The Obsessed, like Manchester, have much to musically answer for. As part of Saint Vitus, guitarist and belter Scott “Wino” Weinrich turned a lot of West Coast hardcore and metal kids on to the virtues of slowing things downnnnnn musically, and of skipping more than a few haircuts. Weinrich departed Vitus in the early 1990s to return to his Maryland doom outfit The Obsessed, quickly (re)gaining acclaim and a fervent stoner fanbase with their ghostly, Sabbathian rumble.