I worked at a grocery store for two years to pay for trade school, I made friends, I laughed I cried got frustrated , and just generally felt like I lived a lot just working there. On my final day there I listen to this album. Words cannot describe the feelings this album gave me especially the last song. What was more was when our raw heart played I was outside pushing carts and watched as the sunset. That’s honesty one of the few times in my life I’ve cried tears of joy. It’s why this has now become my favorite album of all time
YOB has inspired me, at 62, to finally attempt solo metal original recordings. I’ve covered “Marrow” twice on acoustic 12 string to good reviews and met the bands bass guitar tech in Beaverton Oregon’s guitar center last year. I am glad the band has such a big following. Best regards to everyone.
Beautiful record. I'm a year and a half into cancer treatments (colorectal meta to liver) and music like this helps me heal.....great for meditating and visualizations. Thanks, Mike......this is heavy stuff.
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).
In most cases, stating "band's finest work" is just promotion and lie, but here... well, that's true, yeah. Thanks for background information to newbie, also huge thank you for this beautiful, oustanding album - for YOB, and also for Relapse of course.
This album tells all the truth: life is a horrendous, terrifying trip, full of strugles and sadness. But look around you, there's still beauty and happiness, we are strong enough to come over it. THANK YOU!!! YOB is love.
Your words really touched me for some reason. I even wrote them down in my diary. It's just the truth. Loving the sound of the album, doom is just a genre like no other.
Had some bad news this morning and found myself in a place where i needed hope and strength... and what do you know, Our raw Heart was delivered by mail. All will be good! There's no substitute for Yob...
Never heard these guys before, but just saw them last night in Philly - great show. Showed up to see Bell Witch, but they didn't show because of some sort of injury. YOB saved the night.
Yob are probably the only contemporary artists where, when word of a new album comes out, I think to myself "I couldn't possibly love it any more than the last album; that album is one of my all time favorites," and then I hear the new album and am completely blown away. Now the list of my all time favorite albums has another addition. And there's A LOT of Yob on that list. I was lucky enough to see them live in Seattle with Conan and they played a lot of new (Our Raw Heart) material and it was incredible to hear this album for the first time LIVE. Thanks for sharing! I'm heading to my local record store and picking this up as soon as I can.
I've been listening Yob, and seeing my grandfather departure from a terminal cancer ...look in his eyes already distant, I feel it! Amazing, breathtaking, emotional and crushing ... breaks my heart! The power of Music! Thanks Yob!
2 years ago I was listening this album while my grandfather dying from a cancer, which took his life a few days later...today I buried my dog, my faithful companion of 9 years, I had to slaughter her due to a head tumor...this sounds hits me so hard, so hard...leaves me in tears. It makes me suffer, but at the same time heals my pain...life is a long goodbye. No more pain for them...may they rest in peace. Yob is life, Yob is love.
I saw Yob in 2016 at the Crystal Ballroom Portland (My little sister bought me a ticket). Mike was very nice pre-show and I got to shake his hand... Then i geeked out and asked him for a photo to which he obliged. Thank you Mike. Thank you Yob. I felt so happy. your music continues to inspire.
I know some people will think this style of music is depressing/negative, but you so clearly know that just isn't true. There is a great and profound beauty in the depths of this music and it can lift a person's spirit, like it has yours and like it has mine.
Le Diabolique: it's majestic aura takes my mind to lying on the cold, crisp ground amongst a cathedral of trees in a peaceful forest as I watch the milky way pass over me.
I suffered from depression and yobs music with micro doses of shrooms got me right . Stopped the meds and found life amazing once again. That was 9 years ago
Saw them in October 2016 and cried from beginning to the end of the show especially for Marrow. I was in a very weird feeling next three months, like I was changed forever... don't know how to explain ! I wasn't the same person, like a real spiritual experience... I'll see them again next October, can't wait for my hug too ! Yob is love.
As a life-long musician, I can say that these guys poured every thought and emotion into this album. Incredibly vulnerable and exposed. Thank you YOB, I've been a fan since the beginning.
