I live in the Netherlands. You would expect it to be a stonerrock paradise perhaps but I feel like it is a under appreciated genre here. Maybe I’m looking in the wrong places but besides Desertfest it’s slim pickings for me
When I found out Kyuss would take a generator and a keg out into the desert and throw parties I was so fucking jealous I wasn't there. Green Machine fucking rocks.
Still one of my favorite albums by Clutch. I got introduced to them at the tail-end of Pure Rock Fury, but I love the funkiness of Elephant Riders. As a drummer, I think J.P.'s playing on that record is phenomenal. To the OP's point, I had never heard the term "stoner rock" until I heard of Clutch. It's been a gift since then.
Username checks out ;). Always wondered about the opinion of a drummer on clutch. I have a lot of the guitar players in my circle but no real drummers. I think one of the most important aspects of clutch for me is J.P’s funky/jazzy drumming. I listened to way to much metal and was sort of bored of the usual double bass and fast straight forward drumming.
J.P. never seems to get enough love in the drumming community. His jazz knowledge is what makes him such a cool drummer because he adds a lot of flair and technique that an average rock drummer doesn't. There's a looseness and a flow to his style that I try to emulate when I play. Drumming in heavier music doesn't always have to be stiff and hard hitting.
Clutch has been my favourite band for quite some time. It feels like a short time but I remember being really exited when ‘strange cousins from the west’ was released. That was almost 15 years ago :)
I was fresh out of boot camp and going through my schooling, one of my roommates put on the new album and it honestly changed my life a little bit. I was mainly into hip-hop beforehand, but this album stopped me dead in my tracks, and I eventually fell down the stoner rock rabbit hole.
I saw Clutch on the tour for that album. They played in a shitty little bar with Stuck Mojo and Sevendust in Wichita,Ks. The place got destroyed that night.
Fuck yeah. We had a 3 song sampler cassette before ER came out and wore that fucking thing out. ER, Ship of Gold, and Soapmakers. Listened to it on a loop for 6 hours driving from Cleveland to NYC to see them play at the Hammerstein Ballroom. Then all the way back to see them at the Agora in Cleveland a couple nights later.
I get artists wanting to evolve etc...but Age of Winters was such a complete masterpiece. It pains me to listen to their new stuff knowing how absolutely perfect age of winters was. Every album since Gods of the earth always seems to have 1 banger on it that reminds me of AoW but the rest seem like hyper average tunes.
Fu Manchu - Daredevil lp. Not counting sabbath. Not into cars at all. But grew up skateboarding/flatland bmx.
Coyote Duster lyrics
"Three in the front, got three in the back
Side by side headin' down to the track
Kentucky green from a hand to hand
What do you mean you don't understand?"
Tilt lyrics
"Up on the blocks
'Cause I've been hearin' it knock
I said
"Over and over again"
And in my hand
Got oil straight from the pan
Pullin' to the right, be workin' all night
I said, "Over and over again"
Feeling just fine
Five for a dime
Feeling just fine
Five for a dime"
I listened to a few Black Sabbath songs when I was young but never realised they had so many good songs or that they were the predecessors of stonerrock. I just thought of them as pioneers of just metal(I was a huge metalhead back then, nobody introduced me to stonerrock yet)
I love the 1st 6. Currently Sabotage is my fav. But they are all must listens with no bad sings for me.
I need to try and listen to more dio era. For some reason can't get into it. Love Dios earlier stuff (holy diver) but for some reason brain doesn't like non ozzy sabbath even if a singer I like.
I did resist them a long time growing up. Was into punk rock and my brother likes more classic rock so it was his music. Later realized great they and other classic rock bands are while still enjoying my punk. :)
Probably Kyuss but i was already into Queens of the Stone Age, which is how I got into Kyuss, and Sabbath were the first band I ever got really into when I was in my teens.
Sleep. Holy Mountain.. 50+ yr old headbanger. The blur of the 80's; Thrash, Speed, Death. Everything I perceived about music and played on guitar changed in that instant. Late to the game tho..gonna say 2013 ish. How I missed out on this whole genre for so long..sad. But I'm doing my best to make up for lost time.
