What is Stoner Rock? Feat. Sleep, Black Sabbath, Bongzilla, Kyuss & More
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- Опубліковано 9 жов 2019
- Christina Rowatt alongside Bongzilla's Mike Makela talks to bands including Black Sabbath, Kyuss, Down, Monster Magnet and Sleep (with a brief guest appearance from Geezer Butler and Ronnie James Dio) about what stoner rock means, where it came from and what is special about the people who love it and make it.
The bastard child of stolen Seventies music, stoner rock arose in the Nineties via many of these artists. As we approach the Roaring Twenties, stoner rock has continued its slow burn world takeover.
The global love is unsurprising. Stoner rock's dirty, fuzzed out, downtuned, heartfelt yet visceral sound is the perfect antidote to the artificial and soulless pop blared at us every day. The focus on truth in song also draws a certain kind of human. Edited, produced and hosted by Christina Rowatt. - Розваги
Seeing Dio made me smile...
Sleep/Matt Pike won a grammy ?!?!?! Holy shit !!! How did happen without being highly publicized ? Amazing ! Congratulations to all the guys in SLEEP !!! That just made my day.
It made mine, too! It was High on Fire that won, with Electric Messiah, a record that Kurt Ballou from Converge produced! So fucking cool, was so happy for them. Here's his acceptance speech: ua-cam.com/video/VBflOo-Hx6A/v-deo.html Yay for an actual heavy band winning the Heavy Metal Grammy!
The Grammy's don't televise the rock/ metal categories anymore.
Matt Pike's transformation into Ron Jeremy is almost complete XD
It's sad because he's actually got some health issues he's been needing to manage and hasn't
@@xboxbenny wow I didn't know that, didn't mean to be disrespectful. He's a great performer and I wish him all the best!
Simone Attivissimo he’s way better these days.....think he’s sober apart from the bud. My concern is seeing him with a shirt on #prayforMatt
Hahahahahaha
Good one! xD
Great interview! Keep stoner rock alive!
I wish black sabbath would do a podcast...all the original members....just play snippets of their songs, talk about them, tell road stories, who wrote what parts in the songs, what gear they used, what drugs,...I would watch that shit real hard
Agreed
Check out the Osbourne's podcast. Ozzy just did a solo ep. with an old bandmate, hoping to see more like that.
“And I’ve been using one ever since, except for the last 10 albums”
Poor geezer lol
Type 0 Negative got me into this kind of music. Rarely mentioned in terms of stoner rock/doom metal but damn they got some slow and heavy shit.
Totally man, I was listening to them the other day and thinking about how they're not associated, but are 100% a part of this world, soundwise.
Yeah they're rarely mentioned cuz they're for posers and they fuckin suck
@@DxAxMxD anyone who calls other people posers is immediately the only poser in the room
Good point, what they did with summer breeze alone is stoner doom AF
@@rudywilliams6538 uhhh, no.
I would say the first 6 Sabbath records~~can't forget Sabotage.
was looking for this comment
Obviously Sabbath is the band that started it all. I was a teenager in the 1980s. The first time I ever heard Kyuss,I totally lost my shit. Once I did my research. I find out he's playing a mid-70's "Ovation"neck through body electric, and he's using a bass cabinet for the guitars. The first time that I heard "Blues for The Red Sun"(I was never a very big fan of "Wretch")... I can't even put into words how I felt the first time I heard them. It's like everything that I ever wanted to hear in a band was right there in front of me on that record.Josh's rhythm playing on "Blues for The Red sun" and the follow-up records, has basically defined the way that I play rhythm guitar (and I too now use a two 12 bass cabinet with a slant). I have been a stoner metal freak since I was 14 years old and I'm 46 now. Sleep's holy mountain... Jerusalem comes in second place in my opinion.
Floyd did stoner rock before sabbath
@@doscwolny2221 psychedelic prog not stoner.
There's difference between stoner and psychedelic
1:20 I was debating on packing another bowl, thanks for the sign
Just here to reinforce your life choices. Anytime ;)
Doom, desert, and stoner rock kinda share a lot of elements. I am glad they talked about how the epic riff of NIB is a waaah pedal being used.
