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June 15, 2017

YOB Returns To The Stage This Weekend At Northwest Terror Fest Following Guitarist/Vocalist Mike Scheidt’s Diverticulitis Surgery, Additional Live Dates Draw Near



Cosmic doom trio YOB will make their return to the stage this week at the Northwest Terror Fest in Seattle, Washington alongside Coven, Cephalic Carnage, Wolves In The Throne Room, and so many others. The performance serves as guitarist/vocalist Mike Scheidt’s first show since undergoing emergency diverticulitis surgery earlier this year. Diverticulitis is an inflammation of the digestive tract and is often life-threatening.

Said Scheidt in a recent Facebook post to fans, “…Everything is different on my insides, and I'm learning to adjust to both healing pains and new normals. Time will tell which is which. All the same, slow and steady is my mantra. I have a feeling of gratitude that is consistent, and we’re writing so much new music with YOB that I don't know how we're going to distill it all… I wish nothing but love and health, laughs and inspiration for our shared, diverse, unique tribe. For those who have sent me messages, shared love, their time and help with my survival during these trials of mine, I remain ever thankful and count myself as beyond lucky. My ability to weather all of this and continue working is framed by these blessings. We are so looking forward to these shows...seeing friends, watching bands, and getting to share the stage. It's surreal to be able to do it again. Can't wait."

The band will also lay their purifying riff rituals upon Saint Vitus Bar in Brooklyn, New York for three sold out nights -- June 23rd, 24th, and 25th. The shows were initially scheduled for February but postponed. The following evening, the band will head south for a performance in Austin, Texas at Come And Take It Live. In August, YOB will play San Diego, California’s Brick By Brick with SubRosa followed by a Psycho Las Vegas preparty directly after the fest’s warm up pool party (this will be a separately ticketed event). Future YOB shows to be announced in the coming weeks.

Watch YOB's tour trailer HERE.

YOB LIVE PERFORMANCES

6/17/2017 Northwest Terror Fest - Seattle, WA [tickets]

6/23/2017 Saint Vitus Bar – Brooklyn, NY w/ Yellow Eyes, Hosianna Mantra SOLD OUT
6/24/2017 Saint Vitus Bar – Brooklyn, NY w/ Kings Destroy, Pyrolatrous SOLD OUT
6/25/2017 Saint Vitus Bar – Brooklyn, NY w/ Godmaker, Statiqbloom SOLD OUT
6/26/2017 Come And Take It Live – Austin, TX [tickets]

8/16/2017 Brick By Brick – San Diego, CA w/ SubRosa [tickets]

8/17/2017 Hard Rock Hotel & Casino – Las Vegas, NV w/ SubRosa [tickets]

YOB released their Clearing The Path To Ascend full-length via Neurot Records in 2014. On Clearing The Path To Ascend, YOB is as formidable as they’ve ever been, demanding the tandem attention of mind, body, and soul. 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. Take this opportunity to revisit this remarkable album at THIS LOCATION. YOB is love.

YOB’s Clearing The Path To Ascend is available now via Neurot Recordings HERE.

“Psychedelic rock, stoner rock, stoner metal, blues metal, ambient: all reside comfortably in YOB‘s wheelhouse, coalescing and collapsing on a path that stretches as far as the listener’s imagination.” – Pitchfork

“The seventh album from Oregon doom metal sky-gazers, YOB … makes perfect bedfellows of volume and beauty, pain and transcendence.” – Rolling Stone

“Mike Scheidt’s songwriting has never been stronger or more dynamic… a masterful return to form by an American doom powerhouse.” – Decibel

“There’s loud, and there’s transcendently loud, and this performance of ‘The Great Cessation’ is towering, the tone so thick it’s tactile.” — Terrorizer





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June 22, 2016

YOB RETURN TO EUROPE THIS SEPTEMBER

This September, two years after the release of Clearing The Path To Ascend, YOB shall return to Europe, delivering their purifying riff rituals across the continent. The full dates with Black Cobra as main support are as follows:




YOB EUROPEAN TOUR DATES:

Sun 09/11/2016 NL - Tilburg, Incubate festival + Black Cobra
Mon 09/12/2016 DE - Dortmund, FZW + Black Cobra
Tue 09/13/2016 DK - Arhus, Radar + Black Cobra
Wed 09/14/2016 SE - Gothenburg, Sticky Fingers + Black Cobra
Thu 09/15/2016 NO - Oslo, Bla + Black Cobra
Fri 09/16/2016 DK - Copenhagen, Pumpehuset + Black Cobra
Sat 09/17/2016 GR - Athens, Smoke the Fuzz fest (also playing with Bongzilla, Dopethrone, Black Cobra)
Sun 09/18/2016 Day off 
Mon 09/19/2016 DE - Wiesbaden, Schlachthof + Black Cobra
Tue 09/20/2016 DE - Munich, Feierwerk + Black Cobra
Wed 09/21/2016 DE - Berlin, Musik & Frieden + Black Cobra
Thu 09/22/2016 PL - Wroclaw, Asymmetry festival (also playing with Discharge, Black Cobra)
Fri 09/23/2016 DE - Leipzig, UT Connewitz + Black Cobra
Sat 09/24/2016 DE - Nurnberg, Z-Bau + Black Cobra
Sun 09/25/2016 AT - Vienna, Chelse + Black Cobra
Mon 09/26/2016 SL - Ljubljana, Club Gromka + Black Cobra
Tue 09/27/2016 Day off 
Wed 09/28/2016 HR - Zagreb, Vintage Industrial + Black Cobra
Thu 09/29/2016 AT - Linz, Stadtwerkstatt + Black Cobra
Fri 09/30/2016 IT - Milan, Lo-Fi Club+ Black Cobra
Sat 10/01/2016 CH - Pratteln, Up In Smoke Festival @ Z7 (also playing with Electric Wizard, Elder, Black Cobra)
Sun 10/02/2016 FR - Orleans, Astrolabe + Black Cobra
Mon 10/03/2016 Day off 
Tue 10/04/2016 FR - Belfort, La Poudriere + Black Cobra
Wed 10/05/2016 FR - Paris, Glazart + Black Cobra
Thu 10/06/2016 FR - Tourcoing, Le Grand Mix + Black Cobra
Fri 10/07/2016 UK - Bristol, The Fleece + Black Cobra
Sat 10/08/2016 UK - Glasgow, G2 Garage + Black Cobra
Sun 10/09/2016 UK - Birmingham, The Rainbow Club + Black Cobra
Mon 10/10/2016 UK - Manchester, Ruby Lounge + Black Cobra
Tue 10/11/2016 IRE - Dublin, Whelans + Black Cobra
Wed 10/12/2016 Day off 
Thu 10/13/2016 UK - London, The Scala + Black Cobra
Fri 10/14/2016 BE - Antwerp, Desertfest (also playing with Pentagram, Cough, Uncle Acid, Black Cobra)
Sat 10/15/2016 DE - Hannover, Cafe Glocksee + Black Cobra

On Clearing The Path To Ascend, YOB are as as formidable as they’ve ever been, demanding the tandem attention of mind, body and soul. 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 Mike 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. Take this opportunity to revisit this remarkable album.




