Posts Tagged ‘mike scheidt’

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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Album of the day: YOB – The Great Cessation

Posted on Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

Lovingly pinched from one of our favorite websites: Playing in a band isn’t supposed to be pretty or fair, but what happened to Middian was about as dogshit awful as it gets. Mike Scheidt’s post-YOB project had every indication of surpassing YOB’s already awe-inspiring output (and this, mind you, ...read more

Album of the Day: Yob – The Unreal Never Lived (Metal Blade 2005)

Posted on Monday, June 1st, 2009

(From our archives):  The cataclysmic supremacy of doom alchemists, Yob seems to rise exponentially with each album, and  The Unreal Never Lived soars above the paltry offerings of the metal mainstream like a doomy avatar.
Mike Scheidt is a pan-dimensional, guitar shaman who wields his lead-footed axe with the searing accuracy ...read more

Yob: The Great Cessation Details Revealed

Posted on Thursday, May 14th, 2009

Reunited “cosmic doom metal” band Yob has completed work on its new full-length album, The Great Cessation, for a July 14 release via Profound Lore Records  (The album’s lead track, ‘Burning the Altar’, has been posted online at this location).
Long respected as one of doom metal’s finest and most potent ...read more

Album of the day: Yob – Catharsis (Abstract Sounds 2003)

Posted on Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Us doomsters Yob, who recently reunited finished recording their new album, entitled The Great Cessation due out this summer via Profound Lore Records (Yob has posted  ‘Burning the Altar’ on their MySpace page, it’s the lead track on The Great Cessation).
As for the new material, mastermind Mike Scheidt had this ...read more