There’s heavy, and then there’s YOB.Hearing YOB’s 2005 album The Unreal Never Lived for the first time earlier this year I was stunned. At times it sounded like David Wayne from Metal Church fronting Sleep. At other times it sounded like Celtic Frost covering Swans. How come none of my friends into High On Fire or Electric Wizard told me about these guys? Like most good things in life, it’
There’s heavy, and then there’s YOB.Hearing YOB’s 2005 album The Unreal Never Lived for the first time earlier this year I was stunned. At times it sounded like David Wayne from Metal Church fronting Sleep. At other times it sounded like Celtic Frost covering Swans. How come none of my friends into High On Fire or Electric Wizard told me about these guys? Like most good things in life, it’
As September 18th draws ever closer, the riff-hungry troops of doom are stocking up on earplugs and rolling papers, preparing to follow the sign of the Southern cross down towards their own uber-resinated version of Mecca. Past the Mason-Dixon line and just shy of Hell itself lies their destination - Asheville, North Carolina, which, thanks [...]