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Wino Wednesday: The Obsessed, “No Blame”

The clip below for “No Blame” is the third video I’ve chosen for this week’s Wino Wednesday. I suppose that’s a good problem to have, right? There’s just such an abundance of awesome shit in the man’s catalog that it’s hard to pick one and stick with it? Could be worse, I suppose.

Lunar Womb, the album from which the track is taken, was released in 1991. Alongside Scott “Wino” Weinrich, this reinvigorated version of The Obsessed got together post-Wino‘s tenure in Saint Vitus and featured bassist Scott Reeder (later also of Kyuss and Goatsnake) and drummer Greg Rogers (later also of Goatsnake and Debris Inc.). The Obsessed had released their self-titled album with a different rhythm section only a year before.

Formed in 1976 under the moniker Warhorse — just two years after Nick Semper‘s Deep Purple offshoot played their last show with the name and a full 20 before the Massachusetts band picked it back up — The Obsessed is basically where it all starts for Wino. Their mid-90s run saw them signed to Columbia Records, and afterwards, the guitarist and vocalist would go on to release some of the best stoner rock ever, but The Obsessed‘s sound is one that’s never successfully been duplicated in doom, no matter how many it may have influenced.

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