Yob (band)

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Yob
General information
origin Eugene , Oregon , United States
Genre (s) Doom metal
founding 1996, 2008
resolution 2006
Website yobrock.com (old), yobislove.com (current)
Current occupation
Mike Scheidt
Travis Foster
Aaron Rieseberg
former members
Electric bass
 Isamu Sato
Drums
 Gabe Morley
Drums (live)
 Rob Shaffer
Electric bass
 Lowell Iles
Drums
 Greg Ocon

Yob (often spelled YOB ) is an American doom metal band from Eugene , Oregon , that was formed in 1996, split up in 2006 and reunited in 2008.

history

After guitarist and singer Mike Scheidt was already active in the bands Dirty Sanchez, Chemikill and HC Minds, he founded the band Yob in 1996. Scheidt borrowed the band name from a science fiction comic from the 1950s. Yob is the English word "boy" read backwards and was a Martian name for a boy from earth in the comic. After the release of a first demo in 2000, the debut album Elaborations of Carbon was released in 2002. The album now includes bassist Isamu Sato, whom Scheidt already knew from HC Minds, and drummer Gabe Morley as other members. Until 2005, the band released an album each year with Catharsis (2003), The Illusion of Motion (2004) and The Unreal Never Lived (2005). In May 2004 the band had done a tour that included an appearance at the Emissions from the Monolith festival and then signed a deal with Metal Blade Records in August prior to the release of The Illusion of Motion . In May 2005 another appearance at Emissions from the Monolith followed. In July 2005, Foster and Sato left the band. Scheidt then announced the breakup of the band in January 2006.

Scheidt then decided to get involved in a new project called Middian . He also devoted himself to Krav Maga and a little later trained students himself as a trainer. However, the band was sued by the similarly written group Midian, which is what that meant for Middian. In 2008 Scheidt then revived Yob for a few concerts, with first appearances in Europe . The group also played at the Roadburn Festival and the Scion Rock Fest in 2010 . Meanwhile, Aaron Riesenberg was the bass player and Travis Foster was the drummer in the band. In October 2008 the band had signed a contract with Profound Lore Records . The album The Great Cessation was released in 2009 , followed by Atma in 2011. As a guest musician could be heard on the album for Scott Kelly by Neurosis . Atma was chosen as a term from Hinduism . Then the band went on tour through the USA and Europe. In 2011 the band played at the Roadburn Festival and also performed in Munich with Kongh and Dark Castle . In 2012, further appearances followed, among others again at the Roadburn Festival, as well as a tour together with Tool . In 2014 the band signed a contract with Neurot Recordings , which resulted in the album Clearing the Path to Ascend in August of the same year . In the same year the band could also be seen again at the Roadburn Festival.

style

According to laut.de , the band plays a mixture of Black , Doom and Death Metal . The band's first demo sounds a lot like Black Sabbath , Sleep and Cathedral . In addition, the music is described as " drony- slow". Clearing the Path to Ascend is “ progressive , slow and metallic” and the vocals sometimes sound gentle and feminine, sometimes it's deep, crushing growls . According to Eduardo Rivadavia of Allmusic , most of the songs are on average ten minutes long, but sometimes a song is over 20 minutes long. The band is a mixture of Doom Metal, Sludge , Space - and Progressive Rock . Martin Popoff wrote about Catharsis in The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 4: The '00s that the album only consists of three songs. The band plays anti-social stoner rock comparable to the music of Tad and The Melvins or old releases from Nuclear Blast and Relapse Records . The vocals sound like a mixture of Perry Farrell and Dan McCafferty . The theme song reminds him of Jane's Addiction . In his review of The Illusion of Motion , he referred to the band as a sludge band. The music brings back memories of bands like Sons of Otis , old Neurosis, Morgion and Mindrot . The songs are also very long again. In addition, the music sounds like a renewed version of Black Sabbath. David Perri referred to the music as Stoner Doom in his review of The Unreal Never Lived . He also noted the extreme length of the songs, as no song was less than nine minutes long. The mood of the songs is depressing. In his review of Clearing the Path to Ascend, Simon Dümpelmann from Rock Hard described the band as an icon of the Doom, Stoner and Sludge scene. He described the music as classic Doom Metal with modern influences. There are also epic song arrangements and a booming sound. The album consists of four overlong songs.

