I had already flown over to Roadburn in The Netherlands to see Saint Vitus play earlier in the year, so when the band came around on a weekender tour and played Europa in December, there was no way I wasn’t going to the show. It was packed out, Brooklynite hipsters and classic doomers commingling and downing Polish beers as the best American doom band of all time let loose about two hours of their ungodly wares. I stood, as ever, by the bar.

There’s a ton of video from that night and from that tour and the tours they’ve done since, but seeing them so close to my home turf will always have a soft spot in my heart, so when I searched for “The Troll” and the clip came up, the decision basically made itself. “The Troll” comes off of 1988’s often-overlooked Mournful Cries, which is the middle child between the classic Born too Late (1986) and V (1990) but still a landmark in its own right. Whatever point in the Vitus catalog you want to hold them up to, I think “Dragon Time” and “Looking Glass” more than hold up.

But tonight, it’s “The Troll.” Hope you enjoy.

Tags: Brooklyn, Saint Vitus, Wino Wednesday

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