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<title>Queens of the Stone Age</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Borne of early/mid-'90s cult faves/stoner-rockers Kyuss, these men of impeccable filth and taste push the hesher aesthetic through the '90s alterna-blender. Queens of the Stone Age resuscitate the '70s myth of hard rock decadence, blitzkrieging the discriminating, heavy jean jacket-wearing sweathog with sucker-punch melodies, grinding fuzz-bass propulsions, and sleazy rhythms straight from the gutter. Josh Homme's sleepy vocals add a certain narcoticism to the band's trademark pounding attack, offering an antithetical element to their otherwise visceral musical agenda. The band's near-metal sound has garnered praise from metalheads and alternafolk alike. Their guitar sound may be a direct descendent of <I>Gish</I>-era Smashing Pumpkins, and the roll in their rock definitely owes a certain debt to <I>Saturation</I>-era Urge Overkill, but the spiritual rock influences stained on their sleeve can be traced back to early Black Sabbath and other sludgy hard rock acts of the '70s.
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<title>Clutch</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Clutch play thick, greasy Metal with one foot in the '70s Hard Rock of Led Zeppelin and the other in the '90s crunch of Pantera and Helmet. Their trademark sound revolves around bloozy guitar/bass riffs and funky, stop-start drumbeats, all topped off by frontman Neil Fallon's eccentric vocals. He barks, talks, raps and emits other assorted noises in a cigarette-damaged tone. Song titles such as "The House That Peterbilt, "Elephant Riders" and "Texan Book of the Dead" offer a sense of what to expect from their lyrics -- a mix of surreal storytelling, sci-fi obsessions and self-aware redneck humor. Since their 1993 debut <I>Transnational Speedway League</I>, they've let go of some of their aggro tendencies, instead going in a more southern Funk Rock direction that has led some to call them a "hillbilly Primus."
- Will York]]></description>
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<category>Hard Rock</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Sydney's Wolfmother will teleport you back to the pre-metal rock days of the late-'60s and early-'70s. Singer/guitarist Andrew Stockdale's magazine-friendly good looks may recall a young Noel Redding (the English afro'd bass player from the Jimi Hendrix Experience), but his raucous, riff-heavy guitar playing echoes amp-blasting tones from both Leigh Stephens (Blue Cheer) and Vanilla Fudge's Vince Martell. However impressive his six-string skills are, it's Stockdale's powerful and melodic wail that drives Wolfmother. The chemistry between Stockdale, drummer Myles Heskett and bassist/keyboardist Chris Ross was apparent on Wolfmother's 2006 self-titled debut. But it didn't last; international success, a Grammy (for Best Hard Rock Performance) and even a request from Led Zeppelin to appear as guests for their U.K. Music Hall of Fame induction led to tension and eventually the departure of Heskett and Ross, who cited "irreconcilable differences." Stockdale kept the name and recruited guitarist Aidan Nemeth, bassist/keyboardist Ian Peres and drummer Dave Atkins to go on as Wolfmother. The new quartet released <i>Cosmic Egg</i> in late 2009.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Monster Magnet</title>
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<description><![CDATA[During the stoner-rock heyday of the early '90s, Monster Magnet stood out from the samey-ness of the Fu Manchus of the world by lining their fattened riffs with a psychedelic edge that smacked more of LSD than the marijuana obsessions of everybody else taking the ball from the Melvins and running with it at the time. Led by guitarist Dave Wyndorf and strongly influenced by then-unfashionable Hawkwind, Monster Magnet enjoyed critical favor from the start with the appearance of <i>Spine of God</i> in 1991. Long songs, vector-plotting bass lines and wormhole solo freak-outs served as calling cards for the band. Their third album, <i>Dopes to Infinity</i> (1995), marked a creative peak even if the expected mainstream success didn't follow, and Wyndorf relocated the band to Las Vegas, stripping back their sound and reigning in the trippiness. The result was 1998's <i>Powertrip</i>, sparking a commercial breakthrough thanks to "Space Lord" becoming an MTV hit. With each subsequent album, Monster Magnet has retreated further from their spaced-out stoner-rock beginnings and moved deeper into a straight-up hard-rock style.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Melvins</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:21:21 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Every last Grunge star cited the Melvins as a major influence in their sound, but none of them produced anything as heavy. They may have taken ten albums to produce a single hook, but the Melvins' sludge-caked, Sabbath-inspired tracks are undeniably a force of grandeur. They embody the strange contradiction of being exceptional musicians who personify apathetic stoner kids. At first listen, the Melvins produce filthy hesher rock, but through time, layers of fuzz and distortion reveal themselves as masterful arrangements, even as they become as overwhelming as a night of huffing tar. Even Karlheinz Stockhausen's "Helicopter String Quartet" sounds feathery after two minutes of the Melvins' <I>Lysol</I>. Don't forget to lift with your knees.
