I worked at a grocery store for two years to pay for trade school, I made friends, I laughed I cried got frustrated , and just generally felt like I lived a lot just working there. On my final day there I listen to this album. Words cannot describe the feelings this album gave me especially the last song. What was more was when our raw heart played I was outside pushing carts and watched as the sunset. That’s honesty one of the few times in my life I’ve cried tears of joy. It’s why this has now become my favorite album of all time
YOB has inspired me, at 62, to finally attempt solo metal original recordings. I’ve covered “Marrow” twice on acoustic 12 string to good reviews and met the bands bass guitar tech in Beaverton Oregon’s guitar center last year. I am glad the band has such a big following. Best regards to everyone.
From tragedy to triumph, YOB’s incredible 8th full-length recording was conceived amidst dire circumstances that nearly left frontman Mike Scheidt dead. Suffering from an extremely painful and potentially fatal intestinal disease, Scheidt miraculously recovered and reinvigorated the Oregon trio with a new sense of purpose for Our Raw Heart, an album informed by the will to survive. More exposed than ever both physically and emotionally, YOB bleed out seven riveting tracks of enormous volume and pensive, transcendental beauty across 75 minutes of ultimate doom. A brilliant musical progression in the YOB continuum, Our Raw Heart is the band at their most aggressive, impassioned and eclectic. The riffs are massive, the vocals captivating and the songwriting sublime. Existing in its own organic universe, Our Raw Heart is truly the band’s finest work to date and the apex achievement of what heavy music can accomplish. Our Raw Heart was co-produced by the band and longtime collaborator Billy Barnett at Gung Ho Studio in Eugene, Ore., with mastering handled by Heba Kadry (The Mars Volta, Diamanda Galas, Slowdive).
In most cases, stating "band's finest work" is just promotion and lie, but here... well, that's true, yeah. Thanks for background information to newbie, also huge thank you for this beautiful, oustanding album - for YOB, and also for Relapse of course.
This album tells all the truth: life is a horrendous, terrifying trip, full of strugles and sadness. But look around you, there's still beauty and happiness, we are strong enough to come over it. THANK YOU!!! YOB is love.
Your words really touched me for some reason. I even wrote them down in my diary. It's just the truth. Loving the sound of the album, doom is just a genre like no other.
Beautiful record. I'm a year and a half into cancer treatments (colorectal meta to liver) and music like this helps me heal.....great for meditating and visualizations. Thanks, Mike......this is heavy stuff.
Had some bad news this morning and found myself in a place where i needed hope and strength... and what do you know, Our raw Heart was delivered by mail. All will be good! There's no substitute for Yob...
Yob are probably the only contemporary artists where, when word of a new album comes out, I think to myself "I couldn't possibly love it any more than the last album; that album is one of my all time favorites," and then I hear the new album and am completely blown away. Now the list of my all time favorite albums has another addition. And there's A LOT of Yob on that list. I was lucky enough to see them live in Seattle with Conan and they played a lot of new (Our Raw Heart) material and it was incredible to hear this album for the first time LIVE. Thanks for sharing! I'm heading to my local record store and picking this up as soon as I can.
Never heard these guys before, but just saw them last night in Philly - great show. Showed up to see Bell Witch, but they didn't show because of some sort of injury. YOB saved the night.
I've been listening Yob, and seeing my grandfather departure from a terminal cancer ...look in his eyes already distant, I feel it! Amazing, breathtaking, emotional and crushing ... breaks my heart! The power of Music! Thanks Yob!
2 years ago I was listening this album while my grandfather dying from a cancer, which took his life a few days later...today I buried my dog, my faithful companion of 9 years, I had to slaughter her due to a head tumor...this sounds hits me so hard, so hard...leaves me in tears. It makes me suffer, but at the same time heals my pain...life is a long goodbye. No more pain for them...may they rest in peace. Yob is life, Yob is love.
Yob is amazing, they hold a special place in my heart. I once listened to yob discography while tripping face on lsd.. All I can say is holy fuck. I actually couldn't listen to any yob for a few months after that cause I'd get extremely emotional.
