Best artist Stonerrock of all time secondo DeBaser.

❝ Kyuss, inventors of "Stoner Rock," are the expression of the frustrations and tensions accumulated by the youth in the usual and often-mentioned (by me!) town "Palm Desert", hidden in the southern California desert.

❝ This is not a review, it is a fact: Welcome To Sky Valley is one of the best albums ever released.

❝ Reviewing this album is like trying to give an opinion on an emotion.

❝ Besides, when Al Cisneros begins his grunted mantra drop out of life with bong in hand you're already over the Ligurian mountains, and I swear, if it doesn't give you the precise idea of what it's like to feel omnipotent, perhaps you don't have even a shred of self-love, young one.

❝ Kneel in silent reverence before this monolith and don't break the balls that "The Druid Sleeps In Meditation!"

❝ If you are looking for a band that best represented the doom-stoner scene of the '90s and still haven't found it, Sleep will put your mind at ease.

❝ Qotsa: probably the best fucking rock band on the planet!

❝ An album that combines sophistication with a lack of pretentiousness, it's enjoyable without tiring, flowing rapidly: a small hallucinogenic masterpiece!

❝ This is the key to understanding (or rather listening to) the latest and newest masterpiece by the band of Josh Homme, the soul and mind of the stoner scene worldwide for over 10 years now.

❝ Gas, ass and grass... go with the Fu!

❝ Fu Manchu is the most earthy and horizontal band on the planet: the hyperamplification of a sound as explosive and sunny as it is cavernous and barbaric.

❝ Fu Manchu have no rivals and they play it every time in the best way!

❝ The Captain Beyond are a genuine Californian prog-rock musical meteor formed way back in 1972

❝ “It’s a satanic drug thing... you wouldn’t understand”

❝ “They debut with an EP of impure Hard Rock lava, lysergic and extremely druggy.”

❝ “Psychedelic Rock Music, nothing less, nothing more.”

❝ “Legalize Drugs & Murder”

❝ “Yet they rock.”

❝ “The first time it's kind of like being hit by a steam train hurtling at enormous speed (20bpm) while you sink into concrete.”

❝ Light, light, lighter and lighter…

❝ An album that made history and that, together with more famous titles, must appear on the shelves of stoner fans and, more generally, on those of every lover of good rock.

❝ Stoner, avalanches of riffs, valve amplifiers (mesa-boogie), hatred and sarcasm towards their homeland (West Virginia), drugs (many believe they broke up precisely because of problems with it), alcohol.

❝ Questionable the choice of Roadrunner to force the "instrumentalists" Karma To Burn to include a vocalist for their first album, like saying "are you starving? Okay, I'll get you some food, but you eat what I tell you!" (what a crappy comparison!!!)

❝ What we have before us is a groove machine of the highest order that works on its own without the need for a voice, considered simply superfluous and also for a specific intent on how music should be understood.

❝ The Orange Goblin are damn hard metalheads by now.

❝ Blue Snow is like a punch right to the face, dirty, rough, and cursed.

❝ Beer and sand from gloomy England.

❝ Do you want the square box style Sabbath riff? Here’s "Woman".

❝ That Wolfmother live are a damn seventies band that rocks!

❝ It’s a good album, but after not too many listens, it might end up in oblivion.

❝ “Charged” by Nebula is one of those albums that every stoner rock fan should have listened to at least once in their life.

❝ “Come Down” is irresistible, you have to move, dance, play air guitar, make faces at the mirror, you too are a rockstar for a day.

❝ In short … acidified stoner.

❝ The Acid King are a simple yet thunderous blend of ethereal voices and sonic earthquakes, around here the bass-guitar-drums trio reaches truly nuclear levels where everything melts over the voicing of Lori, a balance so well crafted that it often seems appealing even to those who don't typically favor certain genre auditions;

❝ Distorted and horrifically obsessive riffs, bass and guitar in unison immersed in fuzz and reverb, that touch of rancid psychedelia, that voice so hypnotic and venomous it's hard to believe it's coming from a woman's throat:

❝ it's pointless to tell you piece by piece, if you love the floating yet full of raw seventies psychedelia sounds, you will love this album.

❝ Released in 2001, "The Eternal Power of Flowers" is the fifth album in the long career of the Munich trio, led by the massive guitarist Stefan Koglek.

