The Unreal Never Lived (2005)

Album pick op Allmusic: "Yob has never exactly been easy listening. They are masters of doom metal -- slow, heavy, ominous, forceful headbanger music with a strong appreciation of Black Sabbath (whose riffs have been a primary influence on the doom/stoner/sludge field). But the Oregon residents have managed to increase the heaviness factor somewhat on this album, that favors a generally thicker, more distorted sound than their previous releases. That isn't to say that Yob has turned into one of the many ultra-dense, ultra-claustrophobic metalcore or death metal bands that believes in bruising for the sake of bruising. Nonetheless, the thickness factor has definitely increased for Yob -- and another thing that makes this come as a bit of a surprise is Mike Scheidt's lead vocals. He was arguably the doom equivalent of Rush's Geddy Lee. Now, he combines the high notes with a lot of deep, guttural death metal-ish growling." (Alex Henderson; waardering: 4 uit 5 sterren)