Tag: Yob

  • GRUESOME GREG’S TOP 10 ALBUMS OF 2014

    OK, it’s been a little while since I’ve done any blogging around here, but I wanted to put my year-end top 10 lists some place for posterity–and where people would actually read ’em. Lemme just say that 2014 was the craziest year in recent memory for me, and if I ever start making movies about…

  • Pig Destroyer – Mass & Volume

    Pig Destroyer – Mass & Volume

    When one of the biggest grindcore bands of recent years drops a two-song, 26-minute doom-metal album, you can certainly colour me intrigued. Pig Destroyer actually recorded these two tracks back in ’06 but, understandably, they took some time to see the light of day. “Mass & Volume” takes up 19 of those minutes, starting off slowly with…

  • Full Metal Parenting #6: Mike Scheidt Interview

    Full Metal Parenting #6: Mike Scheidt Interview

    When Craig had the crazy idea that we start a column about heavy metal parenting and that we include interviews with “heavy metal parents,” my first thought was of Mike Scheidt. As the leader of YOB (and member of Lumbar and VHOL) he has been a musical inspiration to myself and many others. I wondered…

  • Mike Scheidt: The Hellbound Interview

    Mike Scheidt: The Hellbound Interview

    Mike Scheidt has been busy over the last couple of years, having seen the release of his first solo album, the first VHOL record, and the Lumbar record. He also found time to guest on the last Red Fang album. This year sees his main band, Yob, put out a stellar new record, Clearing the…

  • YOB – Clearing the Path to Ascend

    YOB – Clearing the Path to Ascend

    YOB is one of those names where I expect quality before I even take off the shrinkwrap.  Only in this case, it’s been a while; their last album, Atma, came out about three years ago.  Still, I wouldn’t expect any less from Mike Scheidt and co—I’m pretty sure its predecessor was on my year-end top 10 in 2011,…

  • Full Metal Parenting #5: Anger

    Full Metal Parenting #5: Anger

    One of the first things my Full Metal Parenting co-conspirator, Matt, and I ever discussed, was the fact we’d both spent time in anger management classes. I can’t remember who brought the subject up first, but we shared a similar realisation that darkness was clouding our lives. Neither of us had been violent towards our…

  • Mars Red Sky – Stranded in Arcadia

    Mars Red Sky – Stranded in Arcadia

    I must be Facebook friends with someone in this French outfit, cuz I remember getting a request to “like” ’em a little while back, well before this album came out.  Let me just say, I like ’em a lot.  Mars Red Sky take a more melodic approach to stoner rock, still fuzzy but not fuzzed-out, with some…

  • Lumbar – The First and Last Days of Unwelcome

    Lumbar – The First and Last Days of Unwelcome

    By Gruesome Greg There’s quite the back story behind this band. Seattle guitarist Aaron Edge, suffering from multiple sclerosis, sets out to record his last album before being robbed of the ability to play any instruments—ultimately enlisting area mainstays Tad Doyle and Mike Scheidt to finish the record. Yeah, that pretty much just screams “sludge…

  • Windhand – Soma

    By Gruesome Greg After hearing this female-fronted Virigina doom troupe’s contribution to the Cough split, I was very much looking forward to their full-length album seeing the light of day. That said, it’s taken me a few weeks just to get around to listening to it for the first time. Why? Because with six tracks…

  • In Conversation With…. Mike Dean of Corrosion Of Conformity

    In Conversation With…. Mike Dean of Corrosion Of Conformity

    “Prior to Corrosion of Conformity embarking on a North American tour, on which the Kingston, Ontario date had just been canceled (re-booked for Barrie), I had the chance to have a conversation with bassist/vocalist Mike Dean. We discussed this year’s self-titled release, influences old and new, touring in Canada, and even the NHL lockout.” Interview…