❝ Colour Haze are this, a psychedelic band in the truest sense of the word. Just three people: Stefan Koglek (guitar and vocals), Manfred Merwald (drums), and Philip Rasthofer (bass). I assure you they are more than enough!

❝ Some claim they are the best band of the New Millennium, but only one thing is certain: their perfect blend of fuzzy roughness and spatial intangibility has set a standard.

❝ Neil Fallon is the soul of Clutch, the band’s lyricist, who sometimes screams and attacks nearly in a growl without mercy, providing a perfect counterbalance to the massive and aggressive riffs that Tim Sult skillfully blends, creating a savage, deliberately raw, vintage, and catchy sound, and at times almost whispers teasingly, irreverent and mischievous, among Sult’s heavy melodic lines.

❝ Clutch can be trusted, you can be assured, they know hard rock like the back of their hand and they don’t try to screw you over

❝ Neil Fallon, the man with more whiskey in his body and cigarettes smoked than history remembers.

❝ Impossible not to affirm that what comes out is an absolute masterpiece.

❝ Year 1968, “Wheels Of Fire” by the British Cream. The pinnacle of their short but very dense career.

❝ Cream’s performances are intense and captivating, with extremely long solos and improvisations at the end, at high volume and energy.

❝ Months later, I still have to figure out if it's an album or a joke.

❝ A live album by Earth, a seminal musical collective led by Dylan Carlson, the one who initiated Drone Doom in 1990, defining it as "post-Grunge minimalist."

❝ Since 1991, these gentlemen have specialized in going slow... but far, making slowness their trademark.

❝ Om was the sound that God uttered when He expressed this will: "I am One; I shall become the many."

❝ Inside Emil, outside Chris.

❝ the sound that comes out of Cisneros' bass is something you don't hear every day, thrilling!

❝ "Coping With The Urban Coyote" is the masterpiece and the only official album of the band.

❝ the second LP from Unida never really hit the market due to certain unspecified legal hassles with the record label American Recordings, which froze the album in 2001.

❝ Amusing The Amazing is a successful album that combines pure stoner with '70s garage, with inspirations from Stooges and MC5.

❝ We were left with this only EP of four tracks, a prelude to a swiftly occurring dissolution that gave rise to Unida, an interesting band but only capable of producing one album remembered by few, before good old Garcia continued his story immersed in the dust of rock with bands like Vista Chino and Hermano.

❝ The genius of Matt Pike has struck again. The third album of his new band, High on Fire, indeed buries everything and everyone... Cavernous, dark, relentless...

❝ before the thunderous Lombardian patterns of 'Spiritual Rites' and the malignant epicness of 'King of Days' purify you of all evils and make you give thanks to our lord Pike.

❝ These epigones of the aforementioned sacred monsters, among whom I would not forget to include Metallica and (why not?) Melvins in their tremendously angrier version if you'll allow me, confirm to be the best evolution that metal has brought in our times.

❝ Is it possible to listen to “My Generation” without screaming and shaking?!

❝ Less than forty minutes, but an actual punch in the stomach, a pure distillation of that thing that someone called Rock and which instead I like to call Rock.

❝ LOVE REIGNS ON ME.

❝ Sweet and heartrending.

❝ After forty years, evolving is not taken for granted, and often it is done in the opposite direction. But not here, not this time.

❝ My band and I never talk about this album, and we don’t even play it at concerts.

❝ No doubt, this album is an absolute must-have.

❝ You have plunged into it up to the asshole, and you know well that once you set off, you cannot return.

❝ Repent, because once the CD starts, the end will not be ‘near’ at all.

❝ The new package of "Phi" is pure stoner cubed, full of drone riffs hyper-amplified to the point of incredulity, yet crafted with an unusual guitar expertise for the field.

❝ “8 is a wild and compact, cyclical album. It has neither beginning nor end, a metaphor for the divine fury that harnesses elements and marks the perpetual cosmic flow of Everything.”

❝ “The band from Tortona offers us a concept album that is certainly not easily assimilated, capable of embracing within original and coherent coordinates all the elements of heavy and more distorted psychedelia.”

❝ “A great album: excellently played and produced by Lorenzo Stecconi (from Lento).”

❝ "Dope Deal" radiates pure and uncontaminated rock'n'roll energy from every single groove.

❝ The question here isn’t whether you own 'Made In Japan', but: which version do you have?

❝ The Deep Purple, then! Even though they are all more or less in their sixties, except for Steve Morse, our guys manage to rock like never before.