- Marc Kate]]></description>
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<title>Kyuss</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Along with San Jose, California's Sleep, Kyuss set down the blueprint for
stoner rock, with a groovier, more alternative rock-influenced take on
Sabbath than their classically-obsessed brethren to the north. Formed in
Palm Desert, California in 1990 by guitarist Josh Homme, bassist Nick
Oliveri, drummer Brant Bjork and singer John Garcia, the band quickly gained
a following on the strength of their raging live performances and second
record, <I>Blues For The Red Sun</I>, which was produced by Chris Goss of
Masters Of Reality. Kyuss' magnum opus, <I>Welcome To Sky Valley</I>
followed, a record in which they took their once somewhat tightly structured
groove-rock songs and smashed them together into extended, multipart,
super-heavy psyche-metal jams. The guitar sound itself on the first three
minutes of that record sums up late '90s stoner rock -- a warm blanket of
distortion with unheard of amounts, yet precisely controlled fuzz with a
slightly muffled feel. Personal differences beset the band early on and by
the release of <I>And The Circus leaves Town</I> in 1995, Kyuss had called
it quits for good. Homme went on to form Queens Of The Stone Age with
Oliveri.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Black Mountain</title>
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<description><![CDATA[This new generation of Canadian commune kids hang out with a group of like-minded artists and musicians in Vancouver called the Black Mountain Army. Just like their non-peacenik named collective, these youthful hippies aren't about gentle acoustic strumming like the commune denizens of yore, but have their guitars plugged in and turned way up. Black Mountain blend heavy rock roots with harmonic indie pop backed by a funk thump that fuses together to create an original brand of psychedelic stoner rock.
- Michele K-Tel]]></description>
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<title>Fu Manchu</title>
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<category>Stoner Rock</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:06:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Super heavy and bass happy Detroit rock 'n' roll is totally deep-fried, fuzzed out, window breakin', pot sellin', sleepin-in-the-van, skater metal. Brontosaurus-like songs crash through the jungle with a drawling, mush-mouthed bastard child of Leslie West alternately spitting and howling the vocals.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>The Sword</title>
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<category>Stoner Rock</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Austin-based doom quartet the Sword formed in 2003 with singer/guitarist/project mastermind J.D. Cronise at the helm. A year later, the Sword solidified their cast with frontman Cronise, guitarist Kyle Shutt, bassist Bryan Richie and drummer Trivett Wingo. Garnering sonic inspiration from stoner/doom legends Sleep along with heavy thrashers Slayer and early metal progenitors Black Sabbath, this crushing foursome created a much-buzzed-about throwback sound. After debuting at famed local music fest SXSW, the Sword released their venerated first album, <I>Age of Winters</I>, in 2006 to critical acclaim, and returned in 2008 with the darker, heavier <I>Gods of the Earth</I>.