I know some people will think this style of music is depressing/negative, but you so clearly know that just isn't true. There is a great and profound beauty in the depths of this music and it can lift a person's spirit, like it has yours and like it has mine.
Le Diabolique: it's majestic aura takes my mind to lying on the cold, crisp ground amongst a cathedral of trees in a peaceful forest as I watch the milky way pass over me.
I suffered from depression and yobs music with micro doses of shrooms got me right . Stopped the meds and found life amazing once again. That was 9 years ago
Recently saw YOB live in Los Angeles. It was hands down the best metal gig I've ever been to. The support bands were kinda "meh" and I was hoping I wouldn't be bored during YOB, but when they came on it was electrifying! Such a tight band, and wow... Mike's voice. So powerful - I was floored.
I saw Yob in 2016 at the Crystal Ballroom Portland (My little sister bought me a ticket). Mike was very nice pre-show and I got to shake his hand... Then i geeked out and asked him for a photo to which he obliged. Thank you Mike. Thank you Yob. I felt so happy. your music continues to inspire.
This album is everything I expected it to be and more! I’m so excited to finally see YOB live on this tour! They’re one of the greatest bands for sure - so glad Mike stayed with us and gave us this beautiful gift. YOB continues to manage to be heavy as fuck while also being beautiful and emotional like no other! Also it appears the 7 people who disliked this have charred black cooked hearts... 🖕🏻
Saw them in October 2016 and cried from beginning to the end of the show especially for Marrow. I was in a very weird feeling next three months, like I was changed forever... don't know how to explain ! I wasn't the same person, like a real spiritual experience... I'll see them again next October, can't wait for my hug too ! Yob is love.
As a life-long musician, I can say that these guys poured every thought and emotion into this album. Incredibly vulnerable and exposed. Thank you YOB, I've been a fan since the beginning.
Absolutely amazing! I expect this album will push these very humble guys well into the limelight of greater appeal...sell out, no...broader distribution and greater reach from Relapse...along with super rad songs...yep! I had the pleasure of seeing a lot of these songs live at the WOW hall in Eugene Oregon a few months ago...it was incredible!! Catch them live...just do!
i honestly love the fucking HUGE CHORDS, sometimes BRIGHT, sometimes u n c a n n i l y dark. and the melodies are just so INTERESTING. i've said it before, i'll say it a million more times. this band does doom correctly the same way that neurosis does doom/sludge/post metal correctly. and another thing i've said before and i'll say a million more times, this band understands interpreting pain through riffs in a way that few do, namely Crowbar comes to mind.
I can honestly say that Original Face is the first “heavy” song (besides slower songs of course) that has ever brought me to tears. I can fucking FEEL his pain, his fear, his hopelessness in the face of the emptiness of impending death. Mostly, though, I can FEEL his resilience and drive to overcome all of that no matter what it takes. This is the type of song that heavy metal screams are made for. Fucking brilliant. The last 3-song stretch is just epic AF.
what pain and hopeless? the demons are Tibetan demons, pure illusions. The original face is the one truth. This adds commentary: th-cam.com/video/waCHRIGxchM/w-d-xo.html
This album is great! Beautiful, heavy and majestic. I had to order myself a limited golden vinyl edition of this masterpiece! Love the album cover and the artwork!
Very Underrated Band,But Is One The Best Bands All Time!. Stoner/Sludge/Drone/Doom/Heavy Psych/Space Rock. This band has it all in their music!. So CRUSHING AND HEAVY MUSIC!
Goddamn this is immensely excellent so full of emotion and its so put together and love the vocals. I can see myself listening to this in over 20 years time.
I have started listening to more doom/grunge metal over the last few years and this album is one of the most beautiful I have heard of the genre. After reading the story behind what happened to the frontman of the band before this album came out I could feel the emotion in every song.
Thanks Relapse and Yob for putting this up. I bought the CD as well but hopefully it will allow the music to reach a bigger audience which it truly deserves.