"The magic of Yob's set tonight lies in the centrepiece of their band's latest album…all four tracks are strong and stunning, in particular Marrow, which allows Mike Scheidt's voice to roll out across the venue in waves of perfect sadness, bringing to life and colour the slowly moving song…Mike's singular voice is ushered in via crunching guitars and the song shifts forward towards the inescapable, earth-shattering end." - 9/10 METAL HAMMER

"Sometimes, bands do the praise levelled at them justice but sometimes they outstrip them by leagues. Tonight was the latter, and then some." - ROCK A ROLLA

"There's loud, and there's transcendently loud, and this performance of 'The Great Cessation' is towering, the tone so thick it's tactile."
- TERRORIZER

YOB is love. 

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October 20, 2015

YOB: North American Headlining Tour With Black Cobra To Commence This Week; Band Added To Sabertooth Fest 2016

[Photo by James Rexroad]

 “YOB might be one of the best bands in North America.” – The New York Times

Long-running, psychedelic doom conjurers, YOB, are readying to kick off a near month-long North American headlining tour with support from San Francisco riff peddlers, Black Cobra. Set to kick off on October 22nd in Boise, Idaho and run through November 21st in Oakland, California, the trio will conquer the stages of over two dozen venues including a special performance at this year’s edition of Philip H. Anselmo’s Housecore Horror Fest in San Antonio, Texas. As an added bonus and in celebration of the record’s ten-year anniversary, fans attending the November 5th show at Bell House in Brooklyn, New York will pay witness to the band’s performance of 2005's mammoth The Unreal Never Lived album in its rumbling entirety.

Additionally, YOB will appear at Sabertooth Fest 2016 in February in Portland, Oregon which includes the likes of Super Furry Animals, Earth, King Black Acid, Red Fang, Witch Mountain, Eternal Tapestry, Built To Spill, Mikal Cronin with Emmett Kelly, Fresh & Onlys and Snakes!

Comments vocalist/guitarist Mike Scheidt, "[Drummer] Travis [Foster], [bassist] Aaron [Rieseberg] and I are really excited about this tour. Not only do we get to share the stage every night with our good friends and excellent tour mates Jason, Rafa and Black Cobra, but we get to travel the country again and rock with quite a few amazing bands and see our friends around the US. Black Cobra and YOB have been talking about touring together for the better part of a decade, and now it's happening! We can't wait."

YOB continues to tour in support of their universally-adored Clearing The Path To Ascend full-length, released early last Fall via Neurot Recordings. Recorded at Gung Ho Studio in Eugene alongside longtime YOB comrade/iconic sound wizard, Billy Barnett, and mastered by Brad Boatright (Sleep, Beastmilk, Nails) at Audiosiege, Clearing The Path To Ascend topped Rolling Stone’s 2014 list of the best metal albums and was praised by countless media outlets from Pitchfork to The New York Times. Never before has doom metal been at the forefront of the public consciousness, and it’s easy to see why: though it’s come almost two decades into their existence, YOB have created not just the best album of their career – they’ve manifested what will come to be regarded as one of the defining records in the pantheon of doom metal.


YOB w/ Black Cobra: 

10/22/2015 Neurolux – Boise, ID w/ Brett Netson [tickets]
10/23/2015 Area 51 – Salt Lake City, UT w/ Worst Friends, Huldra
10/24/2015 Hi-Dive – Denver, CO w/ Yung $tar Diamond$ [tickets]
10/26/2015 Bourbon Theater – Lincoln, NE w/ Ezra
10/27/2015 Turf Club – St Paul, MN w/ Highgraves [tickets]
10/28/2015 High Noon – Madison, WI w/ Jex Thoth [tickets]
10/29/2015 Reggie’s – Chicago, IL w/ Acid King
10/30/2015 Southgate House – Newport, KY w/ Ethicist
10/31/2015 Beachland Ballroom – Cleveland, OH w/ Sparrowmilk [tickets]
11/01/2015 Mod Club – Toronto, ON w/ Sons of Otis [tickets] *
11/02/2015 Foufounes – Montreal, QC w/ Dopethrone *
11/03/2015 Brighton – Boston, MA w/ Sea of Bones, Lord Almighty
11/05/2015 Bell House – Brooklyn, NY w/ Wizard Rifle [tickets]
11/06/2015 Underground Arts – Philadelphia, PA w/ Crypt Sermon, Solace [tickets]
11/07/2015 Webster Hall (Marlin Room) – New York, NY w/ Kings Destroy[tickets]
11/08/2015 Metro Gallery – Baltimore, MD w/ Iron Man [tickets]
11/09/2015 Strange Matter – Richmond, VA w/ Bastard Sapling [tickets]
11/10/2015 The Mothlight – Asheville, NC w/ USX [tickets]
11/13/2015 Siberia – New Orleans, LA w/ Author & Punisher, Muscle & Marrow [tickets]
11/14/2015 Rudyard’s – Houston, TX w/ Krvshr
11/15/2015 Housecore Horror Film Festival – San Antonio, TX [tickets] *
11/17/2015 Sister – Albuquerque, NM w/ Deafheaven, Tribulation *
11/18/2015 Club Congress – Tucson, AZ w/ Sorxe
11/19/2015 Brick By Brick – San Diego, CA w/ Debt Ritual [tickets]
11/20/2015 Echo – Los Angeles, CA w/ Deathkings [tickets]
11/21/2015 Metro – Oakland, CA w/ Acid King, Embers

*no Black Cobra

2/07/2016 Sabertooth Fest @ Crystal Ballroom – Portland, OR [info]





YOB’s Clearing The Path To Ascend is available now via Neurot Recordings HERE.






“Psychedelic rock, stoner rock, stoner metal, blues metal, ambient: all reside comfortably in YOB‘s wheelhouse, coalescing and collapsing on a path that stretches as far as the listener’s imagination.” – Pitchfork

“The seventh album from Oregon doom metal sky-gazers, YOB … makes perfect bedfellows of volume and beauty, pain and transcendence.” – Rolling Stone

“Mike Scheidt’s songwriting has never been stronger or more dynamic… a masterful return to form by an American doom powerhouse.” – Decibel

“Clearing The Path To Ascend is YOB at their most frenzied (‘Nothing To Win’) as well as their gentlest (‘Marrow’), but taken as whole, its four songs feel like the seasons or the elements: powerful, eternal, wondrous, and bigger than all of us.” – Stereogum

“An absolute monument of musicianship, songcraft, and raw emotion…” — Free Williamsburg

“All dreams must end-but by extension, so must all nightmares. On Clearing The Path To Ascend, YOB has beautifully, brutally conjured a bit of both.” – The A.V. Club




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August 11, 2015

YOB: Psychedelic Doom Bringers Announce North American Headlining Tour With Support From Black Cobra This Fall

Pacific Northwestern psychedelic doom bringers, YOB, will bring their sonic enormity to stages this Fall on a lengthy North American headlining trek. Slated to commence on October 22nd in Boise, Idaho and conclude on November 21st in Oakland, California, the trio will quake the stages of over two dozen venues including a special performance at this year’s edition of Philip H. Anselmo’s Housecore Horror Fest in San Antonio, Texas. Support will come from San Francisco volume dealers, Black Cobra. Tickets go on sale this Friday, August 14th.



