And in addition to a title track, there’s another song on the album called “Upon The Sight Of The Other Shore.” That sounds like it could be reference to the “other shore” referred to in the closing lines of the shorter version of The Heart Sutra, about which Barbara O’Brien writes: About the title, the great heavy music blog The Obelisk writes that it “refers to the Buddhist concept of the complete, spiritual self.” Now, that’s not a Buddhist concept, really - Buddhism usually emphasizes anatta, or not-self - but still: Hmmm.
Yob’s new album (shown here) is called Atma. Was it possible they could be talking about nirvana there? “The great cessation” is in fact one translation of the term parinirvana, the “final nirvana, which occurs upon the death of the body of someone who has attained complete awakening.” (Yes, I cribbed that from Wikipedia but it works for my purposes here.) Hearing that, I recalled their last album it was called The Great Cessation. (Their name refers to a classic Warner Brothers cartoon I distinctly remember being a teenager in bands and seeing the cartoon and thinking, Good band name.)Īnyway…: Yob has just gotten back at it after some inactivity. Since this post was written, I’ve seen Yob’s Mike Scheidt refer to himself as being influenced by many Eastern religions (which would make sense) but also state that he identifies particularly with Hindu thought (which would account for his interest in exploring the concept behind Atma‘s title.)įor a while now I’ve wondered about the band Yob.
(The below was originally published in July 2011. Back in 2011, I did a write-up about Atma for that follows here if you’d like to check it out and learn more about this undisputedly heavy and excellent band and its leader, Mike Scheidt. Other YOB albums have had distinct Eastern-Religion influences, too, like Atma and The Great Cessation.
(Website Invisible Oranges has a sample track if you like this kind of thing, and have 18 minutes to spare.) Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)ĭoom-metal heroes Yob will soon be re-releasing a remastered version of their classic LP, Catharsis – but will be going with Buddhist imagery on the cover this time.Click to share on Pinterest (Opens in new window).Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window).Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window).
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