New Ripple Acoustic Series 'Blood and Strings' launching in
2020
Ripple Music is honored and thrilled to announce the signing
of doom metal icon Scott “Wino” Weinrich.
Wino’s new solo album will launch Ripple’s new "Blood and Strings”
series, in which some of the most admired names in riff-rock and metal unplug
to record albums of acoustic heaviness. Ripple Music will release Wino’s new
Frank Marchand-recorded solo album ‘Forever Gone’ in early 2020.
WINO declares:
"Hello friends, fans, freaks! It is with great
excitement that I announce to the rock and roll world that I have signed on to
the Ripple family and that Ripple will be releasing my next solo/acoustic
recording 'Forever Gone' in early 2020. I think this is the perfect vessel to
bring this music to your ears! Thanks all at Ripple Music and thanks to all who
believe!"
Ripple Music will soon unveil more details regarding this
new solo album as well as their upcoming 'Blood and Strings' series.
Scott “Wino” Weinrich is widely as known as the iconic
frontman of cornerstone doom metal founders SAINT VITUS and THE OBSESSED — both
founded in the late 70s and revered for inspiring hundreds of bands in their
sovereign wake — as well as SPIRIT CARAVAN, THE HIDDEN HAND and SHRINEBUILDER.
Through his prolific and passion-driven 40-year career,
whether he was laying the foundations of modern doom or successfully sailing
across stirring folk rock lands, Wino has remained an unwavering force of the
underground scene.
Wino formed his first band The Obsessed in 1980, starting
the reign of “heavy and slow” decades before doom grew into a flourishing
worldwide genre unto itself. A few years later, he moved to California to join Saint Vitus, with whom he
released the seminal ‘Born Too Late’ (1986), one of the most powerful
statements in doom’s early history, with Wino’s raspy, heartfelt and
punk-charged vocals booming loudly above the crowd of howling, gimmicky Ozzy
copycats.
Following a reformation of The Obsessed and a brief
major-label flirtation in the early 90s which included a a piledriving update
of Black Sabbath's "The Wizard" alongside Geezer Butler, Bill Ward
and Rob Halford, Wino formed yet another influential outfit, Spirit Caravan.
The new band fused his trademark sludgy churn with an increased soulfulness,
beginning to lay the groundwork for his eventual exploration of acoustic and
expansive songwriting. During this time, Dave Grohl also invited Wino to join
his all-star Probot project alongside Lemmy Kilmister, King Diamond, Max
Cavalera and other notables.
Numerous world tours with his various bands later, the creative
source remained inexhaustible as Wino embarked on a new direction with the
release of his solo debut, ‘Punctuated Equilibrium.’ Quickly followed by second
solo LP ‘Adrift’ in 2010 and a series of collaborations with German folk
songwriter Conny Ochs, Wino embarked on extensive European and North American
tours as a solo act, continuing to maintain his thriving solo output even with
the arrival of a much-heralded and welcome re-constitution of The Obsessed for
the third time in 2017.
Today, WINO is respected the world over as the godfather of
doom and one of the heavy music underground’s most revered lifers. Worldwide
festivals like Roadburn, Hellfest, Psycho Las Vegas, Desertfest, Maryland
Deathfest, Rock Hard Fest, Monolith On The Mesa and countless others keep
inviting Wino back through his various sonic incarnations year after year.
"The career of Wino is a rich and fabled one, and his
tentacles of influence weave throughout the arenas of rock, punk and
metal." – Alternative Press
"Wino, what a fucking guitar player, and one of my
favorite singers. Nothing to prove, just soul-felt vocals." – Phil Anselmo
(Down, Pantera)
"Wino's music has always been so serious, that's the
only thing he knows, and he's gonna do it whether or not he makes a million dollars
or ten bucks… he means it." – Pepper Keenan (Corrosion Of Conformity)
Comments