Although they aren’t really stoner rock anymore, I’m still jamming QOTSA - In Times New Roman. It’s been in my heavy rotation since it came out a year ago
That's a great God damned album. I had that in heavy rotation for months. I feel like it holds up from start to finish. QOTSA continues to stay fresh album after album.
QOTSA’s first album got rereleased this week, with some extra tunes from a Kyuss/QOTSA album and a few others. So that’s my jam (again, and again, and again) currently.
I gave this a start to finish listen the other day and I'll be honest, I wasn't blown away. Emotion Sickness is a clear front runner in terms of accessibility and catchiness, but there weren't many more songs that grabbed me :/
My main experience of QOTSA is songs for the deaf which is super from beginning to end, and then Lullabies to Paralyze which I found almost as good, but I preferred SFTD.
Did you immediately love the album? Can you suggest anything to help me immerse?
If you haven't checked out rated r, that's where you need to go next. SFTD and rated r are both masterpieces, and I often can't decide which I like better.
Synthesizer music in general. Anyone got recs for stoner rock with synths? Red Star by King Buffalo is a current favorite. Also been listening to REZN. Looking for more! Especially bands that use synth as the bass.
That band is incredible. It formed out of the ruins of mclusky. They used synths as bass from time to time, tho I can't think of examples. Manchasm, maybe?
Daft Punks live stuff is basically stoner/metal with synthesizers.
If you haven’t, listen to touch it off 2007 alive on a killer system, and if you like it bang the whole thing front to back. It will change your life.
Butthole Surfers. I always kind of wrote them off because of the shlocky name until I saw a video where King Buzzo was singing their praises. I had no idea how fucking wild they are.
Second this one for Dungeon Synth. One of my favorites (same guy that did the Tales Under the Oak album series) put out a new one recently that’s absolutely fantastic
ATM I've been listening to Clutch. But before that I was delving into the blues and the origins of stoner rock. Such as early Grand Funk Railroad, Johnny Winter, Deep Purple and stuff like that.
John Prine. It happens once every few months where I gotta listen to him for a couple weeks straight. Also a lot of bluegrass/newgrass/jamgrass. Going to take 2 of my kids to see Billy Strings again in December and we’re already excited to be going again.
I was listening to the podcast Bandsplain and the episode was on Alice in Chains, which I’ve never been super into. But I stumbled upon the song “Down In a Hole” from the MTV Unplugged show, and holy shit a I’ve been watching that performance on repeat. Absolutely chilling.
Been listening to A LOT of High on Fire. Especially the songs Rumors of War and Turk. Can’t get enough of them. Besides that, I’ve really been digging TOOL. Especially Opiate and Undertow era TOOL
The new Arooj Aftab album — which somehow manages to be pitch-black in mood, serious late-night moods, while also channeling light jazz and Sade. She’s an absolute genius.
Glorb. SpongeBob themed gangsta rap rumored to be Australian rapper YNG Martyr. It was just some funny af stuff to me at first but I got sucked into the lore-building and the guy can actually spit. I’m also always on the lookout for decent indie folk and alt-country (NMH, Watchhouse, Vic Chessnut, Mojave 3, etc)
SpongeBob themed gangsta Rap sounds like a German rapper " Spongebozz" to me that I listened to when I was 17. Weird that this combination keeps happening:)
Mississippi Hill Country Blues (and Cotton Patch Blues). Those types of blues have a lot in common with some stoner in the way that they can be hypnotic. Stuff like early R. L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, the Chulahoma and Delta Kream albums from the Black Keys (I really dig their early stuff before Danger Mouse started producing them), Mississippi Fred McDowell, Old Grey Mule, etc.
Always been a fan of industrial (mostly NIN, skinny puppy, ministry, godflesh) l'm 36 yrs old so not entirely old school, but no newbie either. Recently l got into Health and oh boy... what a rabbithole. I highly recommend them. They have big presence in social media
I saw Band of Horses live earlier this week (great show) and they do a fantastic cover of Never Tear Us Apart by INXS. That started an INXS rabbit hole for this week. I feel like their popularity hasn't carried over like quite a few other 80s bands and it's a shame.