According to Robert Müller from Metal Hammer , the band's music is based on the first four Black Sabbath releases. The music sounds "as if you had thrown old cathedral in a cement mixer". In an interview with Müller, Mike Scheidt stated that he counts bands like Electric Wizard , Sleep, The Obsessed , Cathedral and Pentagram among his influences. In addition, the band also has influences that do not belong to Doom Metal, including groups such as Immolation , Iron Maiden , Neurosis, Akercocke , Pink Floyd or Darkthrone . The songs on The Illusion of Motion are about quantum physics and Far Eastern mysticism. In another issue, Müller stated that the band on Atma combined the slowness of Doom Metal with the heaviness of Post-Metal . In this issue, Müller also interviewed Scheidt again, who stated that the band was influenced for Atma by albums such as The Art of Self Defense by High on Fire , Holy Mountain by Sleep and War All the Time by Thursday , so the album is simpler than the predecessor. In his review of The Illusion of Motion, Müller described the music as epic Doom Metal, although the songs were usually very slow. Only Pain in Sugar is in the middle tempo range. The band only sounds slightly influenced by the first four Black Sabbath albums. Scheidt often makes use of effects devices on the electric guitar . The song Exorcism of the Host reminds me a bit of the band Grief , while the theme song sounds a bit like old Cathedral. Müller wrote about The Unreal Never Lived that the band is much more traditional than on its predecessor. However, the riffs are slow and in a minor key as usual . However, the "bizarre samples and dissonant breaks " have largely disappeared. The song The Mental Tyrant is very progressive , even if you are used to Neurosis or Isis . Müller wrote about The Great Cessation that the space rock and stoner rock elements had given way to "grim hardness". The riffs would sound booming and there were occasional post-rock- like acoustic passages. Petra Schurer from Metal Hammer also assigned the band to Doom Metal in her review of Atma , with the songs on the album offering a wide range of emotions. In songs like Prepare the Ground there are many melodies, but the song does not lose its harshness.

Discography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Biography. (No longer available online.) Rockdetector.com, archived from the original on October 6, 2014 ; accessed on September 27, 2014 .
  2. ↑ a b Robert Müller: YOB . The Tao of Roar. In: Metal Hammer . February 2005, p. 87 .
  3. ↑ Yob - Yob. Discogs , accessed September 27, 2014 .
  4. ^ A b Eduardo Rivadavia: Yob. Allmusic , accessed September 27, 2014 .
  5. ↑ And, now it has come to my attention…. (No longer available online.) Pribek.net, archived from the original on January 8, 2009 ; accessed on September 27, 2014 .
  6. ↑ a b c Robert Müller: YOB . Meditations in minor. In: Metal Hammer . September 2011, p. 106 f .
  7. ^ A b Nathan Carson: about YOB. yobislove.com, accessed September 27, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Yob. Discogs, accessed September 27, 2014 .
  9. ^ Roadburn Festival 2011. Line-up. songkick.com, accessed September 27, 2014 .
  10. ↑ Thorsten Zahn: YOB + Kongh + Dark Castle . Munich: crane hall. In: Metal Hammer . December 2011.
  11. ↑ Roadburn 2012. allmetalfest.com, accessed on 27 September 2014 .
  12. ↑ a b YOB. laut.de , accessed on September 27, 2014 .
  13. ↑ Simon Dümpelmann: YOB . Always with feeling. In: Rock Hard . No. 329 , October 2014, p. 70 .
  14. ↑ Martin Popoff, David Perri: The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 4: The '00s . Collectors Guide Ltd, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 2011, ISBN 978-1-926592-20-6 , pp. 565 .
  15. ↑ Simon Dümpelmann: YOB . Clearing the Path to Ascend. In: Rock Hard . No. 328 , September 2014, p. 96 .
  16. ^ Robert Müller: YOB . The Illusion of Motion. In: Metal Hammer . January 2005, p. 103 .
  17. ^ Robert Müller: YOB . The Unreal Never Lived. In: Metal Hammer . October 2005, p. 125 .
  18. ^ Robert Müller: YOB . The Great Cessation. In: Metal Hammer . August 2009, p. 112 .
  19. ↑ Petra Schurer: YOB . Atma. In: Metal Hammer . September 2011, p. 135 .