Look, I should not even be here. I am a power metal fan (Gamma Ray, Iron Maiden, etc.), and have no clue how this wound up in my recommended list. I just cannot listen to relentlessly dark and bleak music, and I hate growly vocals with a passion. So someone please explain to me why in hell am I digging on this so much that I'm actually considering buying the CD. My theory: It seems to be based on so few chords, but the vocals are somehow melodic over the top of that, giving it a range, atmosphere, and emotion that I normally don't hear. Far more complex than it appears to be. I will study on this more later; right now I'm gonna just sit back and let this wash over me.
YOB is definitely much more than the sum of its parts. They are at once dark and bright, brutal and somehow also uplifting. I just saw them last Friday in June and I can honestly say I've never been to a better show. YOB is love my friend.
if you like this, put on your seatbelts and dive into their other great albums. i too just discovered this band in the last few weeks and i am a huge fan now. i recommend listening to full albums. i cant say what album is my favorite but i can say whatever album of theirs i am listening to at the moment, that album is my favorite, until the next album i listen to. every album has an epic song or two or three or four , or more.
You like it because Mike Scheidt is the voice of the universe, his soul is laid bare in his music. You can feel it in every second of every song of Our Raw Heart.
This is not doom! This is hell! Oh my god, what a record. I feel like I just descent by the spiral stairs to hell itself. But somethimes it feels like walking by a flowery plain huge open and endless land, but I know deep down in my heart that is just part of the punishment, because your soul already belongs to him. Thank you!
Mike, please, spit out at least this many albums more, your work is a much needed breath of fresh air in an otherwise stale subgenre, that simply keeps getting staler by everyone just picking up the same recipe and not even bothering on swirling the stew or spicing it up some. keep well, man, keep up the good work, there is a shitload of people supporting what you do!! metal on, man!!
I was in a band with Mike Scheidt in 1987 when he was 16 and I was 17. He was more eclectic and I was more mainstream Shred and Hard Rock/Metal. He sang on my first original and played bass, I play lead. I believe this is the earliest available recording of Mike Scheidt Vocals. You can get this collector’s item MP3 here at CDbaby: store.cdbaby.com/cd/brigade4
Interesting. I taught him guitar when he was 15. He was actually my AA sponsor back then. He used to hang with me and my roommate Robert Sly way back when. Mike was always the most awesome person. Even at 15. His girlfriend Meredith was cool also. Well, for awhile anyway. I was 18 and played thrash and power metal. Back then we used to listen to Running Wild, Manowar, Metallica, Slayer, Exodus, Celtic Frost, COC, Voivod. A lot of Metal Blade records. Ask him about “The Prep Squad” sometime. Haha. I wish Mike all the best in the world and Yob is a thing of beauty. Mike was always inspirational. 😎 Phil Merwin (band - Dirt Clod Fight), Mike, and I used to go to the wow hall shows and events at the Jesco Club where we’d make them play punk and Metal. Phil went out with the sister of my girlfriend. Good times. Mike brought me some sanity when I was feeling crazy. Had my own brush with death and fighting to get better this last year. It changes you. This album is phenomenal. I caught up on some interviews on TH-cam recently. Weird he worked at McKenzie River Music after I moved away. I bought a 1975 Gibson Les Paul Deluxe from there for $575. Haven’t seen Mike since I visited back in the 90’s and he was working a little coffee shop in the Atrium.
I like to think of “Our Raw Heart” as the quintessential musical expression of Nietzsche’s philosophy of the eternal recurrence: “The heaviest burden: “What if some day or night, a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: ‘This life, as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life must return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned over again and again-and you with it, speck of dust!’ Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: ‘You are a god, and never have I heard anything more divine!’ If this thought were to gain possession of you, it would change you as you are, or perhaps crush you. The question in each and every thing, “do you want this once more and innumerable times more?” would lie upon your actions as the greatest weight. Or how well disposed would you have to become to yourself and to life to crave nothing more fervently than this ultimate eternal confirmation and seal?.”
I confess that I didn't care much for the last album, the only YOB I'd heard, but this is a giant leap forward to something innovative. The doom genre has been mined to death, but occasionally bands bring new life. This is the case here. Thanks YOB!
