Yob - Clearing The Path To Ascend album flac

Two years after leveling the expectations of critics and listeners alike with Atma, doom trio powerhouse YOB unleashes Clearing The Path To Ascend, an aptly titled album for what will undoubtedly be the crowning achievement for a band whose journey now nears two decades of creating music as commanding as it is cathartic. As is the YOB way, the tracks here don’t simply offer a vacuous glimpse into the already riff-soaked doom genre. These songs demand the tandem attention of mind, body, and soul – etching a mark across a sound that finds YOB as formidable and unequaled as they’ve ever been  . current place among heavy metal’s elite, slowly building from a hushed ethereal vapor into the thunderous and masterful tumult of sound domination.

As is typical with YOB (and doom in general), enlightenment doesn’t come easy. Clearing the Path to Ascend contains only four tracks, each surpassing the ten-minute mark and the heaviness of a black hole

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The amount of technical and emotional ground that YOB are able to carry across these four tracks is phenomenal, and makes Clearing the Path to Ascend the album that marks the band's return to the height of their power.

Portland thunder merchants YOB are seemingly immune from the embarrassments and disappointments of metal’s malaise, however. They’ve been building up their own uniquely monolithic sound for nearly two decades, though it’d be a stretch to call them traditional. But the band’s metal cred has never been in question, and seventh album Clearing the Path to Ascend should only solidify the respect and admiration they’ve cultivated through a humble path of epic and bellowing low-end. The band’s first for Neurot, run by like-minded epic-metal eccentrics Neurosis, Clearing the Path to Ascend feels particularly prone to swallow volcanos or level cities. Taken in the context of the band’s entire catalog, it’s not even that much longer than usual - the difference between this album and 2009′s The Great Cessation is one of seconds, rather than minutes.

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YOB continue to forge a distinctive path through the doom metal undergrowth. Louder Than War’s Stuart Estell takes a listen. 18 years into their career, Oregonian doom-metallers Yob have delivered their seventh studio album, and their first for Neurot Recordings. Like the ed Sleep, they have the words Black and Sabbath tattooed so deeply that they run through the band’s bone marrow like Blackpool rock, and as is the case with Sleep, this is no bad thing. The group admit to having progressive tendencies, and the album certainly seems conceived as a whole rather than simply as four disparate songs; the first and third tracks both begin with a clean, quiet guitar tracing dissonant lines that wouldn’t be out of place in more atmospheric Black Metal, and both pummel along in similar 6/8 time once they get going, giving Clearing the Path to Ascend a nice sense of structural unity.