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Ex-Kyuss Frontman John Garcia Reveals He and Mastodon’s Bill Kelliher Have Started a Band
This could be one hell of a collab.
"Devil Electric are a riff-heavy, four piece rock ’n’ roll band from Melbourne, Australia. Taking musical cues from the hard rock greats of the ’70s and combining them with powerful, female fronted vocals."
It's #RegionalRiffs time again. An amazing band from here in Arizona (that I really miss- they broke up after their 2017 album) was TWINGIANT. Gnarly, heavy shit. Bass player Jared's rough growl-scream vocals, walls of guitars, doomy, some Motorhead in there too. I saw em twice and we hung out both times too (once with my now wife before we were married!)
Twingiant left us with FOUR amazing albums, starting with Mass Driver in 2012, all linked below. I still have my ratty Twingiant shirt from this era and you're damn right I still wear it.
Das Album könnte ich eigentlich mal wieder hören...
Muss immernoch den Schlagzeuger überreden mal mit in den Proberaum kommen zu dürfen. 🤭 Ich finde das interessant und Proberäume riechen so gut! Naja...Blabla... Viel Spaß beim hören! 🙂 #StonerRock#DesertRock
Track List
Black Sky Giant - Planet Terror
Black Sabbath - Electric Funeral
Kyuss - Demon Cleaner
Elephant Tree - Wither
Earth - Old Black
Weedpecker - Reality Fades
Spaceslug - SpaceRunner
Lowrider - Pipe Rider
It goes by many names: Doom Metal, Stoner Rock, Desert Rock, Heavy Psych, Sludge Metal… they’re all mostly describing the same thing. Low tuned, fuzzed-out guitars, and slow tempos. Black Sabbath pretty much prototyped the genre, which is why I included them here.
If there are any vocals at all, the lyrics tend to involve drugs, space, paganism, or general feelings of doom (go figure). Not that it matters, they’re almost always unintelligible. 😏
In the 90s there was a big stoner rock scene in the Palm Desert, #California area, which is why it’s sometimes referred to as Desert Rock. Kyuss was probably the biggest band to come out of that era.
More recently there’s been a flourishing of doom metal bands in #Poland. The last 3 bands in this mix are all from Poland.
Black Sabbath pretty much invented doom metal in 1970. Good job guys. For you younger types, that's Ozzy Osbourne's original band. 😉
Members of Kyuss have gone on to form or play in Queens of the Stone Age, Eagles of Death Metal, and Them Crooked Vultures among other bands.
Elephant Tree is from London.
Earth is one of the pioneers of Drone Metal. (Yet another sub-genre!)
Weedpecker, Spaceslug and Lowrider are all from Poland. 🇵🇱
For other Polish bands, check out Dopelord, MuN, Bantha Rider, Major Kong, Fifty Foot Woman, Kapitan Bongo, Seedium, WEIRD TALES, Shine, Belzebong and Sunnata.