JJ Koczan

1. YOB/Atma/Profound Lore

2. Lo-Pan/Salvador/Small Stone

3. Sungrazer/Mirador/Elektrohasch

4. Graveyard/Hisingen Blues/Nuclear Blast

5. Red Fang/Murder The Mountains/Relapse

6. Grayceon/All We Destroy/Profound Lore

7. Mars Red Sky/Mars Red Sky/Emergence

8. Hull/Beyond The Lightless Sky/The End

9. Rwake/Rest/Relapse

10. Weedeater/Jason… The Dragon/Southern Lord

Andrew Magnotta

1. JOLLY/The Audio…

Theirs is among the most inimitable sounds in all of underground heavy music, and with the self-produced Atma, their second album for Profound Lore following 2009’s excellent The Great Cessation, Eugene, OR, trio YOB transcend the upper stratosphere of their generation of doom. Touching and expanding on elements familiar…

Touring ahead of the Aug. 16 release date of their new album, Atma, Eugene, Oregon’s YOB are swinging through NYC for the first time in I don’t even know how many years this week, making a stop at Le Poisson Rouge in Manhattan on Tuesday, July 12, with Floridian duo…

The Floridian duo of guitarist/vocalist Stevie Floyd and drummer/noisemaker Rob Shaffer—collectively known as Dark Castle—recently issued their second full-length, Surrender To All Life Beyond Form, through Profound Lore. It’s an album whose expanse of influence is densely packed into a 34-minute runtime, turning such disparate elements as Indian ragas,…

I don’t think I need to say it anymore that these lists don’t matter. It’s why I haven’t done a “Top 10 Of The Decade” and why I won’t be doing one anytime soon. But the year-end list, well, I’ve been doing it every year for a while, and as…

…When we left off last week, YOB guitarist/vocalist Mike Scheidt was discussing the shifting priorities in his life as his band came back to the creative fore. In part two, the discussion turns toward the creative end of things and how it’s different being in YOB this time as opposed…

Like many bands who break up in their prime (Kyuss being the most prevalent example in my mind), the legend of Eugene, Oregon’s, YOB only grew after their demise, and as guitarist, vocalist and principal songwriter Mike Scheidt began to explore other sonic avenues with subsequent outfit Middian on their…

The image on the reverse of the liner notes to Yob’s The Great Cessation is a black and white line drawing of a Greco-Roman-esque figure self-flagellating in front of an altar. It’s a confluence of the visual and the auditory.

Yob’s ancient slabs of doom resonate with pain, anguish and…