- Jen Guyre]]></description>
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<title>High On Fire</title>
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<category>Stoner Rock</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Formed in the early 2000s by former Sleep guitarist Matt Pike, High on Fire are a mercilessly heavy stoner metal outfit. The major discernable difference between the two bands is that where Sleep specialized in turgid, slow-sludge overkill, High on Fire tend to amp up the tempos. The Sabbath and Melvins influences are still very present in High on Fire, but Pike writes tighter, faster songs and gives his exceptional guitar playing plenty of room for stretching out with explosive, often psychedelic guitar solos. Their debut, <I>The Art of Self Defense</I>, came out in 2001. Highlighted by the incredible "10,000 Years," that album and its 2002 follow-up, <I>Surrounded By Thieves</I>, along with a 2003 release of Sleep's legendary "Dopesmoker" track (a 60-minute exploration of the spot where bong hits and heavy metal mythology meet) heralded a second wind for the whole stoner rock genre. A good thing too, because judging from <I>Songs for the Deaf</I>, it seems like Queens of the Stone Age just don't have all that much to say. Thankfully Pike, and his obsessions with the existence of yetis, mystical Christianity and the heaviest of heavy metal, appears to be far from finished. The band released <i>Blessed Black Wings</i> in 2005, which was produced by the infamous Steve Albini.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Priestess</title>
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<category>Hard Rock</category>
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<title>Dax Riggs</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Singer-songwriter/psychedelic death-metal veteran Dax Riggs has been a New Orleans figure of worship since his days fronting Acid Bath, an early sludge-metal band. Acid Bath disbanded following the tragic death of bass player Audie Pitre, and Riggs launched the short-lived (one album, one tour) project Agents of Oblivion followed by the longer-lasting Deadboy and the Elephant Men. When Elephant Men dissolved in 2006, Riggs released their forthcoming record himself. Since then, Riggs has been recording and performing under his own name.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Sleep</title>
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<category>Stoner Rock</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:03:39 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The torpid opening chords of <I>Sleep's Holy Mountain</I> (1993) signaled to all that the droning drug rock of Black Sabbath was rearing its ugly head once more. With this album, Sleep usurped from Kyuss the Stoner Rock throne. Though these bong-blasted San Franciscans can induce fatigue at times with their endlessly repeated rhythms and hung-out-on-the-line riffs, these guys are gods to devotees of sky-darkening palls of feedback and down-tuned guitar chug. Their fifty-two-minute-long, one-track album <I>Jerusalem</I> (1999) is by far the band's most ambitious study in restraint. For much of the epic bad-Acid Rock trip, the band lies dormant beneath a mesmerizing din of paranoid doom, suddenly leaping into monster riffs and fierce two-guitar unisons. In every song they record, Sleep descend on listeners with the patience and confidence of vultures scenting death. To some, the advance of their black pinions will sound angelic.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Acid Bath</title>
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<category>Death Metal</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:33:50 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Despite a short life span and only a pair of releases, now-defunct sludge and doom metal band Acid Bath were nevertheless a major piece of the lauded New Orleans metal puzzle of the mid- to late '90s. With many of the same trappings as their peers (slowly thudding guitar riffs, an almost unmatched reverence for early Black Sabbath), Acid Bath stood apart from the pack thanks to variations employed by singer Daxx Riggs, a wide array of influences in their music and a strong psychedelic bent in their songs. Riggs' singing -- often melodic and given to moments of gothic somberness, but also known to lay out hardcore/death screeches and growls with the best of them -- garnered the band early renown among critics. Their two records, <i>When the Kite String Pops</i> (1994) and <i>Pagan Terrorism Tactics</i> (1996), pointed to serious potential, but the band split following the tragic death of bassist Audie Pitre in a car accident in 1997. Riggs went on to front several psychedelic doom bands, most notably Agents of Oblivion and Deadboy and the Elephant Men, as well as recording and performing as a solo artist.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Superjoint Ritual</title>
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<category>Stoner Rock</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:34:16 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[One of Pantera singer Phil Anselmo's many side projects, Superjoint Ritual
is an extremely brutal thrash/hardcore/sludge metal hybrid. Everybody always
mentions how Hank Williams III plays bass for this band but the real draw is
former Eyehategod guitarist Jim Bower's presence. At their best, Superjoint
Ritual sounds like a more souped-up version of Eyehategod, with better
