Interview - YOB
11/9/04
Mike Scheidt from YOB responds to some e-mail
questions
Sam: You seem to
be heading in an even heavier, more aggressive
direction with this album, was it intentional?
Mike Scheidt: "Not exactly. We are
fans of pretty much every spectrum of metal and those
influences are showing up more and more. From death
to black metal, grind to DOOM, hardcore to power
metal...we're into the lot of it. We're a better band
than we have ever been and are becoming more proficient
at channeling our various influences to greater effect."
Sam: What do you guys use for vocal
effects?
MS: "For years I used just a BOSS
chorus pedal. Now I use a Digitech Vocal 300 processor.
It's not perfect, but it's the best thing I've used yet.
On it I have chorus, delay, and a gate as presets for
my on stage sound."
Sam: Guitars/amps?
MS: "I use a Black Matamp full
stack with a White Matamp Half-stack with a Y cable
so I can run both at the same time. I also have a
Green Matamp head from the 80's that I use too. All
of my heads are non-master volume(no gain built in,
clean tone only) and I get my distortion from a ROSS
Distortion from the 70's combined with an old MXR
Dyna Comp. For guitars it's Gibson Les Pauls all the
way with D'Addario baritone strings tuned to a
standard. Isamu uses Rickenbacker 4001 basses with a
70's Ampeg SVT stack and a Orange Graphic 120 Head
on a SUNN))) 2X15 Cabinet. Travis has a red Ludwig
Vista Lite drum set that is large sizes (26" kick drum).
We gots the gear."
Sam: Who are your influences right now?
MS: "It's quite a spectrum: early
Cathedral, SLEEP, Burning Witch, IMMOLATION, VON, Will
Haven, Pink Floyd, Sabbath, Neurosis, Matt Pike
anything, Corrupted, Darkthrone, etc."
Sam: What tour plans do you have
lined up?
MS: "We are doing two cd release
shows on November 12th and 13th( 12th in Portland, OR
and 13th in Seattle, WA) with a few other scattered
shows. Then we're going to finish writing another
album to begin recording in March . The we'll take
off in late April for a full US Tour to hopefully
coincide with another appearance at Emissions From
The Monolith."
Sam: Any DVD or vinyl releases
in the works?
MS: "We are trying to find
someone to release the vinyl between us and Metal
Blade. Nothing for DVD as of yet. But you never know...>:)"