{"id":33817,"date":"2010-07-14T00:00:38","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T00:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=33817"},"modified":"2020-07-13T23:33:06","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T22:33:06","slug":"news-former-desecration-and-possessed-member-bob-yost-dies-aged-43","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/news-former-desecration-and-possessed-member-bob-yost-dies-aged-43\/","title":{"rendered":"Former DESECRATION And POSSESSED Member Bob Yost Dies Aged 43 (July 14th, 2010) | News @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"title2\"><strong>Former DESECRATION And POSSESSED Member Bob Yost Dies Aged 43<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: arial; font-size: 8pt\"><strong>July 14th, 2010<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image floatedright\">\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-content\/themes\/metalforces\/images\/spacer.gif\" width=\"10\" border=\"0\"><\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/desecration_bobyostphotonews.jpg\" border=\"0\"><\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" border=\"0\">\n<tr valign=\"top\">\n<td>\n<div align=\"left\"><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<td>\n<div align=\"right\"><span class=\"smalltext\"><\/span><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<p>Bob Yost, former vocalist \/ founder of San Francisco, California-based death \/ thrash metal group Desecration and former bassist of fellow San Francisco death \/ thrash metal ensemble Possessed, died on July 14th, 2010 at the age of 43.<\/p>\n<p>Robert Allan Yost, Jr. was born on May 21st, 1967. <\/p>\n<p>Yost\u2019s first foray into metal was as a roadie for local friends Possessed, for tours as well as individual gigs. He would subsequently form Desecration in late 1984 with fellow Possessed roadie Dan Boland.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, Yost occupied bass with Boland handling guitar, with drummer Dave Roof rounding out the inaugural line-up. Roof departed due to personal reasons, Yost becoming Desecration\u2019s vocalist in 1985. Ray Sebastion became lead guitarist, with Joel Wing lending bass. 1985 debut demo <em>Psycho<\/em> notably featured Possessed\u2019s Mike Sus on session drums. <\/p>\n<p>Yost disbanded Desecration in early 1986, reforming the unit with a revised line-up which featured the following personnel; Marty Rahala (guitars), Brandon Caylor (guitars), Neil Secretaio (bass) and Chris Fetters (drums). Desecration split altogether in 1987, Autopsy\u2019s Chris Reifert (ex-Death) stepping behind the drumkit for their final few shows.<\/p>\n<p>Following Desecration\u2019s disbandment, the musician returned to bass duties, performing with punk rock outfit Social Disease and subsequently thrash \/ melodic ensemble Section 8.<\/p>\n<p>In 1991, old friend and guitarist Mike Torrao reformed Possessed, installing Bob Yost in the bass position. A lone demo was cut in September of the same year, before Yost was dismissed of his duties. Following this, he would never perform in a band again during his lifetime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former DESECRATION And POSSESSED Member Bob Yost Dies Aged 43 July 14th, 2010 Bob Yost, former vocalist \/ founder of San Francisco, California-based death \/ thrash metal group Desecration and former bassist of fellow San Francisco death \/ thrash metal ensemble Possessed, died on July 14th, 2010 at the age of 43. Robert Allan Yost, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2344,2345],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-desecration-news","category-possessed-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33817"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84687,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33817\/revisions\/84687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}