YOB share a live performance video for the track »Upon The Sight Of The Other Shore« to mark the start of UK and European tour
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US stoner/doom metal trio YOB share a live performance video for the track »Upon The Sight Of The Other Shore« from their 2011’s album »Atma«, which was remixed and remastered in 2021 by Billy Barnett.
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The band comments: “Our UK and European tour kicks off tonight in Glasgow! In anticipation of the upcoming shows, here’s a live video from the fourth night we played in February at Saint Vitus Bar. You can watch the live video of »Upon The Sight Of The Other Shore« now and get tickets for all upcoming shows here: yobislove.com/tour.”
All dates with Spirit Adrift, except those marked *:
4/27/2022 Glasgow (UK), Garage 2
4/28/2022 Leeds (UK), Brudenell Social Club
4/29/2022 Manchester (UK), Manchester Academy *
5/1/2022 London (UK), Desertfest *
5/3/2022 Lille (FR), L’Aeronef
5/4/2022 Rouen (FR), Le 106
5/5/2022 Paris (FR), La Maroquinerie
5/6/2022 Lyon (FR), L’Epicerie Moderne Feyzin
5/7/2022 Karlsruhe (DE), Dude Fest
5/8/2022 Munich (DE), Strom
5/10/2022 Bologna (IT), Freakout Club
5/11/2022 Mezzago (IT), Bloom
5/12/2022 Martigny (CH), Les Caves du Manoir
5/13/2022 Delémont (CH), SAS
5/14/2022 Dortmund (DE), JunkYard
5/16/2022 Oslo (NO), Partkteatret Scene
5/17/2022 Stockholm (SE), Slaktkyrkan
5/18/2022 Gothenburg (SE), Valand
5/19/2022 Copenhagen (DK), Colossal Weekend
5/20/2022 Aarhus (DK), Voxhall
5/21/2022 Hannover (DE), Café Glocksee
5/22/2022 Groningen (NL), Vera
5/24/2022 Eindhoven (NL), Effenaar
5/25/2022 Esch-Sur-Alzette (LU), Kulturfabrik
5/26/2022 Ghent (BE), Dunk!Festival *
5/27/2022 Berlin (DE), Desertfest Berlin
Epic, crushing, and heavy beyond words, YOB has achieved legendary status due to their unmatched aesthetic and incredible body of work. Formed in 1996 in Eugene, Oregon under the leadership of doom metal mastermind Mike Scheidt on guitars and vocals, the group initially released a three song demo tape in 2000. From 2002-2005 the band released an album a year; »Elaborations Of Carbon«, »Catharsis«, »The Illusion Of Motion«, and »The Unreal Never Lived«. Despite all the momentum, YOB disbanded in 2006.
In 2008 the band returned from hiatus and has remained strong ever since with Travis Foster on drums and Aaron Rieseberg on bass. Reinvigorated and reinspired, YOB released »The Great Cessation« in 2009. Doom with a psychedelic twist, a sound that Pitchfork referred to as “cosmic doom.” For 2011’s »Atma«, YOB took a more organic approach to recording, opting to track everything at once. Three year later, the group released »Clearing The Path To Ascend«, a record hailed by Rolling Stone as the #1 metal album of the year.
After a near death experience with acute diverticulitis, Scheidt emerged with new insights and a new sense of self, all of which was poured into the bands most recent release, 2018’s »Our Raw Heart«, a Yob album unlike any other. »Our Raw Heart« is a brilliant musical progression in the YOB continuum. Across seven riveting compositions of enormous volume and pensive, transcendental beauty, YOB bleed out their own organic universe of ultimate doom.
YOB is:
Mike Scheidt – Vocals/Guitar
Aaron Rieseberg – Bass
Travis Foster – Drums
Bojan Bidovc // music enthusiast, promoter, misanthrop and sometimes a journalist as well