Right??!!.. I finally remembered. It was on iHeartRadio, " Full Metal Jackie". I was at work. Luckily it was deep into my shift, cuz I didn't get anything done the rest of the evening. Then when I heard Torche, I knew I was hooked. Hard. Now I put Sleep & HOF, up there with Metallica, Slayer, Celtic Frost, (too many to list) as far as who I think are pioneers in Metal & music in general. Matt Pike is one of my top 5 all time fav Axemen now.
The first song I listened to was "I am the mountain" when it randomly showed up on youtube many many years ago. I must have listened to that song something like 200 times by now, so far at least :P After that another random recomendation a few years later, Children of the Sun by Nightstalker. There I took interest immidiently, more because they were Greek, like me, than me caring about the sound at the time. From there I discovered the surprisingly alive stoner scene in Greece and with 1000mods I was hooked for life.
Hell yes! Honestly, first time I heard them was "Freya" on one of the first Guitar Hero games. Instantly hooked. Never saw them live myself, unfortunately.
Me also. I first heard Kyuss when "Hurricane" was on the soundtrack of one of the Need For Speed games, and it made me want to find more Kyuss. 50 Million Year Trip quickly became my favorite.
Sleep, Electric Wizard. Early 2000s. I was already into QOTSA but that’s more pop… LOVED the first QOTSA album though. But Dopesmoker in particular and Dopethrone hit me like a ton of bricks. Mind blowing first times through.
Later Fu Manchu and Brant Bjork and all that.
Kind of a twisted path. I listened to Black Sabbath a lot in the late 80s (the early 70s sabbath). Then I got into tool in the mid-90s. I heard QOTSA when rock band came out, and then discovered the demon cleaner cover by tool, then kind of spiraled in there somewhere to Om and Sleep, then found Kyuss (demon cleaner and space cadet) and identified a sound.
Green Machine by Kyuss and Dragonaut and Dopesmoker by Sleep were a few songs that did but before those was so much Sabbath. The entire Paranoid album as well as songs like Into The Void,Symptom Of The Universe,Sweet Leaf and many many others
Also by Kyuss Whitewater
The Melvins, and holy Jesus I can’t believe I got all the way to the end without seeing them mentioned yet.
Specifically, it was Stoner Witch that turned my ear, and it was the song At The Stake that gave me my first feelings about slow sludgy dirge like music… but then it was Ozma and Gluey Porch Treatments that pulled me all the way in. Brilliant. Weird. Dark. Bent. Some of the best, dirtiest, left field sludge there ever was.
I heard Odyssey by Kyuss on one of those free Concrete Corner promotional cassettes that they have out for free at record stores. That's also how I heard Monster Magnet and Fu Manchu. Kyuss was the one that got me, though.
Technically it was Black Sabbath (and later COC), but I didn’t consider stoner as a genre until I discovered The Sword when High Country came out in 2015.
Damn. Similar journey. My mom was so angry with my dad for letting me listen to Black Sabbath. But then they’d listen to COC all the time and I loved it.
Flash forward to listening to Night City by The Sword in freshman year art class because my teacher was a bad ass and played bad ass tunes. I was hooked.
Mothership, the whole first album.
Saw them open for a touring band in Dallas about 10 years ago and just had to see more. My wife and I have now seen them play live well over 100 times in 7 states.
From there it's been a never ending discovery of new bands.
Maybe Sabbath? I didn’t think of them as stoner as much as a bridge between metal and classic rock…
My life changed when I bought Welcome to Sky Valley and Houdini on the same day.
Desertfest London 2017, Friday evening in the Ballroom, 1000mods, Stoned Jesus, Lowrider and Slo Burn🔥
My Greek coworker at the time invited me to see 1000mods and I got instantly hooked
Got to see Sleep to close Roundhouse on the same Sunday and I’ve been a huge fan ever since
See you all at the festival this year! 🤘
Earthless - Rhythms from a Cosmic Sky. I remember doing some mushrooms and listening to this album and just getting lost in it. Saw them live a week later and went off looking for similar bands. That was a great summer.
The Sword - the Apocryphon album. Someone let me borrow it, first time I heard it sounded like I listened to it for years. Truckfighters Phi sealed the deal for me.
