OUR RAW HEART
From tragedy to triumph, YOB’s incredible 8th full-length recording was conceived amidst dire circumstances that nearly left frontman Mike Scheidt dead. Suffering from an extremely painful and potentially fatal intestinal disease, Scheidt miraculously recovered and reinvigorated the Oregon trio with a new sense of purpose for Our Raw Heart, an album informed by the will to survive. More exposed than ever both physically and emotionally, YOB bleed out seven riveting tracks of enormous volume and pensive, transcendental beauty across 75 minutes of ultimate doom. A brilliant musical progression in the YOB continuum, Our Raw Heart is the band at their most aggressive, impassioned and eclectic. The riffs are massive, the vocals captivating and the songwriting sublime. Existing in its own organic universe, Our Raw Heart is truly the band’s finest work to date and the apex achievement of what heavy music can accomplish.
Our Raw Heart was co-produced by the band and longtime collaborator Billy Barnett at Gung Ho Studio in Eugene, Ore., with mastering handled by Heba Kadry (The Mars Volta, Diamanda Galas, Slowdive).
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Released June 8, 2018 by Relapse Records
Mike Scheidt - guitar, vocals
Travis Foster - drums
Aaron Reiseberg - bass
CLEARING THE PATH TO ASCEND
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 tracks here 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 and unequaled 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.
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Released September 2, 2014 by - Relapse Records & Neurot Recordings
Mike Scheidt - guitar, vocals
Travis Foster - drums
Aaron Reiseberg - bass
Additional musicians
Billy Barnett - Hammond organ
ATMA
With Atma the Eugene, Oregon three-piece, led by vocalist guitarist Mike Scheidt, have unleashed a new level of dynamics and depth with an album in which many will call the band’s magnum opus.
Atma sees YOB continue their soul searching cycle of reaching that higher state of being through five crushing spiritually levitating tracks of pure doom metal mastery.
In November of 2021 the band unveiled a fully remixed and remastered version of Atma. Atma (Deluxe Version) sees Billy Barnett make the album volume-wide and monolithic in detail and space while keeping all of Jeff Olsen’s original amazing raw-punch production.
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Reissued November 2, 2021 by Relapse Records
Released August 2, 2011 by Profound Lore
Mike Scheidt - guitar, vocals
Travis Foster - drums
Aaron Reiseberg - bass
Additional musicians
Scott Kelly – vocals, percussion
Jeff Olsen – noise, samples
Dustin Rieseberg – noise, samples
THE GREAT CESSATION
Originally released in 2009, the trio's 5th full-length record is a master lesson in cosmic Doom. Epic, crushing, and heavy beyond words, YOB achieved legendary status in recent years due to their unmatched aesthetic and incredible body of work. The Great Cessation is a flawless document of a band reformed and reinspired like never before. Ebbing and flowing between thunderous, skull-splitting riffage and rhythm to meditative moments of introspective psychedelia, The Great Cessation is an essential piece in the pantheon of YOB's illustrious output.
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Released July 14, 2009 by Southern Lord and Profound Lore
Re-issued and Remastered December 8, 2017 by Relapse Records
Aaron Rieseberg - Bass
Mike Scheidt - Vocals, Guitars
Travis Foster - Drums
Remastered from the original tapes by Heba Kadry.
THE UNREAL NEVER LIVED
"Stylistically this is very much a YOB album, and it is different than our other ones too," states guitarist and vocalist Mike Scheidt. "I would say overall The Unreal Never Lived is more aggressive than our other albums. It still has all of the twists and turns, atmosphere and melody that our supporters have become familiar with but there are definitely some new vibes and approaches in riff-age for us. We are VERY excited for people to hear it." One major difference in the recording of The Unreal Never Lived versus the bands previous albums is that they took more time to focus on sound than they have in the past. Moving mics, recording tracks and then taking the time to really listen to the sounds they were getting and make changes when they needed to.
Bonus Edition Released February 22, 2021
Released August 23, 2005 by Metal Blade Records
Mike Scheidt - Vocals, Guitars
Isamu Sato - Bass
Travis Foster - Drums
THE ILLUSION OF MOTION
“YOB have outdone themselves on The Illusion of Motion, and despite the album title, [they] will finally gain loads of well-deserved momentum to make them the most talked-about doom band since Sleep." - EXCLAIM!
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Released October 19, 2004 by Metal Blade Records
Mike Scheidt - Vocals, Guitars
Isamu Sato - Bass
Travis Foster - Drums
CATHARSIS
Catharsis is the album that would define and shape YOB’s signature style of colossal cosmic monolithic doom. It’s the album that became the harbinger of what YOB would deliver with their succeeding full-length albums, and it is even the album in which some of the die-hard, old-school YOB fans would even claim is the doom metal trio’s best release.
Catharsis laid down the groundwork for YOB which allowed Mike Scheidt and co. to be recognized as visionaries in heavy music; three massive tracks of monolithic spaced-out heaviness to characterize such an album that climaxes in the 20-plus minute epic title track.
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Released October 14, 2003 by Abstract Sounds
Remastered and Reissued November 12, 2013 by Profound Lore
Mike Scheidt - Vocals, Guitars
Isamu Sato - Bass
Gabe Morley - Drums
Remastered from the original tapes by Tad Doyle.
ELABORATIONS OF CARBON
Elaborations of Carbon is the debut album from YOB.
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Released in 2002 by 12th Records
Mike Scheidt - Vocals, Guitars
Lowell Iles - Bass
Gabe Morley - Drums
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Demo recorded in November 1999. Engineered at Dogwood Recording in Elmira, Oregon. Originally released in 2000 on CDr by the band. "White Doom" was recorded live at CD World in Eugene, Oregon in March 2005.
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Mike Scheidt - Vocals, Bass, Guitars
Greg Ocon - Drums