production values and the immediately-identifiable Anselmo shriek. At their
worst they sound like Phil Anselmo screaming his goddamned face off with
blisteringly heavy guitars and stomp-your-head-in drums for support. Don't
let the crappy band name fool you.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Spirit Caravan</title>
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<category>Stoner Rock</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 8 Feb 2009 09:56:59 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Masters of Reality</title>
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<category>Stoner Rock</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:50:54 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Despite the presence of Ginger Baker on drums, Central New York's Masters of Reality never received much recognition outside of the circle of critics that championed them. Not quite as heavy as their Black Sabbath-inspired name would seem to indicate, the band's true metier was fast, hard Electric Blues. Frontman Chris Goss' smooth, gentle-giant vocals exude level-headed intensity, while his guitar playing is nothing short of phenomenal.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Nebula</title>
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<category>Stoner Rock</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:06:27 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Pelican</title>
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<category>Alt Metal</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 12:39:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Based in Chicago, Pelican are an instrumental metal band that combines elements of post-rock and doom metal. Massive, slow-to-mid-tempo riffs and expansive song structures have brought the band comparisons to fellow avant-metal dudes Isis. The main difference between the two bands is that Pelican's riffs tend to be more rooted in Black Sabbath and traditional stoner metal rather than the post-hardcore arty tendencies of Isis. Either way, folks who love it loud and are patient are directed to this band's eccentric canon.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Electric Wizard</title>
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<category>Stoner Rock</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:49:10 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Stoner Rock emerged as a sludgy backlash against the extreme velocity, technicality and brutality of post-Thrash Metal. It endeavored to return to the primal soup that gave rise to Black Sab, Blue Cheer and Deep Purple. No band better exemplifies this trend than England's Electric Wizard. Their sticky resin riffs supply amazingly long hits, songs regularly surpassing the ten-minute mark. If, while listening to bands like Sleep and Acrimony, you find yourself nodding out during the blackened slugfests of down-tuned guitar and droning basslines, you may find this to be a difficult traverse. Electric Wizard manage to out-heavy both of those bands by burrowing even deeper into a molten pitch of de-tuned rumble and piping feedback. The lyrics are pretty churlish, sporting references to a Chthonic world of wizards, warlocks, demons and such, but somehow it doesn't detract. Fans of this stuff come for one thing, basically: godly heavy guitars. Of that, Electric Wizard have a mother lode.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Boris</title>
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<category>Experimental</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:38:53 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Active since coming together in 1992, Boris remain unknown in Japan, but internationally they have long been recognized as leaders in experimental metal. Over the course of a 16-album and countless 7-inch career, the trio is largely associated with drone and doom but has also messed with straight rock, stoner, noise and ambient genres. Boris are legendary for unrelentingly slow, feedback-drenched dirges that stretch well over the 60-minute mark. They also construct equally long, highly orchestrated epics as well as shorter (for them) Melvins-influenced slow-jams. Their first album, <i>Absolutego</i>, came out in 1996, and as most of their material was not available in the U.S. until Southern Lord started reissuing their catalog in the early 2000s, they remained a sort of holy grail of stoner metal for years. With their latest releases -- as well as frequent and varied collaborations -- finally readily available, the band has consistently lived up to the hype while paying no attention to the praise given in the mainstream press. Boris may no longer be the sought-after prize of true metal geeks, but they remain a vital and groundbreaking part of the extreme metal scene.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Pentagram</title>
