Our Raw Heart is the eighth studio album by American doom metal band YOB.
[9] The album was inspired by a serious health issue suffered by singer and guitarist Mike Scheidt in early 2017,[6] and most of the music was written while he was in a hospital bed.
[2] Aggregator Album of the Year gave the release a 83 out of 100 based on a critical consensus of 9 reviews.
[10] Metal Injection called the album "engaging and revealing, immediately appealing but with subtle nuances and layers that only become apparent after subsequent listens.
It's a powerful and cathartic release,"[4] while Rolling Stone praised the band for "subvert[ing] doom's bleak conventions, painting the genre's slowpoke churn with uplifting melodies, cosmic textures and Scheidt's existential howl like a dreampop Dio.