Yob is amazing, they hold a special place in my heart. I once listened to yob discography while tripping face on lsd.. All I can say is holy fuck. I actually couldn't listen to any yob for a few months after that cause I'd get extremely emotional.
Very Underrated Band,But Is One The Best Bands All Time!. Stoner/Sludge/Drone/Doom/Heavy Psych/Space Rock. This band has it all in their music!. So CRUSHING AND HEAVY MUSIC!
Recently saw YOB live in Los Angeles. It was hands down the best metal gig I've ever been to. The support bands were kinda "meh" and I was hoping I wouldn't be bored during YOB, but when they came on it was electrifying! Such a tight band, and wow... Mike's voice. So powerful - I was floored.
This is not doom! This is hell! Oh my god, what a record. I feel like I just descent by the spiral stairs to hell itself. But somethimes it feels like walking by a flowery plain huge open and endless land, but I know deep down in my heart that is just part of the punishment, because your soul already belongs to him. Thank you!
I have started listening to more doom/grunge metal over the last few years and this album is one of the most beautiful I have heard of the genre. After reading the story behind what happened to the frontman of the band before this album came out I could feel the emotion in every song.
Absolutely amazing! I expect this album will push these very humble guys well into the limelight of greater appeal...sell out, no...broader distribution and greater reach from Relapse...along with super rad songs...yep! I had the pleasure of seeing a lot of these songs live at the WOW hall in Eugene Oregon a few months ago...it was incredible!! Catch them live...just do!
Thanks Relapse and Yob for putting this up. I bought the CD as well but hopefully it will allow the music to reach a bigger audience which it truly deserves.
This album is great! Beautiful, heavy and majestic. I had to order myself a limited golden vinyl edition of this masterpiece! Love the album cover and the artwork!
By this band's expression of collective self through sonic perturbation, Valhalla welcomes them as their instruments are their swords and axes and our ears are the enemy for which they have destroyed in a mighty battle worthy of Odin. All-Father be praised!!! Skol!!
This album is everything I expected it to be and more! I’m so excited to finally see YOB live on this tour! They’re one of the greatest bands for sure - so glad Mike stayed with us and gave us this beautiful gift. YOB continues to manage to be heavy as fuck while also being beautiful and emotional like no other! Also it appears the 7 people who disliked this have charred black cooked hearts... 🖕🏻
I can honestly say that Original Face is the first “heavy” song (besides slower songs of course) that has ever brought me to tears. I can fucking FEEL his pain, his fear, his hopelessness in the face of the emptiness of impending death. Mostly, though, I can FEEL his resilience and drive to overcome all of that no matter what it takes. This is the type of song that heavy metal screams are made for. Fucking brilliant. The last 3-song stretch is just epic AF.
what pain and hopeless? the demons are Tibetan demons, pure illusions. The original face is the one truth. This adds commentary: ua-cam.com/video/waCHRIGxchM/v-deo.html
Mike, please, spit out at least this many albums more, your work is a much needed breath of fresh air in an otherwise stale subgenre, that simply keeps getting staler by everyone just picking up the same recipe and not even bothering on swirling the stew or spicing it up some. keep well, man, keep up the good work, there is a shitload of people supporting what you do!! metal on, man!!
i honestly love the fucking HUGE CHORDS, sometimes BRIGHT, sometimes u n c a n n i l y dark. and the melodies are just so INTERESTING. i've said it before, i'll say it a million more times. this band does doom correctly the same way that neurosis does doom/sludge/post metal correctly. and another thing i've said before and i'll say a million more times, this band understands interpreting pain through riffs in a way that few do, namely Crowbar comes to mind.