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<category>Doom Metal</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 9 Nov 2009 11:46:50 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the first acts to mess with ideas that are now known as doom metal, Pentagram are a still-operational (in some capacity) metal band that got their start -- and toiled in obscurity for most of their career -- in and around Alexandria, Va. Formed by singer Bobby Liebling in 1971, the band played a murky, downtempo derivative of Blue Cheer's <i>Outsideinside</i> album that won them a devoted local following but failed to yield a record deal. Four singles and a slew of demos represented the band's oeuvre until 1985, when <i>Pentagram</i>, made up of both new material and remixes of songs written and recorded in the '70s, surfaced (the album has since been re-released as <i>Relentless</i>). A second album, <i>Day of Reckoning</i>, followed in 1987, after which the band broke up for the zillionth time. In 2001, Relapse put out a collection of demos, <i>First Daze Here: The Vintage Collection</i>, which -- with the doom and stoner metal movements in full swing -- took on an uncanny prescience. Pentagram came to represent a physical link between Black Sabbath and Saint Vitus, if only by the tempos and lo-fi recordings. Liebling promptly re-formed the band and started releasing records on Italian label Black Widow.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Black Pyramid</title>
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<category>Stoner Rock</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 13:37:56 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Torche</title>
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<category>Doom Metal</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 12:17:28 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Miami is renowned for birthing many pop acts, so it's no surprise this is also the hometown of stoner pop quartet Torche. Formed in 2004 out of the ashes of local doom heroes Floor, vocalist/guitarist Steve Brooks, guitarist Juan Montoya, bassist Jonathan Nunez and drummer Rick Smith showcase a strong pop sensibility, but mainly take cues from 1990s grunged-out doomsayers like the Melvins and smoke-laden jamsters like Kyuss. To cultivate a place in the doom world, the stoner rock world, the hipster metal world and quite possibly even the mainstream, their self-titled Robotic Empire debut focused on monolithic riffs with catchy vocal overlays. As they honed their sound over the next couple years, Torche changed up their roaring metallic sound for more rock-based riffs. Though still catchy, and still rooted in stoner sludge, 2008's Hydra Head debut <I>Meanderthal</I> takes Torche's pop hooks to an indie rock arena.
- Jen Guyre]]></description>
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<title>Fudge Tunnel</title>
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<category>Alt Metal</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:33:43 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Simply on the basis of their debut LP <I>Hate Songs in E Minor</I> (1996), Fudge Tunnel have to be ranked among Metal's greats. A monumental slab of molten feedback, genetically cloned riffs, and earth-moving bass licks, there's nothing else like it in rock 'n' roll -- unfortunately, not even subsequent releases stack up track for track. Their follow-up <I>Creep Diets</I> observes the same formula and reaps the same organ-mulching results, but by the time Fudge Tunnel rolled out <I>Complicated Futility of Ignorance</I> in 1994, their sonic muscle had begun to atrophy. Sensing that the band was foundering, lead guitarist and vocalist Alex Newport closed up shop and formed side project Nailbomb with Sepultura's Igor Cavalera. Fudge Tunnel doesn't offer any of the virtuoso guitar wanking or shrill vocals that typify Metal. Instead, this band takes you down the genre's low road -- a feedback-wallowing sludgefest for those who are unafraid of getting a little muddy.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Witch</title>
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<category>Stoner Rock</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 4 Nov 2009 12:14:32 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Psychedelic trad-stoner metal trio Witch formed in 2005, anchored by the drumming of former Dinosaur Jr. guitar god J Mascis and bass player Dave Sweetapple. The duo enlisted guitarist/singer Kyle Thomas and later, a second guitar in Kurt Weisman. Dividing its time between western Massachusetts and Burlington, Vt., the band has released two albums on Tee Pee Records (home of High On Fire and the Brian Jonestown Massacre) and appeared on the 2006 heavy music comp <i>Invaders</i>. Plumbing the early '70s for hard-rock riffs and laying spaced-out vocals over the slow thud of the rhythm section, Witch is as much a rock band as a metal band, alternately extending jams into the stratosphere and delivering tightly wound nuggets of biker metal in more succinct bursts. Fans of Dinosaur Jr. are advised to buy Mountain's <i>Climbing!</i> and the first Free record before looking here for a sequel to <i>Green Mind</i>.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Saint Vitus</title>
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<category>Doom Metal</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:21:21 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Before the epic drudgery of '90s Doom Metal bands like Type O Negative and Kyuss, early-'80s artists like Candlemass, Trouble and Saint Vitus had already dredged up the rotting corpses of Black Sabbath and Deep Purple to produce gritty, bass-heavy Metal that moved at a lethargic pace. Saint Vitus' songs, in particular, are painfully slow. Their riffs sound like a dump truck unloading a payload of gravel in slow motion. Their tracks always feel like they are accelerating towards some cumulative velocity, but they usually remain, from beginning to end, an oozing, amorphous form. Vocalist Scott Reagers led their haunting epics of horror and suffering with his chilling, raspy voice.
