-- Kyuss - Blues for the Red Sun | (Audio CD) MSRP $ 11.98 Amazon Price $ 10.99 Savings $ 0.99 | |  Release Date: 30 June, 1992, Chameleon / Wea
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- Green Machine
- Molten Universe
- 50 Million Year Trip (Downside Up)
- Thong Song
- Apothcaries Weight
- Caterpillar March
- Freedom Run
- 800
- Writhe
- Capsized
- Allen`s Wrench
- Mondo Generator
- Yeah
Usually ships in 24 hours | | | Best of the Best | Kyuss does have a greatest hits album, and it`s solid, but it doesn`t hold a torch to Blues for the Red Sun. Kyuss has always been pegged as a "jam band," but that doesn`t really do them justice. How many riff bands invent a new genre of music?
Kyuss are the original stoners, and this album is a fan favourite for good reason. John Garcia, one of metal`s most tragically unsung heroes, just wails on this record. Unlike today`s whiny, sobbing emo and nu- metal- types, Jon Garcia can SING. He`s got an almost definitive rock and roll voice.
Of course Josh Homme on guitar and backup vocals is a big part of why Kyuss rock- he`s the Midas of heavy metal music. But this record is really propelled by Garcia on vocals. Check him out on Danko Jones`s new record, Sleep Is the Enemy. The man`s a genius! | | | | Not Quite the Real Thing | | Kyuss are pretty good, and this is their best album, but if you want to hear some real, punishingly heavy, unbelievably distorted acid-rock you have to hear the double guitar attack of the Gibbons brothers. And that means you have to go to Bardo Pond on this site and listen to the samples of "Tommy Gun Angel" or "Flux" on the album Lapsed. All it will take is 30 seconds of each to hear what`s missing here. Even if you`re bugged that I seem to be dissing your band, give the Pond a listen anyway. | | | | The greatest hard rock/heavy metal album of all time | Why this is the greatest heavy metal or hard rock album ever released, bar none:
1. Impeccable musicianship. I defy you to name one band with a better rhythm section than Nick Oliveri and Brant Bjork.
2. Gargantuan riffs. Kyuss is twice is ambitious as Black Sabbath and just as gifted when it comes to crafting minor key hooks.
3. Incredible composition. Ominous silence, dramatic buildups, explosive thrash carnage and spaced out jam sessions are deployed with precision to evoke the emotional responses that the listener needs to feel he is completely immersed in an all consuming psychic (and psychedelic!) journey.
Furthermore, every song is informed by the previous and subsequent songs. As a result, the entire album plays as an organic whole, yet does not grow monotonous.
4. A signature sound. Tune the guitars down to C. Play them out of bass amps. Add plenty of fuzz and reverb. Its brilliant. The sound is huge. It just coarses through you like nothing else.
5. Great attitude. John Garcia`s manly, laid back megalomania is just plain fun. And his coarse snarl adds a very complementary rough edge to the impeccably precise arrangements crafted by Homme, Oliveri and Bjork. Listening to Kyuss makes you feel like you`re king of the world and you just don`t give a...
This is the best album ever. I hope you buy it and "get it" the way I do, because it has really opened my mind to how truly inspired a rock band can be. I literally see music differently than I did before I bought this album. | | |
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