Top 8: Must Listen Stoner Rock Albums

[@SickOfMetal]

Would you like to see part 2 with more stoner rock/doom metal albums?

[@jtbland]

Um yes!

[@ShonnDaylee]

Absolutely. Next time don't forget Mars Red Sky, Windhand, and Elephant Tree.

[@Brando-Lee3725]

Saint Vitus and The Obsessed for sure . I had a fondness for a band called Warhorse on the doom front of things . And I am not sure if you could throw all of the next band's work im about to mention here , but CLUTCH ! They have there moments in this genre at least !

[@maluorno]

Fu Manchu, sHeavy, Orange Goblin and Monster Magnet's 'Dopes to Infinity' are notable absences from this list. Melvins as well maybe....i dunno

[@Brando-Lee3725]

@@maluorno Aw man ! I forgot about Orange Goblin ! Good call brother .

[@starkillerclub3755]

Fu Manchu "King of the Road" Dozer "Through the Eyes of Heathens" Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats "Blood Lust" Are all essential Stoner Rock albums. 😎

[@doctoraep]

Agreed! Adding to that list: Witch S/T 35007 - Liquid Mars Red Sky - S/T Slift -Ummon Truckfighters - Gravity X Red Fang - S/T and so many more

[@starkillerclub3755]

@@doctoraep Truckfighters Mind Control is top tier as well

[@samuelferrell9257]

Nice picks

[@Balkancuga]

Clutch self titled should be here.

[@adamlawson5021]

Absolutely!

[@davidsedio]

Dude! Totally! Ahead two thirds!!

[@_Clem_H_Fandango_]

Almost any early Clutch could be on the list. Especially Elephant Riders!!

[@Balkancuga]

@@_Clem_H_Fandango_ Yeah, thats more fuzzy and it fucking rocks

[@alexisc6136]

Immediately thought of that album

[@lucazeppegno8256]

I'd personally say that Blues For The Red Sun was more groundbreaking, also at international level than Welcome To The Sky Valley.

[@crash77182]

1000 Mods, Villager of ioannina city and all the Greek scene !

[@heatnationwpb]

Corrosion of Conformity's Deliverance should absolutely be here. Actually any COC with Pepper Keenan on vox.

[@christopherking9338]

Wiseblood!! Forevah!!!

[@jeffbuckleydisciple2013]

Fly on albatross

[@mahogany174]

Totally agree. A classic album

[@WSFScotland]

Time travelling blues by orange goblin is a stoner masterpiece!

[@RoRo-vr6wx]

Bro do u like bluesy stoner doom?

[@rubbabubba6489]

for sure. found them about 5 yrs ago. glad i did

[@crazyprayingmantis5596]

Desperately needs a vinyl reissue, gatefold tasty artwork please.

[@ayobmedz]

Om - Conference of the Birds Somali Yacht Club - The Sun Virus - The Agent that Shapes the Desert Dead Meadow - self-titled or Howls from the Hills Acrimony - Tumuli Shroomaroom Spirit Caravan - The Last Embrace Witch - self-titled Conan - Blood Eagle Heavy Temple - Chassit Just a few of my favorites. The early Kyuss records are pretty much the cream IMO

[@astronausea4852]

SYC's Sun is a banger!

[@crazyprayingmantis5596]

Somali Yacht club, nice. Got a cd copy from them directly, they actually emailed me personally when I ordered it, the band back then handled all their orders themselves I agree with you, the more I dig in the genre the more I come to realise Kyuss covers it all and better than anyone.

[@johnbrender7635]

King Buffalo is one of the best bands i've heard in 30+ years

[@MojosArmy]

💯

[@ryanlarocque2571]

The lack of a Fu-Manchu mention seems concerning.

[@SickOfMetal]

Check out the blog

[@spacegrass2738]

Clutch self titled (Moon Album) is my all time favorite to smoke up too!

