4. Danava (sometimes)
― imago, Wednesday, 10 September 2014 20:43 (nine years ago) link
do Cave and Oneida count
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 10 September 2014 20:47 (nine years ago) link
Never listened to Cave but the "drone" descriptor makes me wary + only one member appears to have long hair
still, if you are comfortable setting them alongside such lofty company, why not?
― Speaking of the inaccessible summit, here's (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 10 September 2014 20:56 (nine years ago) link
I almost wrote "heavy" instead of "hard-rock" but decided that leaves the door open to too much distinctly non-rocking sludgy doom/drone stuff that can gtfo & stay there
― Speaking of the inaccessible summit, here's (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 10 September 2014 21:04 (nine years ago) link
sleater kinney
― john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 10 September 2014 21:21 (nine years ago) link
also mars volta had some jams tbh
― john wahey (NickB), Wednesday, 10 September 2014 21:22 (nine years ago) link
xp Oh good call—early records may be too punk / not heavy enuff but by the time they recorded "Light Rail Coyote" they definitely qualified
― Speaking of the inaccessible summit, here's (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 10 September 2014 21:27 (nine years ago) link
oh yeah TMV are definitely in this bracket
― imago, Wednesday, 10 September 2014 21:29 (nine years ago) link
Ugh, I would sooner admit Tool onto this list than The Mars Volta... & I would rather eat a 7-string bass than ever listen to Tool again
― Speaking of the inaccessible summit, here's (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 10 September 2014 21:31 (nine years ago) link
fine well we'll ignore stuff that's more prog than hard rock
danava otoh were/are more hard rock than prog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3fRe8XXBE0
^^^slaysmithstrelling
― imago, Wednesday, 10 September 2014 21:33 (nine years ago) link
Look, if you can show me a Mars Volta song that makes me want to pump my fist *not into the singer's face, I will gladly reconsider; in the meantime, I'll be out here talking shit
― Speaking of the inaccessible summit, here's (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 10 September 2014 21:41 (nine years ago) link
do the Dwarves count? some great early 90's records there, but a bit on the punk side of things
― sleeve, Wednesday, 10 September 2014 21:47 (nine years ago) link
bernard snowy just listen to that danava song and forget TMV were ever mentioned
― imago, Wednesday, 10 September 2014 22:01 (nine years ago) link
also, Comets On Fire? never entirely my thing but they prob deserve a mention
― imago, Wednesday, 10 September 2014 22:02 (nine years ago) link
Birds of Maya.
― example (crüt), Wednesday, 10 September 2014 22:04 (nine years ago) link
def Comets on Fire
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, 10 September 2014 22:05 (nine years ago) link
Bardo PondSungodPinkish BlackMoon DuoGolden VoidGoatPharaoh OverlordAqua Nebula Oscillator has at least one perfect album. Same goes for Ice Dragon.
― he talks in meths (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 10 September 2014 22:06 (nine years ago) link
First Comets on Fire album is the absolute shit
Goat and Pharaoh Overlord are not American
― example (crüt), Wednesday, 10 September 2014 22:08 (nine years ago) link
Oh lol my bad
― he talks in meths (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 10 September 2014 22:09 (nine years ago) link
Neither is ANO
Weird how I always forget Comets On Fir exist, given what a huge Howlin' Rain stan I am!
― Speaking of the inaccessible summit, here's (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 10 September 2014 22:12 (nine years ago) link
hermanoche
― brimstead, Wednesday, 10 September 2014 22:54 (nine years ago) link
okay I want to like Danava but their singer is like an even-more-strained Wayne Coyne = NO THANKS
― Speaking of the inaccessible summit, here's (bernard snowy), Saturday, 13 September 2014 04:20 (nine years ago) link
Cave is not exactly the type of thing I was looking for, nonetheless I dig the other type of thing which they are, so what the heck, into the canon they go!