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1. Ablaze (00:00
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2. The Screen (10:13
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3. In Reverie (20:02
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4. Lungs Reach (29:45
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5. Beauty in Falling Leaves (35:24
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6. Original Face (51:50
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7. Our Raw Heart (58:53)
Beauty and The Beast
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I worked at a grocery store for two years to pay for trade school, I made friends, I laughed I cried got frustrated , and just generally felt like I lived a lot just working there. On my final day there I listen to this album. Words cannot describe the feelings this album gave me especially the last song. What was more was when our raw heart played I was outside pushing carts and watched as the sunset. That’s honesty one of the few times in my life I’ve cried tears of joy. It’s why this has now become my favorite album of all time
YOB has inspired me, at 62, to finally attempt solo metal original recordings. I’ve covered “Marrow” twice on acoustic 12 string to good reviews and met the bands bass guitar tech in Beaverton Oregon’s guitar center last year. I am glad the band has such a big following.
Best regards to everyone.
From tragedy to triumph, YOB’s incredible 8th full-length recording was conceived amidst dire circumstances that nearly left frontman Mike Scheidt dead. Suffering from an extremely painful and potentially fatal intestinal disease, Scheidt miraculously recovered and reinvigorated the Oregon trio with a new sense of purpose for Our Raw Heart, an album informed by the will to survive. More exposed than ever both physically and emotionally, YOB bleed out seven riveting tracks of enormous volume and pensive, transcendental beauty across 75 minutes of ultimate doom. A brilliant musical progression in the YOB continuum, Our Raw Heart is the band at their most aggressive, impassioned and eclectic. The riffs are massive, the vocals captivating and the songwriting sublime. Existing in its own organic universe, Our Raw Heart is truly the band’s finest work to date and the apex achievement of what heavy music can accomplish.
Our Raw Heart was co-produced by the band and longtime collaborator Billy Barnett at Gung Ho Studio in Eugene, Ore., with mastering handled by Heba Kadry (The Mars Volta, Diamanda Galas, Slowdive).
RelapseRecords it's beautiful
In most cases, stating "band's finest work" is just promotion and lie, but here... well, that's true, yeah. Thanks for background information to newbie, also huge thank you for this beautiful, oustanding album - for YOB, and also for Relapse of course.
THANK FUCK!!!
it literally doesn't even feel RIGHT to call this a doom metal album, particularly in retrospect of this.
RIP, Michael
This album tells all the truth: life is a horrendous, terrifying trip, full of strugles and sadness. But look around you, there's still beauty and happiness, we are strong enough to come over it.
THANK YOU!!!
YOB is love.
Eh, not certain about that. The future looks kinda bleak! But I not afraid of the great void of nothingness. Take care.
mike hunt what about is bleak?
@@MIXTAB1 Its pretty Bleak considering what is going on in the world today
I love how metal and punk are more teachers of truth than “science” (media) lol
Your words really touched me for some reason. I even wrote them down in my diary. It's just the truth. Loving the sound of the album, doom is just a genre like no other.
Beautiful record. I'm a year and a half into cancer treatments (colorectal meta to liver) and music like this helps me heal.....great for meditating and visualizations. Thanks, Mike......this is heavy stuff.
Good luck with that man! Wish you the best. YOB is life.
Keep fighting, Michael! Best wishes, brother!
Much appreciated!! Forward, always forward.
We had a case in aur close family a few years a go. It went out well. All the best for you and keep on fighting!
@@Stpddmbfck Thanks very much! The fight always goes on.....forward....always forward.
There are 2 stoner bands I would travel just about anywhere to see live, YOB and ELDER. I am truly blessed to have those 2 bands in my life...
Word
Definitely.
Yob and Bell Witch for me
Fuck yes. I wish they'd come somewhere closer to me. Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore.. hell I'll even travel to Australia to see them.
@@SamritpalSingh If travel that far to see them. You need to take m at the gig.
This is fight music, comeback music. Music to believe in your own power with.
@DaffyChuckBeatz The songwriter almost died!
@DaffyChuckBeatz More like fight for your life from illness- not fighting someone else.
absolutely spot on.
especially this last.
"Healing Doom Metal" What an incredible album! Thank you YOB. But most and foremost, thank you Mike Scheidt!
Amazing to me how a band this heavy can be this...beautiful.
