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Apr 20, 2016 · From the moment Black Sabbath told us all about the pleasures of the Sweet Leaf there has been stoner metal – often derided as simplistic or just plain juvenile, there’s far more depth and diversity to the genre than meets the (red) eye.
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Stoner rock, also known as stoner metal [4] or stoner doom, [5] [6] is a rock music fusion genre that combines elements of doom metal with psychedelic rock and acid rock. [7] The genre emerged during the early 1990s and was pioneered foremost by Kyuss [8] and Sleep. [9]
- Black Sabbath - Master of Reality. And so it all began, with a tape loop of the riff lord himself, Tony Iommi, coughing from a joint he was toking with Ozzy Osbourne — maybe the most epic smoke sesh in the history of epic metal smoke seshes.
- Saint Vitus - Born Too Late. At the dawn of the Eighties, Los Angeles' heavy-music scene was dominated by raucous punk/hardcore/crossover and flashy hair metal.
- Cathedral - Forest of Equilibrium. Once Lee Dorian waved sayonara from grindcore originators Napalm Death, he traded in speed to join Cathedral and their much slower, doom-metal approach, inspired by fellow U.K.
- Melvins - Bullhead. The Melvins can basically do whatever the fuck they want, including at times watershed stoner metal. As arguably the progenitors of sludge (not to mention grunge), they've written their fair share of weirdo-heavy steamrollers through their career, none better than 1991's Bullhead.
- Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality (1972) As with much else in heavy metal, stoner can trace its roots right back to Black Sabbath. Sabbath's love for the green was well established by the time the band recorded their third record Master Of Reality in 1972, and the Brummies pinned their colour(s) to the mast with the subtle-as-a-sledgehammer opening track Sweet Leaf.
- Sleep - Sleep's Holy Mountain (1992) Although stoner metal found its roots in 70s British acts like Sabbath, Deep Purple and Led Zeppelin, it wasn't until the 90s in the US that the genre truly started to take off in any serious way.
- Kyuss - Welcome To Sky Valley (1994) Springing up around generator parties hosted by desert punks who couldn't afford to travel to LA or San Francisco for shows, California's Palm Desert scene has since become a lengendary entity in stoner for later spawning the likes of Fu Manchu, Fatso Jetson and Queens Of The Stone Age.
- Cathedral - Caravan Beyond Redemption (1995) The dividing line between doom and stoner is often as simple as a question of pace and tone, but few bands played as fast and loose with the interplay between the genres as Britian's Cathedral in the early 90s.
- Clutch - Clutch (1995) Clutch have never been a stoner rock band in the strictest sense, but their self-titled second album offered a peculiarly Clutch-ian take on the same, rudimentary musical ideas.
- Melvins - Bullhead (1991) A restless and subversive force at all times, Melvins have had a huge effect on several distinct genres over the years. Bullhead is far too weird and twisted to be a straightforward stoner endeavour, but thanks to some supremely heavy sludge riffs, this became an obligatory listen for space cadets in the ‘90s.
- Lowrider - Ode To Io (2000) If any band can casually encapsulate their entire subgenre, Sweden’s Lowrider are probably it. Ode To Io is an album full of great songs and bong-friendly fuzz, but in many ways it’s also the definitive stoner rock album.
- The Obsessed – Lunar Womb (1991) As frontman with Saint Vitus, Spirit Caravan and several other esteemed doom and desert rock bands, Scott ‘Wino’ Weinrich has contributed more to the scene than just about anyone else.
Apr 18, 2020 · The 40 Greatest Stoner Albums. From Pink Floyd and the Grateful Dead to Massive Attack and the Flaming Lips. By. Jon Dolan, Patrick Doyle, Joe Gross, Will Hermes, Christian Hoard, Michaelangelo...
11 essential stoner rock and metal tracks to hear in 2021. Tune low. Play slow. Image: Josh Brasted / Getty Images. By Cillian Breathnach. The amorphous genre that is stoner doom/metal/rock is, to be blunt, hard to get into if you haven’t already been indoctrinated into the cult of downtuned guitars and excessive amounts of fuzz.