YOB w/ Black Cobra:

10/22/2015 Neurolux - Boise, ID
10/23/2015 Area 51 - Salt Lake City, UT
10/24/2015 Hi-Dive - Denver, CO
10/25/2015 Bourbon Theater - Lincoln, NE
10/27/2015 Turf Club - St Paul, MN
10/28/2015 High Noon - Madison, WI w/Jex Thoth
10/29/2015 Reggie’s - Chicago, IL w/ Acid King
10/30/2015 Southgate House - Newport, KY w/ Ethicist
10/31/2015 Beachland Ballroom - Cleveland, OH
11/01/2015 Mod Club - Toronto, ON
11/02/2015 Foufounes - Montreal, QC w/ Dopethrone
11/03/2015 Brighton - Boston, MA
11/05/2015 Bell House - Brooklyn, NY
11/06/2015 Underground Arts - Philadelphia, PA
11/07/2015 Webster Hall (Marlin Room) - New York, NY
11/08/2015 Metro Gallery - Baltimore, MD
11/09/2015 Strange Matter - Richmond, VA
11/11/2015 Tiger Mountain - Asheville, NC
11/13/2015 Siberia - New Orleans, LA w/ Author & Punisher, Muscle & Marrow
11/14/2015 Rudyard’s - Houston, TX
11/15/2015 Housecore Horror Film Festival - San Antonio, TX *
11/17/2015 Sister - Albuquerque, NM w/ Deafheaven, Tribulation*
11/18/2015 Club Congress - Tucson, AZ
11/19/2015 Brick By Brick - San Diego, CA
11/20/2015 Echo - Los Angeles, CA
11/21/2015 Metro - Oakland, CA

* no Black Cobra




YOB‘s live show is everything you’d want from a power trio. From frenetic riffs and furious drumming to slow, crushing doom, a YOB gig is less a performance and more a communal brain-fuck. They hold their audience transfixed with brief moments of brooding, atmospheric, almost ambient respite, before pulverizing them with a massive, brutal crush of noise. The band will be touring in support of their universally-adored Clearing The Path To Ascend full-length, released early last Fall via Neurot Recordings. Recorded at Gung Ho Studio in Eugene alongside longtime YOB comrade/iconic sound wizard, Billy Barnett and mastered by Brad Boatright (Sleep, Beastmilk, Nails) at Audiosiege, Clearing The Path To Ascend topped Rolling Stone’s 2014 list of the best metal albums and was praised by countless media outlets from Pitchfork to The New York Times. Never before has doom metal been at the forefront of the public consciousness, and it’s easy to see why: though it’s come almost two decades into their existence, YOB have created not just the best album of their career – they’ve made what will come to be regarded as one of the defining records in the pantheon of doom metal.

YOB’s Clearing The Path To Ascend is available now via Neurot Recordings HERE.



“YOB might be one of the best bands in North America.” – The New York Times


“Psychedelic rock, stoner rock, stoner metal, blues metal, ambient: all reside comfortably in YOB‘s wheelhouse, coalescing and collapsing on a path that stretches as far as the listener’s imagination.” – Pitchfork

“The seventh album from Oregon doom metal sky-gazers, YOB … makes perfect bedfellows of volume and beauty, pain and transcendence.” – Rolling Stone


“Mike Scheidt’s songwriting has never been stronger or more dynamic… a masterful return to form by an American doom powerhouse.” – Decibel


“Clearing The Path To Ascend is YOB at their most frenzied (‘Nothing To Win’) as well as their gentlest (‘Marrow’), but taken as whole, its four songs feel like the seasons or the elements: powerful, eternal, wondrous, and bigger than all of us.” – Stereogum


“An absolute monument of musicianship, songcraft, and raw emotion…” -- Free Williamsburg

“All dreams must end-but by extension, so must all nightmares. On Clearing The Path To Ascend, YOB has beautifully, brutally conjured a bit of both.” – The A.V. Club





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June 24, 2015

LIFE IS NOISE is pleased to announce the support acts for YOB’s Australian tour this August

YOB play their first ever show on the shores in Perth at The Rosemount on August 19, support comes from the somber reflections of drone duo Alzabo, featuring members of Cease and Mink Mussel Creek. But first: behold the crushing waves of blackened doom quartet Dirac Sea.


[Photo by James Rexroad]

At Enigma Bar in Adelaide on August 20, support comes from the elephantine riffage of stoner doom behemoths Space Bong, who are finally ready to unleash their new album that’s been four years in the making. They’ll be joined by Crypt, boasting rock-the-fuck-out jams at breakneck speeds.

At YOB’s Melbourne show at Max Watt's (formerly The HiFi) on Friday August 21, submit to the otherworldly barbaric majesty of one of the nation’s heaviest collectives, Whitehorse. But to begin, genuflect and show your reverence for the funereal dirge of doom-death prophets Inverloch.

In Sydney on Saturday August 22 at Manning Bar, warm up to the searing sounds of Australia’s fastest stoner riff lords, Sumeru. Get down early for some invasive respiratory therapy from noise thrash enthusiasts Thorax.

Rounding out the tour on August 23 at Crowbar in Brisbane, support comes from Relapse Records signees Hope Drone, who’ll be riding the waves of newly released punishing long-player, Cloak of Ash. Opening hymns will be screamed by Queensland’s resident hypno-occultists Frown.

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Witness YOB on their first ever Australian tour on the following dates: 

Perth - August 19 - Rosemount Hotel
Adelaide - August 20 - Enigma Bar
Melbourne - August 21 - Max Watt’s
Sydney - August 22 - Manning Bar
Brisbane - August 23 - Crowbar




Tickets on sale now through lifeisnoise.com, Oztix and venue outlets.

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YOB’s Clearing The Path To Ascend is available now via Neurot Recordings HERE.




YOB might be one of the best bands in North America. – The New York Times

In 2014, YOB released the best doom metal album of the year. Near universally praised, Clearing the Path to Ascend topped Rolling Stone’s list of the best metal albums and was critically lauded by everyone from Pitchfork to The New York Times. Never has doom metal been at the forefront of the public consciousness like this, and it’s easy to see why: though it’s come almost two decades into their existence, YOB have made not just the best album of their career – they’ve made what will come to be regarded as one of the defining records in the pantheon of doom metal.


 Clearing the Path to Ascend is magnificently loud and rapturously strident, but, at its heart, it quietly provides a sense of support for our innermost being; succor for our very souls. – Steel for Brains


 Which is not to say any of this came easy. Few bands hit their creative stride after seven records and almost twenty years, and Yob’s recording career has led them to stints with Metal Blade and Profound Lore before settling at their current home with spiritual siblings Neurosis at their label Neurot Recordings. The Neurosis comparison is obvious, but for every moment of earth-shaking post-metal, there are flourishes of old-school, soul-crushing sorrow that hark back to Black Sabbath and Saint Vitus; for every Earth-like meditation, there’s a measured catharsis of energy that recalls the explosive sludge of Melvins.


