Recommend me some stoner metal?

Hawkwind, obv.

Electric Wizard
Sleep
Om
Melvins
Boris (Heavy Rocks,Akuma No Uta)

St Vitus
Manilla Road

Eyehategod

Torche!

Sleep is quintessential stoner metal, but in my opinion, they ain't too good. Even their 52 minute epic bullshit album Jerusalem which got a lot of attention for being 52 minutes long and for being 'suppressed' by their record company is interminably boring. Their best song, "Dragonaut," is basically a carbon copy of a Black Sabbath song ("Lord of This World").

Maybe you'd like Black Sabbath.

You're insane. Dopesmoker is awesome.

You're insane. Dopesmoker is awesome.

-- Herman G. Neuname, Friday, 3 August 2007 07:59 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

And that's coming from a non-smoker!

I find it quite dull. The kind of stuff they play on the loudspeakers in a slave galley while you're hoping for some major organ to fail.

Haha. I shoulda added all the bands I already know and like, but got called away by work.

I like Boris a lot. Hawkwind's OK, but I have a hard time separating the wheat from the chaff with them, and generally like the live boots I have much more than the regular albums. They're more rock than metal though. I like Black Sabbath and The Melvins already.

I don't like Tool very much, as I kinda find 'em wanky-in-a-bad-way, instead of the wanky-in-a-good-way of most stoner metal I've heard.

Corrupted
Bongkiller

I feel like we've done this before. Nonetheless:

Clutch
Throttlerod
Alabama Thunder Pussy
Fu Manchu
Corrosion of Conformity (Deliverance and later)
Crowbar
down
Fireball Ministry
the Obsessed
the Hidden Hand
High On Fire
Nebula
Nova Driver

Some of the more obvious stuff, anyway. And yes, it's to varying degrees of metal, but so be it.

Age of Winters by the Sword

Fuck the Sword.

=)

George calls them Hipster Metal

there are so many threads on this stuff. 4 or 5 started by the same person!

the sword are fine. if you are a little girl with frilly bows in your hair. and pink petticoats.

Scott OTM.

I call them Hipster Metal too! So they should go in a thread with hipster metal. Stoner metal smells worse. And has less of those ear hoop thingies.

Are Middian stoner or doom?

Jex Thoth: www.myspace.com/totemdoom

Yob were doom. But there's a lot of crossover with both genres.

there are so many threads on this stuff. 4 or 5 started by the same person!

Not guilty this time!

haha I just had this thread tabbed open while a customer needed the screen to print some boarding passes. She grinned at me knowingly. And was cute. Awesome.

I'm totally going to print up a shirt that says "Recommend me some stoner metal?" and get all the babes!

last fm stoner metal search results:

1 Kyuss 166

2 Electric Wizard 134

3 High on Fire 122

4 Down 109

5 Cathedral 90

6 Orange Goblin 79

7 Bongzilla 78

8 Sleep 74

9 Monster Magnet 72

10 Corrosion of Conformity 71

11 Queens of the Stone Age 58

12 Spiritual Beggars 42

13 Alabama Thunderpussy 38

14 Acid Bath 35

15 Mastodon 32

16 Stonegard 29

17 EyeHateGod 28

17 YOB 28

17 Acid King 28

20 The Sword 27

21 Boris 26

22 Melvins 24

23 Fu Manchu 22

24 Goatsnake 21

24 Black Sabbath 21

26 Clutch 19

27 Fireball Ministry 18

27 Black Label Society 18

29 OM 17

30 Raging Speedhorn 16

31 Trouble 14

31 Superjoint Ritual 14

31 Nebula 14

31 Ancestors 14

35 Crowbar 13

35 Neurosis 13

35 Grand Magus 13

38 Isis 12

38 Saint Vitus 12

38 Corruption 12

41 The Atomic Bitchwax 11

41 Sahg 11

41 Spirit Caravan 11

44 Pelican 10

44 Celestial Season 10

44 The Obsessed 10

44 Soilent Green 10

44 Witch 10

49 Weedeater 9

49 Karma to Burn 9

49 Goblin Cock 9

49 The Black League 9

53 Wolfmother 8

53 Noothgrush 8

53 Masters of Reality 8

53 Church of Misery 8

53 Probot 8

53 Mustasch 8

59 sHEAVY 7

59 Ufomammut 7

59 Lair of the Minotaur 7

59 Beaten Back to Pure 7

59 The Hidden Hand 7

59 Pentagram 7

65 Allhelluja 6

65 Blake 6

65 Desert Sessions 6

65 Greenmachine 6

65 Beyond the Sixth Seal 6

65 Mannhai 6

65 Dozer 6

72 Cult of Luna 5

72 Floor 5

72 Unida 5

72 Cowboys & Aliens 5

72 Witchcraft 5

72 Mondo Generator 5

72 The Mushroom River Band 5

72 Truckfighters 5

80 Samavayo 4

80 Abdullah 4

80 Boulder 4

80 Slo Burn 4

80 Cephalic Carnage 4

80 Wall of Sleep 4

80 Seemless 4

80 Erotic Support 4

80 Acrimony 4

80 Solace 4

80 Doomriders 4

80 Sons of Otis 4

80 Earth 4

93 Stereochrist 3

93 Artimus Pyledriver 3

93 Gonga 3

93 The Capricorns 3

93 End Of Level Boss 3

93 Desert Sun 3

93 Saviours 3

93 Sloth 3

i hear all kinds of cool stuff on last fm.

but really just pick up those new electric wizard reissues.

for a start.

Here's a list with some album descriptions from back when I still cared about the genre. Surprisingly, they're all still on my shelves. I'd toss Tummler who are true barrel-scrapers. However, the genre loves its barrel-scrapings and for the true blue fan there's much to listen to, there being more people in stoner rock bands than there are actually fans for it.

Stoner Dozen

That Cathedral record is pretty freaking awesome. I prefer the first Novadriver record, though. And Lunar Womb.

Oooh, yeah, I saw Orange Goblin and they were really fun. Not so much a fan of the Alabama Thunderpussy (or Jucifer, before that's recommended).

And I searched the threads for stoner and metal and didn't see anything!

I got a Novadriver promo a while ago and it started really well, but fell off so much in the second half that I didn't bother to review it. Now I wonder what I did with it.

electric wizard's dopethrone is dope
yob's elaborations of carbon is elaborate
toadliquor's the hortator's lament is unrelenting

if you think monster magnet isn't weird and sludgy you're not listening to the right stuff. like the demo version of "tab". I just got a monster magnet 25 live show from '92, one hour of instrumental hooey. it is supreme.

and I would like to put in a good word for kilslug and upsidedown cross.

Really, and in my limited knowledge, the two essential stoner classics are Electric Wizard's "Dopethrone" and Kyuss's "Welcome To Sky Valley", although the latter is arguably more rock than metal, but it still rocks like the most rockingest thing on Earth.

More rock than metal. Eesh.

the sword are fine. if you are a little girl with frilly bows in your hair. and pink petticoats.

Why don't you cook yourself up a big steaming bowl of spooge-splattered cock soup?

I did miss alex.
And no one can dis Monster magnet - Spine Of God.

Monster Magnet = so much more than stoner metal.

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did stoner metal ever get better than the chorus of "snake dance"?

"Why don't you cook yourself up a big steaming bowl of spooge-splattered cock soup?"

broiled or fried, tough guy!

I used to love Monster Magnet but I can't listen to them any more for some reason.

I couldn't get into their last album at all.

I can't listen to most of what they did after 1992.

<i>cock soup</i>

Yeah, I don't get the hate for the Sword. Is it that they're from Austin, so they can't be real heshers or something? I love that album.

Austin or the concept of real/not real "heshers" had nothing to do with it. Tastes vary.

I like/love pretty much everything Monster Magnet have ever done, although 25... Tab freaks me out. The last album has some fantastic songs on it, especially "Master of Light."

I actually have that Sword album, and it's okay. I just think that they're incredibly overrated. The songs are okay, but not very memorable, the vocalist is extremely monotonous, and they aren't doing anything particularly new or interesting. It's like, why listen to The Sword when you can go listen to Cathedral?

i don't hate the sword. i've barely even heard them. i was just trying to rile alex for some reason. mission accomplished!

Bought Sleep's Holy Mountain after having them recommended. Really like it, but would love something with more psychedelic weirdness (like, a dub/echoed version would be exactly the balm my soul needs now).

Sorry to keep being so difficult. It's just that everything I hear leaves me going "This is really great! I wonder if there's anything else that's like this, but a little more X?"

Dopesmoker is epic. Most of the other stoner metal I've heard is a huge disappointment in comparison.