Felt the same way with Edge of Sanity
Pretty much the exact summation of Yob. At once heavy and brutal and crushing, yet also epic and beautiful.
Check out Pallbearer!
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Had some bad news this morning and found myself in a place where i needed hope and strength... and what do you know, Our raw Heart was delivered by mail. All will be good! There's no substitute for Yob...
I feel you man. Whatever dark place I'm in Yob always gets me out of there. YOB IS LOVE!
YOB really is love.. ✌🏼
There really is beauty in falling leaves. What a gem.
Yob are probably the only contemporary artists where, when word of a new album comes out, I think to myself "I couldn't possibly love it any more than the last album; that album is one of my all time favorites," and then I hear the new album and am completely blown away. Now the list of my all time favorite albums has another addition. And there's A LOT of Yob on that list. I was lucky enough to see them live in Seattle with Conan and they played a lot of new (Our Raw Heart) material and it was incredible to hear this album for the first time LIVE. Thanks for sharing! I'm heading to my local record store and picking this up as soon as I can.
Beauty in Falling Leaves is a MASTERPIECE!!
Even the whole Album..
Falling in leaves... The world beautiful is too narrow and incomplete... At least second or another part of me...
Never heard these guys before, but just saw them last night in Philly - great show. Showed up to see Bell Witch, but they didn't show because of some sort of injury. YOB saved the night.
They cleared the path, and they ascended to this album! Amazing ! Thank you Yob!
I've been listening Yob, and seeing my grandfather departure from a terminal cancer ...look in his eyes already distant, I feel it! Amazing, breathtaking, emotional and crushing ... breaks my heart!
The power of Music! Thanks Yob!
2 years ago I was listening this album while my grandfather dying from a cancer, which took his life a few days later...today I buried my dog, my faithful companion of 9 years, I had to slaughter her due to a head tumor...this sounds hits me so hard, so hard...leaves me in tears. It makes me suffer, but at the same time heals my pain...life is a long goodbye. No more pain for them...may they rest in peace. Yob is life, Yob is love.
@@vinyldiary6664 hope you're doing well man
Yob is amazing, they hold a special place in my heart.
I once listened to yob discography while tripping face on lsd.. All I can say is holy fuck. I actually couldn't listen to any yob for a few months after that cause I'd get extremely emotional.
The most incredible album I’ve heard in years!!!!! This band pulled me from a bad place in my mind.
did u already heard the last bell witch album? thats awsome too
I know some people will think this style of music is depressing/negative, but you so clearly know that just isn't true. There is a great and profound beauty in the depths of this music and it can lift a person's spirit, like it has yours and like it has mine.
Le Diabolique: it's majestic aura takes my mind to lying on the cold, crisp ground amongst a cathedral of trees in a peaceful forest as I watch the milky way pass over me.
I suffered from depression and yobs music with micro doses of shrooms got me right . Stopped the meds and found life amazing once again. That was 9 years ago
Vini Kndido yes it’s amazing .. going to the Earl in Atl to see them both
This gives me hope for a new day.
Recently saw YOB live in Los Angeles. It was hands down the best metal gig I've ever been to. The support bands were kinda "meh" and I was hoping I wouldn't be bored during YOB, but when they came on it was electrifying! Such a tight band, and wow... Mike's voice. So powerful - I was floored.
Listening to "Beauty in Falling Leaves" is like being 7 years old again and rediscovering the implications of what music can be
Miss you, Dad, every fucking day. This album will always remind me of you.
Is it weird to feel so emotional while listening to doom? what a great evolution for their sound! so good!
I saw Yob in 2016 at the Crystal Ballroom Portland (My little sister bought me a ticket). Mike was very nice pre-show and I got to shake his hand... Then i geeked out and asked him for a photo to which he obliged. Thank you Mike. Thank you Yob. I felt so happy. your music continues to inspire.
They're proving they're the best band in the world.
There's really no point in anyone putting out any more heavy music. Yob already did it better.
I agree, they bumped Tool to the #2 spot, for me.
you can't really compare , way different style
Shawn G not ULCERATE!!! Is listening
Agreed.
