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YOB Announces Reunion Gig

Doom metal giants YOB will celebrate their reunion with a special concert on February 28 at The Ash Street Saloon in Portland, Oregon with support from THE IOMMI STUBBS and BROTHERS OF THE SONIC CLOTH (featuring the legend himself Tad Doyle). One can only expect something of the most epic nature, si...

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YOB Signs With PROFOUND LORE RECORDS

From the trials and ordeals that had befallen Mike Scheidt (with lawsuits regarding a specific former band name),to resurrect the beast known as YOB was the only natural thing to do. It's been no secret that YOB is once again active, and in turn, Profound Lore will indeed be releasing the next YOB...

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MIDDIAN Calls It Quits; YOB Reformation In The Works

AGE ETERNAL (formerly MIDDIAN),the band featuring former YOB leader Mike Scheidt, has issued the following update: "AGE ETERNAL (MIDDIAN) is fucking dead. "Our lawsuit [involving a Milwaukee-based band called MIDIAN over the use of the MIDDIAN name] is finally coming to a close. It has been a hard...

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MIDDIAN Starts 'Defense Fund' In Legal Dispute Over Band Name

MIDDIAN, the band featuring former YOB leader Mike Scheidt, has issued the following update: "As many of you know, MIDDIAN received a cease-and-desist demand in October from MIDIAN of Milwaukee LLC. This demand required MIDDIAN to stop using our name completely, stop selling our album, and further d...

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MIDDIAN Forced To Change Name, Dropped by METAL BLADE

MIDDIAN, the band featuring former YOB leader Mike Scheidt, has issued the following update: "So, we had a hell of a time finding a name. When MIDDIAN was suggested, we did a search and found nothing out there. So we went ahead and called ourselves MIDDIAN. However, in October, we received a cease-a...

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MIDDIAN To Release 'Age Eternal' On Double 12" Vinyl

MIDDIAN, the band featuring former YOB leader Mike Scheidt, will have its "Age Eternal" album released on double 12" vinyl on July 30 via Land O Smiles. It has a gatefold cover and the pressing is limited to 500 on 180-gram vinyl. Land O Smiles is accepting pre-orders for the record at this ...

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MINSK Debuts New Video

MINSK has debuted the first video from its brand new album "The Ritual Fires of Abandonment", for the track "White Wings", exclusively via Singingfool.com. The clip was shot and directed by Josh Oliver for Graveyard Machine Films. MINSK is currently rounding out its western U.S tour with MIDDIAN (fe...

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MINSK Announces West Coast Tour

MINSK has announced its first western U.S. run in support of its brand new album, "The Ritual Fires of Abandonment". MINSK will kick off the tour with an appearance at the annual Emissions from the Monolith Festival, being held for the first time in Austin, TX the weekend of May 26-27. From there th...

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MIDDIAN: In-Store Performance, Signing Session Scheduled

MIDDIAN, the band featuring former YOB leader Mike Scheidt, will take part in an in-store performance and signing session on Friday, April 6 at 8:00 p.m. at CD World in Eugene, Oregon. MIDDIAN just released its debut album, "Age Eternal", via Metal Blade Records. In 2005, Mike Scheidt, founding memb...

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Age Eternal

Mike Scheidt may have been the guitarist and vocalist of revered northwest U.S. space-doom freaks YOB, but the opening track of his new band's debut seems determined to highlight the differences between his earlier outfit and MIDDIAN. "Dreamless Eye" crashes out of the gate with a fast, aggressive,...

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Former YOB Leader To Release MIDDIAN Debut In March

MIDDIAN, the band featuring former YOB leader Mike Scheidt, will release its debut album, "Age Eternal", in Europe on March 26 via Metal Blade Records (March 23 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland). MIDDIAN is Mike Scheidt - Guitar and Vocals Will Lindsay - Bass and Vocals Scott Headrick - Drums "Ag...

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Ex-YOB Frontman Resurfaces In MIDDIAN: Audio Available

MIDDIAN, the band that features former YOB frontman Mike, has put one of the pre-mastered tracks ("Dreamless Eye") from its debut CD on its MySpace page. "Age Eternal", the band's debut, is scheduled for a late April worldwide release via Metal Blade Records. ORANGE GOBLIN singer Ben Ward makes an a...

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ORANGE GOBLIN: U.K. Dates Announced

British doomsters ORANGE GOBLIN will team up with legendary U.S. heavyweights SOLACE as main support for a U.K. tour in May 2007. Confirmed dates are as follows: May 11 - London, The Underworld May 12 - Southampton, Joiners May 13 - Bristol, Bierkeller (w/Gonga) May 14 - Cardiff, Clwb Ifor Bach May...

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ORANGE GOBLIN: In Writing Mode

British doomsters ORANGE GOBLIN have begun writing material for their new album, tentatively due next May via Sanctuary Records. Four tracks have already been completed and lots of ideas are coming together. The band says that the next record will definitely be a progression from 2004's "Thieving fr...

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Dark Songs of the Prairie

Lonesome winds howl, animals shiver in dank burrows, dust chokes dry river beds… the world of ACROSS TUNDRAS is a bleak, desolate prairie, inhospitable to travelers and as grim in its own way as any snow-choked Scandinavian forest. Somewhere between doom, sludge, the art-ravaged psych crunge of YOB,...