I totally loved this sort of documental style of talking about stoner rock. Definitely my favourite genre and what a nice way to tell its history interviewing so many important characters. It's truly one of a kind video.
Thank you so much! It took a while to put together but it’s my favourite style also, and I have always been struck by the common humility and awesomeness of the people that make it. It couldn’t make me happier that people like you have enjoyed it.
@@TheVoidwithChristina people in this community is always nice and humble. I'm glad you had a nice time doing it.
@@TheVoidwithChristinamore thanks to you, you're an awesome interviewer!
I mean, you can get high off of music. Anybody who knows what it's like to feel high and spiritual listening to heavy riffs knows what stoner rock is. Gets you in touch with God
Named my 1st son Kyuss. Pretty sure that sums it all up. Seen them support Metallica in 93', then twice in 2011 Kyuss Lives. Meet Brant an John backstage. Bummed Josh wasn't in on the whole Kyuss then n now, but Bruno was SOLID
Daz B my steam name was Kyuss now it’s Dragonaut
@Gene Bone uhmm yes it does. Solid
That's a fucking awesome name for your kid, man! Love it!
It's a bit of doom metal, a bit of psych rock and whole lot of weed and riffage
all those genres are the same .
Rising Sun i normally just describe stoner metal as bluesy doom metal
Colten Stolarski I agree, there is a difference between stoner rock and stoner metal though, even though they are used interchangeably, stoner rock for me is very early heavy metal/heavy psychedelic like early Sabbath, early Pentagram and Blue Cheer. Whilst stoner metal is a mix of doom and psych, basically a more modern, heavier, more distorted version of stoner rock.
Rising Sun I agree. Like, Queens of The Stone Age, Cky, Clutch, maybe even Kyuss are stoner rock whereas Stoner metal, is much slower, like sleep, electric wizard, and many others
Colten Stolarski Yeah exactly, although Kyuss did a bit of both, like demon cleaner is definitely a stoner rock song, but stuff like green machine and gardenia are undeniably metal songs.
Im still impressed at the quality of your interviews.
Thanks dude! I try and ask different kinds of questions. Ten years in it is still a blast, and super happy some of music’s most discerning listeners are enjoying the content. :)
Gotta mention The Melvins and Clutch.Both have some of the best stoner rock music ever made and have influenced so many stoner bands.Smoke a fat one and listen to The Melvins Lysol or the Clutch s/t album front to back.I promise it’s a wonderful journey 🤘
Retro rock that adopts a stoner style is a favorite, like the Devil and the Almighty Blues
I'm in love with this
How is this channel not more popular?
I feel just the same when I'm high listening to stoner metal. I don't think there's much of a difference between those
When I first started playing guitar back in the 90s I play3d similar music because I didn't have good equipment but I loved the way it sounded with deep bass in my guitar and didn't realize until I tried to jam with my friends band that I was tuned to B. They tried to tune down to match my songs but their strings were too loose to even play lmao. Then I heard Kyuss Demon Cleaner and it blew my mind because it was what I was doing but tuned a bit higher. I thought, cool, I'm not crazy to play th8s way because others are doing it too and it sounds so wild!
Great questions and overall interviews. R.I.P. Dio \m/
Brant Bjork's drumset lived in a spare bedroom im my old apartment for about a year, circa '92. That dude is way talented, down to earth, and super fucking cool. Saw him for the first time in 10 years last October in Vegas. He's somehow more talented, down to earth, and super fucking cool. Glad to see he and Kyuss are getting the recognition they deserve.
Mike is such a chill dude, then he gets onstage and it's just savage. The importance of Blast! can not be overstated in current stoner gig.
Sitting here missing Dio.
Great interviews Christina, I always wondered about what Stoner Rock is about, and you're a joy to behold.
Just found your channel, love it keep on rockin
Shit... I'm at work, watching this video, and seeing Dio just sitting there, around 2:45 and 6:15, made my heart sink.
It took me a few seconds to realize that this is an older interview,and that we will never get to see him like that ever again.
Long live the Man in the Silver Mountain.
Long live Stoner Rock.
Long live Metal.
Great video! My favorite genre, and loved the point made towards the end where you say the drugs and women have been removed from the equation now it's all about the love of music.
This was one of the coolest series of interviews I've ever seen!
