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''The'' [[Stoner Metal]] band.
 
What, you want more than that? OK. [[Kyuss]] were a highly influential American stoner rock<ref>(Kyuss qualified as both stoner rock and stoner metal; the two terms are not totally interchangableinterchangeable, but have a very large amount of overlap)</ref> band from Palm Desert, California. They were the pioneers of their genre (stoner metal/rock), which is vaguely a subgenre of [[Doom Metal]] but often has very little to do with doom. Its characteristics include heavily detuned guitars, low-end-heavy sound (Josh Homme would plug his guitar into a bass amp for this very reason), massive [[Black Sabbath]] influence, hallucinogenic themes and an overall insanely deep and heavy sound.
 
However, they didn't have nearly as much commercial success or recognition as [[Queens of the Stone Age]], a band you've probably heard of that is fronted by Josh Homme, former guitarist for Kyuss.
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* Alfredo Hernandez, drums
 
{{Discography (as Kyuss):}}
* ''Wretch'', 1991
* ''Blues for the Red Sun'', 1992
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* [[A Good Name for a Rock Band]] - [[wikipedia:Kyuss (Greyhawk)|They named themselves after a demigod from Dungeons and Dragons]].
* [[Breakup Breakout]] - After Kyuss broke up, Josh Homme founded [[Queens of the Stone Age]] and had far more commercial success than Kyuss ever did.
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* [[Creator Breakdown]]: After they disbanded, Josh apparently had one.
* [[Epic Rocking]]: "Spaceship Landing" is 11 minutes, and there's a good few songs that stretch past 6-7. Played with on ''Welcome to Sky Valley'', which has 10 songs but on most CD versions smooshes them together into three tunes plus the [[Hidden Track]].
{{quote| '''Josh, asked why the CDs combine the tracks:''' I just wanted it to be like hell to play on a CD player.}}
* [[Heavy Mithril]]: They're named after a ''[[Dungeons and& Dragons]]'' demigod.
* [[Mohs Scale of Rock and Metal Hardness]] - On the border between 6 and 7. Some of their gentler songs go as low as 3 (the acoustic blues-rock tune "Space Cadet").
* [[Name's the Same]] - What does Brant's family name remind you of?...
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