Stoner metal
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Stoner Metal and Sludge Metal are often used interchangeably, but some fans make distinctions: Sludge metal has more similarities with grindcore and hardcore punk. There also are similarities to doom metal, but most aficionados consider the two genres distinct.
The genre name is derived from the notion that the artists and audience for this kind of music are stoners (frequent users of marijuana) although this is not always the case. However, given the commonly stripped down production, use of psychedelic guitar effects, and obvious 70's rock influence, one can't help but come to such (usually correct) conclusions.
Other terms, which also indicate slightly different, but frequently overlapping genres are 'stoner rock', 'desert rock' and the very abstract 'desert music', which usually has only very little 'metal' content as such.
Stoner metal is a mix of jam-heavy psychedelic rock laced with some doom metal like riffs; heavily influnced musically by the heavy psychedelic bands of the 1960s and 1970s. Monster Magnet and Kyuss were among the most popular practitioners in the 1990s, today bands like Fireball Ministry and Fu Manchu have carried the torch. Others include:
- Acid King
- Black Sabbath
- Bongzilla
- Church of Misery
- Down
- Drag Pack
- Electric Wizard
- Eyehategod
- Fatso Jetson
- Fireball Ministry
- Fu Manchu
- High on Fire
- Isis
- Kyuss
- Mannhai
- Masters of Reality
- The Melvins
- The Miracle Workers
- Monster Magnet
- Morris
- The Mushroom River Band
- Natas
- Nebula
- Orange Goblin
- Pawnshop
- Pelican
- Pink as a Panther
- Queens of the Stone Age
- Roadsaw
- Sixty Watt Shaman
- Six Sigma
- Sleep
- Slo Burn
- Spirit Caravan
- Spiritual Beggars
- Thulsa Doom
- Unidade:Stoner Rock