I was in a band with Mike Scheidt in 1987 when he was 16 and I was 17. He was more eclectic and I was more mainstream Shred and Hard Rock/Metal. He sang on my first original and played bass, I play lead. I believe this is the earliest available recording of Mike Scheidt Vocals. You can get this collector’s item MP3 here at CDbaby: store.cdbaby.com/cd/brigade4
Interesting. I taught him guitar when he was 15. He was actually my AA sponsor back then. He used to hang with me and my roommate Robert Sly way back when. Mike was always the most awesome person. Even at 15. His girlfriend Meredith was cool also. Well, for awhile anyway. I was 18 and played thrash and power metal. Back then we used to listen to Running Wild, Manowar, Metallica, Slayer, Exodus, Celtic Frost, COC, Voivod. A lot of Metal Blade records. Ask him about “The Prep Squad” sometime. Haha. I wish Mike all the best in the world and Yob is a thing of beauty. Mike was always inspirational. 😎 Phil Merwin (band - Dirt Clod Fight), Mike, and I used to go to the wow hall shows and events at the Jesco Club where we’d make them play punk and Metal. Phil went out with the sister of my girlfriend. Good times. Mike brought me some sanity when I was feeling crazy. Had my own brush with death and fighting to get better this last year. It changes you. This album is phenomenal. I caught up on some interviews on UA-cam recently. Weird he worked at McKenzie River Music after I moved away. I bought a 1975 Gibson Les Paul Deluxe from there for $575. Haven’t seen Mike since I visited back in the 90’s and he was working a little coffee shop in the Atrium.
Wow! One listen to tracks 1 and 2 and I just bought it... I came here thanks to Emma Ruth Rundle's Amoeba records "What's In My Bag?' Will be thrashing this next couple of days!
@@cheeseboy777 I have no idea how they stayed off my radar for so many years - I get like 500 suggestions of stoner or doom or sludge to listen to in my feed every day - and it took Emma Ruth Rundle to point me in the right direction... I've listened to nothing else but YOB and Mike Scheidt acoustic solo material since... I see he's also into Townes Van Zandt (listed by Chelsea Wolfe and Emma RR as an influence) : check out his acoustic cover of a Van Zandt song, sitting in the passenger seat of a Dodge Challenger :D
I confess that I didn't care much for the last album, the only YOB I'd heard, but this is a giant leap forward to something innovative. The doom genre has been mined to death, but occasionally bands bring new life. This is the case here. Thanks YOB!
Goddamn this is immensely excellent so full of emotion and its so put together and love the vocals. I can see myself listening to this in over 20 years time.
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1. Ablaze (00:00
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2. The Screen (10:13
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3. In Reverie (20:02
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4. Lungs Reach (29:45
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5. Beauty in Falling Leaves (35:24
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6. Original Face (51:50
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7. Our Raw Heart (58:53)
Beauty and The Beast
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Yes
Positioning
Standards
I worked at a grocery store for two years to pay for trade school, I made friends, I laughed I cried got frustrated , and just generally felt like I lived a lot just working there. On my final day there I listen to this album. Words cannot describe the feelings this album gave me especially the last song. What was more was when our raw heart played I was outside pushing carts and watched as the sunset. That’s honesty one of the few times in my life I’ve cried tears of joy. It’s why this has now become my favorite album of all time
YOB has inspired me, at 62, to finally attempt solo metal original recordings. I’ve covered “Marrow” twice on acoustic 12 string to good reviews and met the bands bass guitar tech in Beaverton Oregon’s guitar center last year. I am glad the band has such a big following.
Best regards to everyone.
Beautiful record. I'm a year and a half into cancer treatments (colorectal meta to liver) and music like this helps me heal.....great for meditating and visualizations. Thanks, Mike......this is heavy stuff.
Keep fighting, Michael! Best wishes, brother!
Much appreciated!! Forward, always forward.
We had a case in aur close family a few years a go. It went out well. All the best for you and keep on fighting!
@@Stpddmbfck Thanks very much! The fight always goes on.....forward....always forward.
All the best man. Look after yourself.
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).
RelapseRecords it's beautiful
In most cases, stating "band's finest work" is just promotion and lie, but here... well, that's true, yeah. Thanks for background information to newbie, also huge thank you for this beautiful, oustanding album - for YOB, and also for Relapse of course.
THANK FUCK!!!
it literally doesn't even feel RIGHT to call this a doom metal album, particularly in retrospect of this.
RIP, Michael
There are 2 stoner bands I would travel just about anywhere to see live, YOB and ELDER. I am truly blessed to have those 2 bands in my life...
