YOB — The Illusion of Motion (review)

YOB — The Illusion of Motion album cover Album · 2004 · Stoner Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4.5/5 ·
Warthur
For The Illusion of Motion, YOB set up shop at the corner of doom metal and stoner metal. They've got enough of the former to take pleasure in some real slow, heavy riffs, but enough of the latter to put a bit of a skip in the album's step - things never slow down to an absolute, total crawl as they might do with a more funereal or po-faced doom metal release, but instead have just a pinch of the psychedelic and hard-rocking about them. This adds just enough extra energy to keep things hopping along and the ideas developing. That corner of doom and stoner I talked about is a pretty busy one, but I can recommend YOB's wares for the discerning consumer.
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Tupan wrote:
more than 2 years ago
These psychedelic influences are even more explicit in the later albums.

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