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This is a comprehensive list of notable stoner rock/metal bands. It includes any musical groups that have incorporated the genre into their music at some point in ...
This is an alphabetical list of notable doom metal bands as well as bands that play a subgenre or fusion genre of doom metal, such as death-doom or epic doom This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Sleep is an American stoner/doom metal band from San Jose, California. [1] [2] Guitarist Matt Pike and bassist and vocalist Al Cisneros have been the only constant members throughout the band's history. Critic Eduardo Rivadavia describes them as "perhaps the ultimate stoner rock band" [3] and notes they exerted a strong influence on metal in ...
The British music magazine Mojo gave the album a rating of five out of five stars proclaiming that Dopesmoker is "A benchmark by which all that dares call itself stoner rock must surely be judged." [31] Exclaim! praised Dopesmoker's production value and noted that the album was an "ultimately better version of 1999's stoner opus Jerusalem."
Also classed as stoner metal. [14] Bison B.C. [15] 2006 Canada Also classed as stoner metal [16] and doom metal. [17] Black Tusk [18] 2005 United States Also classed as stoner rock/metal [19] [20] and hardcore punk. [20] Blood Circus [21] 1988 United States Bongzilla [22] 1995 United States Also classed as stoner rock/metal. Boris [23] 1992 Japan
Traditional doom bands typically play slow to mid-tempo songs with a thick and heavy sound with the electric bass following the melody line, and sometimes employ the usage of keyboards, although assuming a secondary role on traditional doom metal songs. [9] Vocals are usually clean with the occasional growl or scream. [63]
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 .
Electric Wizard are an English stoner/doom metal band from Dorset. Formed in 1988 under the name Lord of Putrefaction, the band have recorded nine studio albums, two of which have been considered genre landmarks: Come My Fanatics… (1997) and Dopethrone (2000).