Middian "Age Eternal" (Metal Blade)
By Ari Joffe
Friday. Apr 13, 1:32 PM
Ex-Yob main dude gives you quicker payoffs.

Yob fans, pull out your wallets! You’re gonna want to spend some money on this disc.

This here is former Yob honcho / guitarist/vocalist Mike Scheidt’s new band, Middian. And they don’t disappoint. Along with bassist/vocalist Will Lindsay and drummer Scott Headrick, Scheidt has produced a sound that covers much of the same terrain as Yob but with slightly more to the point arrangements and an overall more aggressive attack.

Where Yob was a band that I always felt you needed patience to truly absorb, Middian is more direct, more in your face. It’s still ethereal, melodic doom metal, that creepy crawls but with a slight math rock element thrown in and quicker payoffs between the dreamy soft parts and the big monolithic riffs. It’s music that speaks more to the mind than the hips, for sure. It makes me want to sit on my couch and get high. In fact, I’m gonna do that right now.

Put these dudes on a bill with Mouth Of The Architect and Angel Eyes and minds will be blown.
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Ari Joffe

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