[@Nome_utente_generico]

Finally someone talking about Monster Magnet 👍🏻

[@SickOfMetal]

Monster Magnet is awesome 🤘

[@NatGreenOnline]

My favourite stoner rock albums are Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun, Dozer - From the Eyes of Heathens, Monster Magnet - Dopes to Infinity, Lowrider - Ode to Io

[@combover71]

Melvins

[@brianjohnston5221]

🤘Buzz and Dale 🤘

[@mainzergirl9610]

Super vid! Sabbath has been my favorite band for 40 yrs but strangely, i know little about stoner rock. Very helpful.

[@RunDub]

The Sword

[@samuelferrell9257]

The sword is sooo much more than stoner rock though. Love that band!

[@brianjohnston5221]

Fun Manchu, Nebula, The Melvins, Clutch, Goblin Cock and for an older crowd U.F.O.🤘

[@philhogan5623]

I don't know much stoner rock but my two favourites are California Crossing by Fu Manchu and Powertrip by Monster Magnet.

[@milesdufourny4813]

My favorites include Saint Vitus, Monster Magnet, Kyuss, Earthless and Sleep. Spine of God is such a great album!

[@mambodoom7653]

Good video, I would recommend Acid King- Busse Woods, Orange Goblin-Time Travelling Blues, and Cathedral-The Ethereal Mirror.

[@SickOfMetal]

Orange Goblin is sick!!

[@jasonyoung1230]

Acid bath were pretty hard to put into one specific genre but I feel they were pretty influential 1000 mods also really good

[@andytakach6887]

CLUTCH self titled would be #1 on my list

[@wardka]

No one has mentioned my favorite stoner band, Windhand. Well, my favorite along with Electric Wizard.

[@morgancatherwood5665]

thank you -I'm just kind of getting into this genre and I appreciate all the good advice

[@aboutthemetal8783]

Check out the early stuff from an American band called corrosion of conformity , pepper Keenan ( guitarist in down ) is the singer and guitarist .

[@BomageMinimart]

This is a good list but if you do more of these I hope that at some point you'll mention Acrimony's "Tumuli Shroomaroom" (1997) - it's an often overlooked masterpiece.

[@SickOfMetal]

Thanks man, i'll check it out!

[@ShonnDaylee]

No modern Stoner Rock list is complete without mentioning Elephant Tree. They only have a few albums, but they're all bangers. They haven't released a bad track. Modern kings of Stoner Psyche.

[@reynolds61276]

Bongzilla, All them witches, The Swell Fellas, Bantha Rider and Bong Ripper are a few more worth the listen

[@ShredForth]

CoC - Deliverance, Down - NOLA or Over The Under, The Sword - Warp Riders and Age of Winters, Uncle Acid - Blood Lust, Trouble - Psalm 9, Cathedral - The Ethereal Mirror, Elder - Reflections of a Floating World, The Obsessed - The Church Within, Green Lung - Woodland Rites. A lot of those are more to the metal side of things but I think they fit as much as Electric Wizard and Kyuss.

[@2006Nel]

UFOMAMMUT from Italy. So so good

[@ettnollbajen9945]

Master of Reality Black Sabbath 1971 The blueprint Spelljammer will be checked out for sure. Good list buddy

[@SickOfMetal]

Awesome, thanks!

[@All7777Fever]

Should check out what Sweden has to offer - namely Truckfighters (They fight trucks!) and Dozer. Then there's 1000mods from Greece or even Thumlock from Australia. All good shit!

[@tanktuba]

Great list. I agree with all of these choices. There is so much great music in this genre right now. Farflung A Wound in Eternity, Spaceslug Lemanis and Weedpecker III are good albums to add to this list.

[@matthews7805]

That Farflung album is great!

[@angeljamini3382]

Spaceslug is the greatest modern stoner band imo. Eye the Tide from them is such a masterpiece as well.

[@crazyprayingmantis5596]

I put these closer to spacerock than stoner but yeah they rip

[@amarijuanican9596]

Witchcraft - Legend. Greenleaf- Hear the Rivers. Others Orange Goblin, The Sword, King Buffalo, 1000mods, Dozer, Clutch, TAD (I consider this early stoner not grunge). Mastermind by Monster Magnet is one of my favs.

