One of the heaviest and most respected bands in metal, Yob are renowned for their unique brand of epic, crushing sludge doom. Founded in 1996 in Eugene, Oregon, the band developed a reputation as the heaviest doom metal three-piece ever alongside the legendary Sleep. In 2006, however, vocalist/guitarist Mike Schedit announced the group's split after three albums on labels such as Abstract Sounds and Metal Blade Records. After a two-year period during which a lawsuit forced his subsequent band, Middian, to ...   [ read more ]

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The terms doom metal and stoner rock have something in common with the terms death metal and black metal: they're two terms that don't mean the exact same thing, but the styles are so similar (both have a major Black Sabbath fixation) that they are often used interchangeably. And just as death metal and black metal can easily overlap, there are many bands that are relevant to both doom metal and stoner rock. Still, doom and stoner aren't quite the same; doom, for o...   [ read more ]

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YOB has never exactly been easy listening. They are masters of doom metal -- slow, heavy, ominous, forceful headbanger music with a strong appreciation of Black Sabbath (whose riffs have been a primary influence on the doom/stoner/sludge field). But the Oregon residents have managed to increase the heaviness factor somewhat on The Unreal Never Lived, which favors a generally thicker, more distorted sound than their previous releases. That isn't to say that YOB has turned into one of...   [ read more ]

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