Sludge/Stoner/Doom

What bands do you like currently? Any recommendations?

I've liked Crowbar for years, but I've been getting into Mastodon and High on Fire in more recent times.

Pentagram, Sleep, Kyuss......how does Mastodon fit into this?

Boris, Electric Wizard, Acid Bath, The Sword, Coliseum, Baroness.

check out these bands for sure... Soilent Green, Mares Of Thrace, Sloth, Burning Witch, Salome, Grief, Iron Monkey, Howl, Eyehategod, Bongzilla, 13, Dopethrone, Kylesa, Sonic Brew, Electric Wizard, & early Mammoth Grinder

mc666 wrote:

check out these bands for sure... Soilent Green, Mares Of Thrace, Sloth, Burning Witch, Salome, Grief, Iron Monkey, Howl, Eyehategod, Bongzilla, 13, Dopethrone, Kylesa, Sonic Brew, Electric Wizard, & early Mammoth Grinder

Cannot go wrong with any of those.


I like Space Bong, Bongripper, Dark Castle, Noothgrush, Grief, Thou, dot, Undersmile, Ufomammut... there's more. Too many to list.

GrandNational wrote:

Pentagram, Sleep, Kyuss......how does Mastodon fit into this?

I'm already familiar with those bands... but thanks. And from what i've heard, Mastadon are a (progressive stoner metal hybrid). So I think they fit.

mc666 wrote:

check out these bands for sure... Soilent Green, Mares Of Thrace, Sloth, Burning Witch, Salome, Grief, Iron Monkey, Howl, Eyehategod, Bongzilla, 13, Dopethrone, Kylesa, Sonic Brew, Electric Wizard, & early Mammoth Grinder

I've heard about half of those bands, but I don't really know what they sound like... So I'll check 'em out. Thanks.

Love me some Mastodon.

I got into High on Fire not too long ago upon listening to Death is this Communion. I still have yet to get anything else by them, but I know plenty of their songs. "Now you realiiiieeeiiize.....DEATH IS THIS COMMUNION!"

My favorite genre of metal by far right now. All of the above are good stuff. Eternal Elysium is some good Japanese stoner stuff, along with Church of Misery. There are just too many good bands to list!!

Kylesa, Baroness, Black Tusk

This is probably my favorite genre right now.I've been digging alot of this stuff lately.

The Sword
Sheavy
Orange Goblin
Red Fang
High On Fire
Fireball Ministry
BarnBurner

Thanks to a couple of peeps here I've gotten into and found on my own:

Blood Ceremony
Electric Wizard
Graveyard
The Heavy Eyes
Kyuss
Mars Red Sky
Orange Goblin
The Sword
Witchcraft

Sleep

Troublezone wrote:

GrandNational wrote:

Pentagram, Sleep, Kyuss......how does Mastodon fit into this?

I'm already familiar with those bands... but thanks. And from what i've heard, Mastadon are a (progressive stoner metal hybrid). So I think they fit.

Fair enough. I do have the earlier Mastodon releases and would label them more in the sludge/groove realm on those rather than stoner. When I think of stoner, I'm thinking about Electric Wizard, YOB, Sleep, etc.

Eh. "Slow & Heavy" should be the name of this genre, that essentially sums it up.

First band I always think of when I hear "Stoner Rock" is Fireball Ministry.

Rwake.



Deadbird.



YOB.

Eyesore wrote:

YOB.

Although not recommended, I used to play YOB while attempting to sleep, and the weird feeling you get when you are half asleep and half awake while a slow and heavy band plays in the background is something else. Same with Ahab. Or Sleep.

90s Corrosion Of Conformity (at least the album Deliverance)
The Sword
Priestess
Mastodon
Cathedral
High On Fire

YOB is amazing, especially cause they mix in an almost avant-garde aesthetic to their compositions. They need to team up with Dylan from Earth and have him produce an album, I'd like to hear what that collaboration could accomplish.

GrandNational wrote:

Troublezone wrote:

GrandNational wrote:

Pentagram, Sleep, Kyuss......how does Mastodon fit into this?

I'm already familiar with those bands... but thanks. And from what i've heard, Mastadon are a (progressive stoner metal hybrid). So I think they fit.

Fair enough. I do have the earlier Mastodon releases and would label them more in the sludge/groove realm on those rather than stoner. When I think of stoner, I'm thinking about Electric Wizard, YOB, Sleep, etc.

Well, I did have the word "sludge" as part of my post title...
The first Mastodon I heard was Leviathan. And that has a sludge/hardcore sound. On the more recent stuff they have incorporated some 70's prog and stoner elements.

S.D. wrote:

Eh. "Slow & Heavy" should be the name of this genre, that essentially sums it up.

Not really... Some of the bands have their faster moments. Even Crowbar picks up the pace on occasion. Also High on Fire usually play at mid-tempo.

chewie wrote:

Thanks to a couple of peeps here I've gotten into and found on my own:

Blood Ceremony
Electric Wizard
Graveyard
The Heavy Eyes
Kyuss
Mars Red Sky
Orange Goblin
The Sword
Witchcraft

Mars Red Sky is my favorite release for 2011 so far.

I also used to like Cathedral. The music is good, but I don't like the vocals...

EvyMetal wrote:

chewie wrote:

Thanks to a couple of peeps here I've gotten into and found on my own:

Blood Ceremony
Electric Wizard
Graveyard
The Heavy Eyes
Kyuss
Mars Red Sky
Orange Goblin
The Sword
Witchcraft

Mars Red Sky is my favorite release for 2011 so far.

I like their mellowness. They have a vinyl album coming out soon.......