- Marc Kate]]></description>
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<title>Orange Goblin</title>
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<category>Metal</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:03:38 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[From the smoky depths of Stoner Rock rise Satan's metal devils, Orange Goblin. Spawned in 1995 the band originally called themselves Our Haunted Kingdom, but kicked the name aside after finding a more fitting title for their brooding doom rock. As Orange Goblin, these British Black Sabbath disciples command attention with a three-pronged pitchfork of pure "rawk." Using beefy guitars, pummeling drums and weighty basslines that threaten to crush you, OG create a wall of sound thicker than the air in a room full of smokers. Add production work by Billy Anderson (Melvins, EYEHATEGOD, Neurosis) and you have <I>The Big Black</I>, the Goblin's most explosive force that you don't want to reckon with. Orange Goblin will see you in stoner hell.
- Jennifer Maerz]]></description>
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<title>Atomic Bitchwax</title>
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<category>Acid Rock</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 24 May 2009 09:01:35 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Three-piece side project of Monster Magnet guitarist Ed Mundell. His powerful command of the heavy, psychedelic-steeped Stoner Rock vocabulary shines forth in theses songs. From the inescapable "tractor beam" grooves of early Grand Funk to the awe-inducing monoliths of sound erected by Kyuss, Mundell and his crew are right at home wherever the sonics are loud and heavy.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Alabama Thunderpussy</title>
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<category>Stoner Rock</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:04:18 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The bitter end of the Southern Rock trajectory. This Virginia band puts grinding slabs of Sabbath-style guitar heroics and snarling, leather-lunged singing in touch with its swaggering inner Skynyrd.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Buffalo Killers</title>
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<category>Stoner Rock</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:27:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Iron Age</title>
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<category>Stoner Rock</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 6 Aug 2009 10:40:01 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Comets On Fire</title>
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<category>Hard Psyche</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:31:52 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Guitarist Ethan Miller and bass player Ben Flashman formed Comets on Fire in Santa Cruz, Calif., in 1999. They enlisted drummer Utrillo Belcher and electronics dude Noel von Harmonson soon after. With Miller's wholly over-the-top style of guitar playing (one-half Randy Holden of Blue Cheer, one-half Munehiro Narita of High Rise and the rest from another planet), von Harmonson's squalling use of an Echoplex and the rhythm section anchored by Flashman and Belcher's Keith Moon-esque spazz-drumming, the band became a fast favorite in the underground scene for their ear-splittingly loud and powerful live performances. Alternative Tentacles and Ba Da Bing! both put out very good records for the band, but it wasn't until longtime collaborator Ben Chasney (Six Organs of Admittance ) joined on "second outta hand guitar" and Sub Pop signed them, that they started to receive national recognition as one of the very forerunners of heavy music in the '00s. Their debut for Sub Pop, <i>Blue Cathedral,</i> garnered tons of critical praise, showing up on many indie lists as one of the Top-10 records of 2004. In 2006, they released <i>Avatar</i>, which found the band successfully growing beyond their "turn it up to 11" tendencies and messing around with melodic use of keyboards, slower tempos and more, actually intelligible, singing from Miller.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Goatsnake</title>
