as forward thinking and cool, get their feathers all ruffled when ideas come down the pike that are ’out of the mainstream’ way of thinking,” Wino writes.

”This virus I believe was created as a depopulation tool, and the fear associated with it as a means to subjugate and enslave you and I, the common people,” Wino writes in a new statement.

Wino-led The Obsessed and The Skull were touring together earlier this summer, but they’ve since parted ways, with Wino eschewing COVID guidelines as The Skull vocalist Eric Wagner tests positive and is hospitalized with COVID pneumonia.

Doom legends The Obsessed are releasing an expanded edition of their long-out-of-print rarities compilation Incarnate, titled Incarnate Ultimate Edition, for the Record Store Day drop on October 24…

Heavy metal legend Wino (The Obsessed, Saint Vitus, etc) spoke to us about what influenced his upcoming acoustic solo album, and we’re also premiering his new song…

Scott “Wino” Weinrich (The Obsessed, Saint Vitus, etc) is releasing an acoustic solo album in June, and the first single is a very timely Joy Division cover…

New additions also include HEALTH, Obituary, TSOL, Crowbar, Exhorder, Wolves In The Throne Room, Eyehategod, Pig Destroyer, Repulsion, Immolation, Intronaut, Khemmis, Creeping Death, Midnight, Wino, Zola Jesus, Lower Dens, and more…

There’s also a West Coast run that has Six Organs of Admittance on the bill.

The Obsessed performed an acoustic rendition of “Freedom” from their 1990 self-titled album, which recently got an expanded reissue on Relapse.