 Psychedelic rock, stoner rock, stoner metal, blues metal, ambient: all reside comfortably in YOB’s wheelhouse, coalescing and collapsing on a path that stretches as far as the listener’s imagination. – Pitchfork


 What makes Clearing the Path to Ascend such a landmark record is its stellar two-track second half. While the album’s opening act bathes in layers of funereal dirge and existential dread, its penultimate and closing tracks mark one of the genre’s finest half-hours as the trio push through to the other side of hell. With every repetition, Mike Scheidt’s riffs grow all the more hypnotic, his pious incantations ever-more compelling. YOB have succeeded where many of their contemporaries fail, imbuing the oft-tired tropes of a monolithic genre with untold emotion and transcendent zeal. This is doom metal reborn.

All dreams must end—but by extension, so must all nightmares. On Clearing The Path To Ascend, Yob has beautifully, brutally conjured a bit of both. – The A.V. Club 


Yob’s live show is everything you’d want from a power trio. From frenetic riffs and furious drumming to slow, crushing doom, a Yob gig is less a performance and more a communal brain-fuck. They hold their audience transfixed with brief moments of brooding, atmospheric, almost ambient respite, before pulverising them with a massive, brutal crush of noise.








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May 19, 2015

YOB Confirms August Australian Tour 2015; Band To Descend Upon Maryland Deathfest This Week


[Photo by James Rexroad]

The latest bout of touring from Northwestern psychedelic doom trio, YOB, has been announced, as the outfit has confirmed their first trek to Australia this Summer.

YOB’s live show is everything you’d want from a power trio. From frenetic riffs and furious drumming to slow, crushing doom, a YOB gig is less a performance and more a communal brain-fuck. They hold their audience transfixed with brief moments of brooding, atmospheric, almost ambient respite, before pulverizing them with a massive, brutal crush of noise. And now, Life Is Noise is proud to present the Australian debut of one of the finest doom metal bands in the world on their first trek to the Australian continent this August.

"We have been wanting to come play in Australia for a long time,” issues iconic YOB guitarist/vocalist Mike Scheidt. “A number of my favorite bands are from there! Also, we've made some good friends there over the years. So now to finally be able to go play some shows and hang in real time is very exciting. Massive thanks to Dave Cutbush, Jack Midalia and everyone at Life Is Noise for making it possible! We're very much looking forward to this."


YOB

5/21/2015 Ram's Head Live - Maryland Deathfest - Baltimore, MD 

Australian Tour August 2015:

8/19/2015 Rosemount Hotel - Perth, AU
8/20/2015 Enigma Bar – Adelaide, AU
8/21/2015 Max Watt’s -Melbourne, AU
8/22/2015 Manning Bar - Sydney, AU
8/23/2015 Crowbar - Brisbane, AU

Tickets are now on sale now through lifeisnoise.com.au, Oztix and venue outlets: more info here.

 As a precursor to the Australian dates, YOB will make an appearance at this years Maryland Deathfest, headlining Ram's Head Live on Thursday May 21, for more info visit: www.marylanddeathfest.com



YOB’s Clearing The Path To Ascend is available now via Neurot Recordings HERE.


In 2014, YOB released the best doom metal album of the year. Universally praised, Clearing The Path To Ascend topped Rolling Stone’s list of the best metal albums and was critically lauded by everyone from Pitchfork to The New York Times. Never has doom metal been at the forefront of the public consciousness like this, and it’s easy to see why: though it’s come almost two decades into their existence, YOB has made not just the best album of their career – they’ve made what will come to be regarded as one of the defining records in the pantheon of doom metal.

Which is not to say any of this came easy. Few bands hit their creative stride after seven records and almost twenty years, and YOB’s recording career has led them to stints with Metal Blade and Profound Lore before settling at their current home with spiritual siblings Neurosis at their label Neurot Recordings. The Neurosis comparison is obvious, but for every moment of earth-shaking post-metal, there are flourishes of old-school, soul-crushing sorrow that hark back to Black Sabbath and Saint Vitus; for every Earth-like meditation, there’s a measured catharsis of energy that recalls the explosive sludge of Melvins. What makes Clearing The Path To Ascend such a landmark record is its stellar two-track second half.

While the album’s opening act bathes in layers of funeral dirge and existential dread, its penultimate and closing tracks mark one of the genre’s finest half-hours as the trio push through to the other side of hell. With every repetition, Mike Scheidt’s riffs grow all the more hypnotic, his pious incantations ever-more compelling. YOB has succeeded where many of their contemporaries fail, imbuing the tropes of a monolithic genre with untold emotion and transcendent zeal. This is doom metal reborn.


Yob might be one of the best bands in North America. – The New York Times

“Psychedelic rock, stoner rock, stoner metal, blues metal, ambient: all reside comfortably in YOB’s wheelhouse, coalescing and collapsing on a path that stretches as far as the listener’s imagination.” – Pitchfork

“Clearing The Path To Ascend is magnificently loud and rapturously strident, but, at its heart, it quietly provides a sense of support for our innermost being; succor for our very souls.” – Steel for Brains

“All dreams must end—but by extension, so must all nightmares. On Clearing The Path To Ascend, YOB has beautifully, brutally conjured a bit of both.” – The A.V. Club





