Ripple Music are 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: The Ripple Acoustic” 12" vinyl 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)
RIPPLE MUSIC is an independent, California-based label known and revered worldwide for unearthing the finest bands in heavy rock, stoner, doom, 70s rock and metal, and promoting the underground subculture through a constant flow of quality releases since 2010. The label is home to Wino, Mothership, Wo Fat, Freedom Hawk, The Watchers, Salem's Bend, Vokonis, ZED, Blackwulf, LDDSM, The Necromancers, The Flying Eyes, Witchcryer, Bang, War Cloud, Devil To Pay, Ape Machine, Craneium, Stubb, Hazemaze, Void Vator and many more.
