Blues For The Red Sun - Kyuss

This could be called the holy bible of stoners everywhere. All bands that today are dubbed stoner rocked ultimately owe their existence to this blissed out hybrid of grunge, metal and psychedelic jamming. As a result it deserves respect not only as superb album, but also as a vastly influential work of art. It’s just a shame that it’s taken the success of Queens of the Stone Age for the vast influence of this band to finally be recognised. ...
...outperforming its predecessor, the overly scratchy Wretch. Josh Homme’s guitar sound is truly frightening, distorted to a vast degree and plugged through a bass amp to make it truly bottom heavy. The drumming is excellent, never too fancy but always maintaining an excellent rhythm. The superb bass playing of Nick Olivieri gives the whole thing the massive grooves which drive it along, while the rough but endearing vocals of John Garcia provide ...

Spongly 23.04.2001 · Read full review
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...capable of. For this reason, Blues For The Red Sun hasn't achieved the excellent rating that I would have otherwise given it. The album is marvellously put together so that you don't have to fit into the "stoner" stereotype to enjoy it. Whilst great driving music, the songs are appropriate for any occasion (though you may find the treble lines a little understated for a party). To sum up, this CD has been my Bible for a long time and only isn't now ...

crutchley_am 22.10.2005 · Read full review
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Kyuss were a band from Southern California, who where one of a number of very heavy US rock bands getting a break in the post-Nirvana era. Nowadays they are more famous for having spawned Queens Of The Stone Age, because guitarist Josh Homme and bassist/singer Nick Oliveri went on to form that band and had huge success with it too. Here though in 1992, together with drummer Brant Bjork and lead singer John Garcia, they put down a blueprint for what ...
...rock is just very heavy rock music taken even further by the post-grunge favoured method of downtuning guitars and slowing it all down to neanderthal beats. Josh Homme takes it even a step more heavier by playing lead guitar through a 400 watt bass head, giving a very distorted and throbbing distinctive sound. The band became very popular at twilight desert concerts, where the youth would gather around car headlights, listen to their music and presumably ...

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