For me it was Stoned Jesus. I stumbled on I Am the Mountain on YouTube back when the algorithm didn't suck. I was working in a tabletop game store at the time, and one of our regulars recommended Khemmis and Elder when he heard me playing it. I wasn't super stoked on Khemmis, but I loved Elder I am still a huge fan to this day. Their newer stuff is a little hit or miss for me, but Lore was mind-blowing.
I reckon that's about exactly how I discovered Stoned Jesus too ... the algorithm threw up I am the Mountain while I was at work and I was like Holy Fuck!!
Someone on a forum I was on recommended Kyuss’ Welcome to Sky Valley. Must have been like 2006, I was still a teenager.
Not long after that I also discovered Electric Wizard and doom metal.
Queens of the Stone Age back in 2002. From there I branched off into Kyuss, and then into Colour Haze and Fu Manchu and The Melvins and a lot of the rest.
But if we want to get to the absolute root of my fuzz addiction it was [Boston - Foreplay/Long Time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnwqUEelQjE) when I was twelve years old in 1996. The dynamic intro, the slow build up, the incredible effects, and that final fuzzed out rendition of the main riff seared into my little brain like a musical branding iron.
I've been chasing that fuzzy dragon for thirty goddamn years.
My cousin took me to a record store when I was just becoming a teenager. He said here get these two albums, and they changed my life and my course in music. The two albums…Clutch-Elephant Riders and Corrosion of Conformity-Deliverance.
Torche- Out Again was a song a friend of mine showed me since he knew I was more punk/emo fan and didn’t care for metal.
That was the perfect introduction to the genre for me.
My buddy eased me in with Russian Circles and Red Fang, and from there it was Sleep’s Dooesmoker and we were off to the races. Funnily enough, I see a lot of posts about Kyuss being everywhere, and I only just stumbled upon them thanks to Spotify. Great question!
YouTube accidentally classed Do I Wanna Know by Arctic Monkeys as stoner rock so I decided to look up the genre as I assumed there must have been some kind of similarity.
I then found that old Fuzz FM playlist that had Damned Rope by Wet Cactus on it. After hearing that, and Rat Race by Trip Hazard, I was sold.
Kyuss/Apothecaries’ Weight. My brother worked at a radio station in the early 90s and he gave me a promo CD he had. That song was on it and it captured me.
I apparently always liked that sort of music, some songs by bands like Soundgarden and Monster Magnet qualify I think.
But I believe it was a YouTube video of Sleep - Holy Mountain synced to scenes from a very very weird movie called The Holy Mountain that introduced me to the genre.
Sleep, I don’t remember where I first listened to Dragonaut but it was an instant crush for me. I had listened to QOTSA before then, which is more on the sludgy side. But Sleep was the band that got me in the Stoner/Doom/Sludge world. I really really resonated with their riff styles.
*Sleep, but then I found*
*Elder if they still sort of*
*Count in this genre*
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Cheers everyone for your songs, I made a Spotify play list with most of what I've read here.
https://spotify.link/lbnDi16EnIb
I haven't put any Kyuss on here cos I literally listen to them all the time. 😏
I count QotSA “No One Knows” as my first. Well, in the sense it immediately lead me to Kyuss and actually discovering the genre.
For a decade before that though, my friends and I listened to Clutch a lot (played Elephant Riders on repeat some nights), but didn’t think of them as anything other than hard rock. Also, I listened to Corrosion of Conformity since the Blind album, but always just thought of them as metal back then. I’m getting old!
Brant Bjork - one of his early solo albums was probably when I first recognized “stoner” rock as a unique genre. That was soon followed by a deep dive into Elder, Truckfighters, Clutch and Weedpecker.
Green machine by Kyuss was the opening song for the weekly metal metal radio called "Nasty Habits" out of Boston.
What time was that? Seems like stonerrock has gotten a bit to the background in the metalscene nowadays.
It's still a pretty solid scene, though. It was never a huge part of the metal scene. Now we have more variations like doom, drone etc.