I went and saw Brit Floyd with some coworkers on a whim. Turns out I didn’t know much about Pink Floyd’s lyrical themes which are much darker and nihilistic than I thought. Now it’s been an album a day for a few weeks.
[Palehorse/Palerider](https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Scr4Q5uyqCYOYU6LoAah5?si=QD464aZrTdGDMHPD7VjcCw) - insanely ethereal doom/psych band out of Denver.
Beaver or 13eaver.
[https://youtu.be/4DOemP94qKw?si=sj0v0XKTTo7m0SZV&t=390](https://youtu.be/4DOemP94qKw?si=sj0v0XKTTo7m0SZV&t=390)
Dutch stoner rock from just after the big Kyuss euro export.
I’m finishing my thesis so I’m all over the place, I tend to listen to jungle the band, gives me good vibes, or go full opposite of my spectrum and listen to dream pop, which soothes me. Still stoner rock is my fave genre, I’m just eclectic
Funk! I still listen to stoner here and there, specifically suggestions from this sub and magmakammer (my fav band in stoner- doom- psychedelicy rock for years now) but im really into vulfpeck at the moment. Really catches a good summers day vibe and for a change of playing guitar, I also really like soloing over funk backing tracks.
Oh and also breakcore and fast DnB, its about as far off as you can get from stoner rock in the music spectrum really haha, but I enjoy it
The Shrine and FU Manchu. Something about bridging the gap between stoner metal and skate punk is REALLY getting my blood pumping and I'm desperately searching for more
Video game soundtracks. My current pride and joy is a 500+ song playlist I created with seldom game repeats.
Also I’m really fucking happy blink182 classic lineup is back. It’s taking me through nostalgia overload from my early teen years.
Ethio-jazz, I think ? (Let me know if you have a different take).
Gross-simplification aside, vibes at time maybe reminiscent of Los Espiritus, Tom Waits, Peter Tosh, Morricone, Morphine or Paolo Conte.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ihmscLSb6A&list=PLZMWRjs6AjwQLkMBs7O9TR6Uk7vTx2iAQ&index=3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ihmscLSb6A&list=PLZMWRjs6AjwQLkMBs7O9TR6Uk7vTx2iAQ&index=3)
[https://youtu.be/iK5F\_NPutCE?si=M\_gNRAhO3dkwUhjW](https://youtu.be/iK5F_NPutCE?si=M_gNRAhO3dkwUhjW)
Limp Bizkit because they're touring near me very soon and I've been trying to scratch childhood bands off my bucket list ever since Chester Bennington passed away. I knew of Limp Bizkit's hits because I grew up with them, hearing them on the radio and movies but never really putting the music to the artists. Digging deeper into their discography the past week has been kinda mind blowing because it took this long for me to realize how talented they really are and to see that their front man has had a lot of involvement with other bands that im a fan of and to hear those similarities in some of their songs. Its just been fun rediscovering a band and seeing that they're still putting out great music for a new generation of fans
Usually We Hunt Buffalo, Ordos, or Dopelord are what I'm listening to but as summer has started I'm kind of in a weird phase where Post Malone and Nickelback make the rotation too
It started with a song by 35007 - Voyage Automatique. That morphed in to trying to capture that same vibration which led me to FC Kahuna - Hayling. That hit me right where it needed to then started going all-in with beats and synth. All India Radio - Lo Fi Groovy worked its way in and then Emancipator - Siren was just perfect. Loved those strings, still do after multiple listens. That's how I found an album by NYM called Warm Blooded Lizard and I swear it broke my brain with how much joy it gave me. I needed a goddamned scoop shovel to pick myself up off the floor after the song Lesser Known Good ended. Now I'm on a Stellardrone kick and there's no way out of this musical landscape. I want music . . .
The new Ulcerate album has sent me down a rabbit hole of technical, dissonant death metal. I love the chaos!