[@esehn6972]

Check out Montréal's Dopethrone. Stoner/Doom riffs with a Black Metal- style vocal....wicked

[@JCS7755]

King Buffalo is a new one for me, so thank you for making this video. The "new" band (past 20 years) that has not made it as big as I thought they would is THE SWORD. I would definitely have them on my list if I made one of these.

[@SickOfMetal]

Glad I could help, thanks for watching!

[@South3West77]

Dead Otter, Bask, are similar progressive stoner with King Buffalo. 3 greats

[@ralphharrison6622]

monster magnet is absolutely mind crushing!!!

[@devildart]

Here would be my list if you did a part 2. Fu Manchu in search of Orange Goblin time traveler blues Color Haze Tempel Dozer in the tail of a comet Nebula to the center Lowrider refractions Alabama Thunderpussy staring at the divine The Machine solar corona

[@Jesterday-dk3vm]

Not having anything from Fu Manchu or Nebula is a serious oversight 🤔

[@SickOfMetal]

My bad! Check out the blog maybe there is some Fu Manchu mentioned there!

[@rhalfik]

The first stoner rock song was Freedom by Buffalo from '73

[@dylanadams1455]

I'll see your Freedom and raise you a Sweet Leaf from '71

[@Xzilo64]

Black Pyramid - Black pyramid? Good album I’d say suits our stoner metal genre

[@tussk.]

Dark Castle - Spirited Migration. This should be on every stoner playlist.

[@mobiscuits7042]

Wo Fat's Pychedelenaught deserves an honorable mention.

[@AteThisYesterday]

Myopic list, thanks for sharing your personal favorites.

[@SickOfMetal]

My pleasure.

[@TheFlowNetwork]

Interesting! This is giving away my age a bit, but when I think of Stoner Rock I think of Camper Van Beethoven, Phish and maybe Blues Traveller. I never realized there is a whole sub-genre of Stoner Rock that comes from the Metal branch of the family tree. Interesting...but we are smoking very different kinds of weed.😜

[@Wakeywhodat]

I'm 57, dig in! I thought it was just Tool and QOTSA that were still active. There's a bunch of awesome bands in this comment section

[@matthewmcdaniel875]

You can't talk about Welcome to Sky Valley without mentioning Whitewater. It is the greatest stoner rock song ever made. King of the Road by Fu Manchu, Blast Tyrant by Clutch and Deliverance by Corrosion of Conformity seem like glaring omissions, but I like that you purposely included some modern stuff. Some cool stuff to check out though, so thanks for that.

[@heavytimes887]

Down, The Sword, Fu Manchu, and Clutch. Some lesser known bands that deserve a nod would be Graveyard, Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats, Kadavar, WoFat, and Nebula.

[@jasonyoung1230]

Uncle acid👍 Have you heard Church of the cosmic skull?

[@jeffreyhanc1711]

Just as Philosophy is a footnote to Plato, Stoner Rock (imho) is a footnote to Black Sabbath.

[@stepitupandgo67]

If you get into these bands, try Neurosis and Yob, and, perhaps, Black Sabbath

[@renehansen8971]

CLUTCH

[@reggiebannister4098]

YES. The self titled album is a smoked out masterpiece. Those guys rarely get the credit they deserve

[@brianjohnston5221]

@@reggiebannister4098 elephant riders too😶‍🌫

[@spacegrass2738]

Completely agree.Blast Tyrant ain’t bad either!

[@sergionicolaifernandez7070]

Los natas - Delmar y Ciudad de Brahman. Dos álbumes fundamentales.

[@2006Nel]

gracias por el descubrimiento! ¡Su segundo álbum es absolutamente excelente!

[@e.b.1279]

Nebula!! Where's Nebula ?!!

[@cardsandcomics]

Pentagram review your choices, King Buffalo Longing to be the Mountain, Sheavy Celestial Hi Fi, Truckfighters Gravity X, Solace Further

[@SickOfMetal]

Review your choices is my favorite Pentagram album

[@ruperterskin2117]

Right on. Thanks for sharing.

[@J.R.Psych74]

Is that Buck Dharma at 7:35 in the lower central part of the screen?

