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SAINT VITUS – Heavier Than Thou"While other 80s doom giants like Trouble and Candlemass performed metal of mythic, epic proportions, Saint Vitus kept it to the streets. Their brand of doom metal was as scuzzy as it was totally unique. Their punkier take on the genre found more of a home in the hardcore scene: touring with Black Flag and signing to their label SST, who released their debut album Saint Vitus in 1984. A big factor in their sound is the unmistakable bass heavy guitar

Produced by Brian Paulson at River North Recorders in Chicago and released by Touch and Go Records in April of 1991

a precise time travel through all phases of the band’s history going back to the roots but at the same time at the speed of light towards the future

raw emotions and a distancing wall of sound

and it felt like it had been strangely prescient to write about being alone” Smith speaks about the birth of this record

The song structures match

and The Lost Boys movie

each cut is a substantially different version than what might have appeared before

- Chuck Cunningham

which was weakened by overly complicated song structures and mediocre production

was the sound of Björk retreating from the spotlight after the huge success of Debut and Post – albeit in a combative way

The outcome is Blues Lawyer’s most compelling artistic proclamation to date

where Minor Threat played with The Big Boys