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YOB: Zen and the Art of Crushing Skulls

Posted on Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

Adrien Begrand of Hellbound recently conducted an interview with Yob  guitarist / frontman Mike Scheidt. An excerpt from the article follows below.

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“It was an education, to say the least. Legally we can’t even say the band name.”

No matter how lousy your 2008 might have been, chances are it wasn’t anywhere near as bad as it was for Mike Scheidt. Following the break-up of Eugene, Oregon doom masters Yob in 2005, the guitarist formed a new band, choosing the seemingly innocent-sounding moniker Middian, and released the impressive The Age Eternal on Metal Blade in 2007. However, that band’s name would open a can of worms the size of an oil drum, thanks to an overtly litigious, defunct nu-metal outfit from Milwaukee, Wisconsin that went by the name of Midian.

“It was just a very, very dark time,” he laughs, as only a person who has been to hell and back can do. “It just seemed like there was no end in sight for a while.”

Funny how things work out, though. Here we are in the middle of 2009, Yob is back in business, reunited with a brilliant new record to flog, and the outgoing Scheidt couldn’t be happier to talk about something that doesn’t involve the circuitous American legal process.

Please read the full article at: Hellbound » Blog Archive » YOB: Zen and the Art of Crushing Skulls.

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