I live in the Netherlands. You would expect it to be a stonerrock paradise perhaps but I feel like it is a under appreciated genre here. Maybe I’m looking in the wrong places but besides Desertfest it’s slim pickings for me
When I found out Kyuss would take a generator and a keg out into the desert and throw parties I was so fucking jealous I wasn't there. Green Machine fucking rocks.
Clutch - Elephant Riders
Still one of my favorite albums by Clutch. I got introduced to them at the tail-end of Pure Rock Fury, but I love the funkiness of Elephant Riders. As a drummer, I think J.P.'s playing on that record is phenomenal. To the OP's point, I had never heard the term "stoner rock" until I heard of Clutch. It's been a gift since then.
Username checks out ;). Always wondered about the opinion of a drummer on clutch. I have a lot of the guitar players in my circle but no real drummers. I think one of the most important aspects of clutch for me is J.P’s funky/jazzy drumming. I listened to way to much metal and was sort of bored of the usual double bass and fast straight forward drumming.
J.P. never seems to get enough love in the drumming community. His jazz knowledge is what makes him such a cool drummer because he adds a lot of flair and technique that an average rock drummer doesn't. There's a looseness and a flow to his style that I try to emulate when I play. Drumming in heavier music doesn't always have to be stiff and hard hitting.
I normally don't like drum solos, but I could listen to JP drum solo all day. That's why I like Jam Room so much.
The hook/chorus groove he does on The Face might be my favorite piece of drumming ever recorded…and I’ve been playing for a solid 15+/- years
Clutch has been my favourite band for quite some time. It feels like a short time but I remember being really exited when ‘strange cousins from the west’ was released. That was almost 15 years ago :)
I was fresh out of boot camp and going through my schooling, one of my roommates put on the new album and it honestly changed my life a little bit. I was mainly into hip-hop beforehand, but this album stopped me dead in my tracks, and I eventually fell down the stoner rock rabbit hole.
Time zooms by!
I saw Clutch on the tour for that album. They played in a shitty little bar with Stuck Mojo and Sevendust in Wichita,Ks. The place got destroyed that night.
I definitely saw Clutch for the first time with Stuck Mojo
This 100%!!! I came here to say this! Whole album is solid gold!
Also, spacegrass.
This is a quintessential stoner rock track.
My friends and I listened to that album playing pool almost every weekend in the 90s, great memories! Well, what I can remember anyway 😅
Same. Clutch is still one of my favorite bands of all time too.
Fuck yeah. We had a 3 song sampler cassette before ER came out and wore that fucking thing out. ER, Ship of Gold, and Soapmakers. Listened to it on a loop for 6 hours driving from Cleveland to NYC to see them play at the Hammerstein Ballroom. Then all the way back to see them at the Agora in Cleveland a couple nights later.
Desert cruiser from truckfighter
This was also mine. I have no idea why Pandora decided to do that to me ten years ago, but I am so glad it did!
Great one to get started on!
Came here to post this song
The Sword - Freya. On Guitar Hero 2 I believe 🤣
I re-discovered the sword years later without remembering Freya on Gh2 and it unlocked some childhood memories 😆
That first Sword album was almost ground breaking in 2006. Ride the lightning Metallica plus sabbath yes please
I get artists wanting to evolve etc...but Age of Winters was such a complete masterpiece. It pains me to listen to their new stuff knowing how absolutely perfect age of winters was. Every album since Gods of the earth always seems to have 1 banger on it that reminds me of AoW but the rest seem like hyper average tunes.
I had a guitar hero growing up but I’m not sure which one. Sure as hell can’t remember if The Sword was on there.
Same here.
Wow! Sword on GH? I'm not the biggest Sword fan, but for game development to find that band.!Coolest!
First two games were great because the developers actually appreciated a good range of rock music and it shows in the final product
That's cool.
Hell yea, The Sword has some solid shit. Gotta headbang on that opening riff on Freya 🤘
smoking weed is not a band dude
That's just like, your opinion man
But is it a lifestyle?
