The Obsessed at James Ballentine "Uptown" VFW Post 246

The Obsessed is a doom metal band from Maryland led by Scott "Wino" Weinrich, who also fronted Saint Vitus, Spirit Caravan, Place of Skulls and The Hidden Hand. The band originally formed in the late 1970s, in Potomac, Maryland led by Wino. Later on the group moved into a band house in Rockville, Maryland where some of their most creative and hardest music was written. Before this move however original guitar player John Reese went his separate way. The band became a trio and stayed that way until the mid eighties when Vance Bockis and Norman Lawson joined the band. During this time they released the "Sodden Jackyl" EP and had 1 track ("Concrete Cancer") featured on Metal Blade's "Metal Massacre VI". The band broke up in the late 80s and Wino went west to California to join up with Saint Vitus. Wino recorded 3 albums, an EP, and a live album with Saint Vitus. Hellhound Records (Vitus's then current lablel) released "The Obsessed", an album of archived Obsessed recordings which prompted Wino to leave Vitus and reform The Obsessed. The band was quickly signed to Hellhound Records and released 2 more albums. In spite of a series of line-up shifts, Columbia Records picked up their third album, "The Church Within", which received rave reviews but ended up being the band's last. After the demise of The Obsessed, Wino formed Spirit Caravan Bass player Guy Pinhas and drummer Greg Rodgers formed Goatsnake. The Obsessed announced their third reunion in March 2016 and release their album Sacred in April 2017. Discography Albums: * The Obsessed (Hellhound Records 1990) * Lunar Womb (Hellhound Records 1991) * The Church Within (Hellhound Records/Columbia Records 1994) * Sacred (Relapse Records 2017) EPs/Singles * Sodden Jackyl 7" (Invictus Records 1983) * "Streetside" 7"/CD (Columbia Records 1994) * "To Protect and To Serve" 7"/CD (Columbia Records 1994) * Altamont Nation 7" (Bong Load Records 1995) * Instrumental 7" (Doom Records 1996) * Sodden Jackyl 7" (with different mixes) (Doom Records 1996) * split 7" with Mystick Krewe of Clearlight (both sides Lynyrd Skynyrd covers) (2001 Southern Lord Records) Compilations/Live/Reissue * History of The Obsessed (Doom Records 1997) * Live at the Wax Museum (Doom Records 1997) * Incarnate (Southern Lord Records 1999) * The Obsessed reissue w/live '84 CD (Tolotta Records 2000) * History of The Obsessed Volume II (Doom Records 2002) * Lunar Womb Reissue (MeteorCity Records 2006)

A stoner/doom metal band formed in 2017 by multi-instrumentalist Eddie Brnabic (Beggars Ball, ex-Blessid Electric, ex-Moto-Shiner, ex-Brothership Connection, and ex-Zappada) when he moved to Portland, Oregon, USA from Los Angeles. After trying a few different lineups with the new material he was working on, Brnabic recruited his girlfriend, Laura Phillips to play bass, ex- Nether Regions drummer Ryan Moore, and Ben Jackson (Sioux, ex-A((wake))) to handle keyboard/vocals. With this lineup, the band released their debut full-length 111 on Cursed Tongue Records in 2019. The album received positive reviews and lead to a deal with US/Italian label Heavy Psych Sounds, who would release the split with High Reeper Doom Sessions, Vol. 5 in 2021 and HDC's follow up album Circle of Days the same year. This would be their last release as a quartet as months after the album's release, Ben Jackson announced his departure from the band, leaving Phillips to take over on vocals. Despite some concern over the future of the group following Jackson's departure, a set at the Heavy Psych Sounds Festival in San Fransisco in 2022 proved to fans that they had nothing to worry about. That summer, the trio would embark on a tour of the U.S.A., featuring stops at Ripplefest in Austin, Texas and Psycho Las Vegas. The year would also see their first release as a trio with the single for Nice to Know You in July. Ryan Moore would also part ways with the band in November 2022, and the remaining (temporary) duo would announce his replacement Harry Silvers (Robots of the Ancient World) in early 2023. After adding Silvers to the lineup, the band would release singles for Arise and Better Days in July and August respectively before the release of their third full-length Helichrysum on Heavy Psych Sounds. In early 2024, the band posted a cover of the Nirvana song Aneurysm featuring guest backing vocals from Amanda Lance (Spirit Mother) for digital download on their Bandcamp page.