Event

YOB, Samothrace, tba

Sunday 4/7
$10 adv / $12 day of, doors at 9, music at 9:30
21+

YOB
With songs regularly averaging upward of ten minutes (and sometimes as much as 20 and beyond), Portland, OR's YOB are clearly not a commercial heavy metal band, but rather fuse elements of doom, sludge, space, and progressive rock into interesting combinations so as to belie their bloated girth. Founded in 2000 by vocalist/guitarist Mike Scheidt, with bassist Lowell Iles and drummer Gabe Morley, YOB issued 2002's Elaborations of Carbon before admitting a new rhythm section of Isamu Sato (bass) and Travis Foster (drums), and fast-delivering ensuing efforts Catharsis (2003), The Illusion of Motion (2004), and The Unreal Never Lived (2005). Each garnered more acclaim than the last, and the final pair reflected that growth by finding the band plucked from tiny local label exile by the historic Metal Blade Records.

YOB has toured the United States extensively, alongside bands including Graves at Sea, Lamont, Tummler, Dove, Orange Goblin, Origin, Exhumed, The Locust, The Accüsed, Botch, Isis, Soilent Green, Uphill Battle, Playing Enemy, Will Haven, Tool, and Ghostride.

Scheidt cites a varied range of artists as inspiration for Yob's sound, including Neurosis, Tool, Immolation, Saint Vitus, Black Sabbath, and various other metal acts.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Yob/36708497970?fref=ts
http://open.spotify.com/artist/1hiIe6hmDchjc246cpoAOM?ref=atw
http://www.rdio.com/artist/Yob/?ref=atw

Samothrace
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Samothrace/67987779185?fref=ts
http://www.myspace.com/samothraceproject