Wretch - Kyuss

Welcome To Sky Valley - Kyuss

proper one, and is the pinnacle of their achievements as a band, as well as the main reason for their lasting critical acclaim. Released in 1994, this album sees Kyuss at their most focused and talented, without the bloat of their previous "Blues for the Red Sun", or the inconsistency of their next and last full length release ... "and the Circus Leaves Town". Apparently, the album wasn t supposed to be called "Welcome to Sky Valley", but became known as this, presumably because that is what is written on the front cover. I remember when I first heard this album not long after its release, naught but a lad, visiting my cousin in the ...

Blues For The Red Sun - Kyuss

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 at the ...

Blues For The Red Sun - Kyuss

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 time of ...