This album is everything I expected it to be and more! I’m so excited to finally see YOB live on this tour! They’re one of the greatest bands for sure - so glad Mike stayed with us and gave us this beautiful gift. YOB continues to manage to be heavy as fuck while also being beautiful and emotional like no other!
Also it appears the 7 people who disliked this have charred black cooked hearts... 🖕🏻
Yob, in my opinion, is one of the best bands in the entire rock super-genre.
Somehow they are part of me. Very natural music. It's all around us, just pick it up and sing, become a true master... Can we do this... THEY CAN!!!
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Damn, listening to this album really makes me realize how much there is to know about music production. What a great mix.
I stumbled here by accident--thankfully! Damn, it's amazing how many great bands there are that I've yet to be turned onto.
Seeing them this Saturday. Pretty sure I will be crying like a baby even though I have seen them several times. This one is special.
So ? :)
15nobodies twas amazing and got to give Mike a big ass hug!
Glad you got to give that hug; even more glad that Mike was alive and there to receive it.
Saw them in October 2016 and cried from beginning to the end of the show especially for Marrow. I was in a very weird feeling next three months, like I was changed forever... don't know how to explain ! I wasn't the same person, like a real spiritual experience... I'll see them again next October, can't wait for my hug too ! Yob is love.
"Beauty in Falling Leaves". Stunning.
the entire album is just amazing, but that song makes me wanna take an endless walk in the dark
Assolutamente
Probably the most consistent and best band still going in doom metal, and probably metal in itself.
Yob at their best? No joke, for sure. Awesome album, got to buy it right now.
I am completely in love with this album, just picked it up on vinyl today
A Doom Metal masterpiece!!!!👏
As a life-long musician, I can say that these guys poured every thought and emotion into this album. Incredibly vulnerable and exposed. Thank you YOB, I've been a fan since the beginning.
Everything YOB does is a beautiful masterpiece
Truly an album for the ages. YOB has a certain vibe that can't be beat.
🌎
83° C'MON BABY
It's like "a sun that never sets" from Neurosis. It's really gratifiying to discover this kind of bands, thanks a lot. Very recommended.
Not a bad comparison. Not a bad comparison at all my friend.
$21
Absolutely amazing! I expect this album will push these very humble guys well into the limelight of greater appeal...sell out, no...broader distribution and greater reach from Relapse...along with super rad songs...yep! I had the pleasure of seeing a lot of these songs live at the WOW hall in Eugene Oregon a few months ago...it was incredible!! Catch them live...just do!
Beautiful opener song, just like in the previous album.
Stunningly majestic, or majestically stunning? Both.
i honestly love the fucking HUGE CHORDS, sometimes BRIGHT, sometimes u n c a n n i l y dark.
and the melodies are just so INTERESTING.
i've said it before, i'll say it a million more times. this band does doom correctly the same way that neurosis does doom/sludge/post metal correctly. and another thing i've said before and i'll say a million more times, this band understands interpreting pain through riffs in a way that few do, namely Crowbar comes to mind.
The shapes Mike uses are absolutely INSANE. I tried Ablaze on a higher tuning - my fingers can't do that
In the five years since its release, this has slowly eclipsed The Unreal Never Lived as my favorite Yob album. It's a masterpiece.
This album relaxes my soul. One of my favorites Relapse has released this year for sure.
Here we go again
Failure - Magnified, great record!
Failure brethren 🤘🤘
I can honestly say that Original Face is the first “heavy” song (besides slower songs of course) that has ever brought me to tears. I can fucking FEEL his pain, his fear, his hopelessness in the face of the emptiness of impending death. Mostly, though, I can FEEL his resilience and drive to overcome all of that no matter what it takes. This is the type of song that heavy metal screams are made for. Fucking brilliant. The last 3-song stretch is just epic AF.
what pain and hopeless?
the demons are Tibetan demons, pure illusions.
The original face is the one truth.
This adds commentary: th-cam.com/video/waCHRIGxchM/w-d-xo.html
Never heard of these guys till i saw them open for Tool in 2012. Been hooked ever since. Fabulous metal band
This album is great! Beautiful, heavy and majestic. I had to order myself a limited golden vinyl edition of this masterpiece! Love the album cover and the artwork!