Word
Definitely.
Yob and Bell Witch for me
Fuck yes. I wish they'd come somewhere closer to me. Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore.. hell I'll even travel to Australia to see them.
@@SamritpalSingh If travel that far to see them. You need to take m at the gig.
This album tells all the truth: life is a horrendous, terrifying trip, full of strugles and sadness. But look around you, there's still beauty and happiness, we are strong enough to come over it.
THANK YOU!!!
YOB is love.
Eh, not certain about that. The future looks kinda bleak! But I not afraid of the great void of nothingness. Take care.
mike hunt what about is bleak?
@@MIXTAB1 Its pretty Bleak considering what is going on in the world today
I love how metal and punk are more teachers of truth than “science” (media) lol
Your words really touched me for some reason. I even wrote them down in my diary. It's just the truth. Loving the sound of the album, doom is just a genre like no other.
Amazing to me how a band this heavy can be this...beautiful.
Felt the same way with Edge of Sanity
Pretty much the exact summation of Yob. At once heavy and brutal and crushing, yet also epic and beautiful.
Check out Pallbearer!
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This is fight music, comeback music. Music to believe in your own power with.
@DaffyChuckBeatz The songwriter almost died!
@DaffyChuckBeatz More like fight for your life from illness- not fighting someone else.
absolutely spot on.
especially this last.
Had some bad news this morning and found myself in a place where i needed hope and strength... and what do you know, Our raw Heart was delivered by mail. All will be good! There's no substitute for Yob...
I feel you man. Whatever dark place I'm in Yob always gets me out of there. YOB IS LOVE!
"Healing Doom Metal" What an incredible album! Thank you YOB. But most and foremost, thank you Mike Scheidt!
There really is beauty in falling leaves. What a gem.
Never heard these guys before, but just saw them last night in Philly - great show. Showed up to see Bell Witch, but they didn't show because of some sort of injury. YOB saved the night.
Yob are probably the only contemporary artists where, when word of a new album comes out, I think to myself "I couldn't possibly love it any more than the last album; that album is one of my all time favorites," and then I hear the new album and am completely blown away. Now the list of my all time favorite albums has another addition. And there's A LOT of Yob on that list. I was lucky enough to see them live in Seattle with Conan and they played a lot of new (Our Raw Heart) material and it was incredible to hear this album for the first time LIVE. Thanks for sharing! I'm heading to my local record store and picking this up as soon as I can.
Miss you, Dad, every fucking day. This album will always remind me of you.
Beauty in Falling Leaves is a MASTERPIECE!!
Even the whole Album..
Falling in leaves... The world beautiful is too narrow and incomplete... At least second or another part of me...
I've been listening Yob, and seeing my grandfather departure from a terminal cancer ...look in his eyes already distant, I feel it! Amazing, breathtaking, emotional and crushing ... breaks my heart!
The power of Music! Thanks Yob!
2 years ago I was listening this album while my grandfather dying from a cancer, which took his life a few days later...today I buried my dog, my faithful companion of 9 years, I had to slaughter her due to a head tumor...this sounds hits me so hard, so hard...leaves me in tears. It makes me suffer, but at the same time heals my pain...life is a long goodbye. No more pain for them...may they rest in peace. Yob is life, Yob is love.
@@vinyldiary6664 hope you're doing well man
YOB really is love.. ✌🏼
They cleared the path, and they ascended to this album! Amazing ! Thank you Yob!
This gives me hope for a new day.
Listening to "Beauty in Falling Leaves" is like being 7 years old again and rediscovering the implications of what music can be
"Beauty in Falling Leaves". Stunning.
the entire album is just amazing, but that song makes me wanna take an endless walk in the dark
Assolutamente
I saw Yob in 2016 at the Crystal Ballroom Portland (My little sister bought me a ticket). Mike was very nice pre-show and I got to shake his hand... Then i geeked out and asked him for a photo to which he obliged. Thank you Mike. Thank you Yob. I felt so happy. your music continues to inspire.