― Speaking of the inaccessible summit, here's (bernard snowy), Saturday, 13 September 2014 04:25 (nine years ago) link
monster magnet is twice as good as kyuss
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 13 September 2014 04:29 (nine years ago) link
Oneida sucks, haha just kidding, I've only heard a few songs from them & I sorta suspect them of being too art-rock for this thread... is there an album of theirs you would recommend if I want ++rock & --art?also for some reason I tend to confuse them with Beulah
― Speaking of the inaccessible summit, here's (bernard snowy), Saturday, 13 September 2014 04:30 (nine years ago) link
xp YOU MAY BE ON(TO SOMETHING
― Speaking of the inaccessible summit, here's (bernard snowy), Saturday, 13 September 2014 04:33 (nine years ago) link
High on Fire is better than Kyuss ever was.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Saturday, 13 September 2014 04:33 (nine years ago) link
The album Blessed Black Wings is so ungodly awesome it brings you to your knees. Wheearas Kyuss' (who I like aLot) best moments make you go "yeah bro far out"'
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Saturday, 13 September 2014 04:36 (nine years ago) link
xp soooo at least half as good, then
― Speaking of the inaccessible summit, here's (bernard snowy), Saturday, 13 September 2014 04:36 (nine years ago) link
Fuck I'd rather listen to the Sword than Kyuss.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Saturday, 13 September 2014 04:37 (nine years ago) link
okay NOW YOU'VE GONE TOO FAR
― Speaking of the inaccessible summit, here's (bernard snowy), Saturday, 13 September 2014 04:37 (nine years ago) link
And Down
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Saturday, 13 September 2014 04:38 (nine years ago) link
Love the Sword
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Saturday, 13 September 2014 04:40 (nine years ago) link
Clutch
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Saturday, 13 September 2014 04:42 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iSUqJ2CQ_os
― cock chirea, Saturday, 13 September 2014 04:54 (nine years ago) link
Baroness
― alpine static, Saturday, 13 September 2014 05:33 (nine years ago) link
Fu ManchuGov't MuleKarma to Burn
― earlnash, Saturday, 13 September 2014 06:00 (nine years ago) link
Still keep coming back to that one Elder album from a couple of years back, so they're my fringe nomination
― john wahey (NickB), Saturday, 13 September 2014 06:07 (nine years ago) link
Soundgarden
― Mule, Saturday, 13 September 2014 07:03 (nine years ago) link
(On the condition that 90s discographies are allowed)
― Mule, Saturday, 13 September 2014 07:05 (nine years ago) link
harvey milk
― massaman gai, Saturday, 13 September 2014 08:04 (nine years ago) link
None of these bands are as good as Kyuss
― monoprix à dimanche (dog latin), Saturday, 13 September 2014 08:05 (nine years ago) link
kyuss sux
― salthigh, Saturday, 13 September 2014 08:05 (nine years ago) link
You suck
― monoprix à dimanche (dog latin), Saturday, 13 September 2014 08:06 (nine years ago) link
john kyuss suck
― john wahey (NickB), Saturday, 13 September 2014 08:11 (nine years ago) link
no xmas for john kyuss
― massaman gai, Saturday, 13 September 2014 08:38 (nine years ago) link
The God Machine
― MaresNest, Saturday, 13 September 2014 08:48 (nine years ago) link
If you wanted to talk about Scandinavian bands that fit this description there are a few.
I don't really know much about the American scene. I do like the Canadian Blood Ceremony
― Stevolende, Saturday, 13 September 2014 09:38 (nine years ago) link
opeth is twice as good as kyuss
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 13 September 2014 11:44 (nine years ago) link
oh but i guess they're scandy not yankee. nevermind!
Sleep
― Barry Gordy (Neil S), Saturday, 13 September 2014 11:51 (nine years ago) link
eyehategod and crowbar, if u do the math u will see that eyehategod are approx 10000000x as good as kyuss
― adam, Saturday, 13 September 2014 12:55 (nine years ago) link
Creed
― Quinoa Phoenix (latebloomer), Saturday, 13 September 2014 16:44 (nine years ago) link
Kyuss pales in comparison to a lot of the bands listed here. Finding a groove, turning up to 11 then moving on to listen to rush Limbaugh or Sean hannity or whatever the fuck that idiot is into is not my idea of a great band.
― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Sunday, 14 September 2014 04:38 (nine years ago) link
^^^suggest 50 million year trip into the sun
― Speaking of the inaccessible summit, here's (bernard snowy), Sunday, 14 September 2014 05:44 (nine years ago) link
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― Speaking of the inaccessible summit, here's (bernard snowy), Sunday, 14 September 2014 05:45 (nine years ago) link
shytt
― salthigh, Sunday, 14 September 2014 06:19 (nine years ago) link
listening to the God Machine - "Tremolo Song" rn, hey this is really good
― Speaking of the inaccessible summit, here's (bernard snowy), Monday, 15 September 2014 00:12 (nine years ago) link
The album Blessed Black Wings is so ungodly awesome it brings you to your knees. Wheearas Kyuss' (who I like aLot) best moments make you go "yeah bro far out"'― Prince Kajuku (Bill Magill), Saturday, September 13, 2014 4:36 AM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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I really dig the soloing in the last minute of "Hessian", the drumming in the second half of "Face of Oblivion" (but not so much the guitar part), the title track & "Cross the Bridge" in their entirety
― Speaking of the inaccessible summit, here's (bernard snowy), Thursday, 18 September 2014 12:41 (nine years ago) link
I might like Anointing of Seer the best out of BBW
― he talks in meths (Drugs A. Money), Saturday, 20 September 2014 07:42 (nine years ago) link
someone upthread mentinoed Bardo Pond, who I am unfamiliar with--where do you recommend starting?
― Vomit of a Missionary (bernard snowy), Saturday, 4 October 2014 06:16 (nine years ago) link
I haven't heard anything by them I didn't like, though the early material is a little growing-painy. Amanita/Lapsed/Dilate are my favorite three. Also the recent Record Store Day EPs they did of epic cover versions of other peoples songs are worth a download.
― sink floyd (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 4 October 2014 09:30 (nine years ago) link
ya I downloaded the Funkadelic/P.Sanders one, pretty groovy
― Vomits of a Missionary (bernard snowy), Saturday, 4 October 2014 13:34 (nine years ago) link
Slough Feg
― los blue jeans, Saturday, 4 October 2014 16:02 (nine years ago) link
I want to like Slough Feg but it just doesn't seem like it's going to happen.
― sink floyd (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Saturday, 4 October 2014 19:05 (nine years ago) link
harvey milk is still the only one i can think of. as far as current bands that i like as much as klassic kyuss. i really do like klassic kyuss a bunch. (but i only really LOVE a couple of harvey milk albums. and appreciate/respect/enjoy the others, but maybe not love...)
― scott seward, Saturday, 4 October 2014 19:15 (nine years ago) link
Other heavy recs:
Destroying AngelLord of Light (Hawkwind cover!!)Cracker WristUndoneTommy Gun Angel
― cichleee suite (Leee), Saturday, 4 October 2014 19:28 (nine years ago) link
In addition to the brainmelting "Maggot Brain" cover GOTT PUNCH mentioned.
― cichleee suite (Leee), Saturday, 4 October 2014 19:31 (nine years ago) link
What r best Harvey Milk albums? (asking for a friend)
― Vomits of a Missionary (bernard snowy), Saturday, 4 October 2014 21:09 (nine years ago) link
Courtesy and Good Will Toward Men
That's my favorite at least
― Evan, Saturday, 4 October 2014 22:21 (nine years ago) link
Tommy Gun Angel (opening track off Lapsed) was my entryway into Bardo Pond and is as sublime a composition as there ever was to walk that thin line between sludge metal and shoegaze*
*first encountered it in the nominations thread for Moka's shoegaze thread
― its a kirt not a skilt (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 5 October 2014 07:50 (nine years ago) link
SOAD.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Sunday, 5 October 2014 12:22 (nine years ago) link
listening to the preview tracks from the new Dawnbringer... could they be half as good as Kyuss?? only time will tell
― Vomits of a Missionary (bernard snowy), Wednesday, 8 October 2014 15:19 (nine years ago) link
Man, Bardo Pond's self-titled album from 2010 is a fucking masterpiece and has to be one of the greatest American hard rock albums of the past 15 years
― FB needs sb (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 30 November 2014 07:40 (nine years ago) link