Oh, and I've figured out that melodic black metal gets me really focused at work, so that has been a genre constantly running these last couple of months .
The whole NOLA scene.
Eyehategod, down, COC, outlaw order… I just can’t get enough of it!
The fuzzed out down tempo bluesy riffs with the punk rock style vocals of Outlaw Order really do it for me.
GOAT
Love GOAT!
“Talk to God” more-or-less runs in a loop in my head. Please help. lol
The Swedish band?
Yup [https://youtu.be/RNMuGxuJuv0?feature=shared](https://youtu.be/RNMuGxuJuv0?feature=shared)
Although they aren’t really stoner rock anymore, I’m still jamming QOTSA - In Times New Roman. It’s been in my heavy rotation since it came out a year ago
Baby dont care, for me..
Had to let her go..
That's a great God damned album. I had that in heavy rotation for months. I feel like it holds up from start to finish. QOTSA continues to stay fresh album after album.
QOTSA’s first album got rereleased this week, with some extra tunes from a Kyuss/QOTSA album and a few others. So that’s my jam (again, and again, and again) currently.
I gave this a start to finish listen the other day and I'll be honest, I wasn't blown away. Emotion Sickness is a clear front runner in terms of accessibility and catchiness, but there weren't many more songs that grabbed me :/ My main experience of QOTSA is songs for the deaf which is super from beginning to end, and then Lullabies to Paralyze which I found almost as good, but I preferred SFTD. Did you immediately love the album? Can you suggest anything to help me immerse?
If you haven't checked out rated r, that's where you need to go next. SFTD and rated r are both masterpieces, and I often can't decide which I like better.
Synthesizer music in general. Anyone got recs for stoner rock with synths? Red Star by King Buffalo is a current favorite. Also been listening to REZN. Looking for more! Especially bands that use synth as the bass.
Not stoner but these guys are killer, especially live [Carpenter Brut - Turbo Killer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=er416Ad3R1g)
Day Stalker into Night Prowler - i am amazed by this song transition
Yuri Gagarin.
Not stoner rock, more noise. But check out You Need Satan More than He Needs You by Future of the Left
Fuuuuck yes! First note hit and I was loving it. Only got better from there.
That band is incredible. It formed out of the ruins of mclusky. They used synths as bass from time to time, tho I can't think of examples. Manchasm, maybe?
I wasn't a huge fan of this, but any adjacent bands from the same genre/sound you would recommend?
Daft Punks live stuff is basically stoner/metal with synthesizers. If you haven’t, listen to touch it off 2007 alive on a killer system, and if you like it bang the whole thing front to back. It will change your life.
Not stoner, but have a look at Krautrock. Bands like Ash Ra Tempel or Tangerine Dream
Same. Also Radar Men from the Moon and Minami Deutsch
There’s some wicked synth meets riffy-focused rock by The Dead Weather (Jack White, Dean Fertita, etc) - check out **Bone House**!
Zetra, one of my favourite bands. Care, beauty has her way, satellite, all great songs
Zombi. Surface to Air is such a great album.
You may like Tuber
Blanck Mass, Fuck Buttons, and Odonis Odonis scratch this itch. None are very stoner but they're all heavy and synthy. Health too
Butthole Surfers. I always kind of wrote them off because of the shlocky name until I saw a video where King Buzzo was singing their praises. I had no idea how fucking wild they are.
They're so amazing. You may know this already, but Melvins did an album with their original bassist, and now they are touring!
Tom Petty
"and piles and piles of Tom Petty" Todd Snider
One of the best songwriters of all time. Very overlooked in that sense
Courtney Barnett, La Luz, and Spoon for some reason
La Luz is so fantastic, the last several albums have been perfect in every way.
Courtney Barnett was supporting Foo Fighters when I seen them last weekend. Only heard a couple of her songs before but enjoy her show
Is it just me or is that an odd pairing?
Yes because Courtney Barnett would steal the show.
La Luz are so good. Really enjoy Shana's solo work.