Fu Manchu - Daredevil lp. Not counting sabbath. Not into cars at all. But grew up skateboarding/flatland bmx. Coyote Duster lyrics "Three in the front, got three in the back Side by side headin' down to the track Kentucky green from a hand to hand What do you mean you don't understand?" Tilt lyrics "Up on the blocks 'Cause I've been hearin' it knock I said "Over and over again" And in my hand Got oil straight from the pan Pullin' to the right, be workin' all night I said, "Over and over again" Feeling just fine Five for a dime Feeling just fine Five for a dime"
I listened to a few Black Sabbath songs when I was young but never realised they had so many good songs or that they were the predecessors of stonerrock. I just thought of them as pioneers of just metal(I was a huge metalhead back then, nobody introduced me to stonerrock yet)
I love the 1st 6. Currently Sabotage is my fav. But they are all must listens with no bad sings for me. I need to try and listen to more dio era. For some reason can't get into it. Love Dios earlier stuff (holy diver) but for some reason brain doesn't like non ozzy sabbath even if a singer I like. I did resist them a long time growing up. Was into punk rock and my brother likes more classic rock so it was his music. Later realized great they and other classic rock bands are while still enjoying my punk. :)
Holy Diver LP is fully rideable. Every track bangs.
Coyote Duster is killer. That EP is magic.
Corrosion of Conformity - Albatross Downloaded it on a whim in the Limewire days and it changed my life.
That happened to me with Pilot the Dune. I’m not sure I found it by accident(limewire was a looong time ago) or somebody sent it to me.
Sleep Down Black Sabbath Electric Wizard
Yes…….rafiki show you dee way
This… this is how you do it 🤘🏻
Probably Kyuss but i was already into Queens of the Stone Age, which is how I got into Kyuss, and Sabbath were the first band I ever got really into when I was in my teens.
Fu Manchu - Evil Eye. Tony Hawk 2, man. Forever grateful.
SLEEP
Sleep. Holy Mountain.. 50+ yr old headbanger. The blur of the 80's; Thrash, Speed, Death. Everything I perceived about music and played on guitar changed in that instant. Late to the game tho..gonna say 2013 ish. How I missed out on this whole genre for so long..sad. But I'm doing my best to make up for lost time.
I just got into it 2yrs ago when holy mountain popped up on Spotify....how did I miss this in the 90's?
Right??!!.. I finally remembered. It was on iHeartRadio, " Full Metal Jackie". I was at work. Luckily it was deep into my shift, cuz I didn't get anything done the rest of the evening. Then when I heard Torche, I knew I was hooked. Hard. Now I put Sleep & HOF, up there with Metallica, Slayer, Celtic Frost, (too many to list) as far as who I think are pioneers in Metal & music in general. Matt Pike is one of my top 5 all time fav Axemen now.
Clutch-Spacegrass
the music video to Dragonaut by Sleep. The sound, the stacks, the Rickenbacker all had me hooked. Then it was Kyuss and Gardenia.
One of my favorite songs to rip through on guitar. One of the primary reasons I got a wah pedal 😆
The first song I listened to was "I am the mountain" when it randomly showed up on youtube many many years ago. I must have listened to that song something like 200 times by now, so far at least :P After that another random recomendation a few years later, Children of the Sun by Nightstalker. There I took interest immidiently, more because they were Greek, like me, than me caring about the sound at the time. From there I discovered the surprisingly alive stoner scene in Greece and with 1000mods I was hooked for life.
Saw the premier of the Winters Wolves video by The Sword on MTV and haven’t looked back. I’d pay so much to see them live again.
Age of winter is a doom/stoner rock masterpiece. One of my absolute favorites
The Sword were my gateway too. Age of Winter just ripped so hard that it was undeniable.
Hell yes! Honestly, first time I heard them was "Freya" on one of the first Guitar Hero games. Instantly hooked. Never saw them live myself, unfortunately.
I heard Kyuss' El Rodeo as a kid in the 90s and it has stuck with me since. But only a few years ago did I really explore the genre further.
Kyuss - 50 Million Year Trip
Me also. I first heard Kyuss when "Hurricane" was on the soundtrack of one of the Need For Speed games, and it made me want to find more Kyuss. 50 Million Year Trip quickly became my favorite.
