Age Eternal, das Debütalbum der neuen Band von Ex-YOB-Bandkopf Mike Scheidt, wird am 23. März veröffentlicht. Scheidt verspricht ein Album, mit dem sich die Bandmitglieder gänzlich treu bleiben wollen: DOOM und Stoner-beeinflustte SCHWERE Musik, ohne das ein oder andere zu sein. Gastvocals gibt es von ORANGE GOBLIN-Sänger Ben Ward. Die Tracklist:
Dreamless Eye The Blood Of Icons Age Eternal |
The Celebrant Sink To The Center |
Hier einige Statements von Mike Scheidt zum Ende von YOB, zu MIDDIAN und zu Age Eternal:
MIDDIAN is:
Mike S-guitar and vox
Will Lindsay-bass and vocals
Scott Headrick-drums
Mike Scheidt about the end of YOB:
“After YOB got back home from our last tour in 2005, it became very obvious
that our individual goals in the band had changed. Travis Foster and Isamu
Sato both left the band after we explored options for keeping YOB together.
Neither of them had the stomach for touring anymore, and I knew I wanted to
keep touring and moving forward. After about 8 months of thought as whether
to continue with what would be YOB’s 5th line-up after Isamu and Travis
left, and after trying out some fine musicians, I decided to let YOB go.”
Mike Scheidt about MIDDIAN:
“So I decided to start a new band: very much in the vein of YOB, but more
angry and mid-paced on average, but still with roots in slow DOOM and the
cosmic vibe that was a part of YOB. MIDDIAN is that band. In my mind I was
already thinking about who I was going to approach for a rhythm section: My
friends Will Lindsay on bass and Scott Headrick on drums. They are both very
experienced musicians who, while having roots in extreme music, neither had
played DOOM influenced music before. I wanted a fresh take on the riffs I
was writing. Luckily they were both into it, and we have been having a
blast ever since.”
Mike Scheidt about “Age Eternal”:
“Age Eternal is our first album together, and we are very happy with it
overall. It is a solid first album for us and is setting the blueprint for
what we do: DOOM and stoner influenced HEAVY music without it being either.
It has lots of lurching faster riffs and chord melody not unlike YOB, but
yet it is different. It is more urgent, straight-forward, and punk influenced
in many ways, and our bassist Will shares vocal duties with me. The band is
extremely collaborative even though I write the tunes thus far. We all have
strong ideas and opinions that mesh very well and it culminated in Age
Eternal. Plus there is guest vocals from Ben Ward of Orange Goblin on the
last song Sink To The Center and noise samples from The Monsters Of Pot
from Minneapolis, Minnesota. We are very proud to have our first album
released by Metal Blade Records.”