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Metal Hammer
Metal Hammer
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Greg Moffitt

“We ended up getting into the punk rock scene ’cos the metal people hated us. We were this weird, crazy, slow band that played to punk crowds”: The tangled story of Saint Vitus, the US misfits who helped give birth to doom metal

Saint Vitus posing for a photograph in the early 1980s.

Black Sabbath may have laid down the template for what became doom metal, but in the late 70s and early 80s and bunch of American bands picked up the baton and ran with it – and chief among them were LA’s Saint Vitus. In 2012, as these doom legends prepared to release their first album in 2017, Hammer sat down with linchpin guitarist Dave Chandler to talk about the band’s monumental legacy.

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