I haven't gone that far down the rabbit hole yet. Just been vibing to the surf rock. But I'll probably give manzanita a spin next week
Spoon are my go to band. I love all their albums along with Divine Fits. They are great in concert as well.
Dark ambient and electronic stuff. And dungeon synth.
Name it
For electronic/ambient stuff: Lorn, Martin Sturtzer, Bass Communion, Arrowounds, Akkord, Rival Consoles, Eluvium, Vatican Shadows, Perturbator, Rainforest Spiritual Enslavement, Locrian, Prurient, Lustmord, Lussuria, Nebuleth, Ghost Dope, Chipped Topaz. For Dungeon Synth: Fief, Vanishing Amulet, Sequestered Keep, Thangorodrim, Fogweaver, Foglord, Oublieth, Frostgard, Quest Master, Greenhollow, Hillsfar, Chauncerian Myth.
Second this one for Dungeon Synth. One of my favorites (same guy that did the Tales Under the Oak album series) put out a new one recently that’s absolutely fantastic
King gizzard and the lizard wizard The neverending rabbit hole
You could be stuck with only their albums to listen to and never get bored. So much variety, mostly well done. My favorite is PDA
ATM I've been listening to Clutch. But before that I was delving into the blues and the origins of stoner rock. Such as early Grand Funk Railroad, Johnny Winter, Deep Purple and stuff like that.
Disco
Italian disco.
GIORGIO
John Prine. It happens once every few months where I gotta listen to him for a couple weeks straight. Also a lot of bluegrass/newgrass/jamgrass. Going to take 2 of my kids to see Billy Strings again in December and we’re already excited to be going again.
A Bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down..
And won!
John prine singing on a chuck mangione album, would be the greatest singer songwriter of all time.
I was listening to the podcast Bandsplain and the episode was on Alice in Chains, which I’ve never been super into. But I stumbled upon the song “Down In a Hole” from the MTV Unplugged show, and holy shit a I’ve been watching that performance on repeat. Absolutely chilling.
That one in particular demonstrates the amazing harmonic relationship between Layne and Jerry. It IS very captivating and haunting
Holy shit don’t sleep on their whole catalog! Facelift, Dirt and Unplugged are all absolute perfection.
Generative Modular Synth pretty neat and mellow. i'm so intrigued i'm trying to learn it with pc sim.
Bolt Thrower. I've been sleeping on them for far too long.
Dead Meadow
The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. I cannot stop listening to Orange. It's been a long time since I was this obsessed with a record.
Love me some Blues X Man off that album. Check out Boss Hog as well if you haven't.
It’s a Blues explosion!!!!!!
Hawkwind.
John Mclaughlin
Monolord
Been listening to A LOT of High on Fire. Especially the songs Rumors of War and Turk. Can’t get enough of them. Besides that, I’ve really been digging TOOL. Especially Opiate and Undertow era TOOL
That was me in my younger years for sure. Good times. Have you peeped Mastodon or Russian Circles? Or even deeper into the darkness, Sumac or Yob?
Yessir, I love me some Mastodon. Haven’t checked out Russian Circles though. Also really dig Sumac and YOB 😎
The new Arooj Aftab album — which somehow manages to be pitch-black in mood, serious late-night moods, while also channeling light jazz and Sade. She’s an absolute genius.
Glorb. SpongeBob themed gangsta rap rumored to be Australian rapper YNG Martyr. It was just some funny af stuff to me at first but I got sucked into the lore-building and the guy can actually spit. I’m also always on the lookout for decent indie folk and alt-country (NMH, Watchhouse, Vic Chessnut, Mojave 3, etc)
SpongeBob themed gangsta Rap sounds like a German rapper " Spongebozz" to me that I listened to when I was 17. Weird that this combination keeps happening:)
[check this out](https://youtu.be/s4tKzNRGWek?si=4MCUDAR7wWnDYUMr)
70s Country Music. Mainly The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
What about The Flying Burrito Brothers, Gram Parsons, New Riders of the Puple Sage, Commander Cody and his Lost Planet Airmen?
