There’s an album dropping from Ripple Music that completely blows my mind. When I read the name of the band, I was like- “meh.” I mean, the name is pretty generic and just blends in with a hundred other bands, at least to me. Maybe it reminds me too much of The Mentors…I dunno, maybe. […]
Read More Upcoming Release: The Necromancers- Where the Void RoseIt’s hard to pin a genre to Nashville’s All Them Witches (ATW), though the three-piece band is certainly within the realm of Stoner Rock. Since their debut 2012 record, Our Mother Electricity, the band’s sound continues to evolve. We’ve been devouring ATW’s discography at Monster Riff lately, so we were super-excited to learn of the […]
Read More All Them Witches: Nothing as the Ideal Album ReviewStoner Rock’s roots go back quite a few decades. The earliest agreed upon instances of Stoner Rock were in Black Sabbath’s debut album in 1969, but we continued to see glimpses of the genre over the next few years: Pink Floyd expanded Psychedelia and Space Rock, Led Zeppelin showed that riffing and jamming could be […]
Read More Best Stoner Rock Bands By DecadeBy its very definition, Stoner Rock places a greater emphasis on the riff than creative guitar work. As a result, the genre is flooded with thick, earth-rattling riffs that don’t leave much room for guitar solos. Today we celebrate those bands that have pushed outside the limitations of the genre to rank the top 10 […]
Read More Top 10 Stoner Rock Solos: From The Atomic Bitchwax to Greenleaf