YOB - Unmask The Spectre by Neurot Recordings published on 2014-08-04T20:54:28Z This September, two years after leveling the expectations of critics and listeners alike with Atma, doom trio powerhouse, YOB, will unveil Clearing The Path To Ascend, an aptly titled album for what will undoubtedly be the crowning achievement for a band whose journey now nears two decades of creating music as commanding as it is cathartic. As is the YOB way, the four tracks comprising Clearing The Path To Ascend don’t simply offer a vacuous glimpse into the already riff-soaked doom genre; these songs demand the tandem attention of mind, body, and soul, etching a mark across a sound that finds YOB as formidable as they’ve ever been. True ascension requires a destruction of those barriers that prevent any movement forward. Unsurprisingly, YOB pummels any and all of these obstacles with absolute authority, clearing the way for a genuinely visceral listening experience and climbing upward into a realm that sets the band in a heavy metal place that has been and will always remain wholly their own. YOB’s music is not unlike the path that’s let them to their current place among heavy metal’s elite, slowly building from a hushed ethereal vapor into the thunderous and masterful tumult of sound domination. The ethereal mists of Eugene, Oregon no doubt provided the perfect catalyst for founding member and vocalist Mike Scheidt to call up the signature of surging doom that would soon come to garner YOB its current position as one of the most respected and revered bands in all of heavy metal. While giving due sonic credit to the cornerstone influences such as Cathedral, Sleep, Electric Wizard, and Black Sabbath — YOB immediately set out to define a sound wholly singular and utterly devastating in its cathartic enormity. Those threads of progressive rock and drone that have always underscored the music of YOB are now fully realized with Clearing The Path To Ascend. Drummer Travis Foster wields his signature rhythmic furor here with bombastic precision while bassist Aaron Rieseberg coils around the sonic tide with an unforgiving churn all the while in a deadly synchronicity with Scheidt’s uncanny vocal range and its pendulous movement between the triumphant howls of a medieval madman and the earth splitting growls of a war-battered titan. With Clearing The Path To Ascend, YOB explores a thunderous dimension that’s familiar in its auditory clout but completely new in the execution of its trajectory, taking the band’s sound into a remarkable place as ethereally compelling in its aesthetic, as it is merciless in the magnitude of its sound. Comments founding vocalist/guitarist Mike Scheidt, “Writing this album felt like being plugged into a main. Emotionally, it’s our heaviest. But it also has some real beauty and light. We dug the deepest we ever have to get to the heart of these tunes.” Clearing The Path To Ascend Track Listing: 1. In Our Blood 2. Nothing To Win 3. Unmask The Spectre 4. Marrow Clearing The Path To Ascend will be released in the US on September 2nd, 2014 via Neurot Recordings. “YOB might be one of the best bands in North America,” — Ben Ratliff; New York Times “The second track on Clearing The Path To Ascend has some of the most furious drums I’ve ever heard from Travis Foster. We’re talking Through Silver In Blood-level.” – The Obelisk’s Roadburn 2014 Recap http://www.neurotrecordings.com http://www.facebook.com/neurotrecordings Genre YOB Comment by Fuck You Heavy, Sludgy, Progressive, Atmospheric Doom 2019-09-02T18:24:52Z Comment by desolateonebull breath taken!!!! 2019-06-05T23:44:02Z Comment by DAK7 This isnt just music or noise, its a mood. One of the only genres that you can truly feel deep down. 2018-11-21T06:15:37Z Comment by Carlos Luis Montañez Beautiful 2016-05-11T19:22:57Z Comment by Station Zero best fuckin album from the best fuckin band in history! 2015-11-06T20:27:11Z Comment by AD Walkem wow.. craaazy heavy. 2015-01-06T03:33:39Z Comment by roniichaniago mantap 2014-12-31T20:34:34Z Comment by jonnyborowicz "all that counts is doom" 2014-09-17T15:39:47Z Comment by Doomrydermusic These vocal melodies are fucking Epic!!!! 2014-09-03T23:04:29Z Comment by Thomas shit band name but perfect music 2014-08-30T22:30:18Z Comment by Josh Pastor Bad ass! Feels like I'm being slowly pulled into the underworld... 2014-08-29T23:19:54Z Comment by DronedSilence wow... 2014-08-23T14:43:05Z Comment by Hail The Fire ...And here we go again. Just brilliant. 2014-08-20T20:55:35Z Comment by evil_archer HEAVY! 2014-08-16T17:44:20Z Comment by evil_archer nice and heavy 2014-08-16T17:43:06Z Comment by Julien Von Till EPIC ENDING ! 2014-08-15T11:23:14Z Comment by Panic Error i love this part 2014-08-15T09:16:27Z Comment by Martin Diesendorf seriously, so good!! 2014-08-12T10:23:42Z Comment by Martin Diesendorf this transition and build makes a post rock fan happy. 2014-08-12T10:23:09Z Comment by Carlos Moreira 8 this intro could not be better already 2014-08-11T21:05:24Z Comment by mushetzell maaan this is soo pretty !!! <3 2014-08-11T20:33:22Z Comment by Garrett Sofos Padilla That riff is something else. WOW 2014-08-11T18:57:42Z