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<category>Stoner Rock</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:13:13 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Goatsnake, which features ex-members of the Obsessed, Engine Kid and Scream, do something slightly different from all those bands. If roiling power chords and how-low-can-you-go guitars are what you seek, you need look no further. You can just picture the players setting fire to their instruments behind dipping curtains of hair on a smoke-filled stage. Preternaturally heavy, this band will leave you livid -- all Black Sabbath black and Blue Cheer blue.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>TK Webb</title>
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<category>Hard Rock</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:00:39 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Om</title>
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<category>Doom Metal</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 10:31:14 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Om is the post-Sleep project of bassist Al Cisneros and drummer Chris Haikus, the erstwhile rhythm section for that seminal band. Following the 1993 "Dopesmoker" debacle -- in which newly signed Sleep entered into a protracted battle of wills with London Records over the band's refusal to accept that their major-label debut would be anything less than a single 60-plus-minute track about weed -- Sleep fell apart and a disillusioned Cisneros retreated from the music scene for years. In 2004 he and Haikus started jamming again, with the results evolving into Om. San Francisco psych label Holy Mountain released their first collection of material, <i>Variations on a Theme</i>, in 2005. <I>Conference of Birds</i> followed in 2006, and in 2007 Om switched to Southern Lord for their next album, <i>Pilgrimage</i>. Hallmarks of Om's music are deliberately evolving doom metal bass and drum patterns stretched out over long periods, with the changes coming so gradually as to be almost imperceptible. Not surprisingly, the band plays at an absolutely unholy volume live.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Eyehategod</title>
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<category>Stoner Rock</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 3 Sep 2009 10:33:41 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Though its members have scattered like spores into various projects (Down and Soilent Green among them), Eyehategod will long be remembered not just for doing sludge Metal first, but for doing it best. Though it's difficult to recommend a band that gloried in shock for shock's sake and preached a doctrine of inward- and outward-directed violence, Eyehategod deserve to be heard because they had that rare thing in rock 'n' roll -- vision. They played an ultra-heavy, slow and sludgy style of Hardcore that no one had quite done before, but many have duplicated since. Sometimes referred to as "molasses core" because of its thick, murky texture, the musical mutation Eyehategod wrought upon the Hardcore Metal scene was quickly taken up by Grief, Cavity and Bongzilla, to name a few. Taking the heaviness and menace of Black Sabbath to a gratuitous extreme, these bands revel in briar patches of feedback and blue-in-the-face screaming. All of them owe their existence to the innovators in Eyehategod who tinkered with musical anti-matter and created a monster that, in various incarnations, still walks among us.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Oneida</title>
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<category>Acid Rock</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:05:58 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the brainiest and most prolific NYC bands of the '00s began as a duo and has done time as a four-piece. But at heart they're a power trio, given to three-CD sets and conceptual trilogies, to freak-folk and slow metal and Krautrock and dub reggae, to plunking the same note over and over for a quarter-hour or more until you realize they've been gradually shifting all along. On early albums like 1999's <I>Enemy Hogs</I>, they come off as a kind of stoner-rock unit, but on 2000's definitive half-hour-plus <I>Steel Rod</I> EP, they squeeze Link Wray barbed-wire twang and a choogling Creedence cover into weird nerd-rock that balances the sludge with science-lab keyboards after the manner of Devo or Pere Ubu. "Power Animals," on 2000's <I>Come on Everybody Let's Rock</I>, was about a deadlocked presidential election -- not Bush and Gore, but Tilden and Hayes in 1876. On 2002's double disc, <I>Each One Teach One</I>, they carried water-torture minimalism to its breaking point, and since then -- averaging more or less an album a year -- they've gotten both daintier and dronier, picking up indie fans much younger than themselves, then regularly finding ways to dumbfound them.
