By now it’s quite a comeback Saint Vitus have launched. They might at this point be a regular touring band. I don’t know the official designation for when you go from doing a reunion show here and there to touring. I guess it probably involves mode of transportation and shit like that. I’ll get to work on figuring it out. Meantime, the PR wire has the flier-form goods on a Vitus date for Los Angeles:

With Ancestors, Totimoshi and Saviours on the bill, that’s a good night to be in CA. Because there’s little I enjoy more than posting these videos, here’s some live Saint Vitus from Hellfest in France. The day I get tired of watching this stuff will be a sad one indeed.

I?m hardly the world?s biggest Saviours fan, but I will say they tour like bastards, which whether or not you break out the records every day, you?ve got to respect. I?ve also seen them live on more than one occasion and they basically crush. So nothing against them on that level either.

Just a couple short days after announcing they?re going to be opening for the legendary Saint Vitus on their three-day East Coast run, Saviours let it be known they?re doing a US run with fellow van-dwellers Kylesa. Pretty good considering what they?re touring to promote is three 7? singles.

Here?s everything they?ve got coming up:

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This just in on the ol’ broken down?PR wire:

Rampaging Oakland, CA metal quartet Saviours have entered San Francisco?s Lucky Cat Recording Studios with producer Phil Manley (of Trans Am/The Fucking Champs) to begin work on the follow up to its critically acclaimed sophomore LP Into Abaddon.

Set for an October 13, 2009 release date, the as-yet-untitled Saviours album? will feature the forcible lineup of guitarist/vocalist Austin Barber, bassist Cyrus Comiskey drummer Scott Batiste and guitarist Sonny Reinhardt (ex-Watch Them Die), who joined the band in 2008. Fresh off a blistering performance at the 2009 Roadburn Festival in Tilburg, Holland — where the band shared the stage with such like-minded acts as Neurosis, Om and Saint Vitus — Saviours now hit the studio to capture what will undoubtedly be its most venomous recording to date.

In advance of the album?s release, Saviours will issue three new 7? records, all of which will drop on June 23. The vinyl-only EPs will be strictly limited to 500 copies each with artwork branded by Tim Lehi of San Francisco?s BlackHeart Tattoo. Details on the three EPs are as follows:

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