The most incredible album I’ve heard in years!!!!! This band pulled me from a bad place in my mind.
did u already heard the last bell witch album? thats awsome too
I know some people will think this style of music is depressing/negative, but you so clearly know that just isn't true. There is a great and profound beauty in the depths of this music and it can lift a person's spirit, like it has yours and like it has mine.
Le Diabolique: it's majestic aura takes my mind to lying on the cold, crisp ground amongst a cathedral of trees in a peaceful forest as I watch the milky way pass over me.
I suffered from depression and yobs music with micro doses of shrooms got me right . Stopped the meds and found life amazing once again. That was 9 years ago
Vini Kndido yes it’s amazing .. going to the Earl in Atl to see them both
Yob, in my opinion, is one of the best bands in the entire rock super-genre.
Somehow they are part of me. Very natural music. It's all around us, just pick it up and sing, become a true master... Can we do this... THEY CAN!!!
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Seeing them this Saturday. Pretty sure I will be crying like a baby even though I have seen them several times. This one is special.
So ? :)
15nobodies twas amazing and got to give Mike a big ass hug!
Glad you got to give that hug; even more glad that Mike was alive and there to receive it.
Saw them in October 2016 and cried from beginning to the end of the show especially for Marrow. I was in a very weird feeling next three months, like I was changed forever... don't know how to explain ! I wasn't the same person, like a real spiritual experience... I'll see them again next October, can't wait for my hug too ! Yob is love.
Everything YOB does is a beautiful masterpiece
As a life-long musician, I can say that these guys poured every thought and emotion into this album. Incredibly vulnerable and exposed. Thank you YOB, I've been a fan since the beginning.
Yob is amazing, they hold a special place in my heart.
I once listened to yob discography while tripping face on lsd.. All I can say is holy fuck. I actually couldn't listen to any yob for a few months after that cause I'd get extremely emotional.
Is it weird to feel so emotional while listening to doom? what a great evolution for their sound! so good!
I stumbled here by accident--thankfully! Damn, it's amazing how many great bands there are that I've yet to be turned onto.
This album is so amazing. Go Oregon!
They're proving they're the best band in the world.
There's really no point in anyone putting out any more heavy music. Yob already did it better.
I agree, they bumped Tool to the #2 spot, for me.
you can't really compare , way different style
Shawn G not ULCERATE!!! Is listening
Agreed.
Truly an album for the ages. YOB has a certain vibe that can't be beat.
🌎
83° C'MON BABY
I am completely in love with this album, just picked it up on vinyl today
Damn, listening to this album really makes me realize how much there is to know about music production. What a great mix.
Very Underrated Band,But Is One The Best Bands All Time!. Stoner/Sludge/Drone/Doom/Heavy Psych/Space Rock. This band has it all in their music!. So CRUSHING AND HEAVY MUSIC!
Recently saw YOB live in Los Angeles. It was hands down the best metal gig I've ever been to. The support bands were kinda "meh" and I was hoping I wouldn't be bored during YOB, but when they came on it was electrifying! Such a tight band, and wow... Mike's voice. So powerful - I was floored.
Probably the most consistent and best band still going in doom metal, and probably metal in itself.
This album relaxes my soul. One of my favorites Relapse has released this year for sure.
It's like "a sun that never sets" from Neurosis. It's really gratifiying to discover this kind of bands, thanks a lot. Very recommended.
Not a bad comparison. Not a bad comparison at all my friend.
$21
In the five years since its release, this has slowly eclipsed The Unreal Never Lived as my favorite Yob album. It's a masterpiece.
Ablaze is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard!
Yob at their best? No joke, for sure. Awesome album, got to buy it right now.
This is not doom! This is hell! Oh my god, what a record. I feel like I just descent by the spiral stairs to hell itself. But somethimes it feels like walking by a flowery plain huge open and endless land, but I know deep down in my heart that is just part of the punishment, because your soul already belongs to him. Thank you!
Some truly heartfelt and emotional vocals are lifting this band up there in the pantheon of great heavy bands.
One of the _heaviest_ albums out there. This 73min saved me last year.
