★★★★★
Yob have such an intense cult following that discussing their music almost seems redundant. Oregon's favourite doom metal sons have been have been inflicting their sonic nightmares upon unsuspecting ears for more than a decade now, sending some running for cover and drawing others in in spite of their fearsome sound. Their latest record carries the lofty title of Clearing The Path To Ascend and it works hard to live up to that name...
- www.undertheradar.co.nz
2014-09-17
★★★★★
"While mastermind Mike Scheidt didn't lose sight of the churning paces and granular guitar tones of his last effort, 'Clearing the Path' is much grander in scope and progressive in approach." Three years have passed since the release of Yob's pit of gigantic riffs known as "Atma." Those riffs were cause for journalistic raving to the extent that the album ended up on many top-end lists. So it goes without saying that the band has a lot to live up to with follow up, "Clearing the Path to Ascend...
- www.metalunderground.com
2014-09-13
★★★★★
is YOB at their most minimal and primal. That is it; nothing more and nothing less. The psych flourishes are gone. Their limber song structures have been replaced with a single reverberating thread that is pulled taught at either end. This is traditional doom at its most austere. There is no room for any outside emotion in Mike Scheidt and Co.'s bleak tapestry of riffs. In a way it is almost suffocating...
- www.sputnikmusic.com
2014-09-10
★★★★★
It's been over forty years since Black Sabbath, Pentagram, and their kin founded the Church of Doom, one of metal's oldest and most enduring houses of blasphemy. These days, metal's gnarled family tree has blossomed into a dizzying number of subgenres, but almost all of it comes back to doom, regardless of tempo or texture...
- pitchfork.com
2014-09-04
★★★★★
Tweet Mastering the Maelstrom YOB are a stoner/doom/sludge metal band from Eugene, Oregon. Led by founder and guitarist-vocalist Mike Scheidt, the band have been releasing full-length albums since 2002. YOB are practitioners of the long-form--none of their proper studio albums contain more than six songs, yet the shortest clocks in at about 49 minutes...
- www.mxdwn.com
2014-09-04
★★★★★
The first words uttered on Yob's long awaited new album are "time to wake up". From there, the acoustic guitar intro to In Our Blood briefly aids the transition from slumber to fully awake before the crushing overdriven guitars of Mike Scheidt begin slowly pummelling with grievous intent. As a wakeup call, it's a little like drawing back the curtains and finding that the world is in the process of being devastated by a meteor strike...
- www.musicomh.com
2014-09-04
★★★★★
YOB have made a name for themselves in underground metal scene by leavening their often-oppressive doom metal with a sense of spirituality. Their seventh album, Clearing the Path to Ascend, signifies the desire to experiment with their foundation without the unyielding heaviness that made the Eugene, Oregon, power trio one of America's best metal bands...
- www.wonderingsound.com
2014-09-02
★★★★★
Revolver Magazine | Sep 02, 2014 | Comments 1 | Tags: Yob After originally calling it a day back in 2006, long-running Oregon doom trio YOB has been enjoying an impressive second life. The third full-length since vocalist-guitarist Mike Scheidt reformed the band in 2008 is a typically uncompromising affair: Four tracks, all of them 11 minutes or longer, and all of them featuring unexpected melodic touches and moments of contemplative beauty...
- www.revolvermag.com
2014-09-10
★★★★★
"Time to wake up," goes the chilly, sampled voice at the start of "In Our Blood," the opening track of Yob's latest album, Clearing The Path To Ascend . Coming from a band so adept at hypnosis, it's a jarring command. On the Portland group's last full-length, 2011's Atma , each song rippled and writhed like coiled lightning being slowly unspooled. That hasn't changed on Clearing The Path ...
- www.avclub.com
2014-09-02
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