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March 3, 2015

YOB: Portland Doom Kings To Kick Off North American Tour Tomorrow



Portland’s most revered doom bringers, YOB, will return to the stage tomorrow for a mammoth North American run. The tour includes sixteen dates supporting progressive black metal technicians, Enslaved, as well as a batch of headlining shows scattered prior to, throughout and following the Enslaved run. See confirmed itinerary below.
YOB North American Tour 2015:
3/04/2015 Press Club – Sacramento, CA w/ Will Haven
3/05/2015 Brick By Brick – San Diego, CA w/ Enslaved, Ecstatic Vision [info]
3/06/2015 Rey Theatre – Los Angeles, CA w/ Enslaved, Ecstatic Vision [info]
3/07/2015 Slim’s – San Francisco, CA w/ Enslaved, Ecstatic Vision [info]
3/09/2015 Hawthorne Theater – Portland, OR w/ Enslaved, Ecstatic Vision [info]
3/10/2015 Rickshaw Theatre – Vancouver, BC w/ Enslaved, Ecstatic Vision [info]
3/11/2015 Corazon – Seattle, WA w/ Enslaved, Ecstatic Vision [info]
3/12/2015 Crazy Horse – Boise, ID w/ Ecstatic Vision
3/13/2015 Bar Deluxe – Salt Lake City, UT w/ Enslaved, Ecstatic Vision [info]
3/14/2015 Summit Music Hall – Denver, CO w/ Enslaved, Ecstatic Vision [info]
3/16/2015 Mill City Nights – Minneapolis, MN w/ Enslaved, Ecstatic Vision [info]
3/17/2015 Thaila Hall – Chicago, IL w/ Enslaved, Ecstatic Vision [info]
3/18/2015 Ace Of Cups – Columbus, OH w/ Ecstatic Vision
3/19/2015 Opera House – Toronto, ON w/ Enslaved, Ecstatic Vision [info]
3/20/2015 Les Foufounes Electriques – Montreal, QC w/ Enslaved, Ecstatic Vision [info]
3/21/2015 Gramercy Theatre – New York, NY w/ Enslaved, Ecstatic Vision [info]
3/22/2015 Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA w/ Enslaved, Ecstatic Vision [info]
3/23/2015 Baltimore Soundstage – Baltimore, MD w/ Enslaved, Ecstatic Vision [info]
3/24/2015 Sinclair – Boston, MA w/ Enslaved, Ecstatic Vision [info]
3/26/2015 King’s Barcade – Raleigh, NC w/ Witch Mountain
3/27/2015 The Hideaway – Johnson City, TN w/ Witch Mountain
3/28/2015 The Earl – Atlanta, GA w/ Witch Mountain
3/29/2015 Hi-Tone – Memphis, TN w/ Witch Mountain
3/30/2015 Siberia – New Orleans, LA w/ Witch Mountain
3/31/2015 Walter’s – Houston, TX w/ Witch Mountain
4/01/2015 Red 7 – Austin, TX w/ Witch Mountain
4/03/2015 Launch Pad – Albuquerque, NM w/ Witch Mountain
4/04/2015 The Flycatcher – Tucson, AZ w/ Witch Mountain



YOB will be touring in support of their critically-adored Clearing The Path To Ascend full-length, released early last Fall via Neurot Recordings. Recorded at Gung Ho Studio in Eugene alongside longtime YOB comrade/iconic sound wizard, Billy Barnett and mastered by Brad Boatright (Sleep, Beastmilk, Nails) at Audiosiege, Clearing The Path To Ascend has earned the praise of major media outlets globally, including Rolling Stone who placed the record at the coveted #1 spot on their 20 Best Metal Albums Of 2014.

“The seventh album from Oregon doom metal sky-gazers, YOB … makes perfect bedfellows of volume and beauty, pain and transcendence.” – Rolling Stone

“Mike Scheidt’s songwriting has never been stronger or more dynamic… a masterful return to form by an American doom powerhouse” – Decibel
“Clearing The Path To Ascend is YOB at their most frenzied (‘Nothing To Win’) as well as their gentlest (‘Marrow’), but taken as whole, its four songs feel like the seasons or the elements: powerful, eternal, wondrous, and bigger than all of us.” – Stereogum
“An absolute monument of musicianship, songcraft, and raw emotion…” – Free Williamsburg
“The sound on Clearing The Path To Ascend is tactile: You can practically feel vocalist/guitarist Mike Scheidt’s callused hands sliding up and down the guitar neck…This isn’t a case of fixing what was broken; it’s about becoming greater than they already were.” – Wondering Sound
“For all its heaviness, the album is disarmingly meditative, relying less on forcing the mood for the listener and entrusting that the human commonalities of love, loss, fear, and hope threaded throughout the music will render an altogether familiar place of comfort and strength within the listener.” – Steel For Brains


 YOB’s Clearing The Path To Ascend is available now via Neurot Recordings HERE.




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January 12, 2015

YOB: Portland Doom Monarchs Announce North American Headlining Dates

In addition to their previously announced North American live takeover this March supporting progressive black metal technicians, Enslaved, long-running Portland dooms monarchs,YOB, today reveal additional headlining stage rumblings.


With various performances scattered prior to, throughout and following the Enslaved run, YOB will decimate ears in Sacramento, Boise, Columbus, Raleigh, Johnson City, Atlanta, Memphis, New Orleans, Houston, Austin, Albuquerque and Tucson. Support will be provided by noise rockers, Will Haven, doom wranglers, Witch Mountain and trance-inducing psych rock perpetrators, Ecstatic Vision (also on the Enslaved tour) on select dates. See confirmed itinerary here:

     YOB North American Tour 2015 Dates
Wed Mar 4 - Sacramento, CA - Press Club #
Thu Mar 5 - San Diego, CA - Brick By Brick [ tickets ] *
Fri Mar 6 - Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre [ tickets ] *
Sat Mar 7 - San Francisco, CA - Slim’s [ tickets ] *
Mon Mar 9 - Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theater [ tickets ] *
Tue Mar 10 -Vancouver BC -Rickshaw Theatre [ tickets ] *
Wed Mar 11 - Seattle, WA - El Corazon [ tickets ] *
Thu Mar 12 - Boise, ID - Crazy Horse %
Fri Mar 13 - Salt Lake City, UT - Bar Deluxe [ tickets ] *
Sat Mar 14 - Denver, CO - Summit Music Hall [ tickets ] *
Mon Mar 16 - Minneapolis, MN - Mill City Nights [ tickets ] *
Tue Mar 17 - Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall [ tickets ] *
Wed Mar 18 - Columbus, OH - Ace of Cups %
Thu Mar 19 - Toronto, ON - Opera House [ tickets ] *
Fri Mar 20 - Montreal, QC - Les Foufounes Électriques [ tickets ] *
Sat Mar 21 - New York, NY - Gramercy Theatre [ tickets ] *
Sun Mar 22 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer [ tickets ] *
Mon Mar 23 - Baltimore, MD - Baltimore Soundstage [ tickets ] *
Tue Mar 24 - Boston, MA - Sinclair [ tickets ] *
Thu Mar 26 - Raleigh, NC  -  King's Barcade +
Fri Mar 27 - Johnson City, TN  -  The Hideaway +
Sat Mar 28 - Atlanta, GA  -  The Earl +
Sun Mar 29 - Memphis, TN  -  Hi-Tone +
Mon Mar 30 - New Orleans, LA  - Siberia +
Tue Mar 31 - Houston, TX  - Walter's +
Wed Apr 01 - Austin, TX  - Red 7 +
Fri Apr 03 - Albuquerque, NM  - Launch Pad +
Sat Apr 04 - Tucson, AZ  - The Flycatcher +
 * with Enslaved, Ecstatic Vision 
 % with Ecstatic Vision   
 + with Witch Mountain   
 # with Will Haven, Church

