Any fans of Stoner Rock?Music

[emad]

Are there any fans of this style of music? Bands like Kyuss, Monser Magnet, Fu Manchu, etc, etc. The genre isn't anything at all like the name implies (bands like Phish). Instead, it's very slow and typically very heavy with a hint of psychedelic flavour - the music is almost hypnotic.

Monster Magnet's album Dopes to Infinity is absolutely AMAZING. Hell, almost all of their stuff is.

To top Monster Magnet, you have to check out The Desert Sessions. Those guys are basically a group of random musicians collaborating and writing albums solely on an improvizational basis. - Again, VERY awesome stuff.


Wikipedia has a good definition of the genre:

Stoner Metal and Sludge Metal are often used interchangeably, but some fans make distinctions: Sludge metal has more similarities with grindcore and hardcore punk. There also are similarities to doom metal, but most aficionados consider the two genres distinct.

The moniker 'Stoner' is obviously derived from the notion that the artists and audience for this kind of music are stoners, users of cannabis.

Other terms, which also indicate slightly different, but frequently overlapping genres are 'stoner rock', 'desert rock' and the very abstract 'desert music', which usually has only very little 'metal' content as such.

Stoner metal bands play a mix of jam-heavy psychedelic rock laced with some doom metal like riffs and are generally more closely linked to the heavy psychedelic bands of the late 1960s and early 1970s. Monster Magnet and Kyuss were among the most popular practitioners.

 

[xcsti]

I know the station I listen to played monster magnate a few years ago, I just don't recall it.

 

[emad]

they've got a good online radio station for this stuff here: http://www.stonerrock.com/

 

[Duke]

I used to listen to a friend of mine's Kyuss CDs. They were pretty cool. Cool enough that they're still good in their QOTSA disguise, despite the extra popularity.

Monster Magnet, by the way, is a reference to a Frank Zappa / Mothers of Invention song called Return of the Son of the Monster Magnet from 1966's Freak Out LP.

 

[911_Carrera]

I've got most of Kyuss' stuff and QOTSA. I may have to check out the other few bands mentioned...

 

[Beelzebub]

the only stoner band that i really heard so far is Down.