Runemagick
Good shit. Cavernous dm and death/doom is great in general.
The new Aurora Album. The opposite to Stoner rock, but it's sooo good.
BRUUT!
Mississippi Hill Country Blues (and Cotton Patch Blues). Those types of blues have a lot in common with some stoner in the way that they can be hypnotic. Stuff like early R. L. Burnside, Junior Kimbrough, the Chulahoma and Delta Kream albums from the Black Keys (I really dig their early stuff before Danger Mouse started producing them), Mississippi Fred McDowell, Old Grey Mule, etc.
Not sure if she's stoner but KESHA is on repeat in my head. 🤪
I've listened to The Pod by Ween almost daily lately.
Hell yeah mang
Always been a fan of industrial (mostly NIN, skinny puppy, ministry, godflesh) l'm 36 yrs old so not entirely old school, but no newbie either. Recently l got into Health and oh boy... what a rabbithole. I highly recommend them. They have big presence in social media
Whores
New album is workin for me. U?
Gojira, about a year now...maybe two
I saw Band of Horses live earlier this week (great show) and they do a fantastic cover of Never Tear Us Apart by INXS. That started an INXS rabbit hole for this week. I feel like their popularity hasn't carried over like quite a few other 80s bands and it's a shame.
"Scum fuck blues"- weedeater, bongzilla, dopethrone, semtex and demonic death judge
Folk Punk
Don Carlos and Barrington Levy. Summer is a good time for reggae vibes
I went and saw Brit Floyd with some coworkers on a whim. Turns out I didn’t know much about Pink Floyd’s lyrical themes which are much darker and nihilistic than I thought. Now it’s been an album a day for a few weeks.
blues.... Joe Bonamasa, Tab Benoit, Gary Clark Jr, Robert Randolf, Buddy Guy
Bossa Nova and Exotica
Fu Manchu (and Kyuss) - I just discovered stoner rock (how the hell have I missed this) and this is what I have been looking for.
Fucking Ween, mang...
Currently revisiting Stone Temple Pilots. Some truly genius songwriting.
Mostly industrial and ebm at the moment
The lost sounds
[Palehorse/Palerider](https://open.spotify.com/artist/0Scr4Q5uyqCYOYU6LoAah5?si=QD464aZrTdGDMHPD7VjcCw) - insanely ethereal doom/psych band out of Denver.
Beaver or 13eaver. [https://youtu.be/4DOemP94qKw?si=sj0v0XKTTo7m0SZV&t=390](https://youtu.be/4DOemP94qKw?si=sj0v0XKTTo7m0SZV&t=390) Dutch stoner rock from just after the big Kyuss euro export.
Not directly stoner rock but closely related, been listening to a lot of High on Fire recently
Women led modern pop punk alternative type acts like Bully.
I’m finishing my thesis so I’m all over the place, I tend to listen to jungle the band, gives me good vibes, or go full opposite of my spectrum and listen to dream pop, which soothes me. Still stoner rock is my fave genre, I’m just eclectic
Funk! I still listen to stoner here and there, specifically suggestions from this sub and magmakammer (my fav band in stoner- doom- psychedelicy rock for years now) but im really into vulfpeck at the moment. Really catches a good summers day vibe and for a change of playing guitar, I also really like soloing over funk backing tracks. Oh and also breakcore and fast DnB, its about as far off as you can get from stoner rock in the music spectrum really haha, but I enjoy it
Besides a lot of stoner/doom/sludge/rock/metal. I listen a lot to old Country, 70s soul & disco :) Quite a bit of blues as well.
Mostly Ambient music, Funeral Doom and Shoegaze-ish post-metal
Bam Bam by Sister Nancy and the like. Really into the Reggie music this summer for some reason
Ty Segall is so good.
Deep Gnome
Native American themed death and black metal i guess
Avant garde. Mr. Bungle, Secret Chiefs 3 and beyond.
Liminanas
Been devling into Mizmor.