[@Joel-yj3ic]

I'd say it is.

[@Verboten-xn4rx]

Only know Salem's Pot and Idle Wind. Have no albums. You can never see these bands in the UK. Is it really a retro boomer audience thing? Psychedelic metal

[@bigdaddypiggy]

I agree with the majority of it but some honorable mentions are in order: “NO-LA” by Down Anything by Wino era Saint Vitus The 1st Melvins record “The Church Within” by the Obsessed Self titled “Clutch” very early Soundgarden “Dopes to Infinity” Monster Magnet & of course “Paranoid” “Vol. 4” & lby Sabbath 🖤🤤

[@matthewmcdaniel875]

This helped me discover King Buffalo, and all I can really say is HOLY S@!T!

[@emgsixstring]

Elder.. Reflections of a Floating Planet - EPIC.

[@nitroxylictv]

stoner rock will blow up in the late 2020s to revive rock and finally kill hip hop and rap

[@pabloalvez915]

Greece is now the go-to place when talking about Stoner Rock. It’s more popular there than anywhere else, and their scene is mindblowing. Check the "Weedian - Trip to Greece" compilation.

[@SickOfMetal]

Thanks i'll check it out!

[@stoatystoat174]

Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats - Blood Lust 🤟

[@metalslather]

You have to include Unida here. Catchy melodic stoner. In my top ten bands………….welcome to the club.

[@WeGachaMetal]

Excellent video. I grew up listening to Saint Vitus, Pentagram, Internal Void, etc, but being a Jersey boy, Monster Magnet was the first band I can say brought a truly original take on this subgenre. I bought the s/t CD (it was B4 Spine of God came out) at Vintage Vinyl----and that my doomy friends, is where the re-incarnation of all of this began. Lastly, why why why must everyone use the term "stoner rock" or "stoner metal"? It's theeeeee dumbest name ever, don't you think? If intelligent people stop using the term, maybe it''ll just go away.

[@jhendrixfanatic2]

All Them Witches eclipses the whole genre

[@aboutthemetal8783]

Corrosion of conformity ?

[@SickOfMetal]

Yeah, maybe I will have to do part 2 with Deliverance!!

[@evwell3988]

Orange Goblin’s Big Black is a must too

[@seanevertts2735]

Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats?

[@starkillerclub3755]

Blood Lust should be on the list

[@SlowmotionSomatics]

Love what you’ve built here, but really could have used some more generous cuts of the actual music you’re talking about. Sure I could cut out and sample the music elsewhere, but I really felt very little flavor of any track. Just craving something more to chew on. 🙏🏼

[@SickOfMetal]

Thank you for your feedback. I completely understand where you're coming from though. I usually keep the music clips short to avoid any issues with KZbin, as their system detects songs and can affect the monetization of the video. Thanks for your support and patience!

[@OutsideoftheGrid]

Well, again, it’s kind of like a lot of other things. When you see/hear, you’ll know. I think of The Growlers song Sea Lion Goth Blues as an example of this genre.

[@OutsideoftheGrid]

Of course, in terms of songs, also include Bananarama’s Cruel Summer, and STP’s Big Bang Baby as Stoner Rock Mainstream Crossovers…

[@OutsideoftheGrid]

You’d have to include Sublime somewhere in there. Because you can get to root real quick. Definitely Badfish.

[@Wakeywhodat]

I thought rock was dead, and then I found Elder and that opened me up to all the rest. All them witches belongs on the list with king buffalo and lord 13.

[@SickOfMetal]

Same here. Stoner rock and doom metal re-introduced my love for bands in general 💪

[@AaronFrick-zc6xu]

Queens of the Stone Age aren't stoner rock. Ask them.

[@KINGMONKEY1989]

They're just Rock N Roll to me. Not metal,Grunge or alternative like some like to count certain bands. Stoner Rock is just Rock to me 😂😂

[@milesdufourny4813]

QOTSA are what I consider melodic punk metal with psychedelic overtones, definitely not Stoner Rock.