Thank you!!
Amo el sonido árido, arrastrado, pesado...que suene como el infierno ... amor eterno al Stoner Rock!! saludos desde Chile. Excelente documental.
porque crees que el infierno suena así ?
@@lllcerolll black sabbath.....es el infierno, es el origen, es el primigenio.
@@pablodandrea8657 Para mi Black Sabbath es el cielo, me hace sentir en el cielo.
Éxtasis total.
Great job, Christina! There are so many great bands in this genre. Stonehead (Inner Demons) and sunnata (Outlands) are some of my faves.
For me, it was Metallica and Sabbath that got me into heavy music, then hearing Kyuss threw Qotsa, Soundgarden, the Melvins and seeing High on Fire with them in a small club in Dunedin NZ, what a night
Absolutely phenomenal interviews. Super impressed with your interviewing style.
This was great!
Everything but straight edge is stoner music.
Reno Slim disagree I enjoy chain of strength high
@Eternal Sabbathian they're better drunk.
HORSESHIT
Chain of Strength is amazing
Brilliant :-) So many great people to here from.
Great video!
great piece
Awesome interviews. Long live Stoner Rock! 😃
finally some aquatic interviews, tired of all the land based interviews in music nowadays
Totally. We must go aquatic!!
Great stuff!
Very good and interesting video.
I love Stoner Rock/Doom Metal.
Great stuff.
I love that you use a mic like that. It brings old school vibes 👍
Black Sabbath is The best band ever
Oh!! Your so on my vibe!!!! Can’t believe I found this
Awesome! Welcome! Glad to have you here, got a ton to watch on my channel if this is your vibe.
I remember when Red Fang came to my country (Lima, Peru) and made a concert. I didn’t know anything about them and this concept of “stoner rock” was a completely different thing for me. So I went to see them perform and, dude, that was fuckin AWESOME! 🤘🏻
7:29 Martyn's reaction to Ben saying "we don't smoke weed" hahaha
"Our Moms are watching...". Lol
I love getting stoned and playing sabbath riffs...the best
Just a few days ago was showing a friend the beauty that is Sabbath, Kyuss, Dio and seeing some of them here is great
Thanks for interview of Brandt Bjork my favourite drummer of the stoner rock genre. Since he left Kyuss- after the third album, clearly they changed their tunes and never the same again. As expected the band broke up after then.
Monster Magnet: "I just never liked the label 'Stoner Rock'..."
Sleep: Dopesmoker
Monster Magnet: Pill Shovel
Kyuss: Welcome to Sky Valley (get it? It's like being hiii~~~gh)
Greenleaf
Bongzilla
Mike Makella: "My life's all about smoking weeeed, maaaa~~~~n, lol."
topher nolastname dopethrone, bongripper, weedeater, cough, indica
They sounded like those metal guys that got old and boring. It's stoner, it is waaayy more progressive than metal.
The Kyuss album is self-titled.Sky-valley was just the photo on the cover! I bought when it first came out! A classic!
@Eternal Sabbathian it's all doom to me!!!
Is the monster Magnet thing. The same as Black Sabbath, Especially Tony Iommi. Because he hates being called Heavy Metal. Like when he says there is no such thing as Metal.
Dragonaut by Sleep is one of my personal favorites 🐉
Molly Shannon’s daughter hosts a pretty cool channel, for a genre I’m just discovering and digging hard af.
Lifelong rap/reggae/70’s soul listener …
…. this genre’s best riffs, are the sound of pure rage ….. IN SMOKEY SLOW MOTION … slow motion that is capturing every vivid detail of the half dozen of so final bloody blows to the unconscious head.
*Plays Sabbath’s “THE WIZARD”*
Listening to these guys inspires me to write more and more music. Magnificent, I've got to subscribe,I don't know how I didn't see this before.
Dude that is so awesome! Have you seen the Black Sabbath / Deep Purple / Maiden lil doco I did on their charity all-star single for the people of Armenia? Spending any time watching these wonderful humans is food for the soul: ua-cam.com/video/GhsOCUVHGjs/v-deo.html
Were starting something across the river from NYC. Stay cool.
@@TheVoidwithChristina I've got to check it out :) thanks a ton!!!!
