YOB have revealed two exclusive European 25th anniversary concerts; October 19th at EartH Hall in London and October 22nd at SO36 in Berlin. These are in addition to news that the band will co-headline Desertfest Antwerp and headline two nights at Hostsabbat in Oslo, performing distinct sets each night. Tickets for all European shows are on sale now.
The anniversary shows celebrate the catalog, birthed over a quarter of a century, the community that has grown around them, and the undeniable power of connection between band and audience for which YOB’s shows are uniquely known. "The crowd and the band are not two things," says guitarist & vocalis Mike Scheidt. "Over time, playing live has become much less about escape for ourselves and much more about the community of people that have brought us there. Our intention is to offer a space where all of us together can come up for air from the daily struggle. Our music is medicine for us. If it’s that for anyone else, it’s an immense honor.”
Anyone who has attended a YOB concert knows the distinct quality of attention the band commands. To see them live is to surrender completely, awash in pulverizing sound. The sheer mass of the music dislodges consciousness from its habitual patterns; dissolve into YOB and you'll find yourself rewritten upon surfacing.
Tour Dates:
10/18/2025 - Antwerp, BE - Desertfest
10/19/2025 - London, UK - EartH Hall*
10/22/2025 - Berlin, DE - SO36*
10/24/2025 - Oslo, NO - Hostsabbat
10/25/2025 - Oslo, NO - Hostsabbat
*with Crouch
Tickets from https://bnds.us/06t2wn
Photo by Bobby Cochran
About YOB:
"Slow is fast," says Mike Scheidt, singer, guitarist, and creative nucleus of the Oregon-based doom metal trio YOB. It's a concept that speaks to both the immense propulsion of their megalithic compositions and the way their artistry has patiently unfurled across their 25-year tenure. Change and revelation take time. You can't snap yourself into epiphany and you can't force yourself into another shape. You have to trudge. It doesn't mean you're failing. You persevere through the muck or you stop and you sink. There is no third way.
YOB's music spreads across a plain where vast weather systems converge. Since sharing their first demo in 2000, the band has slowly, graciously gathered a devoted audience into their planetary orbit. Together with bassist Aaron Rieseberg and drummer Dave French, Scheidt tethers pendulous riffs to sky-flung vocals, sinking deep into the trenches and then cresting through the clouds. From the stoner rock ripples of their 2002 debut Elaborations of Carbon through the cavernous echoes of 2018's Our Raw Heart, YOB wield their totalizing gravity to bore into the light that hides in everything.
YOB point toward spiritual queries with the reminder that it's the asking, not the answering, that drives you deepest. "It's easy to try and bypass the feet-in-the-mud work: to hope for some magical moment where you become enlightened and then it all falls off like a husk and it’s nothing but blue skies forever," says Scheidt. "I think a lot of people go through that stage. Eventually, you come out the other side and realize that there is no shortcut. You have to really slow down, really watch that one breath, really contemplate questions that are naggingly unanswered." With its constant searching and searing heft, YOB's music sings across the nerves and yanks the mind back into the moment. It wrestles you to the ground so you can bask in the light of the sky.
YOB are Mike Scheidt (vocals & guitar), Aaron Rieseberg (bass) and Dave French (drums).
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