I miss this band!!!

The Obsessed----Hung out with them in the early '80's. Worked at Peaches Records & Tapes in Rockville, MD where Scott's girlfriend worked. Became an "obsessed" fan afterwards.



My favorite song - Sodden Jackal

The Obsessed were a doom metal band from Maryland led by Scott "Wino" Weinrich, who also fronted Saint Vitus, Spirit Caravan, Place of Skulls, and currently fronts The Hidden Hand.

The band formed originally in the early 1980s, 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 from Hellion joined the band. During this time the band won the infamous Battle of the Bands at Baltimores Marble Bar by actually beating up one of the competing bands. During this time they released the Sodden Jackyl EP and had 1 track ("Concrete Cancer") featured on Metal Blade's Metal Massacre VI.


links to a 3-part mini-documentary from youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZ528ZgfsF0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH7sD-90ouI&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COgbSmzbtoM&mode=related&search=

listings back then. Thanks for posting; I'll get to see what The Obsessed were all about years after the fact.

Was Peaches near the Prestigious White Flint Mall?

Right across the street from White Flint

I was probably in there once or twice when you were working.

LOL!