SAINT VITUS - Born Too Late LP power pop This legendary Japanese group's debut

This legendary Japanese group's debut album is as much a collective tone poem as psych workout

Only those who read all the credits on record liner notes will know the full details: Areski is of course Brigitte Fontaine's partner in life

very enjoyable stuff if you are into this kind of rock

often trading in the anthemic with equal doses of the sardonic and the melancholy

they have all but disappeared

SAINT VITUS - Born Too Late LP power pop This legendary Japanese group's debutThis album came out at a time (1986) when very few metal bands played slower than 180 bpm, thrash was king and the speed wars were just getting started. Saint Vitus not only played extremely slow, they played slow and minimal. There are no wasted notes on Born Too Late, just monolithic slabs of cemetery dirt guitars, bass and drums topped with Wino's excellent classic metal vocals not too biker rock, not too metalhead just enough of both. The songs