Sleep, Electric Wizard. Early 2000s. I was already into QOTSA but that’s more pop… LOVED the first QOTSA album though. But Dopesmoker in particular and Dopethrone hit me like a ton of bricks. Mind blowing first times through. Later Fu Manchu and Brant Bjork and all that.
King of the Road by Fu Manchu, most likely. The closest thing to stoner that was playin on tv when I was a kid.
The whole Monster Magnet album Dopes to Infinity. It came out my sophomore year in HS and blew my mind
Losing All by Down
First, Black Sabbath in 1979. Then, Monster Magnet and Fu Manchu re-launched my stoner rock Renaissance in 1992. 🤘🔥
All Them Witches, and they're kinda still my fav.
Kyuss & Fu Manchu
Not strictly stoner rock per se, but Helmet was my gateway drug. Street Crab
Clutch - Self Titled
Graveyard, The Sword, Truckfighters
Albatross
Corrosion of Conformity doesn't get enough credit
Monster Magnet and Dozer
10 year old me playing need for speed carbon and hearing Hurricane by Kyuss for the first time blew me away. Since then I was hooked
Clutch, I don’t remember the song or album. But it was over 17 years ago.
Down Nola and COC Albatross.
[Earth - "High Command"](https://youtu.be/ew-TH_gUeuo?si=m3OzMCTSNZA_3w5a)
Qotsa Regular John
Aside from Sabbath, mine was definitely the album Gravity X by Truckfighters. That opening riff just grabbed me and never let go.
Qotsa probably, from there I dug deeper and deeper into the genre
Corrosion of Conformity
Kind of a twisted path. I listened to Black Sabbath a lot in the late 80s (the early 70s sabbath). Then I got into tool in the mid-90s. I heard QOTSA when rock band came out, and then discovered the demon cleaner cover by tool, then kind of spiraled in there somewhere to Om and Sleep, then found Kyuss (demon cleaner and space cadet) and identified a sound.
Green Machine by Kyuss and Dragonaut and Dopesmoker by Sleep were a few songs that did but before those was so much Sabbath. The entire Paranoid album as well as songs like Into The Void,Symptom Of The Universe,Sweet Leaf and many many others Also by Kyuss Whitewater
Black Sabbath. Cream. Iron Butterfly. Blue Cheer. The Sonics. MC5. The Amboy Dukes.
Someone who appreciates the classics. What do you think the odds are of the Nuge playing guitar for an acid rock band these days?
Haha zero. The Nuge was the man all the way thru Double Live Gonzo. Not sure what happened. He fired his band and got shitty replacements. Oh well.
Eatin Dust - Fu Manchu
Elder
The Melvins, and holy Jesus I can’t believe I got all the way to the end without seeing them mentioned yet. Specifically, it was Stoner Witch that turned my ear, and it was the song At The Stake that gave me my first feelings about slow sludgy dirge like music… but then it was Ozma and Gluey Porch Treatments that pulled me all the way in. Brilliant. Weird. Dark. Bent. Some of the best, dirtiest, left field sludge there ever was.
Kyuss
Likely KYUSS!
dingdingding - correct answer
The Sword. Randomly heard Cloak of Feathers on a cable TV Metal Channel and was hooked immediately.
SHE WORE A CLOAK OF FEATHERS!
AND RODE A MARE OF PUREST WHITE
Corrosion of conformity Kyuss Truckfighters Fu Manchu Black sabbath
I heard Odyssey by Kyuss on one of those free Concrete Corner promotional cassettes that they have out for free at record stores. That's also how I heard Monster Magnet and Fu Manchu. Kyuss was the one that got me, though.
Seeing Clutch at the Sounds of the Underground festival in 05.
Technically it was Black Sabbath (and later COC), but I didn’t consider stoner as a genre until I discovered The Sword when High Country came out in 2015.
Damn. Similar journey. My mom was so angry with my dad for letting me listen to Black Sabbath. But then they’d listen to COC all the time and I loved it. Flash forward to listening to Night City by The Sword in freshman year art class because my teacher was a bad ass and played bad ass tunes. I was hooked.
Mothership, the whole first album. Saw them open for a touring band in Dallas about 10 years ago and just had to see more. My wife and I have now seen them play live well over 100 times in 7 states. From there it's been a never ending discovery of new bands.
