Clearing The Path To Ascend is a paramount piece of doom metal that everyone should have in their collection!īrian Turner, Director of Programming at Gimme Radio added, ‘Without doubt, the Oregon-based trio YOB have ascended to being a favorite for fans of the mystical, spirituality-infused doom found in such legendary groups as Pentagram and Black Sabbath. To celebrate, Mike Scheidt sat down with Gimme’s Jim Santanella to discuss the album in-depth for the ‘Between the Lines’ show, and you can catch that interview in video form on GimmeTV in the Gimme Metal app – HEREĬlearing The Path To Ascend is one of the highest acclaimed albums of YOB’s discography, containing sinister melodies, out-of-this-world riffing, and bone-chilling harmonies. We knew we needed to do a YOB release for the vinyl club, and Clearing The Path To Ascend was a no-brainer. We backed one of their tours in 2018, we’ve had them on the airwaves to host two guest DJ specials and we featured them on our monthly ‘Gimme 5’ show back when Our Raw Heart dropped. “YOB is a band everyone on the Gimme team loves, not just because of the fantastic music they make, but because they are a solid group of guys. 25 – Pittsburgh, PA – Roxian Theatreĭec.Bri Thomas of Gimme Metal penned the album’s introduction into Gimme Metal’s growing collection of mandatory metal albums. 24 – Cleveland, OH – Agora Theater & Ballroom 19 – Toronto, ON – The Danforth Music Hall 29 – Berkeley, CA – UC Theater Taube Family Music Hall 22 – Austin, TX – Empire Control Room & Garage 20 – Dallas, TX – The Echo Lounge & Music Hall 13 – Baltimore, MD – Baltimore Sound Stage local time, with BARONESS bringing along some of their favorite bands, including JESUS PIECE, PORTRAYAL OF GUILT, PRIMITIVE MAN, KEN MODE, WAYFARER, CHAT PILE, VILE CREATURE, SOUL GLO, SHEER MAG, ESCUELA GRIND, MIDWIFE, HOAXED, EMPIRE STATE BASTARD, CLOUD RAT, IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT, UNIFORM and AGRICULTURE, with more support acts to be announced. Tickets are on sale Friday, June 23 at 10 a.m. It was a really cool, empowering, creative experience.”īARONESS has simultaneously announced the “Sweet Oblivion” tour, a seven-week trek that sees the band traversing North America this fall. “I think we were able to strip everything away on this record,” guitarist Gina Gleason shares. “Having just the four of us in a rented house in the mountains for a month resulted in not only a cohesive and authentic sound, but also an intense collective mentality.” “The recording process was completely self-contained,” adds drummer Sebastian Thomsen. After the group finished tracking drums, guitars, and bass, they took everything back to Baizley‘s basement studio to record vocals before handing the album off to mix master Joe Barresi ( KYUSS, TOOL) and mastering guru Bob Ludwig ( LED ZEPPELIN, NIRVANA). While they wrote “Stone”, Baizley recorded and pre-mixed it in real time, giving each song on “Stone” its own sonic treatment. Electing to produce “Stone” themselves, the members of BARONESS spent a month shrouded amidst the pines, holed up in a vacation rental that became an impromptu recording space replete with big, vaulted ceilings, hardwood floors, and brick/glass walls. That voluntary evolution brought the now Philadelphia-meets-Brooklyn based band to the border town of Barryville, New York. ‘Stone’ is a lot more alive, more direct.” I think this record is a good reflection of that. So, we doubled down on continuously inventing to see where it takes us. It’s really sort of terrifying to be at the sixth record in your career and think that you’ll have to keep up with your history rather than continually invent. That’s kind of goofy, but in practice, it works. When I was younger, the whole point of music was to be different, not to do the same thing, and not to listen to parents or play by the rules. It’s all about the willingness to take risks. BARONESS front-man John Baizley comments: “An important through line in BARONESS is we don’t like to repeat ourselves.
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