Doom metal lifers THE OBSESSED are back in the studio. The band led by Scott "Wino" Weinrich has begun tracking its next album, "Live Fast - Love Hard - Die Free," with a tentative 2027 release on the horizon.
Recording is taking place at Waterford Digital Studio in Pasadena, Maryland, with producer Frank Marchand at the controls. In typically unfiltered fashion, the band announced the sessions with the rallying cry: "We're exited as fukk to lay this on y'all, YAHOOO!!!"
The album will follow 2024's "Gilded Sorrow," the comeback record that ended a seven-year studio silence and was hailed by critics as some of the best work of the band's long, turbulent history — "defiantly abrasive, crushing and straightforward." For a band whose roots stretch back to the early 1980s and whose influence courses through the entire stoner and doom underground, that late-career creative surge is no small thing.
The current lineup pairs WINO's unmistakable voice and riff-craft with bassist Chris Angleberger, guitarist Jason Taylor and drummer Bob Pantella, the MONSTER MAGNET and THE ATOMIC BITCHWAX veteran who joined in July 2025. Pantella's arrival brought a heavier groove to the band's live attack, and his studio debut with THE OBSESSED is among the more enticing reasons to anticipate the new record.
A Maryland doom institution, THE OBSESSED have always traded in heavy, blues-soaked, road-worn riffs — music that sounds exactly like its new album title. With "Live Fast - Love Hard - Die Free," WINO and company appear determined to keep the doom flame burning well into their fifth decade.