American hard-rock bands of the past 2 decades that are even half as good as Kyuss

^^^suggest 50 million year trip into the sun

no xmas for john kyuss

― massaman gai, Saturday, September 13, 2014 8:38 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

shytt

listening to the God Machine - "Tremolo Song" rn, hey this is really good

The album Blessed Black Wings is so ungodly awesome it brings you to your knees. Wheearas Kyuss' (who I like a
Lot) 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

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

I might like Anointing of Seer the best out of BBW

someone upthread mentinoed Bardo Pond, who I am unfamiliar with--where do you recommend starting?

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.

ya I downloaded the Funkadelic/P.Sanders one, pretty groovy

Slough Feg

I want to like Slough Feg but it just doesn't seem like it's going to happen.

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...)

someone upthread mentinoed Bardo Pond, who I am unfamiliar with--where do you recommend starting?

Other heavy recs:

Destroying Angel
Lord of Light (Hawkwind cover!!)
Cracker Wrist
Undone
Tommy Gun Angel

In addition to the brainmelting "Maggot Brain" cover GOTT PUNCH mentioned.

What r best Harvey Milk albums? (asking for a friend)

Courtesy and Good Will Toward Men

That's my favorite at least

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

SOAD.

listening to the preview tracks from the new Dawnbringer... could they be half as good as Kyuss?? only time will tell

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