Die Healing

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Die Healing
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Studio album by
Saint Vitus
ReleasedMay 9, 1995 (1995-05-09) [1]
RecordedOctober–November 1994
StudioMusic Lab Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Genre Doom metal
Length49:50
Label Hellhound
Producer Harris Johns & Saint Vitus
Saint Vitus chronology
C.O.D.
(1992)		Die Healing
(1995)		 Lillie: F-65
(2012)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal 6/10 [3]
Exclaim! 8/10 [4]
Rock Hard 9.0/10 [5]

Die Healing is the seventh studio album by the American doom metal band Saint Vitus, released in 1995 by Hellhound Records. In addition to being their final album before disbanding in 1996, Die Healing saw the band reunite with the original lineup of vocalist Scott Reagers, guitarist Dave Chandler, bassist Mark Adams and drummer Armando Acosta. It would, however, be the last Saint Vitus album to feature Acosta before his death in 2010, and Reagers for 20 years until his return to the band in 2015.

Doom metal is an extreme subgenre of heavy metal music that typically uses slower tempos, low-tuned guitars and a much "thicker" or "heavier" sound than other heavy metal genres. Both the music and the lyrics intend to evoke a sense of despair, dread, and impending doom. The genre is strongly influenced by the early work of Black Sabbath, who formed a prototype for doom metal. During the first half of the 1980s, a number of bands from England, the United States and Sweden defined doom metal as a distinct genre.

Saint Vitus (band) American doom metal band

Saint Vitus is an American heavy metal band formed in Los Angeles in 1979. They are one of the first doom metal bands, alongside Pentagram, Witchfinder General, Trouble and Pagan Altar. Having released nine studio albums to date, Saint Vitus never achieved a popular breakthrough, but have exerted great influence on the development of doom metal, sludge metal, and stoner rock.

Hellhound Records was a German record label during the late 1980s and 1990s, self-described as "The Heaviest Label On Earth". They became known for putting out doom metal, with artists such as Saint Vitus and The Obsessed. In the early 1990s Hellhound signed a number of Maryland doom bands such as Internal Void, Iron Man, Revelation, Wretched and Unorthodox. They quickly became a prominent label in the doom metal genre. Some of the Hellhound releases were distributed in the US by Noise Records and Noise began pressing some of the later releases after Hellhound's demise. Noise released a compilation entitled Pure Noise which featured a number of Hellhound bands along with many Noise bands as well. Only a few Hellhound releases were re-released by current labels, such as Southern Lord Records and Japan's Leaf Hound Records.

Contents

In 2010, the album was reissued on limited-edition vinyl by Buried By Time And Dust Records. [6]

Track listing

All songs written by Dave Chandler.

  1. "Dark World" - 4:57
  2. "One Mind" - 4:34
  3. "Let the End Begin" - 7:36
  4. "Trail of Pestilence" - 5:10
  5. "Sloth" - 8:10
  6. "Return of the Zombie" - 6:42
  7. "In the Asylum" - 8:11
  8. "Just Another Notch" - 4:29

Personnel

Saint Vitus
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References

  1. ↑ "Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives - Saint Vitus - Die Healing". The Metal Archives. Retrieved 2012-02-13.
  2. ↑ Rivadavia, Eduardo. Saint Vitus: Die Healing at AllMusic. Retrieved 14 September 2013.
  3. ↑ Popoff, Martin (1 August 2007). The Collector's Guide to Heavy Metal: Volume 3: The Nineties. Burlington, Ontario, Canada: Collector's Guide Publishing. p. 378. ISBN   978-1-894959-62-9.
  4. ↑ Falzon, Denise (6 September 2013). "Saint Vitus Die Healing". Exclaim! . Retrieved 15 September 2013.
  5. ↑ Kühnemund, Götz (1995). "Review Dynamit: Saint Vitus - Die Healing". Rock Hard (in German). No. 93. Retrieved 2017-11-02.
  6. ↑ "SAINT VITUS Limited Edition Vinyl 12" "Die Healing" now in stock!! van Hellride Music Superstore & Zine op Myspace". Blogs.myspace.com. 2010-02-19. Archived from the original on 2009-02-07. Retrieved 2012-02-13.
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