[@davestein940]

What about PUNCH......Deathhead on the Brown Acid LP......?? Recorded in 1970...kicks ass!!

[@fuzzvoid9383]

and trippelganger,domkraft,goatess,mount saturn,temple of the fuzz wicth,ered guldur,frale, and son crow

[@mattattack5205]

Low rider - ode to oi and Karma to burn - wild wonderful purgatory and Unida - urban coyote are my go to albums .

[@SickOfMetal]

Awesome!🔥low rider is quite good, but a little repetitive… or maybe the style is. Im not sure. When theres a lot of bands going after the same approach its hard to keep up.

[@saintbaf]

Nightstalker baby

[@pestluder]

Clutch and COC as mentioned by others. Plus Sasquatch (listen to I, II or III), Lee Van Cleef and Borracho.

[@SickOfMetal]

I will check them out, thanks!

[@BDozer666]

Any album by Duel Any album by Mothership Any album by Ruby The Hatchet Any album by The Marlboro Men The Last Adventures Of Captain Dog by Blind Dog (how is this not on the list?) Burning Village by Mountain Witch Wayfarer by Void Cruiser Ascendancy by The Dirty Earth Riders On The Edge by Planet Cruiser High Place Phenomenon by Instant Boner Event Horizon by Dustrider Shovelhead by Mississippi Gun Club Odd by Descarado etc... etc...

[@paddyd.7137]

atm it's GNOME

[@kamojet]

Be nice if we could hear some clips of the songs that illustrate the points that you are trying to make. I'm trying to discover new music here. Well maybe not here. It's cool to talk about it but I'd like to hear some of it. Otherwise why watch the vid, you just made a video out of a magazine article. Not the best use of the medium...

[@creeper50]

Don't know whether Fu Manchu is more desert than stoner which is arguable, pillar band too

[@SickOfMetal]

Nah i think they’re 100% stoner

[@smokedogg19821]

Sugartooth self-titled album is an absolute must listen

[@mattmiller4821]

If you're going the sludge route, shouldn't something from the early fuckin Melvins be here? Like Lysol?

[@danielcastillo4537]

Check out NOLA's Suplecs, "Wrestling my lady friend." This band should've been bigger. And also anything by Drunk Horse!

[@jaimedeleon1194]

Everybody needs Sleep!

[@SickOfMetal]

Agreed

[@pasajerointernacional8219]

What is the real musical difference between hard rock and stoner rock?

[@keithfalconer7529]

I’d go dopes to infinity if a MM record

[@samuelferrell9257]

No Dr. Colossus?

[@metalfactor666]

Celestial Season album "Solar Lovers" is the ultimate Stoner Doom Metal from Netherlands released in 95 check it out

[@John-k6f9k]

I hate the term "stoner rock". I have no interest in drugs but this stuff is both awesome to listen to and play on guitar. Implying you need drugs as well to like it just cheapens it. It's like saying you have a girlfriend who's prettiest when you're drunk.

[@Brando-Lee3725]

Saint Vitus and The Obsessed are there in my book .

[@julianyo7072]

I can hear two Black Sabbath riffs just in the first minute of the first song.

[@csababarath2784]

Nothing from All Them Witches? I mean, they took stoner to a whole new level, just like QOTSA or King Buffalo. Now, it's more than that.

[@donaldwood7449]

YOB

[@TheHighwayDreams]

Amen

[@seangerant653]

The Quill....Silver Haze 1999 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@johnjjohningtoniii2439]

Was the script written by WatchMojo or something?

[@SickOfMetal]

Nah not really 🤣

[@supernaught1963]

Uncle Acid and the Deadbeats!? Their album Blood Lust is a direct spawn of Master of Reality.

[@kylerdavis2329]

NOLA-DOWN & WHEN THE KITE STRING POPS-ACID BATH should be here🥲

[@SickOfMetal]

I will make it up to yall! Part 2 coming up

[@GiovanniMariaCastoldi]

All Them Witches.

[@arupian666]

Acid King - "Busse Woods" Give it a listen. Thank me later.

[@mightysnoro]

No mention of Trouble or Masters Of Reality? Tsk, tsk.