Where has this channel been for all these years? It was hiding from me lmao amazing stuff :D
This is so epic
I love the interview in the water.....
Me tooo best day ever
Where's Electric Wizard in this? Loved it otherwise.
Wizard is doom or sometimes called sludge. Again, more bullshit labels in my mind
@@eagleone5456 In my opinion, Stoner/Sludge/Doom are all similar enough to interchange their names unless you're trying to be extremely specific. Almost everyone who listens to one of those 3 subgenres listens to all 3.
Fu Manchu too...
EW sucks
@@bobsbigboy_ son you need to clean your ears
Well said about this music 😀
I just fucking love this, so awesome
I love stoner rock... It's great... I'ma get sum lawn and jam out later... Much love from San Antonio Texas...
All roads lead black to sabbath!
Love the orange goblin interview in the water hehehe
Love it
I’ve spent the past 24 years of my life pronouncing Kyuss as “kee-yoos” and I feel lied to
Dope vid
Love it : )
Great interviews Christina, as always!! Love Matt Pike!! He is the man \,,/,
I seen Matt Pike in person with Sleep recently--let me tell you this man and this man alone confirms why I'm a metaller, a godly tone and a godly dude (I'm not religious for context).
Gene Bone nope
@Gene Bone Sleep >= OM >> High on Fire
Superseding Sleep is High On Fire in my humble opinion. "Return to n.o.d" "ethereal" "war horn" "sons of thunder" "10,000 years" "the cave" "king of days" etc ,etc. Like I say Pike anthem's of the ether. Iommi be praised. \m/
@Gene Bone I had that same opinion about Sleep once, but this is a surface understanding of the band. The Sabbath influence is clear, yes, but they really do go beyond that. The compositions are unorthodox, the instrumentation is great, with each member having their own personal style, the riffs and progressions are something else too. It's a fucking great band to jam along really, their reputation is not for nothing. And, to add even more, their overlooked debut is a sludge metal masterpiece.
OM is an easier band to get along, simply because they are obviously fantastic in their own right! Very unique sound - I wouldn't really compare much them with Kyuss - they have their very own "spiritual doom metal" or something like it. I can totally understand the preference for them, but don't overlook Sleep, at least remember that OM is 2/3 Sleep hehe
I'm curious to know if you will change your opinion in the future. Comment here again in five years and tell me hahaha
@Gene Bone Now you're telling nonsense. Amos is flashier than Hakius, but not better. They have different styles, and, honestly, the more toned down hypnotic style of Hakius suits better the band's premisse. And you're high if you really think that Emil Amos is the greatest drummer on earth. I like him, of course, but that's a crazy statement.
OM was truly great since the beginning, or, at least, since Conference of the Birds, with At Giza still being one of their greatest tunes until this day. But if you think they became truly great only since God is Good, it's certainly less because of Amos e more because of Robert Lowe and company, who had a bigger impact in the band's sound.
If what you said about Sleep was true, the other infinity of bands that use the same drug gimmick would be as legendary as they are. Which, of course, is not true. Again the comparison between Kyuss and OM is shallow, they have similarities, that's all. The whole commentary on the scene doesn't go anywhere.
last year, bongzilla came to visit st. paul (playing with like my favorite local band and like i didn’t know anything beyond their music) so i went to the turf club having a great time im outside in the alley between sets smoking a joint as i do and there’s older dude with big white sideburns and a kinda hoarse voice who makes some conversation so i share some weed cause yknow i’m sharing fella i like meeting strangers and then i go back inside in time for bongzilla and i look up on stage and holy shit that was mike muleboy makela :0
that was also the set where someone passed a joint to him on stage and he put it in his nose so he could play bass, smoke, and scream; what a great fuckin stunt man blew out the roach in a gorgeous shower of sparks
Awesome video, awesome manic pixie dream girl. Mike Makela is a G!
Now...I love sleep but the melvins really don't get enough credit for what they created on lysol with hung bunny you hear that and you instantly think of sleep...but was created 4 years earlier. It was only like 10 minutes or so but it makes you wonder if maybe the guys from sleep heard that and went fuck this is rad.