One of the most beautifull albums along with Kargeras, brave murder day, my arms your hearse & bonds of togetherness
I have started listening to more doom/grunge metal over the last few years and this album is one of the most beautiful I have heard of the genre. After reading the story behind what happened to the frontman of the band before this album came out I could feel the emotion in every song.
Absolutely amazing! I expect this album will push these very humble guys well into the limelight of greater appeal...sell out, no...broader distribution and greater reach from Relapse...along with super rad songs...yep! I had the pleasure of seeing a lot of these songs live at the WOW hall in Eugene Oregon a few months ago...it was incredible!! Catch them live...just do!
Pure pleasure to hear such a masterpiece.
I'm glad I discovered the YOB. Listening to the screen, I flew into space.
Stunningly majestic, or majestically stunning? Both.
TRUE MONOLITHIC MAJESTY!!!!!!!! THIS IS MUSIC WITH TRUE POWER, BECAUSE IT IS TRUE POWER!!
Beautiful opener song, just like in the previous album.
Here we go again
Failure - Magnified, great record!
Failure brethren 🤘🤘
You guys are really doing something great here, this album truly inspires me Thank you for your work YOB.
i keep coming back to this gentle giant
Such a beautiful song and word’s never spoken so true. Bravo gentlemen
Thanks Relapse and Yob for putting this up. I bought the CD as well but hopefully it will allow the music to reach a bigger audience which it truly deserves.
This album is great! Beautiful, heavy and majestic. I had to order myself a limited golden vinyl edition of this masterpiece! Love the album cover and the artwork!
Thank you Relapse, Thank you YOB! 🌄❤️
What a masterpiece of an album... Mike is a genius.
This is absolutely enchanting and beautiful. Pure magic, thank you, YOB and Relapse!
Never heard of these guys till i saw them open for Tool in 2012. Been hooked ever since. Fabulous metal band
By this band's expression of collective self through sonic perturbation, Valhalla welcomes them as their instruments are their swords and axes and our ears are the enemy for which they have destroyed in a mighty battle worthy of Odin.
All-Father be praised!!! Skol!!
This album is everything I expected it to be and more! I’m so excited to finally see YOB live on this tour! They’re one of the greatest bands for sure - so glad Mike stayed with us and gave us this beautiful gift. YOB continues to manage to be heavy as fuck while also being beautiful and emotional like no other!
Also it appears the 7 people who disliked this have charred black cooked hearts... 🖕🏻
I can honestly say that Original Face is the first “heavy” song (besides slower songs of course) that has ever brought me to tears. I can fucking FEEL his pain, his fear, his hopelessness in the face of the emptiness of impending death. Mostly, though, I can FEEL his resilience and drive to overcome all of that no matter what it takes. This is the type of song that heavy metal screams are made for. Fucking brilliant. The last 3-song stretch is just epic AF.
what pain and hopeless?
the demons are Tibetan demons, pure illusions.
The original face is the one truth.
This adds commentary: ua-cam.com/video/waCHRIGxchM/v-deo.html
As a new fan, I find this more accessible than their other albums.
Mike, please, spit out at least this many albums more, your work is a much needed breath of fresh air in an otherwise stale subgenre, that simply keeps getting staler by everyone just picking up the same recipe and not even bothering on swirling the stew or spicing it up some.
keep well, man, keep up the good work, there is a shitload of people supporting what you do!! metal on, man!!
Yob and bell witch have been my jams
cant wait for the next yob album
i honestly love the fucking HUGE CHORDS, sometimes BRIGHT, sometimes u n c a n n i l y dark.
and the melodies are just so INTERESTING.
i've said it before, i'll say it a million more times. this band does doom correctly the same way that neurosis does doom/sludge/post metal correctly. and another thing i've said before and i'll say a million more times, this band understands interpreting pain through riffs in a way that few do, namely Crowbar comes to mind.
The shapes Mike uses are absolutely INSANE. I tried Ablaze on a higher tuning - my fingers can't do that
It's a great day when you discover a new band
Really
Feels like i'm hearing it first time, with every listen. Mike is a genius.
