Search results for: “Yob”

  • Yob – Our Raw Heart

    You could call Yob’s eighth studio album a labour of love. Certainly, from reading Mike Scheidt’s heartfelt Facebook updates over the past couple years, it’s clear the frontman has a new lease on life after an intestinal disease left him hospitalized in 2017. While doom is definitely no stranger to pain and suffering, whether physical…

  • YOB – Clearing the Path to Ascend

    … force—alongside an extended guttural moan—it hits you just as hard as the first time. “Nothing to Win,” said 11-minute number, has a bleaker beginning, somewhat black-metal sounding, the repetitive pummelling eventually adopting a slightly-slower pace.  I wouldn’t call this a fast song, but by YOB standards, it ain’t slow.  I do think the guitar sounds a…

  • YOB, Dark Castle and OTIS–Oh my!

    I’m not one to mince words, nor to give perfect-10s, but I gotta say, last nite’s gig at the Courthouse was the best show I’ve seen in Toronto this year.  The rock-solid triple bill held its own with a coupla festival gigs I’ve seen elsewhere–and in terms of quality over quantity, it definitely takes the…

  • YOB – Atma

    By Gruesome Greg Just from looking at the track listing, you can tell that this is a YOB album. Five tunes lasting fifty-five minutes, at an average of eleven per song sounds about right. “Prepare the Ground” opens with a couple minutes of slow, sludgy riffage before Mike Scheidt comes in with that trademark wail.…

  • YOB: The Great Cessation

    By Jonathan Smith The description “stoner doom” fits the sounds found on Oregon-based band Yob’s The Great Cessation. Never in a rush to get anywhere, the musical textures swirl and float around like leaves and litter on a windy day, taking a long time to finally settle. Opening track “Burning The Altar” sets the instrumental…

  • YOB: Zen and the Art of Crushing Skulls

    … It was just a very, very dark time,” he laughs, as only a person who has been to hell and back can do. “It just seemed like there was no end in sight for a while.” Funny how things work out, though. Here we are in the middle of 2009, YOB is back in…

  • Enslaved and Yob in Toronto – March 19, 2015

    Enslaved, Yob, Ecstatic Vision and Kosmograd Live at the Opera House, Toronto, Ontario, March 19th, 2015 A show like this was by most in the extreme metal community of south-eastern Ontario considered a must attend. There a are a couple reasons, one being that the last time Enslaved was supposed to be in town they couldn’t make…

  • AMATEUR CONCERT PHOTOGRAPHY HOUR: YOB/Sons of OTIS @ Mod Club, November 1, 2015

    … Batman!” Last time I saw OTIS was at this very same venue, opening for Ufomammut in May. The Mod Club is a more-than-adequate environment for said outfit, offering ample stage room, a solid sound system, and a projector screen, allowing them to magnify their lava lamp like so: YOB’s second trip to Toronto in…

  • AMATEUR CONCERT PHOTOGRAPHY HOUR: YOB/Bell Witch/Vile Creature @ Mod Club, July 4, 2018

    Yob’s latest album, Our Raw Heart, is a comparatively lighter, more melodic effort–but that doesn’t make it any less crushing live. Paired with the superior soundsystem and extremely overpriced beers of the Mod Club, and backed by a couple of solid supporting acts, this was one of the best concerts I’ve seen in Toronto so…

  • Witch Mountain – South of Salem

    By Gruesome Greg This impressive platter of heavy, Sleepy, stoner/sludge/doom had me salivating even before frontwoman Uta Plotkin uttered her first note on first course “Wing of the Lord”. And man, what a voice. Picture Sleep fronted by a female Mike Scheidt, and you’d have some idea of what this reunited Portland outfit sounds like.…