❝ I am "selfish," I wish that Deep Purple had stopped making records after "Perfect Stranger";

❝ Psychedelic Stoner of the Argentine Pampas.

❝ California's low and slow metal. Nothing else.

❝ This "Flower of Disease" accomplishes one of the most difficult tasks of all: it completely empties the listener's mind.

❝ "Trampled Under Hoof" closes an astonishing cycle, thanks for everything!

❝ The debut of the Beggars is a great record. Make it yours, turn it up to the max.

❝ What strikes the most about “Another way to shine” is its absolute compactness: never a note out of place or a missed passage.

❝ A surprising album that gains value over time.

❝ “One of the things I am most proud of, in my heart, is that Black Sabbath was not created by any big shot... we were four losers who wanted to try to make a dream come true, which ultimately did, exceeding all expectations.”

❝ Black Sabbath practically invented heavy metal out of nothing.

❝ We were not hippies, and we hated the hippies

❝ "Led Zeppelin? What's that?"

❝ "Best Band, Ever"

❝ "It is scientifically proven that a woman's orgasm, in auditory terms, travels on a frequency that reaches the male ear regardless of the surrounding noise level."

❝ "Getting kicked in the ass is bad and it hurts."

❝ it was a band, did you know?

❝ I love you.

❝ From now on, for a barbecue "Nude With Boots" is like charcoal: essential.

❝ few bands on this planet can boast as much influence on the entire rock scene as the Melvins.

❝ The rock historiography tells us that the Melvins chose their band name in honor of an unfortunate Christmas tree thief from Aberdeen, named Melvin.

❝ If a bunch of music critics got together, watched, selected, evaluated, left the room, and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, this is the best rock music performance of all time," then there is clearly a reason.

❝ Your life is your own You're in charge of yourself Master of your home In the end In the end You have to face it alone

❝ "A night at the Opera" is Queen's masterpiece.

❝ Heavy, oppressive, but more than anything... strange.

❝ Case, fuckin', close!

❝ Load bongs, not Guns. If you want to blow sky high, take another hit, let's fly

❝ Weedsconsin: the title is already an indication. It also informs us about the geographical origin.

❝ At their fifth attempt, those morbid bastards of Dead Meadow place the album that allows them to say: "Okay, we've already spilled all the jam, live we're whips (listen to the exorbitant Peel Sessions to believe) and now, only now, we start writing songs".

❝ "Feathers" marks an evolution in the band from Washington D.C.'s typical hypnotic-obsessive sound, thanks to a more varied approach to heavy psychedelic material, resulting in their music becoming more accessible.

❝ It is precisely the mantric and hypnotic repetition of rhythms that contributes to making Dead Meadow's music psychedelic.

❝ An absolutely perfect song.

❝ Absolute perfection. Both in form and content.

❝ The Police are unparalleled live" – wrote "Billboard" commenting on the VHS.

❝ The band was formed in Reykjavik in '98, the reference of the name is clearly Zappa-influenced ("Who Are The Brain Police?") and "Beyond The Wasteland" is their fourth work, released in 2006.

❝ I will have no other Floyds besides Syd!

❝ Goodbye Cruel World (of Business).

❝ The Dark Side Of The Moon is not only the compositional and musical climax of the post-Barrett group's experience

❝ One of the most beautiful albums of the last 10 years, no exaggeration.

❝ There are really not many albums like this around.

❝ Listening to it with repeat on, it’s all connected, it becomes an infinite record, just like the universe.

❝ The news that hasn’t yet reached the Olympus where I hope never to enter is that the Beatles knew how to play, and how.

❝ In short, the general impression here is that you are not just watching a documentary about the Beatles: you are actually reliving those years with them.

❝ Who would have ever thought that the Legend, perhaps the greatest in the History of Music, would have begun with a very simple, very banal, very inexpensive: ONE, TWO, THREE, FAH!

❝ The result was "Sweetheart of the Rodeo," probably the most important country-rock album of all time, as well as the swan song of the Byrds themselves.

❝ Wittingly defined by Lester Bangs as the "Revolver of American pop-rock," this work best synthesizes the band's multifaceted nuances, while serving as a fundamental archetype for entire successive rock generations (from R.E.M. to Pavement passing through the Smiths).