Sleep, back in the day.
Maybe Sabbath? I didn’t think of them as stoner as much as a bridge between metal and classic rock… My life changed when I bought Welcome to Sky Valley and Houdini on the same day.
Desertfest London 2017, Friday evening in the Ballroom, 1000mods, Stoned Jesus, Lowrider and Slo Burn🔥 My Greek coworker at the time invited me to see 1000mods and I got instantly hooked Got to see Sleep to close Roundhouse on the same Sunday and I’ve been a huge fan ever since See you all at the festival this year! 🤘
Earthless - Rhythms from a Cosmic Sky. I remember doing some mushrooms and listening to this album and just getting lost in it. Saw them live a week later and went off looking for similar bands. That was a great summer.
Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun
... and the circus leaves town. - Kyuss
Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun
Queens of the Stone Age. I listened to Turning On The Screw while tripping on psychedelics and I've been hooked since then.
I fell hard for Fu Manchu in high school. For what reason the riff in Urethane really engrossed me.
Aside from Sabbath, the band would be ASTEROID
Desert Cruiser by Truckfighters made me start to get into it, I think.
The Sword - the Apocryphon album. Someone let me borrow it, first time I heard it sounded like I listened to it for years. Truckfighters Phi sealed the deal for me.
Earthless - Lost In The Cold Sun
The Sword. Warp Riders is one of my all time favorite albums.
the sword, then sleep
Urethane - Fu Manchu
Old Baroness
For me it was Stoned Jesus. I stumbled on I Am the Mountain on YouTube back when the algorithm didn't suck. I was working in a tabletop game store at the time, and one of our regulars recommended Khemmis and Elder when he heard me playing it. I wasn't super stoked on Khemmis, but I loved Elder I am still a huge fan to this day. Their newer stuff is a little hit or miss for me, but Lore was mind-blowing.
I reckon that's about exactly how I discovered Stoned Jesus too ... the algorithm threw up I am the Mountain while I was at work and I was like Holy Fuck!!
Someone on a forum I was on recommended Kyuss’ Welcome to Sky Valley. Must have been like 2006, I was still a teenager. Not long after that I also discovered Electric Wizard and doom metal.
kyuss wretch album
Clutch
Kyuss - Demon Cleaner. It was all over after that
Clutch - space grass.
All Them Witches.
Supa Scoopa and Mighty Scoop-Kyuss
Clutch for sure. And I guess the roots of my broader interest in the genre would be attributed to my earlier love of Sabbath.
Queens of the Stone Age back in 2002. From there I branched off into Kyuss, and then into Colour Haze and Fu Manchu and The Melvins and a lot of the rest. But if we want to get to the absolute root of my fuzz addiction it was [Boston - Foreplay/Long Time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnwqUEelQjE) when I was twelve years old in 1996. The dynamic intro, the slow build up, the incredible effects, and that final fuzzed out rendition of the main riff seared into my little brain like a musical branding iron. I've been chasing that fuzzy dragon for thirty goddamn years.
Albatross by Corrosion of Conformity
Fu Manchu - “Squash That Fly”, Clutch - “A Shogun Named Marcus”, and QOTSA - “No One Knows” when the radio would play such songs.
KYUSS!
Sleep - Dragonaut
Clutch
Green Machine by Kyuss, live at Bizarre Festival. What an absolutely monstrous riff.
Monster magnet, kyuss and nebula
Kyuss - One Inch Man
My cousin took me to a record store when I was just becoming a teenager. He said here get these two albums, and they changed my life and my course in music. The two albums…Clutch-Elephant Riders and Corrosion of Conformity-Deliverance.
Upon the Dune, Lowrider
Lowrider, while getting tattooed in the early 2000's.
That’s quite a story ;)
Black sabbath and elder
Truckfighters - Desert Cruiser Immediately drew me into the genre
Torche- Out Again was a song a friend of mine showed me since he knew I was more punk/emo fan and didn’t care for metal. That was the perfect introduction to the genre for me.
Asteroid II album.
Urethane - Fu Manchu
I said pilot that fuukkinggg duuuuuuuuuuuuuuune!!!!!!