YOB will be touring in support of their critically-fawned upon Clearing The Path To Ascend full-length, released early last Fall via Neurot Recordings. Recorded at Gung Ho Studio in Eugene alongside longtime YOB comrade/iconic sound wizard, Billy Barnett and mastered by Brad Boatright (Sleep, Beastmilk, Nails) at Audiosiege, Clearing The Path To Ascend has reaped the praise of major media outlets globally, including Rolling Stone who placed the record at the coveted #1 spot on their 20 Best Metal Albums Of 2014 noting, “The seventh album from Oregon doom metal sky-gazers, YOB … makes perfect bedfellows of volume and beauty, pain and transcendence.” The esteemed publication further commends the record noting, “Opener ‘In Our Blood’ extends a simple riff into complex arches, tracing [vocalist Mike] Scheidt’s voice as it moves from an exquisite falsetto to a death-metal bellow in the course of sixteen-minutes. And during the colossal closer ‘Marrow’ — possibly the best metal song of the year, one that uses low notes to play uplifting melodies — Scheidt sings ‘Time will fall inside the dream.’ His voice suddenly reaches out like a clarion’s call, clear and telling and beautiful. It’s a pronouncement from the living, a semaphore pointing into the future.” Elsewhere the sentiment echoes. Free Williamsburg crowns Clearing The Path To Ascend, “An absolute monument of musicianship, songcraft, and raw emotion,” noting, “this hour-plus slab of gut-wrenching, god-toppling doom, crafted by frontman Mike Scheidt in the wake of divorce and the decision to stop taking anti-depressants, operates on a grander scale, both sonically and philosophically, than any other album this year.” Decibel Magazine concurs, “Mike Scheidt’s songwriting has never been stronger or more dynamic… a masterful return to form by an American doom powerhouse,” while Stereogum adds, “Clearing The Path To Ascend is YOB at their most frenzied (‘Nothing To Win’) as well as their gentlest (‘Marrow’), but taken as whole, its four songs feel like the seasons or the elements: powerful, eternal, wondrous, and bigger than all of us.

YOB’s Clearing The Path To Ascend is available now via store.NeurotRecordings.com.


“Mike Scheidt’s songwriting has never been stronger or more dynamic… a masterful return to form by an American doom powerhouse,” – Decibel

“An absolute monument of musicianship, songcraft, and raw emotion, this hour-plus slab of gut-wrenching, god-toppling doom, crafted by frontman Mike Scheidt in the wake of divorce and the decision to stop taking anti-depressants, operates on a grander scale, both sonically and philosophically, than any other album this year.” – Free Williamsburg

“For all its heaviness, the album is disarmingly meditative, relying less on forcing the mood for the listener and entrusting that the human commonalities of love, loss, fear, and hope threaded throughout the music will render an altogether familiar place of comfort and strength within the listener.” – Steel For Brains

“The sound on Clearing The Path To Ascend is tactile: You can practically feel vocalist/guitarist Mike Scheidt’s callused hands sliding up and down the guitar neck…This isn’t a case of fixing what was broken; it’s about becoming greater than they already were.” – Wondering Sound

“The closing, sprawling eighteen-minute plus ‘Marrow’ takes every previously visited songwriting element on Clearing The Path To Ascend and brings it all together into beautifully melancholic combination of heaviness and melody, a fitting capstone to a gem of an album.” – About.com

“Clearing The Path To Ascend is YOB at their most frenzied (‘Nothing To Win’) as well as their gentlest (‘Marrow’), but taken as whole, its four songs feel like the seasons or the elements: powerful, eternal, wondrous, and bigger than all of us.” – Stereogum

“…Mike Scheidt continues to drive his band YOB to new heights of epic, darkly spiritual doom without consideration for trends, self-consciousness or the whims of fickle consumers. At sixty-two minutes yet only four songs, Clearing The Path To Ascend rewards the patient while almost deliberately snubbing the ADD set… Scheidt uses art as catharsis, and that means you as listener as well if you want to take that journey with him.” – Metal Injection

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December 18, 2014

YOB: Portland’s Favorite Doom Craftsman Announce North American Tour Dates With Enslaved This March

Following two furiously sold-out nights at renowned Brooklyn rock bar, Saint Vitus, as well as their mammothly efficacious European trek before that, Portland’s most prized doom craftsman, YOB, will return to the stage this Spring for a North American run supporting progressive black metal technicians, Enslaved. Slated to commence on March 5th in San Diego, the sixteen-date excursion will make its way across the country, coming to a close on March 24th in Boston. Additional support will be provided by Ecstatic Vision.

By James Rexroad
YOB w/ Enslaved, Ecstatic Vision:
Thu Mar 5 - San Diego, CA - Brick By Brick [ tickets ]
Fri Mar 6 - Los Angeles, CA - El Rey Theatre [ tickets ]
Sat Mar 7 - San Francisco, CA - Slim’s [ tickets ]
Mon Mar 9 - Portland, OR - Hawthorne Theater [ tickets ]
Tue Mar 10 -Vancouver BC -Rickshaw Theatre [ tickets ]
Wed Mar 11 - Seattle, WA - El Corazon [ tickets ]
Fri Mar 13 - Salt Lake City, UT - Bar Deluxe [ tickets ]
Sat Mar 14 - Denver, CO - Summit Music Hall [ tickets ]
Mon Mar 16 - Minneapolis, MN - Mill City Nights [ tickets ]
Tue Mar 17 - Chicago, IL - Thalia Hall [ tickets ]
Thu Mar 19 - Toronto, ON - Opera House [ tickets ]
Fri Mar 20 - Montreal, QC - Les Foufounes Électriques [ tickets ]
Sat Mar 21 - New York, NY - Gramercy Theatre [ tickets ]
Sun Mar 22 - Philadelphia, PA - Union Transfer [ tickets ]
Mon Mar 23 - Baltimore, MD - Baltimore Soundstage [ tickets ]
Tue Mar 24 - Boston, MA - Sinclair [ tickets ]


YOB will be touring in support of their critically-adored Clearing The Path To Ascend full-length, released early this Fall via Neurot Recordings. Recorded at Gung Ho Studio in Eugene alongside longtime YOB comrade/iconic sound wizard, Billy Barnett and mastered by Brad Boatright (Sleep, Beastmilk, Nails) at Audiosiege, Clearing The Path To Ascend has won the praise of major media outlets globally, including Rolling Stone who placed Clearing The Path To Ascend at the coveted #1 spot on their 20 Best Metal Albums Of 2014 noting, “The seventh album from Oregon doom metal sky-gazers, YOB, … makes perfect bedfellows of volume and beauty, pain and transcendence.” The esteemed publication further commends the record noting, “Opener ‘In Our Blood’ extends a simple riff into complex arches, tracing [vocalist Mike] Scheidt’s voice as it moves from an exquisite falsetto to a death-metal bellow in the course of sixteen-minutes. And during the colossal closer ‘Marrow’ — possibly the best metal song of the year, one that uses low notes to play uplifting melodies — Scheidt sings ‘Time will fall inside the dream.’ His voice suddenly reaches out like a clarion’s call, clear and telling and beautiful. It’s a pronouncement from the living, a semaphore pointing into the future.” Elsewhere the record placed at #7 on Decibel’s Top 40 Albums Of 2014, #9 on Wondering Sound’s 25 Best Metal Albums Of 2014, #1 on About.com’s 2014 Best Heavy Metal Albums List, #11 on Stereogum’s Top 50 Albums Of 2014, #9 on Spin’s 20 Best Metal Album’s Of 2014, #9 on Metal Assault’s Best Albums Of 2014, and #1 on Free Williamsburg’s 10 Best Metal Albums Of 2014 among so many other lists both published and in the works.


YOB’s Clearing The Path To Ascend is available now via store.NeurotRecordings.com.