❝ The single was released on April 12, 1965, immediately reaching number one on both the American and British sales charts

❝ Perhaps Scott "Wino" Weinrich did not invent Doom rock.

❝ The Last Embrace collects the two elusive LPs in their entirety (some tracks replaced by the 7'' versions) remastered to scream, plus some unreleased tracks and various rarities.

❝ this album is really good, who cares if they copy Black Sabbath

❝ At least that damn record still sounded like it used to.

❝ Some say they do it better than anyone else, others say they’re now pathetic, and some, like me, claim that this is the true classical music of the late twentieth century, together of course with the best jazz.

❝ This album, despite being recorded under the most terrifying conditions and remixed an indeterminate number of times, remains one of the main cornerstones of the Rolling Stones' discography.

❝ 'Exit... Stage Left' is their second double live album and the best record ever made by the boys from Toronto, and I’m categorical about that.

❝ One of the most underrated rock albums is the right definition for 'Caress of Steel'.

❝ The Canadian band Rush is a trio with undeniable technical and compositional skills, and in this excellent 1988 live album, they provide a brilliant demonstration of them.

❝ An awkward pachyderm. Yes, that's how you can describe the sounds that avalanche over us as we begin listening to the debut of Mammoth Mammoth, released in 2008.

❝ PRODUCT D.O.O.M.

❝ If you're not afraid of the roars of a distorted, relentless bass.

❝ PLAY LOUD!!!

❝ They are the Grand Funk Railroad, one of the loudest bands in the entire history of Rock.

❝ Massive and above all raw.

❝ In short, stoner rock from the Netherlands, not recommended for fans of originality, highly recommended instead for fans of the genre who can look past it.

❝ Fate is really strange!

❝ After the great success of the album ‘Metal Health’, the Quiet Riot, led by the euphoric singer Kevin DuBrow (sadly recently passed away at the age of 52), faithfully followed by the excellent guitarist Carlos Cavazo, bassist Rudy Sarzo, and the wild drummer Frankie Banali, try to ride the wave of success by releasing just a year later this ‘Condition Critical’.

❝ 53 minutes of real delight, of pure art exposed by those who know how to do art well.

❝ Beautiful cover by Hipgnosis studio.

❝ It’s difficult if not impossible to find a weak spot: the Genesis funeral is postponed indefinitely.

❝ "Like gaseous Blue Cheer immersed in quicklime".

❝ The culprits are these three Londoners dressed in black, Robert Hampson, Neil Mc Kay, and John Wills.

❝ A damned drone rock, born to lead us astray from whatever we are doing.

❝ A pleasant discovery, nonetheless; a stoner-metal that at times plunges into the swampy lands of a psychedelic rock but always remains minimalist and instrumental as dictated by the lineup: guitar (Thiago Shiva) and drums (Veloso Brahma).

❝ The cynical blows of "Disconnect" open the work: a punch in the stomach, a kick in the balls.

❝ Essential work for those who want to deeply understand why Henry Rollins and his monstrous band are considered a fundamental group in the history of rock, it will also be the album that marks the leader's end, as he will lose his way in his subsequent works, unable to recreate such a masterpiece in the future.

❝ His is the Hard-Noise-Psychedelic solo that starts the last part of the song: DEVASTATING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

❝ “My name is John Francis Pastorius III and I am the greatest bass player in the world.”

❝ “I don't need that stuff, man, I'm already high on my own.”

❝ “Beware of imitations.”

❝ “I was surprised when I discovered that there was only one review of the legendary Mr. Big on Debaser.”

❝ “A MUST-HAVE!!!!!!!!!”

❝ “Mr. Big is back and they’ve done it in great style, with a fresh and engaging album; above all, a sincere album, devoid of contaminations too far from the group’s style,”

❝ For those who don’t know him, Lemmy Kilminster is one of the ultimate symbols of ROCK’N’ROLL, as well as the founder of the Motorhead - ingenious, immeasurable, unbeatable - with whom he shattered all the age-old “genre” taboos by bastardizing rock, punk, and hard, thus paving the way for the nascent heavy metal.

❝ It’s Psychedelic Garage rock. Stoned fat riffs and a lot of drugs.

❝ It rarely happens, but when it does, it feels like a mystical epiphany.

❝ Stuart Adamson died by suicide in a hotel room in Honolulu.

❝ What can I say, sweaty, voiceless and happy, one hour and forty-five minutes of jubilation.

