In June 2026, The Obsessed announced that they are working on a new album, titled Live Fast – Love Hard – Die Free , which is tentatively due for release in 2027.
In July 2025, the band announced the departure of drummer Brian Constantino and the addition of new drummer Bob Pantella of Monster Magnet and The Atomic Bitchwax .
In April 2017, the band released Sacred , their first studio album in 23 years. Their next album, Gilded Sorrow , was released on February 16, 2024.
Wino announced the full-time return of the Obsessed in March 2016 and the band’s official signing to Relapse Records to record the follow-up to The Church Within . The new lineup originally consisted of Spirit Caravan bassist Dave Sherman and Wino’s longtime friend and former road crew member Brian Costantino…
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TKO Records re-released the self-titled 7″ on November 23, 2012.
In September 2011, the Roadburn Festival announced that The Church Within lineup (featuring Wino, Greg Rogers and Guy Pinhas) would be reuniting to play their next edition on April 14, 2012. The band later confirmed they would be performing at the Hellfest Open Air 2012. The band performed yet another…
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Later on, a new more focused and improved group moved into a band house in Rockville, Maryland and renamed the Obsessed, where some of their most creative and hardest music was written. Before this move, however, original guitar player John Reese and Davey WIlliams on drums departed from the band.…
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The band broke up in the late 1980s and Wino went west to California to join up with Saint Vitus . Wino recorded three albums, an EP, and a live album with Saint Vitus. Around 1989, the Obsessed reformed and signed to Hellhound Records (Vitus’s then current label), which released…
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The band formed originally under the name “Warhorse” in 1976 in Potomac, Maryland, led by Wino. In the late 1970s, Wino’s band became known as the Leather Nunz. The band played original punk tunes with singer Billy Beam, Jeff Urban on drums, Robert Krug on rhythm guitar and Mark Laue…
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