YOB Atma

[hazelwould]

Just got this... Seems pretty awesome. First I've heard from YOB.

[Haki]

New YOB

They are awesome, Unreal never Lived is my favourite record of them.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NUrxgvS8Is[/youtube]

[Adoom]

[Holy Schnikes]

Just got this... Seems pretty awesome. First I've heard from YOB.

Same here, Mark from B.A.T. suggested I give 'em a listen. What a solid suggestion!

[D.o.S.]

You guys have some self-education to get to. Unreal Never Lived and Great Cessation are both incredible.

More importantly, what're your thoughts on the vocals?

[Holy Schnikes]

More importantly, what're your thoughts on the vocals?

I like 'em.

Some of it reminds me of what Brent Hinds is trying to pull off with Mastodon now days.

[the_necropolitan]

Amazing band! I love that whole record, it's so fucking good. The production isn't my favorite of theirs, but it's still damn good.

[adrianlee]

Love them. Saw em recently. Wrecked my face.

[D.o.S.]

Amazing band! I love that whole record, it's so fucking good. The production isn't my favorite of theirs, but it's still damn good.

There was a really good interview with Mike on The Obelisk where he talked about the production (and other Atma stuff), specifically:

I was thinking about my favorite records, my all-time doom records are just kind of punchy records. I think of Art of Self-Defense, Forest of Equilibrium, Holy Mountain and Through Silver in Blood, which are all, from those bands, not necessarily their best-sounding records, production-wise, but they’re their most visceral records and just have so much grainyness and grit, and I just really wanted that kind of production for this record. It seemed like it fit the songs, so it’s what we were going for.

Rest of the interview (which is fucking awesome, esp. if you're just getting into YOB) here:

http://theobelisk.net/obelisk/2011/07/2 ... terview-2/

[Ancient Astronaught]

I picked this album up last week and it blew me away, it's trippy and heavy and for clean vocal's i was impressed. I love the tone through out the whole album, it reminds me of my recording and mixing style, very raw but full and abrasive. Mike Scheidt has made me consider ordering a BLACK amp for quite a while, then i found out he mainly use's a 70's ross distortion pedal but he say's his tone trick is using a compressor ( a whilrwind one btw) but i agree if you haven't checked out Unreal or the great cessation they are must have's for any doom / sludge / stoner fan.

[Zounds Perspex]

70's Ross is just like a Distortion+, I believe. He's used a lot of pedals over the years - I know a Suhr Riot recently, among others.
He also hasn't used Black/Electric amps in years - the last 2 records have been made with Marshalls.

YOB is probably my favorite metal band going - I saw 'em twice on this most recent tour. Dudes slay.

[Ancient Astronaught]

I haven't seen them live yet so i haven't seen a current rig but everything i've read heard said he use's black amps, i have a hard time believing a marshall could put out that kind of tone unless it was a vintage head. The only marshall's i've played through that i really liked were the old 800's from the late 70's early 80's and some 200watt 70's beast i got to play through once. Yet at the same time from what i understand those amp's love to eat transformers and are horribly unreliable. Any idea which marshall he was using?

[Zounds Perspex]

He was using 2 100-watt Marshall Plexi clones. No idea who made 'em.

[Ancient Astronaught]

Hmmm interesting. Clones makes more sense than original's too me, from what i've read about his custom black electric head he's very specific about what he wants in his amps. If they were umarked they might even be clone's by Electric. Either way i think his tone on ATMA is absolutely killer, his chord clarity through all that distrotion/fuzz is exactly what i've been trying to achieve. It's weird though in our jam / studio room (which is sound treated) i can get the clarity and tone i've worked so hard for but sometimes playing out live my chords become mud (mainly my e string [g string in normal tuning] disappears). I'm thinking of a compression pedal first in the chain like he does to help out.

[MaggotBrainNY]

Yeah, he was running those JMP looking heads through Emperor cabs, when I saw them in NY.

There's a GREAT full set video of them playing at Roadburn in (I think) 2010..... Looks like a JCM800, or possibly JMP 2203 fullstack.

New record sounds like at least 2 or 3 amps layered up, to me anyways. Some nasty fuzz textures blended in.

I think it's their best sounding album to date for the reasons Mike cited in that interview... sounds great loud. The guitars are so round and rich sounding.

That song with Scott Kelly.... FUUUUCK!.