The intro is already killing it. Can't wait to delve deeper. Craft beer and Yob. Sweet
Wow, that's a lot to take in. Beauty in Falling Leaves is freaking majestic...
I was in a band with Mike Scheidt in 1987 when he was 16 and I was 17. He was more eclectic and I was more mainstream Shred and Hard Rock/Metal. He sang on my first original and played bass, I play lead. I believe this is the earliest available recording of Mike Scheidt Vocals. You can get this collector’s item MP3 here at CDbaby:
store.cdbaby.com/cd/brigade4
How long did you and Mike play together? I've never used CDbaby-- do you still play music?
Interesting. I taught him guitar when he was 15. He was actually my AA sponsor back then. He used to hang with me and my roommate Robert Sly way back when. Mike was always the most awesome person. Even at 15. His girlfriend Meredith was cool also. Well, for awhile anyway. I was 18 and played thrash and power metal. Back then we used to listen to Running Wild, Manowar, Metallica, Slayer, Exodus, Celtic Frost, COC, Voivod. A lot of Metal Blade records. Ask him about “The Prep Squad” sometime. Haha. I wish Mike all the best in the world and Yob is a thing of beauty. Mike was always inspirational. 😎
Phil Merwin (band - Dirt Clod Fight), Mike, and I used to go to the wow hall shows and events at the Jesco Club where we’d make them play punk and Metal. Phil went out with the sister of my girlfriend. Good times. Mike brought me some sanity when I was feeling crazy. Had my own brush with death and fighting to get better this last year. It changes you. This album is phenomenal.
I caught up on some interviews on UA-cam recently. Weird he worked at McKenzie River Music after I moved away. I bought a 1975 Gibson Les Paul Deluxe from there for $575. Haven’t seen Mike since I visited back in the 90’s and he was working a little coffee shop in the Atrium.
I am seeing YOB for the first time this Sunday night, in Asheville. I gotta tell you that I am as giddy as a virgin on prom night.
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I didn't think I could love YOB more than I already did, but I was so wrong.
This album is something else. YOB IS LOVE
"No, this is the best song!" I say pretty much everytime I listen to another YOB song...
Gold.super talented band,with really emotional vocals.perfection.
Stunning! Why am I only finding this today?
SHADOWS
Be a man.
ANGE
Yob is everlasting love
So organic and lush
Hearing it fow the first time today and I absolutely love it.
Love this record
Wow! One listen to tracks 1 and 2 and I just bought it... I came here thanks to Emma Ruth Rundle's Amoeba records "What's In My Bag?' Will be thrashing this next couple of days!
Snap, that's what brought me here too.
@@cheeseboy777 I have no idea how they stayed off my radar for so many years - I get like 500 suggestions of stoner or doom or sludge to listen to in my feed every day - and it took Emma Ruth Rundle to point me in the right direction... I've listened to nothing else but YOB and Mike Scheidt acoustic solo material since... I see he's also into Townes Van Zandt (listed by Chelsea Wolfe and Emma RR as an influence) : check out his acoustic cover of a Van Zandt song, sitting in the passenger seat of a Dodge Challenger :D
Album of the year and it ain't close.
Just got this on vinyl. So good. Hope i get a chance to see em live.
I seen this band with VOIVOD and was totally hypnotized by the music
Beauty in Falling Leaves could be one of the best songs ever.
Bought my vynil copy today. YOB IS LOVE
It's amazing how Yob knocks it out of the park every time.
HUGENE FAN. LOVE YOB. LOVE THIS. THANK YOU YOB. BE WELL. LOVE YOU.
I confess that I didn't care much for the last album, the only YOB I'd heard, but this is a giant leap forward to something innovative. The doom genre has been mined to death, but occasionally bands bring new life. This is the case here. Thanks YOB!
Beauty in Falling leaves does something to me.
Glad I found this. Fucking incredible album. Got their whole discography after listening to this.
TRUE
Genius! Album of the year!
Goddamn this is immensely excellent so full of emotion and its so put together and love the vocals. I can see myself listening to this in over 20 years time.