Cruces

Las Cruces were an obscure doom outfit from San Antonio, TX, whose music owed a great debt to pioneering American acts like Saint Vitus and the Obsessed. Consistently hampered by paltry support from the independent labels that released them, the band's two albums -- 1996's S.O.L. and 1998's Ringmaster -- found little traction outside of the heavy metal underground. The lineup -- including vocalist Mark Zammaron, guitarists Mark Lopez and George Trevino, bassist Art Cansino, and drummer Ben Regio Montano -- was also constantly in flux, and only the singer and bassist remained b...