Very valid point! I would have loved to cover more Melvins in this, just only have people I’ve spoken to who have come to Australia to draw from. it would be super cool to go to America and speak to Buzz and everyone who he’s influenced and make a new video :) thank you!
See How Pretty
See How Smart
Has to be their heaviest song.
Buzz!
Don't forget about Black Flag's My War as well. That album was basically the precursor to all of the Sludge Metal you see today.
kool , thanx...one must not forget....The Melvins...nice doc tho...Rock onnn
RJ
It's just all heavy blues 🖤
I enjoy metal with fuzz instead of the tight, EQed to hell distortion that's popular with everything post Metallica and Pantera. Not that I don't love that sound, but something about a wall of out of control, grinding Big Muff, combined with low tunings and slow, behind the beat riffs Sabbath style is just lovely. I'm a fan of Sunn 0))) too, and that whole doom and drone thing. I love music that creates an atmosphere.
Yep!!!
Great stuff. Love Bongzilla, Weedeater, Orchid Black Sabbath, Sleep, Om, Yob, Caugh, hazeMaze, HighOnFire, Saint Vitus, Cathedral and thr list goes on and on. But lets not forget Blue Cheer. Andy Macdonald made the band even heavier.
Dude imagine how cool it would be interviewing all these guys.
bravo! :D
Cool oh yeah that was cool!
12:49 real talk, The best part of being an artist is being an artist. And also you can be making a living with that, it's a lot. Like a dream to me.
Hell yeah, I want to get you the ability to make a 2 hour documentary.
Black Sabbath without a doubt paved the road for bands like Electric Wizard, Acid King, Beezlebong, Sleep etc. Good section!
Floyd and the Beatles paved the way for sabbath
Christina...god damn, youre beautiful, and charismatic to boot!!!
No answer in sight
I wish you would/could have included Clutch. They were also one of the original ‘stoner’ rock bands. Awesome job on a cool documentary short, Christina! You’re funny, engaging and very easy on the eyes. 🤩
COOL
There's a phenomenal stoner rock band called Sasquatch. As far as I know, they released only two albums. Do yourselves a favor and listen to them. There's a song called Chemical Lady. It's a furious kick in the balls.
Oh they have more and Sasquatch is amazing! Try Rollerball (Lost in Space) and Egypt as well. Right up the same alley.
@@MrRungi Oh really??? I thought they were no more, that's great, really great news.
store.sasquatchrock.us/
I love Fu Manchu they have been kicking ass for 25 years and blasting out the fuzz
Ive heard that dixie dave is nuts!!!
When i saw Weedeater about 8 years ago, he had two bottles in paper bags...one was JD, and the other was cough medicine. He also ranted about how he had just blown off his big toe by accident with a shotgun...
ok, i will subscribe after this nice video haha
I love how geezer is in the corner smiling
No mention of Doom Metal, and the crossover of that label with stoner rock? Love bands like Witchfinder General, Cathedral, Saint Vitus, Pentagram, Trouble, Candlemass, etc, in addition to the bands profiled here. This was a fun video. Kudos to the comment section for not mentioning how cute Chistina is, because I hate that shit! (sorry for ruining the streak... she's really cute, lol).
very happy i came across your channelllll, pro vids and you know your shit! and ur hot. done deal... suscribed
My band Heavy Stoned (from Houston, Texas) is originally based on songs like "Sweet Leaf" and "Iron Man", we evoled into more of a Pantera/Slayer, over the years. Kyuss' "Green Machine" is still a song that sparks the fire to write more of those kind of songs from Black Sabbath.
(How many of us lit one just before scrolling and this was one of the first few videos that came up?)😁
Gene Bone what is your favorite song from Kyuss? I have only heard a couple of songs from a couple of albums, Green Machine was the one that stuck for me.
Space Cadet is one I can remember listening to, when I would hang out with the guys that introduced me to their songs. They quickly moved on to another band called Mondo Generater. I didn't get to hear much of that band. None of my other friends where into either of the bands. I was into Ozzy and Sabbath and Pantera, Black Label Society.
Effing won me with that shout out to Working Man ❤
Geezer got me into playing bass him and cliff burtan are my heroes
My boy Geezer has jokes
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Thank you so much for this. Stoner/ Doom is my life. As a Bassist myself I’ve always felt such an affinity with this music.