- Chuck Eddy]]></description>
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<title>Bongzilla</title>
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<category>Stoner Rock</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:33:10 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Dooood, this is like, some kind, killer green sludgecore, you know? I mean, you know, it's cool if you like, wanna sit on the couch with your bros and rock out to some seriously heavy stuff, man. Just kick it...hit some heavy guitars. Bongzilla -- like, their name says it all, you know?
- Mark Murrmann]]></description>
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<title>Danava</title>
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<category>Hard Rock</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:03:39 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Early Man</title>
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<category>Metal</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 12:59:33 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>The Obsessed</title>
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<category>Doom Metal</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 11:03:38 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Though they almost single-handedly invented the style, the Obsessed might have gone down as a footnote in the annals of Doom Metal as most of their material has long been out of print. But in 1999, a collection of early EPs and rare tracks appeared, thus restoring the seminal band to a position of prominence. Before joining the legendary Saint Vitus, Scott "Wino" Weinrich honed his on-the-nod trudging delivery with the Obsessed. This is the band that developed the mother tongue in which Doom Metal has been spoken ever since -- themes of self-destruction and the occult, agonized vocals neck-shackled to a solid wall of feedback, and big riffs that roll like boulders. Few bands had dreamed of sounding heavier than Black Sabbath, until the Obsessed showed them how.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Kingdom Of Sorrow</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:34:00 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Hullabaloo</title>
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<category>Stoner Rock</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 10:49:19 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Hold on to your wallet chains and piercings, Hullabaloo is on the scene with some Stoner Rock sounds that would make Frank Kozik gush. Pummeling rhythms and low, rumbling guitar distortion accompany a lead screamer who belts it out like he's trying to scrape the resin from his throat. Great music for the perpetual teenager.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>Parchman Farm</title>
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<category>Hard Rock</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:50:44 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Formed in San Francisco in the early 2000s, but taking their cue from late
'60s and early '70s heavy rock groups (a la Blue Cheer and Leaf Hound),
Parchman Farm plays guitar-centric hard rock with elements of psychedelia
emerging in unexpected places. Any fan of the bluesier days of hard rock,
after all the annoying British blues crapola but before AOR was born, will
want to check them out. (Note: a member of this band is an employee of
RealNetworks.)
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Mammatus</title>
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<category>Stoner Rock</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:59:15 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Mammatus are a five-piece band from the out-skirts of Santa Cruz, Calif. Formed in 2005, they play absotastically face-melting, amp-blowing, fret-shredding stoner rock. When they sing, which isn't often because they have a lot of rocking to dispense with, their subjects include slaying dragons and other magical ephemera. What's not to like?
- Garrett Kamps]]></description>
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<title>Unida</title>
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<category>Stoner Rock</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:05:58 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Slo Burn</title>
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<category>Stoner Rock</category>
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<title>Burning Witch</title>
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<category>Doom Metal</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 4 Mar 2009 12:16:37 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Oppressive Doom rising up from the cashed bowls of Thorr's Hammer. Averaging about ten minutes a song, this is one of the slowest sludge metal bands ever. Feedback hangs in the air to differing effect, from piercing Pan pipes to a garbage disposal growl, while the singer just yells for all he's worth.
- Chad Driscoll]]></description>
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<title>Fireball Ministry</title>
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<category>Stoner Rock</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:32:30 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[At times very melodic and almost peppy with pretty vocals and plucky guitar, Fireball Ministry's musical fortunes turn to eventually show a dark side. They drag their instruments through sludge, tune down and change their vocals to a low growl.
- Mark Murrmann]]></description>
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