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 ...

Musicians go through some shit while making a record sometimes: health issues, personal upheavals, natural disasters. Mike Scheidt, leader of Oregon doom trio Yob, contracted acute diverticulitis ...

Guitarist/singer Mike Scheidt may be best known as the leader and principle songwriter for Northwestern doom-metal legends YOB, but the prolific Eugene, OR-based musician has been adding more and more ...

A veritable force within the pantheon of doom, the mighty YOB have recently unleashed their most focused album to date, Atma. Once again, they do not disappoint, offering the listener a soul-crushing, ...

A critical element in metal’s naturally self-sustaining ecosystem is the way its numerous subgenres go fallow and flourish from decade to decade, assuring future fertility. Thrash, grindcore, black, ...

John Lydon, a.k.a. Johnny Rotten, is a name that conjures images of a scrawny punk thrashing around the stage with The Sex Pistols, giving confrontational interviews with MTV VJs, or just generally ...

In January 2017, Mike Scheidt missed an early appointment with death by only a few hours. Scheidt’s immersive doom metal trio, Yob, had been at home in Eugene, Oregon, for about a month, resting after ...