Blues For The Red Sun - Kyuss

Released in 1993 by Californian stoner rock pioneers Kyuss, this album is a groundbreaking piece of heavy music. It weaves different aspects of heavy metal, rock and blues together into a new, dirty kind of fusion that has so far stood the test of time. Josh Homme was the brains and soul of this band and he went on to found the much more pop-oriented and popular Queens of the Stone Age, and was joined in that band by the bassist from this album, Nick Oliveri. The music itself is very heavy and very rhythmic, with the rhythm section of excellent drummer Brant Bjork and bassist Oliveri being the most apparent and perhaps most important aspect of "the ...  Read the complete review

It's with their third album that stoner rock pioneers Kyuss really hit their stride as well as the rock mainstream, letting forth a subtly powerful barrage of slow, warm and fuzzy instrumentation beneath John Garcia's irresistible melodic singing. These songs are still heavily based in the blues rock tradition, but move beyond traditional doom rock towards something more emotive, compelling and bizarrely reminiscent of a drive down a desert road in the Southern United States, picking up hookers and sleeping in seedy motels. The band are masters of tempo, churning out predominantly slow riffs and rhythms that accelerate to great effect on occasion, particularly ...  Read the complete review

With this, their second album, the American band Kyuss pretty much set the standard for what was to be called "stoner rock", basically it's grunge taken even a step further, with the usual tuned down guitars and deep throated vocalists, mixed with a rythym section that destroy everything in its path. IT'S LOUD DAD!!!!!! Kyuss took the grunge sound even more down a heavy road when guitarist Josh Homme played his six string through a 400 watt bass amp, creating a deep dense guitar sound that characterises this lump of 1992 dense hard rock called "Blues For The Red Sun". A lot of this album sounds very much like Metallica around the ...  Read the complete review