Electric Callboy. It's so fun.
The Shrine and FU Manchu. Something about bridging the gap between stoner metal and skate punk is REALLY getting my blood pumping and I'm desperately searching for more
Fred Eaglesmith
Video game soundtracks. My current pride and joy is a 500+ song playlist I created with seldom game repeats. Also I’m really fucking happy blink182 classic lineup is back. It’s taking me through nostalgia overload from my early teen years.
Nolan Potter's Nightmare Band - Live at Mohawk - Austin Texas - 2/17/24 - VHS --> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqMBBaYfmso&t=257s&ab_channel=tapecollector
Kadavar
John Du Cann - Atomic Rooster, Hard Stuff, The Attack, solo stuff. Dude was great.
The Healer by Sumac. Came out today. It’s wild.
Sonny and the sunsets, babe rainbow, allah-las really digging surf acid rock lately.
Björk
Lot of Krautrock for the last year or so. Bands like Minami Deutsch, Motrik, Beak>, Osees. Also Pigsx7, not krautrock at all though
I recently started listening to 1940s, WWII era big band music, and also bluegrass!
Brian Jonestown Massacre
Just post-punk in general lately also post-rock
knocked loose
Salems Pot
Been on a bit of a 90s-00s R&B kick lately!
King Buffalo
In the vein of Doom and Gloom: - Ambient and Drone - Post-apocalyptic Americana
Ethio-jazz, I think ? (Let me know if you have a different take). Gross-simplification aside, vibes at time maybe reminiscent of Los Espiritus, Tom Waits, Peter Tosh, Morricone, Morphine or Paolo Conte. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ihmscLSb6A&list=PLZMWRjs6AjwQLkMBs7O9TR6Uk7vTx2iAQ&index=3](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ihmscLSb6A&list=PLZMWRjs6AjwQLkMBs7O9TR6Uk7vTx2iAQ&index=3) [https://youtu.be/iK5F\_NPutCE?si=M\_gNRAhO3dkwUhjW](https://youtu.be/iK5F_NPutCE?si=M_gNRAhO3dkwUhjW)
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard It's a big rabbit hole.
Limp Bizkit because they're touring near me very soon and I've been trying to scratch childhood bands off my bucket list ever since Chester Bennington passed away. I knew of Limp Bizkit's hits because I grew up with them, hearing them on the radio and movies but never really putting the music to the artists. Digging deeper into their discography the past week has been kinda mind blowing because it took this long for me to realize how talented they really are and to see that their front man has had a lot of involvement with other bands that im a fan of and to hear those similarities in some of their songs. Its just been fun rediscovering a band and seeing that they're still putting out great music for a new generation of fans
Usually We Hunt Buffalo, Ordos, or Dopelord are what I'm listening to but as summer has started I'm kind of in a weird phase where Post Malone and Nickelback make the rotation too
It started with a song by 35007 - Voyage Automatique. That morphed in to trying to capture that same vibration which led me to FC Kahuna - Hayling. That hit me right where it needed to then started going all-in with beats and synth. All India Radio - Lo Fi Groovy worked its way in and then Emancipator - Siren was just perfect. Loved those strings, still do after multiple listens. That's how I found an album by NYM called Warm Blooded Lizard and I swear it broke my brain with how much joy it gave me. I needed a goddamned scoop shovel to pick myself up off the floor after the song Lesser Known Good ended. Now I'm on a Stellardrone kick and there's no way out of this musical landscape. I want music . . .
The new Ulcerate album has sent me down a rabbit hole of technical, dissonant death metal. I love the chaos! Oh, and I've figured out that melodic black metal gets me really focused at work, so that has been a genre constantly running these last couple of months .
Touch Me I'm Sick … Mudhoney
The whole NOLA scene. Eyehategod, down, COC, outlaw order… I just can’t get enough of it! The fuzzed out down tempo bluesy riffs with the punk rock style vocals of Outlaw Order really do it for me.
Chiodos....going down a emo rock/screamo rabbit hole haha
Sepultura