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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]
- Toby Cook
- Sleep – Dopesmoker. The high (bong) watermark for the entire stoner metal subgenre. So utterly peerless is Sleep’s masterpiece that it’s easy to forget it was originally recorded 20 years ago.
- Weedeater – God Luck And Good Speed. The fact that bassist/vocalist ‘Dixie’ Dave Collins shot his own toe off probably tells you everything you need to about North Carolina’s Weedeater.
- Bongripper – Worship. Creating albums with titles like Great Barrier Reefer and Hippie Killer while dressing like you work in River Island makes it look like you’re taking the piss.
- Electric Wizard – Dopethrone. The perfectly nihilistic antithesis to every cod-reggae listening, Bob Marley idolising bibble who you want to strangle with their own hemp-made trousers.
- 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.
- Jon Dolan
- Wilco, ‘Sky Blue Sky’ Irony alert: the record about Jeff Tweedy’s post-rehab coolout period is by far Wilco's weediest. Elegant and mellow, rich with sweet Seventies rock scholarship, Sky Blue Sky has the best band interplay of any of their albums.
- Os Mutantes, ‘Os Mutantes’ Os Mutantes were kids when they made this debut: Sergio Dias Baptista was only 17, his brother Arnaldo was 20 and singer Rita Lee just 21.
- Beach House, ‘Devotion’ The Baltimore duo's second album was the perfect deep-toking soundtrack for late-'00s indie kids: a drifty, velveteen set full of homemade charm, gauzy keyboards and hypnotic tunes.
- David Crosby, ‘If I Could Only Remember My Name’ Like a super-stoned campfire jam with an A-list of Cali hippie-rockers – including Joni Mitchell and most of the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, and CSNY – this hazy solo project by the altered-consciousness overachiever sounds like it was pretty much made up on the spot.
- 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.
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