“Mike Scheidt’s songwriting has never been stronger or more dynamic… a masterful return to form by an American doom powerhouse,” – Decibel

“An absolute monument of musicianship, songcraft, and raw emotion, this hour-plus slab of gut-wrenching, god-toppling doom, crafted by frontman Mike Scheidt in the wake of divorce and the decision to stop taking anti-depressants, operates on a grander scale, both sonically and philosophically, than any other album this year.” – Free Williamsburg

“For all its heaviness, the album is disarmingly meditative, relying less on forcing the mood for the listener and entrusting that the human commonalities of love, loss, fear, and hope threaded throughout the music will render an altogether familiar place of comfort and strength within the listener.” – Steel For Brains

“The sound on Clearing The Path To Ascend is tactile: You can practically feel vocalist/guitarist Mike Scheidt’s callused hands sliding up and down the guitar neck…This isn’t a case of fixing what was broken; it’s about becoming greater than they already were.” – Wondering Sound

“The closing, sprawling eighteen-minute plus ‘Marrow’ takes every previously visited songwriting element on Clearing The Path To Ascend and brings it all together into beautifully melancholic combination of heaviness and melody, a fitting capstone to a gem of an album.” – About.com

“Clearing The Path To Ascend is YOB at their most frenzied (‘Nothing To Win’) as well as their gentlest (‘Marrow’), but taken as whole, its four songs feel like the seasons or the elements: powerful, eternal, wondrous, and bigger than all of us.” – Stereogum

“…Mike Scheidt continues to drive his band YOB to new heights of epic, darkly spiritual doom without consideration for trends, self-consciousness or the whims of fickle consumers. At sixty-two minutes yet only four songs, Clearing The Path To Ascend rewards the patient while almost deliberately snubbing the ADD set… Scheidt uses art as catharsis, and that means you as listener as well if you want to take that journey with him.” – Metal Injection




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December 12, 2014

YOB’s Clearing The Path To Ascend Topples Year-End Lists; Band To Level Brooklyn’s Saint Vitus Bar This Weekend

Released early this Fall via Neurot Recordings, Clearing The Path To Ascend, the latest studio album from Portland’s favorite doom conjurors, YOB, has earned mass love and attention from fans and media outlets both stateside and abroad.


Recorded at Gung Ho Studio in Eugene alongside longtime YOB comrade/iconic sound wizard, Billy Barnett and mastered by Brad Boatright (Sleep, Beastmilk, Nails) at Audiosiege, Clearing The Path To Ascend is a wholly visceral listening experience that demands the tandem attention of mind, body, and soul. Rolling Stone ranked Clearing The Path To Ascend at the coveted #1 spot on their 20 Best Metal Albums Of 2014, noting “The seventh album from Oregon doom metal sky-gazers, YOB, … makes perfect bedfellows of volume and beauty, pain and transcendence,” further enthusing, “Opener ‘In Our Blood’ extends a simple riff into complex arches, tracing [vocalist Mike] Scheidt's voice as it moves from an exquisite falsetto to a death-metal bellow in the course of sixteen-minutes. And during the colossal closer ‘Marrow’ — possibly the best metal song of the year, one that uses low notes to play uplifting melodies — Scheidt sings ‘Time will fall inside the dream.’ His voice suddenly reaches out like a clarion's call, clear and telling and beautiful. It's a pronouncement from the living, a semaphore pointing into the future.” The record earned the #7 spot on Decibel’s Top 40 Albums Of 2014, the esteemed metal rag noting, “Mike Scheidt’s songwriting has never been stronger or more dynamic… a masterful return to form by an American doom powerhouse,” while Wondering Sound placed the offering at #9 among their 25 Best Metal Albums Of 2014 proclaiming, “The sound on Clearing the Path to Ascend is tactile: You can practically feel vocalist/guitarist Mike Scheidt's callused hands sliding up and down the guitar neck…This isn't a case of fixing what was broken; it's about becoming greater than they already were.” On their 2014 Best Heavy Metal Albums List,About.com lists YOB at number two, championing “Marrow” in particular, “The closing,sprawling eighteen-minute plus ‘Marrow’ takes every previously visited songwriting element on Clearing The Path To Ascend and brings it all together into beautifully melancholic combination of heaviness and melody, a fitting capstone to a gem of an album.” The record ranked in at number eleven on Stereogum’s Top 50 Albums Of 2014: “Clearing The Path To Ascend is YOB at their most frenzied (‘Nothing To Win’) as well as their gentlest (‘Marrow’), but taken as whole, its four songs feel like the seasons or the elements: powerful, eternal, wondrous, and bigger than all of us.” Added Steel For Brains, on their Best Of Heavy Music Releases Of 2014, “For all its heaviness, the album is disarmingly meditative, relying less on forcing the mood for the listener and entrusting that the human commonalities of love, loss, fear, and hope threaded throughout the music will render an altogether familiar place of comfort and strength within the listener.”

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In related news, YOB will rumble the infrastructure of Brooklyn’s Saint Vitus Bar this weekend on two special sold out appearances, the first set to take place tonight with Tombs and King Destroy, the second on Saturday with Occultation and Ecstatic Vision with additional US live rituals to be announced in the weeks to come.

YOB:
12/12/2014 Saint Vitus Bar – Brooklyn, NY [info]
12/13/2014 Saint Vitus Bar – Brooklyn, NY [info]

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YOB’s Clearing The Path To Ascend is available now
via Neurot Recordings HERE.




 “…Mike Scheidt continues to drive his band YOB to new heights of epic, darkly spiritual doom without consideration for trends, self-consciousness or the whims of fickle consumers. At sixty-two minutes yet only four songs, Clearing The Path To Ascend rewards the patient while almost deliberately snubbing the ADD set… Scheidt uses art as catharsis, and that means you as listener as well if you want to take that journey with him.” – Metal Injection



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September 15, 2014

NEUROSIS, UFOMAMMUT, YOB: Three Key Neurot Recordings Artists To Perform At Maryland Deathfest XIII

Neurot Recordings is proud to have three major acts from their expansive family of acts confirmed to perform at Maryland Deathfest XIII, the annual festival once again set to take over Baltimore from May 21st to May 24th, with NEUROSIS, UFOMAMMUT and YOB joining the list of more than eighty bands to perform at the 2015 gathering, marking the label’s largest invasion of the annual festival to date.

The opening night of Maryland Deathfest XIII, Thursday, May 21st, will see UFOMAMMUT and YOB both making their way to the event for the very first time. The two bands will headline the Rams Head Live stage, taking over the venue with Bevar Sea, Conan, Iron Man, Jex Thoth, Mantar and Primitive Man. And following their mesmerizing and destructive set amidst a thunderstorm at MDF 2011, the mighty NEUROSIS will make their way back to the event this year. A major highlight of the festival, NEUROSIS will perform outdoors on the Edison Lot stage on the final day, Sunday, May 24th, joining Amorphis, Anaal Nathrakh, Demilich, Goatsnake, Inverloch, Neurosis, Primordial, Prosanctus Inferi, Skepticism, Tombs and Winter.