❝ The critics coined the term “bagpipe rock” to describe it.

❝ Brain Salad Surgery, in its vast power, in its meticulous rehearsing perfection, is in some ways a necessary evil.

❝ This album sucks. And it stinks, too.

❝ Emerson, Lake & Palmer concerts were simply overwhelming: perhaps rough, perhaps approximate, but overwhelming.

❝ You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

❝ It’s fucking rock’n’roll after all, it’s live, it’s blood and sweat.

❝ A complete and essential album in music history.

❝ My relationship with "Starless And Bible Black" is instead on another level of values, being the album that has most contributed to developing my way of perceiving music over the last twenty years.

❝ Probably, Thin Lizzy is the most underrated band in the great rock landscape of the seventies, overshadowed by the quadrumvirate Zeppelin/Purple/Sabbath/Uriah Heep that reigned supreme among the fans of Albion.

❝ Thin Lizzy: arguably the most underrated band of all time.

❝ This Black Rose: A Rock Legend, from ’79, is seen by many as the swan song, the last noteworthy one before the personal problems of the individual musicians engulfed everything.

❝ For those who don't know him yet, suffice it to say that John was the great bassist/singer of the King Crimson during the period '72/'74 ("Larks' Tongues In Aspic," "Starless & Bible Black," and "Red"), and he has also collaborated with an endless number of rock bands.

❝ Wetton is a good talent, though not excellent; he has a nice baritone voice, remarkable but not epochal; plays the bass very well, without ever showing any decisive genius; he has always composed with a good work ethic…

❝ The alternation between Petrucciani’s ever-emotional piano and Miller's precise bass pulse is, in fact, a real pleasure, as are Garrett's sax forays.

❝ M2, an album released in 2001, winner of a Grammy award, represents the pinnacle of Miller's most mature and prolific phase;

❝ This album represents everything that is Miller's music, it is and remains his most beautiful record, and it is certainly one of the greatest fusion releases ever.

❝ Second only to James Brown in importance, Sly And The Family Stone were a connecting and evolving figure in Black Music, having united what had remained separate until then: Soul and Rock.

❝ Feel so good inside myself don't wanna move feel so good inside myself don't need to move

❝ staaand!!

❝ That Les Claypool has become a cult figure is an established fact.

❝ Askew sounds, tortuous distortions, grotesque sneers, changes in atmosphere, toxic groove, instinctive funk, quirky experimentation, lucid madness, energy, momentum, aggressiveness, tension, visions...

❝ There is no guitarist, but a viola (!!!) and percussion that joins a minimal drum set.

❝ “They made history not so much for their music (...) but rather for their statements, manifestos, always leftist, always provocative, always stimulating.”

❝ “The Holy Bible is an endless tunnel with no way out, the forlorn and funereal lament of those who cannot win their personal battles”

❝ “In the UK, they are considered a national treasure, not by chance.”

❝ This "Simulation Theory" is a good album, one of Muse's best.

❝ This is not a mystery of life, this is death.

❝ COLORED NOTE: I kindly ask the MASTERS of DEBASER to stop boycotting my enlightened mental wanderings, or I will proceed to the aforementioned cellar in Pasadena and send each of you an embalmed MUSE.

❝ Alberto's psalmody unfolds with disconnected phrases because not even words can give us easy comfort.

❝ They are here because it’s a generational event, like coming home after seven years of wanderings.

❝ This album contains a lot of mellotron, which I, as a progster, adore.

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"Nero a Metà" remains a masterpiece from the first to the last note.

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"Bella 'Mbriana" is the evolution of the raw cry for help in "Terra Mia".

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Even in Bastogne, a Neapolitan remains always a Neapolitan.

❝ A master of the instrument, I recall a concert I attended almost by chance, as my sister was a fan of the aforementioned Jovanotti, Saturnino shocked me because he is capable of playing any bass, 4, 5, or 6 strings, fretless, it makes no difference, and beyond great rhythm he can also produce true solos, so much so that in the concert he overshadowed the only guitar present, producing a really delightful show, and compared to the guitarist he indulged in long solo improvisations reaching almost impossible heights on the fretboard of his bass.

❝ NEAP is a necessary and unadorned record, raw, wholesome.

❝ Marok evidently loves radio, he loved the Berlin trilogy and also loved the Kraftwerk who made krautrock.

❝ This is a dark gem that demands—and deserves—more than one listen.