This is the first audio that’s been made public from YOB‘s due-in-September seventh album and Neurot Recordings debut, Clearing the Path to Ascend, and mostly, it confirms that YOB are still YOB. The landmark Oregonian cosmic doom trio haven’t decided to become YOB Lion and do a reggae record — though no doubt they’d pull it off — and they haven’t lost the balance of weight and atmosphere that’s made their work so influential over the last decade. They’re still YOB. Good.

What it doesn’t do is show off quite how far out YOB go on Clearing the Path to Ascend. It doesn’t give a sense of the patience at work in the album or some of its expansive elements into classic rock, experiments in furthering parts of YOB‘s approach that may have always been there but have come clearer into focus. But time’s limited and for a first listen to the album and a first look at the artwork, I’ll take it.

From the PR wire:

YOB, Clearing the Path to Ascend Teaser

YOB: DOOM METAL CONJURERS REVEAL FIRST VIDEO TEASER; FORTHCOMING NEW FULL-LENGTH TO BE UNVEILED VIA NEUROT THIS AUTUMN

Long-running Oregon doom metal conjurors and recent Neurot signees, YOB, are pleased to unveil the first taste of their forthcoming new long player. Titled Clearing The Path To Ascend, the trio’s latest audio exploration was recorded at Gung Ho Studio in Eugene, notorious for its reserve of vintage equipment, alongside longtime collaborator/iconic sound-sage Billy Barnett, who mastered YOB’s Atma, The Great Cessation, The Unreal Never Lived and The Illusion Of Motion. Mastering was handled by Brad Boatright (Sleep, Beastmilk, Nails) at Audiosiege Engineering. The result is a wholly cathartic, sonicly enormous, riff-soaked sound collage of dark and light.

Comments founding vocalist/guitarist Mike Scheidt, “Writing this album felt like being plugged into a main. Emotionally, it’s our heaviest. But it also has some real beauty and light. We dug the deepest we ever have to get to the heart of these tunes.”

Witness the first sampling of Clearing The Path To Ascend http://youtu.be/vHhrk0w7g3I

YOB:
Mike Scheidt – vocals/guitars
Travis Foster – drums
Aaron Rieseberg – Bass

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