Ablaze is one of the most beautiful songs I have ever heard!
Some truly heartfelt and emotional vocals are lifting this band up there in the pantheon of great heavy bands.
Very Underrated Band,But Is One The Best Bands All Time!. Stoner/Sludge/Drone/Doom/Heavy Psych/Space Rock. This band has it all in their music!. So CRUSHING AND HEAVY MUSIC!
One of the most beautifull albums along with Kargeras, brave murder day, my arms your hearse & bonds of togetherness
Thank you Relapse, Thank you YOB! 🌄❤️
One of the _heaviest_ albums out there. This 73min saved me last year.
Goddamn this is immensely excellent so full of emotion and its so put together and love the vocals. I can see myself listening to this in over 20 years time.
You guys are really doing something great here, this album truly inspires me Thank you for your work YOB.
I have started listening to more doom/grunge metal over the last few years and this album is one of the most beautiful I have heard of the genre. After reading the story behind what happened to the frontman of the band before this album came out I could feel the emotion in every song.
Thanks Relapse and Yob for putting this up. I bought the CD as well but hopefully it will allow the music to reach a bigger audience which it truly deserves.
Pure pleasure to hear such a masterpiece.
I'm glad I discovered the YOB. Listening to the screen, I flew into space.
TRUE MONOLITHIC MAJESTY!!!!!!!! THIS IS MUSIC WITH TRUE POWER, BECAUSE IT IS TRUE POWER!!
Yob and bell witch have been my jams
Look, I should not even be here. I am a power metal fan (Gamma Ray, Iron Maiden, etc.), and have no clue how this wound up in my recommended list. I just cannot listen to relentlessly dark and bleak music, and I hate growly vocals with a passion. So someone please explain to me why in hell am I digging on this so much that I'm actually considering buying the CD. My theory: It seems to be based on so few chords, but the vocals are somehow melodic over the top of that, giving it a range, atmosphere, and emotion that I normally don't hear. Far more complex than it appears to be. I will study on this more later; right now I'm gonna just sit back and let this wash over me.
u like it b/c it's good - regardless of genre.
YOB is definitely much more than the sum of its parts. They are at once dark and bright, brutal and somehow also uplifting. I just saw them last Friday in June and I can honestly say I've never been to a better show. YOB is love my friend.
if you like this, put on your seatbelts and dive into their other great albums. i too just discovered this band in the last few weeks and i am a huge fan now. i recommend listening to full albums. i cant say what album is my favorite but i can say whatever album of theirs i am listening to at the moment, that album is my favorite, until the next album i listen to. every album has an epic song or two or three or four , or more.
You like it because Mike Scheidt is the voice of the universe, his soul is laid bare in his music. You can feel it in every second of every song of Our Raw Heart.
wtf Iron maiden is not Powermetal?
Wow, that's a lot to take in. Beauty in Falling Leaves is freaking majestic...
i keep coming back to this gentle giant
This is not doom! This is hell! Oh my god, what a record. I feel like I just descent by the spiral stairs to hell itself. But somethimes it feels like walking by a flowery plain huge open and endless land, but I know deep down in my heart that is just part of the punishment, because your soul already belongs to him. Thank you!
The intro is already killing it. Can't wait to delve deeper. Craft beer and Yob. Sweet
Mike, please, spit out at least this many albums more, your work is a much needed breath of fresh air in an otherwise stale subgenre, that simply keeps getting staler by everyone just picking up the same recipe and not even bothering on swirling the stew or spicing it up some.
keep well, man, keep up the good work, there is a shitload of people supporting what you do!! metal on, man!!
I was in a band with Mike Scheidt in 1987 when he was 16 and I was 17. He was more eclectic and I was more mainstream Shred and Hard Rock/Metal. He sang on my first original and played bass, I play lead. I believe this is the earliest available recording of Mike Scheidt Vocals. You can get this collector’s item MP3 here at CDbaby:
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How long did you and Mike play together? I've never used CDbaby-- do you still play music?
