Essential Stoner Metal?

[Blazed&confused06]

I haven't listened to much Stoner metal but I feel like I could get into it.

Also something faster and more melodic than typical stoner metal would probably be a good way to get me into the genre.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Dozer - Through the Eyes of Heathens (stoner rock/metal)
Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun (stoner rock/metal)
Ocean Chief - The Oden Sessions and Tor (stoner doom)
Ufomammut - Idolum (stoner doom)

 

[J.]

Sleep - Dopesmoker

 

[Krow]

Electric Wizard - Dopethrone

While not strictly Stoner Metal... Electric Wizard play some superb stoner/doom metal.

 

[XSASweet]

Boris - Heavy Rocks
Eyehategod - Dopesick
High On Fire - Death Is This Communion

 

[Base Delta Zero]

Second Ufomammut! Also:

The Melvins - Bullhead
Yob - Elaborations of Carbon
Kyuss - ...And the Circus Leaves Town (my favorite Kyuss album, personally)
Black Cobra - Bestial
Orange Goblin - Coup De Grace
Scissorfight - Mantrapping for Sport and Profit
Weedeater - Sixteen Tons

And a couple awesome 70's throwbacks:
Witchcraft - The Alchemist
Graveyard - S/T

 

[Mentok]

I second all Kyuss recs and throw Welcome to Sky Valley in there too. By the looks of it you just need to listen to back catalogs of previous listed bands. Maybe check out Stash by Bongzilla (name says it all I suppose)

 

[autumnsoul]

Stonegard-Arrows
Stonegard-From dusk till doom

 

[youdontknowme]

no mention of Grief?

for shame....

 

[whiskey funeral]

I second all Kyuss recs

Yes.

 

[V.V.V.V.V.]

Grief = sludge, not stoner

 

[youdontknowme]

Grief = sludge, not stoner

same difference.

 

[v2kv]

Ufomammut - Idolum (stoner doom)

I second this, great album.

Also, kinda similar to that, check out Zoroaster - Voice of Saturn

Stoner Witch by the Melvins is a must-have as well.

 

[blue-oranges]

Isis is a good stoner metal band. Check out their latest album, Wavering Radiant.

Also, here's a review of their last show
http://bostonmusicspotlight.com/article.php?id=2273

 

[J.]

Acrimony - Tumuli Shroomaroom
Acrimony - Bong On - Live Long!
Acid King - Busse Woods
Acid King - III

though they detest the term "stoner", Church of Misery is hazy and groovy as fuck with an unhealthy interest in serial killers.

 

[Srontgorrth]

Electric Wizard - Dopethrone

While not strictly Stoner Metal... Electric Wizard play some superb stoner/doom metal.

This x10

Best stoner doom ever.

 

[J.]

never could get into EW. too abrasive and sloppy

 

[v2kv]

haha, I think that's the point. any sloppiness only adds to the rawness of their music, imo.

 

[Mort Divine]

same difference.

only not at all.

Boris - Heavy Rocks

 

[Lateralus14]

Isis is a good stoner metal band. Check out their latest album, Wavering Radiant.

Also, here's a review of their last show
http://bostonmusicspotlight.com/article.php?id=2273

Isis is post-metal. Though I don't follow all these little genre differences so maybe they're the same. I can barely tell the difference between death and grind sometimes. But Isis is one of my favorite bands of all time so yea check em out anyway.