Clearing the Path to Ascend

Clearing the Path to Ascend
Studio album by YOB
Released	September 4, 2014
Genre	Doom metal
Length	62:30
Label	Neurot
YOB chronology
Atma (2011) Clearing the Path to Ascend (2014)

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	85/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
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 Magazine named it the best metal album of 2014,^[5] and the 50th best album of 2014 overall.^[6]

Track list

No.	Title	Length
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]

• Mike Scheidt - vocal, guitars
• Aaron Rieseberg - bass
• Travis Foster - drums

Additional Music^[7]

• Billy Barnett - Hammond organ

Production^[7]

• Billy Barnett - engineer
• Brad Boatright - mastering

Design^[7]

• Orion Landau - artwork

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. "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.