It is therefore extremely welcome to see this album getting its first CD reissue since 1995*, in all its brilliant glory.
Sad thing was, the album turned out to be a stone-cold classic, that remains the benchmark for doom metal to this day. Released at a time when mainstream heavy metal was sinking ever deeper into a quagmire of irrelevance, the album sank without a trace, its fate doubtless compounded by Hellhound going bust, amid a sea of unpaid royalties. Some albums are beyond dispute, criticism or discussion, purely by virtue of their status within the pantheon of their respective genres – think “Sad Wings of Destiny”, “In The Sign Of Evil”, “Master Of Reality”, the list goes on… There is no doubt that DIE HEALING, the last Saint Vitus album released before the band broke up in the mid Nineties, is such an album too.
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