Category: Opinions

It’s OK to Laugh: Exploring Humor In Stoner Rock

Humor is a special thing. Much like music, it has the ability to bring people together. Unfortunately, many bands in heavy music tend to take themselves rather seriously. However, Stoner Rock has no shortage of humor engrained within it. Sure, there are very serious bands (and very serious albums) with very serious music, but humor seems to flow fairly effortlessly throughout the scene. We’re going to take a look at it.

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It’s OK to Laugh: Exploring Humor In Stoner Rock

Humor is a special thing. Much like music, it has the ability to bring people together. Unfortunately, many bands in heavy music tend to take themselves rather seriously. However, Stoner Rock has no shortage of humor engrained within it. Sure, there are very serious bands (and very serious albums) with very serious music, but humor seems to flow fairly effortlessly throughout the scene. We’re going to take a look at it.

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A Thank You to the Stoner Rock Community

I started Slightly Fuzzed as an outlet for laughter. There are plenty of meme accounts dedicated to heavy metal, nu metal, even Sleep specifically. There are even accounts dedicated to hilarious fake album covers. But I wanted to make the Truckfighters fans laugh, the Queens of the Stone Age fans laugh, the Uncle Acid fans […]

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And I’d Kill You All If I Had My Way: Why Electric Wizard’s ‘Come My Fanatics…’ Is The Real Masterpiece

It’s 7:20, I’ve had a nice glass of wine, and a proper bowl of high grade sativa marijuana. I am filled with existential dread. The world is burning. Madness is brought forth in the aspect of riffs. The nastiness of a Boss FZ-2 tears my ears apart. A gremlin voice comes forth from the speakers […]

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What It’s Like Writing For the Doom Charts: A Peek Behind the Curtain

When I was initially approached about contributing to the Doom Charts, I was intimidated.  Not because I was worried about writing—that’s straightforward enough.  No, I was worried about the responsibility.  “Basically, the Doom Charts is a submission of your top 25 albums each month,” Ioannis from Desert Vulture (and, obviously, the Doom Charts) told me. […]

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