Search - Yob :: Catharsis

Just three songs, but fifty minutes long? Wow!

jon d iverson | Eugene, OR USA | 11/12/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"It would just be insulting to describe this album as a "mixture of" (i.e. Black Sabbath, High on Fire, with a touch of Air Supply featuring the cast of "Friends") No! These guys are actually unique! I first them live just over a year ago and they completely blew me away. Mike's superbly versatile vocals and low-toned guitars + Isamu's bassey thumb-jumps and Travis'...well, he's a fine drummer, altogether they do a fantastic delivery of what is one of the latest additions to the underground stoner-metal circuit. Though their title track clocks in at a whopping 23:35, it is by no means boring or repetitious. I recommend this and their first album (check their website/sites)to anyone who enjoys medium to slower-paced hard-rock/metal with cryptic melodies and occasional thrashing."

Brilliant...

Darth_ball | Camus, washington | 04/13/2004

(4 out of 5 stars)

"An amazing band to say the least. This gifted threesome (hehe!) has put out one of the most original sonic offerings in the expiri-metal world; their sound is like nothing you've ever heard. Drunk on "phaser" pedals (circa 1973) and playing knee-bendingly heavy riffs that build up to completely demolishing crecsendos, changing to BOSS heavy-metal pedals and INSANELY-LOW death growls. However, their use of death roars only once in a-long-while makes the music sound so powerful it could even make scrawny unpopular white people like us flex a muscle (what do you mean you're not scrawny? I can see your arms right there... oh my, their big... and smooth) . The best way to explain these guys accurately is, "Pink Floyd meets The Melvins at a Cannibal Corpse show". Incredible progressive heaviness that no self-respecting music listener should be without. Buy it!...Actually, buy two"

Crank Up The Orange Amps And Release

Hand of Doom | The Wonderful World of Colonized Minds | 01/13/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Impressive debut from stoney space Oregonian doomers YOB. Three floating-through-space aural mammoths clocking in just under an hour. Gargantuan, bluesy Sabbath riffs plod along for aeons a la cult-heavy Sleep."