Stoner Metal

Stoner Rock and Stoner Metal are terms describing sub-genres of rock and metal music. They are typically slow-to-mid tempo, low-tuned, and bass-heavy, incorporating elements of psychedelic rock, blues-rock and doom metal into a more repetitive and riff-centred style. Other common traits include melodic vocals and ‘retro’ production. The genres emerged during the early 1990s and were pioneered foremost by the Californian bands Kyuss and Sleep. Read more…|Edit this Artist photo: Black River

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Jan 16 Saturday 16 January 2010
Black Pyramid Cable	Cafe Nine New Haven CT, United States 41.303578 -72.923698	2 people attending Add shout
Jan 23 Saturday 23 January 2010
The Sword Woodgrain	House Of Rock Corpus Christi TX, United States 27.7978 -97.395092	Add shout
Jan 24 Sunday 24 January 2010
The Sword Woodgrain	Warehouse Live Houston, United States 29.752174 -95.354647	8 people attending Add shout
Jan 25 Monday 25 January 2010
The Sword Woodgrain	The Spanish Moon Baton Rouge LA, United States 30.437856 -91.185933	2 people attending Add shout
Jan 27 Wednesday 27 January 2010
The Sword Woodgrain	Hi Tone Memphis TN, United States 35.142333 -89.996693	1 person attending Add shout
Jan 28 Thursday 28 January 2010
The Sword Woodgrain	The Conservatory Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States 35.56106 -97.531816	1 person attending 1 shout

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Son_of_Forneus wrote:
15 days ago

this genre has so much to offer if it would break from these black sabbath and recent post-rock/sludge influences and try new things. Stoner metal being labeled as a retro-70's groove style of metal or this new, (sometimes) pretentious style of sludge inspired musical dirges. Instead of stoner metal we should merge some style to create some "blitzed" or "high as shit" metal, heavy metal with a huge groove and atmosphere but with some active arrangements/instrumentation. High on Fire tried it but ended being too thrashy (still great band) without enough exciting instrumentation apart from the guitars/drums. Mastodon got close with leviathan and blood mountain but crack the skye, while still a good album, became too proggy and focused on constant changing song structures without an encompassing groove. Hell Pelican and Russian Circles are heading in the right direction in my opinion if they incorporated some other ideas into their atmosphere/riff based structures..

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David_J1973 wrote:
16 days ago

When I first saw this tag I laughed my ass off. Funny as hell.

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Koptonite wrote:
November 2009

I agree with canisdesertmoon, Why oh why does everything have to be so carefully labelled? Does my fukin nut in !!

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andukaru wrote:
November 2009

if you wouldn't call sleep stoner you're retarded. listen to dopesmoker.

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co_ala wrote:
September 2009

to slow, to groovy, to bluesy

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danny360 wrote:
September 2009

i wouldn't call sleep stoner metal

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CanisDesertMoon wrote:
August 2009

It is all Rock N Roll tome...except for that other crap

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BlackSabbath86 wrote:
August 2009

Triangle Theory

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Mondo-Generator wrote:
August 2009

A lot of doom bands get labeled as stoner because they are stoner bands. The two genres are very closely tied. They both have heavy Sabbath influence. Some bands happen to fit into both categories.

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jamesieoconnell wrote:
August 2009

why do doom bands always get labeled as stoner?

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SlaughteredFoe wrote:
August 2009

"Sleep not in the top six? What is this shit?" Agreed! D:

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NaiveMonarch wrote:
August 2009

Sleep not in the top six? What is this shit?

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Professor_Alex wrote:
July 2009

OK so who's the dickass who added Velvet Revolver?

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PlayThisRiff wrote:
April 2009

What's up rock fans, Bob Balch from Fu Manchu here. Wanted to let you know that my site www.playthisriff.com is up and running. At www.playthisriff.com you'll find HD lesson videos of me showing you how to play pretty much every song from "The Action is Go" "King of the Road" "Eatin' Dust" "California Crossing" "Start the Machine" and "We Must Obey." I also have a lot of videos that feature gear, soloing tips, practice tips, and theory. I have tons of guest teachers too. Check out this list: Nick Oliveri Brant Bjork Ron Emory (T.S.O.L.) Shane Clark (3 Inches of Blood) Dan Beeman (Helmet) Kyle Stevenson (Helmet) Dan Fuller (Helmet) Jon Karel (The Number 12 Looks Like You, Horse the Band) Laurent Lamont (Pelican) Mike Watt (Minutemen, DOS, fIREHOSE) Jack Gibson (Exodus) Hewhocannotbenamed (The Dwarves) Fresh Prince of Darkness (The Dwarves) I'll be adding videos on a weekly basis. Come check it out!!!!!! Thanks, Bob Balch www.playthisriff.com

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TheKnitLA wrote:
February 2009

Come check out GOBLIN COCK with Warship and Angus Khan here at Knitting Factory Hollywood on Friday, February 27th!! It's going to be an insane show, don't miss it!

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yeoldstinkeye wrote:
January 2009

Check out this NEW STONER GROUP. http://www.last.fm/group/The+Best+Stoner+Albums+You%27ve+Never+Heard

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Pandemonium360 wrote:
January 2009

Delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol is our friend

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hemlokk wrote:
November 2008

Hi folks. Please join my group "Stoner Music", it's brand new and I'm looking for some members. Share the music! http://www.last.fm/group/Stoner+Music

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duut wrote:
October 2008

The Sword is a fucking masterpiece of Stoner Metal! ^^

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shtrih wrote:
October 2008

FEEyooooo!!!

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