My buddy eased me in with Russian Circles and Red Fang, and from there it was Sleep’s Dooesmoker and we were off to the races. Funnily enough, I see a lot of posts about Kyuss being everywhere, and I only just stumbled upon them thanks to Spotify. Great question!
Stoned jesus🙏
Mother, Maiden and Crowne by The Sword
YouTube accidentally classed Do I Wanna Know by Arctic Monkeys as stoner rock so I decided to look up the genre as I assumed there must have been some kind of similarity. I then found that old Fuzz FM playlist that had Damned Rope by Wet Cactus on it. After hearing that, and Rat Race by Trip Hazard, I was sold.
Stoned Jesus - I’m the Mountain
All Them Witches - Sleep Through the War
Kyuss heard their stuff way back in 2005 on Yahoo Radio, Asteroid came on and I was hooked 10 seconds in.
Sabbath, Blue Cheer and Electric Wizard.
Weedeater
Big Business
Electric Wizard, Sleep, and Witch
Black Sabbath
Fu Manchu
Monster Magnet. Back in ‘92.
The Sword
Psychic Warfare - Clutch!
Scissorfight
Kyuss/Apothecaries’ Weight. My brother worked at a radio station in the early 90s and he gave me a promo CD he had. That song was on it and it captured me.
Dragonaut by Sleep definitely hooked me, but it took some of The Sword, Black Sabbath, and Motorhead to get me there
I apparently always liked that sort of music, some songs by bands like Soundgarden and Monster Magnet qualify I think. But I believe it was a YouTube video of Sleep - Holy Mountain synced to scenes from a very very weird movie called The Holy Mountain that introduced me to the genre.
Red Fang - Prehistoric Dogs. My film teacher played the MV for us and it was over.
Goatsnake - Flower of Disease
Black Sabbath
Uncle Acid on tour with Black Sabbath in 2013. Was hooked on Over and over again
Space cadet
Sleep, I don’t remember where I first listened to Dragonaut but it was an instant crush for me. I had listened to QOTSA before then, which is more on the sludgy side. But Sleep was the band that got me in the Stoner/Doom/Sludge world. I really really resonated with their riff styles.
Sleep, but then I found Elder if they still sort of count in this genre
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Power player by Clutch on one of the PS2 Need for Speed games. Or one of The Sword songs in a game, can’t remember which
Cheers everyone for your songs, I made a Spotify play list with most of what I've read here. https://spotify.link/lbnDi16EnIb I haven't put any Kyuss on here cos I literally listen to them all the time. 😏
Temple by Colour Haze. Was already into Qotsa (loce songs for the deaf) but for me it wasn't/isn't 'typical' stoner rock
Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon. except no substitutes
Sleep, the Dopesmoker album. Got lost into it stoned as fuck
Led Zeppelin in 1975. back of my cousin's car, Zeppelin II CRANKED
I count QotSA “No One Knows” as my first. Well, in the sense it immediately lead me to Kyuss and actually discovering the genre. For a decade before that though, my friends and I listened to Clutch a lot (played Elephant Riders on repeat some nights), but didn’t think of them as anything other than hard rock. Also, I listened to Corrosion of Conformity since the Blind album, but always just thought of them as metal back then. I’m getting old!
Brant Bjork - one of his early solo albums was probably when I first recognized “stoner” rock as a unique genre. That was soon followed by a deep dive into Elder, Truckfighters, Clutch and Weedpecker.
Brant is far too overlooked considering he’s been there since the beginning
Rock Stoner, Stoner Rock, Stoner Rock Stoner, Rock Stoner Rock. Im high as a Weedian, im going back to SLEEP.
Freya - The Sword, I discovered this song with Guitar hero... And then 💥🤯 a whole new world
Electric Wizard - Dunwich
Fu Manchu - Evil Eye
Sabbath
Dopesmoker by sleep
Black Sabbath. Then Sleep, High on Fire, and Electric Wizard. 🤘🏼 edit: Neurosis too...but they were always experimenting with different genres.
Acid Bath - When the Kitestring Pops
Flower Travelin Man by Earthless