I'd look at the shoegaze metal thread, there's some crossover that you might like. Really, really love The Angelic Process tracks I've heard, they're heavy and hypnotic like Sleep.

this is my favorite album of the month. very heavy. very psychedelic. very noisy. and very dub/echoed out. from Israel.

http://www.myspace.com/graveinthesky

more "doom" than "stoner", but whatever.

sounds like shit on myspace of course. the album itself is very very LOUD (as in, the cd itself is just mixed really loud or whatever, but not in a horrible way.) and i love how it sounds.

are all their songs named after movies? (I hope so)

yes. all the lyrics are just dialogue from movies. i never thought my fave song of the month would be entitled "Donnie Darko", but there you have it.

or to be more accurate: all the lyrics in their songs come from dvd subtitles.

Dopesmoker isn't so much "epic" as it is "long".

Scott, I will defff buy that album.
awesomeness. Thanks.

If people like more dubby psychedelic stoner/doom stuff, the last few Ufomammut albums have been great. Recently picked up Los Natas "Corsario Negro" from a few years back. Primo South American stoner jams.

On the less heavy but still rockin' end of the spectrum last year's Sasquatch record "II" is riff-tastic (I talk like this in real life too - my friends laugh at me :/), and the Assemble Head In Sunburst Sound record is fun retro-psyche jams.

Anybody but me like Mammatus?

Mammutus is awesome, but I really didn't like the Coast Explodes thing. I saw them with Residual Echoes here in SF and it was a great show. Also check out Residual Echoes.

Another band I'm surprised I haven't seen her yet is UFOMammut. Maybe they are more doom, but to me they belong right along-side the best Electric Wizard stuff.

5ive is also worth checking out.

Another band I'm surprised I haven't seen her yet is UFOMammut.
Dude mentioned them in the post above yours.

Complete: this band is amazing

You're insane. Dopesmoker is awesome.

-- Herman G. Neuname, Friday, 3 August 2007 07:59 (1 minute ago) Bookmark Link

-- Drooone, Thursday, August 2, 2007 6:02 PM (5 days ago)

also electric wizard's singer sux :[

i really liked that latest Earthless album. loooooooooong-ass heavy jams. here they are live:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=mkrVb877zfM

Second the Earthless, second the assemble head.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=EQHCTT2t1lE

i liked that assemble head too. i really like when they do the mellow san fran quicksilver stuff too. as well as the amp-burning blue cheer stuff.

and i REALLY liked that amplified heat ep. i still need to hear their new album. they are more straight-up stoner boogie jam stuff though. but really really good stoner boogie jam stuff. if you like that stuff.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Txm7kO0BYNU

that earthless video is cool

i think all earthless shows are just one song sets.

ha so old school sk8er mario rubalcaba plays in earthless?

all i know is the drummer was in rocket from the crypt.

i've only heard the earthless cover of "cherry red." hella literal interpretation, dudes. i don't know why they bothered.

assemble head = greatness. i guess instead of thinking quicksilver i thought elevators, though, the kinda hot, dusty twang to the guitars.

All right, pimping of Earthless for over a year, not cost effective. And it's a cruel trick to recommend newbies stumble into Jerusalem or Dopesmoker, like recommending Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music as an introduction to hard rock.

Fuckin' Ay, why don't tyros just buy the James Gang's "Rides Again." Stoner metal in 2007 = pour a bucket of mud on my head because it feels good when you stop.

High on Fire's "Surrounded by Thieves" & some Cathedral, maybe the singles comp, are good starting points

in fact I think I'll listen to that Cathedral right now

Cathedral, seconded. Lee Dorian tries hard, often successfully, to entertain.

my favourites include kyuss (permanently lodged in the 'too obvious' category), electric wizard, cathedral, clutch, and later coc (as jeff suggested upthread)

oh wait, and trouble (do they count?) - good to listen to when stoned in any case

"All right, pimping of Earthless for over a year, not cost effective."

so sorry that i still remember the record and still like it, george! aren't you the one who says that people pimp for stuff for a couple of weeks and then forget about them?

it's still a good album. sorry the songs are too long for you!

I like the Sword album quite a bit, and have never made it all the way through a Cathedral song. I'd rather listen to Witchfinder General than Cathedral.

I 4th or 5th Ufomammut! Especially that new one with lento. That's damn good.

I like the earlier Earthless album - "Sonic Prayer", if I remember correctly - better than their latest. The latest sounds more like two takes of the same thing (plus a complete aping on the cover) v. two different songs.

just reading about and looking at the cover of DOPETHRONE makes it the best album i have never heard.

http://www.truemetal.org/metalwallpaper/images/dopethrone.jpg

Get the vinyl repress here http://www.riseaboverecords.com/prodview.asp?prodId=214