Interesting. I taught him guitar when he was 15. He was actually my AA sponsor back then. He used to hang with me and my roommate Robert Sly way back when. Mike was always the most awesome person. Even at 15. His girlfriend Meredith was cool also. Well, for awhile anyway. I was 18 and played thrash and power metal. Back then we used to listen to Running Wild, Manowar, Metallica, Slayer, Exodus, Celtic Frost, COC, Voivod. A lot of Metal Blade records. Ask him about “The Prep Squad” sometime. Haha. I wish Mike all the best in the world and Yob is a thing of beauty. Mike was always inspirational. 😎
Phil Merwin (band - Dirt Clod Fight), Mike, and I used to go to the wow hall shows and events at the Jesco Club where we’d make them play punk and Metal. Phil went out with the sister of my girlfriend. Good times. Mike brought me some sanity when I was feeling crazy. Had my own brush with death and fighting to get better this last year. It changes you. This album is phenomenal.
I caught up on some interviews on TH-cam recently. Weird he worked at McKenzie River Music after I moved away. I bought a 1975 Gibson Les Paul Deluxe from there for $575. Haven’t seen Mike since I visited back in the 90’s and he was working a little coffee shop in the Atrium.
As a new fan, I find this more accessible than their other albums.
Such a beautiful song and word’s never spoken so true. Bravo gentlemen
This is absolutely enchanting and beautiful. Pure magic, thank you, YOB and Relapse!
What a masterpiece of an album... Mike is a genius.
This album is so amazing. Go Oregon!
Glad I found this. Fucking incredible album. Got their whole discography after listening to this.
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I didn't think I could love YOB more than I already did, but I was so wrong.
I like to think of “Our Raw Heart” as the quintessential musical expression of Nietzsche’s philosophy of the eternal recurrence:
“The heaviest burden: “What if some day or night, a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: ‘This life, as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life must return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned over again and again-and you with it, speck of dust!’ Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: ‘You are a god, and never have I heard anything more divine!’ If this thought were to gain possession of you, it would change you as you are, or perhaps crush you. The question in each and every thing, “do you want this once more and innumerable times more?” would lie upon your actions as the greatest weight. Or how well disposed would you have to become to yourself and to life to crave nothing more fervently than this ultimate eternal confirmation and seal?.”
More like " Ode to convelescence " from " Human all too Human"". Just beutiful , music and philosophy...
Better to get your speculations on eternal return direct from the Tibetan Buddhists than second-hand *smirk*
Spiritual Doom......
The paradox called life
therapeutic metal
Feels like i'm hearing it first time, with every listen. Mike is a genius.
I seen this band with VOIVOD and was totally hypnotized by the music
Any newbie? I just got hard crush on this.
My pee pee went hard on it.
Ahh another South East Asian with good music taste.
I can't believe that only recently I've discovered this band
@@SamritpalSingh I can't believe someone said this.
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Stunning! Why am I only finding this today?
SHADOWS
Be a man.
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I am seeing YOB for the first time this Sunday night, in Asheville. I gotta tell you that I am as giddy as a virgin on prom night.
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I confess that I didn't care much for the last album, the only YOB I'd heard, but this is a giant leap forward to something innovative. The doom genre has been mined to death, but occasionally bands bring new life. This is the case here. Thanks YOB!
Just got this on vinyl. So good. Hope i get a chance to see em live.
Beauty in Falling Leaves could be one of the best songs ever.
Love "Original Face," such a thick sound with so much going on, even after repeated listening i still get the feeling i didnt quite hear all of ut.
Definitely music of this doomy kind is my go to when I'm feeling rubbish. I find it helpful. very helpful.
Hearing it fow the first time today and I absolutely love it.
First listen through. Digging the first track. As soon as I got to The Screen, I got lost in the grove. Doom metal at its best.
It's amazing how Yob knocks it out of the park every time.
Gold.super talented band,with really emotional vocals.perfection.
"No, this is the best song!" I say pretty much everytime I listen to another YOB song...
This album is something else. YOB IS LOVE
Amazing album. Cannot wait to see this live next week in Baltimore!
reminds me a lot to soundgarden.. and i'm saying it as a compliment
thank you very much for uploading this great record.
Addicted to listening to this album since I bought it (yes, old school, sorry).