Artist - YOB
Album - The Illusion Of Motion
Label - Metal Blade 2004
Reviewer - Erik Byer
Northwest metal heads, Doom metal fans, and readers/listeners eager to expand their CD collection to something much more dark, this is for you. YOB brings to the table their first EP with Metal Blade records, The Illusion Of Motion, and throws it in your face. As a band from Eugene, Oregon, we can all only ask for more recognition for our spread of amazing talent over hear, dammit! (Did I say that out loud?)
This epic Doom metal album is an amazing project with a spectrum of dark elements, and coming from a powerful three-piece band, I am thoroughly impressed. Mike Scheidt on vocals and guitars gives us some fat sounds and a vocal style that holds true to the genre and brings in a unique blend of his own styles, Isamu Sato on bass laying down the heavy low end foundation of this group, and Travis Foster on drums really holding this group together like glue and pulling off some amazing sounds that are completely complementing to the bands entire effort.
How epic is this? Try 4-tracks, and an hour long! You are in for an amazing journey. Track 1, opens with a sweet almost 3-minute intro and kicks into a very melodic metal dirge and brings in a nice lead guitar lick driving right to the vocals with some serious power, hitting hard to the end. The contrast between track 2 and 3 are amazing, and the songs go from one end of the energy spectrum to the other. The album is completed with the title track, a 26-minute medley of their styles delivered in one fantastic song.
This is an album for you if you can sit and listen to this entire album straight through, otherwise, you may not understand the talent completely given to us by the band. You owe it to yourself to see them live and buy a CD.
TRACKS:
1. Ball Of Molten Lead
2. Exorcism Of The Lost
3. Doom
4. The Illusion Of Motion