NEUROSIS continues to tour the planet, in their most intense years of touring since the band’s earlier days, following the 2012 release of their acclaimed tenth LP, Honor Found In Decay. Following tours of North America, Europe and their first trek to Australia earlier this year, the remainder of 2014 will see the band as one of the main headliners at Arizona’s Southwest Terror Fest III: The Western Front. The festival will consume Tucson, Arizona from October 16th through 19th, with main acts Goatsnake and Sunn O))) in addition to NEUROSIS, who will headline Saturday, October 18th with support from The Body, Author & Punisher and Sorxe. The same weekend, the band will invade Denver on Sunday, October 19th with support from Subrosa and In The Company Of Serpents. The following weekend they’ll join Voivod, Samhain, Danzig, Lustmord, Corrections House, Eyehategod, Napalm Death, Cattle Decapitation, Author & Punisher and more at the second annual Housecore Horror Film Fest, running from October 23rd through 26th in Austin, Texas. And on November 22nd, NEUROSIS will travel to Mexico City to perform at Bestia Festival is set to run from November 19th to the 23rd, with performances from The Ex, Monogatari, (SIC), Han Bennink, Terrie Ex, Marc Ribot, Ray Anderson, Bob Stewart and others performing, alongside an array of music workshops, film screenings and more.

Currently celebrating their fifteenth year in existence, Italian trio, UFOMAMMUT, will return to North America for their first major tour of the continent in 2015, including their first trip to Maryland Deathfest. With only a brief 2008 West Coast venture in the US under their belt, the full-on upcoming tour will see the band spending several weeks stateside, bringing their magical, mysterious and pulverizing doom metal to the masses in support of their acclaimed ORO double-album set, released in 2013, as well as their next full-length release, which the band is currently preparing to record in October for release again through Neurot in early 2015. UFOMAMMUT will also be releasing a massive DVD entitled XV through their own Supernatural Cat Records this October, with more than three hours of material documenting their decade-and-a-half together. The band is also set to perform at Up In Smoke in Pratteln, Switzerland with Fu Manchu, Kadavar, Blues Pills, Brant Bjork, Dozer, Naam, Conan and tons more on October 3rd and 4th.

Oregon’s psychedelic doom metal trio, YOB, is currently embarked on a massive European tour with Pallbearer, supporting their recently-released seventh studio full-length, Clearing The Path To Ascend. The widely lauded album is currently thriving with great accolades pouring in from media outlets and fans worldwide, being recognized as another massive achievement for the now institutional act, and marks one of the most essential extreme albums of the year. Their first release as part of the Neurot family, the album was just released by the label on CD and all digital download, with Relapse Records releasing the vinyl version this week. Following the ongoing five-week voyage which is permeating every corner of the European continent, YOB will tour heavily in North America as well, with new tour dates to be announced in conjunction with their MDF performance in the coming months.


Stand by for further label and tour developments from NEUROSIS, UFOMAMMUT, YOB and other talented acts hailing from the Neurot Recordings clan over the rest of 2014 and into next year.



NEUROSIS Tour Dates:
10/18/2014 Rialto Theatre – Tucson, AZ @ Southwest Terror Fest III
10/19/2014 The Gothic Theatre – Denver, CO w/ Subrosa, In The Company Of Serpents
10/23-26/2014 Housecore Horror Film Fest – Austin, TX
11/22/2014 Bestia Festival – Mexico City, Mexico
5/24/2015 Maryland Deathfest – Baltimore, MD


UFOMAMMUT Tour Dates:
10/03-05/2014 Up In Smoke – Pratteln, Switzerland
5/21/2015 Maryland Deathfest – Baltimore, MD


YOB Tour Dates:
9/16/2014 Tavastia – Helsinki, FI w/ Pallbearer
9/17/2014 Slakthuset – Stockholm, SE w/ Pallbearer
9/18/2014 Loppen – Copenhagen, DK w/ Pallbearer
9/19/2014 Connewitz – Leipzig, DE w/ Pallbearer
9/20/2014 Firlej – Wroclaw, PL w/ Pallbearer
9/21/2014 Bi Nuu – Berlin, DE w/ Pallbearer
9/23/2014 Klub 007 – Prague, CZ w/ Pallbearer
9/24/2014 Arena – Vienna, AT w/ Pallbearer
9/25/2014 PMK – Innsbruck, AT w/ Pallbearer
9/26/2014 Gaswerk – Winterthur, CH w/ Pallbearer
9/27/2014 Lo-fi Club – Milan, IT w/ Pallbearer
9/29/2014 Le Romandie – Lausanne, CH w/ Pallbearer
9/30/2014 Jubez – Karlsruhe, DE w/ Pallbearer
10/01/2014 Blackship – Montpellier, FR w/ Pallbearer
10/02/2014 Razzmatazz3 – Barcelona, ES w/ Pallbearer
10/03/2014 Villamanuela – Madrid, ES w/ Pallbearer
10/04/2014 Amplifest – Porto, PT w/ Pallbearer
10/05/2014 ES ESonora – Erandio, ES w/ Pallbearer
10/06/2014 Le Dynamo – Toulouse, FR w/ Pallbearer
10/07/2014 Le Ferrailleur – Nantes, FR w/ Pallbearer
10/08/2014 Glazart – Paris, FR w/ Pallbearer
10/10/2014 Kyttaro Club – Athens, GR w/ Pallbearer
10/11/2014 Desertfest – Antwerp, BE w/ Pallbearer
5/21/2015 Maryland Deathfest – Baltimore, MD










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September 3, 2014

YOB to Embark on their Mammoth Tour Starting Today; Clearing the Path to Ascend Released this Week!

As YOB's new album Clearing The Path To Ascend finally sees the light of day via Neurot Recordings, the band embark on a mammoth tour in support of the epic record. 

Photo credit: ©James Rexroad

UK/European Tour w/ Pallbearer

9/13/2014 Truckstop Alaska – Gothenburg, SE
09/27/2014 Lo-fi Club - Milan, IT
10/01/2014 Black Sheep - Montpellier, FR
10/02/2014 Razzmatazz3 – Barcelona, ES


Don't forget you can still listen to the dark and brooding sounds of 'Unmask The Spectre'
...Of which Mike Scheidt remarks "This part of the album gets dark, but it also has a sense of beauty and resolve. The mood and atmosphere nod equal parts to old and new YOB. It's one of my favorite things we've ever done."... http://soundcloud.com/neurotrecordings/yob-unmask-the-spectre


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Clearing The Path To Ascend is 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.

Recorded at Gung Ho Studio in Eugene, notorious for its reserve of vintage equipment, alongside longtime collaborator/iconic sound-sage Billy Barnett, and mastered by Brad Boatright (Sleep, Beastmilk, Nails) at Audiosiege Engineering. Clearing The Path To Ascend is available now on CD and digitally via Neurot Recordings and shall be available on vinyl via Relapse Records on the 15th of September.


Clearing The Path To Ascend CD & T-Shirt bundles are still available! 
For CD orders point your browser HERE. For special T-shirt bundles go HERE.



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