Clearing the Path to Ascend

Clearing the Path to Ascend
Studio album by YOB
Released September 4, 2014 (2014-09-04)
Genre Doom metal, stoner metal, sludge metal, post-metal
Length 62:30
Label Neurot
YOB chronology
Atma
(2011)Atma2011		 Clearing the Path to Ascend
(2014)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic85/100[1]
Review scores
SourceRating
Exclaim!(8/10)[2]
MusicOMH[3]
Pitchfork(8.2/10)[4]

Clearing the Path to Ascend is the seventh studio album by American doom metal band YOB. It was released in September 2014 under Neurot Recordings. Rolling Stone named it the best metal album[5] and the 50th best album overall[6] of the year.

Track list

No.TitleLength
1."In Our Blood"16:56
2."Nothing to Win"11:21
3."Unmask the Spectre"15:25
4."Marrow"18:48
Total length:62:30

Personnel

YOB[7][8]
Additional musicians[7]
Production[7]
Design[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Album Review". Metacritic.com. Retrieved 2014-10-19.
  2. ↑ Walschots, Natalie (2014-08-29). "Album Reviews 2". Exclaim.ca. Retrieved 2014-10-19.
  3. ↑ Shepherd, Sam (2014-09-01). "Album Review 3". Musicomh.com. Retrieved 2014-10-19.
  4. ↑ Camp, Zoe (2014-09-04). "Album Review 1". Pitchfork.com. Retrieved 2014-10-19.
  5. ↑ "20 Best Metal Albums of 2014". 2014. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
  6. ↑ "50 Best Albums of 2014". Rolling Stone. Rolling Stone. Retrieved 8 February 2015.
  7. 1 2 3 4 "YOB Clearing the Path to Ascent". AllMusic. AllMusic. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
  8. ↑ "YOB Clearing the Path to Ascend". Metal-Archives.com. Metal Encyclopaedia. Retrieved 3 September 2015.
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