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Blues for the Red Sun

Kyuss

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Album Review

With Josh Homme's guitar tuned down two whole steps to C, and plugged into a bass amp for maximum distortion, stoner metal pioneers Kyuss achieve a major milestone in heavy music with their second album, 1992's Blues for the Red Sun. Producer Chris Goss masterfully captures the band's unique heavy/light formula, which becomes apparent as soon as the gentle but sinister intro melody gives way to the chugging main riff in the opener, "Thumb." This segues immediately into the galloping "Green Machine," which pummels forward inexorably and even features that rarest rock & roll moment: a bass solo. "Thong Song" alternates rumbling guitar explosions with almost complete silence, and "Mondo Generator" plays like an extended acid trip. The slow build of the epic "Freedom Run" and the driving "Allen's Wrench" are also highlights, and though the album is heavy on instrumentals, these actually provide a seamless transition from song to song.

Customer Reviews

AMAZING!!

this CD has never failed to amaze, it has some of the best uitar licks you may ever hear. The pounding drums and thudding bass. ALL the instruments are downtuned to C tuning. ULTIMATE STONER METAL!!! Josh Hommie is a guitar GOD! i love how he would play through a bass amp and get such high vibrations and power coming through the speakers. trust me, BUY THIS CD

A One Star Reviewer Needs A Brain

Hey Dingleberry, why would you rate the album as one star? Your gripe is with ITunes, not this masterpiece of music. Sure, blame the band- you don't look like too much of a moron. I bet they all got together one night and said, "I sure hope ITunes will include this album so we can only offer the clean version..." Got a complaint? Take it up with ITunes. People want to know what you think of the MUSIC, not of your take on the PMRC. GREAT ALBUM. ONE OF THE BEST OF ALL TIME IN THIS GENRE.

Weighs about a ton!

Oh my goodness. I have grown up with a lot of punk, but this is a masterpiece. This has the perfect blend of metal and mary jane (I don't smoke it). This band is awesome! 10 times better than Queens of the Stone Age, even though they are really great. It sounded very grunge to me when I first heard it and now it really sounds totally different. Kyuss is definately up there with the heavy greats, like Sabbath, Melvins, and Alice in Chains and bands like that. Very sludgy!

Biography

Formed: 1990 in Palm Desert, CA

Genre: Rock

Years Active: '90s

Hailing from Palm Desert, CA, Kyuss (pronounced "kai-uss") has become something like a heavy metal equivalent to the Velvet Underground. Although they are widely acknowledged as pioneers of the booming stoner rock scene of the 1990s, the band enjoyed little commercial success during their brief existence, but their combination of sludgy, down-tuned guitars (often played through a bass amp for maximum, earth-shaking intensity), spacey jams, galloping...
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