It's 4/20 somewhere
Meant to make this list on actual 4/20 but I was doing real world things so doing this in true stoner fashion and posting hella late. And yeah there's easily countless other genres of music that are arguably better for kicking back with a joint to, jazz or a handful of electronic based ones come to mind, but we're staying focused on the riffs here with with stoner rock/metal and any adjacent or proto- esque sounds. Will add blurbs as time goes on but yeah blunt rotation playlist |
| 1 |  | Masters of Reality
Sunrise on the Sufferbus
Many bands would feel fitting to kick the list off but many there are and this / really Chris Goss in general is one of them. Wild to think this project began as early as '81 when psychedelic rock music was taking the bench and doom metal / non heavy outlets took the spotlight but it thrived and helped lay the groundwork for the seminal Palm Desert scene |
| 2 |  | Nebula
Let It Burn |
| 3 |  | Electric Wizard
Come My Fanatics...
Ultimately Dopethrone is for sure the reigning Electric Wizard album for a multitude of reasons ranging from its unique muffled sound (as if the molecules are struggling to vibrate through intensely thick clouds of smoke just to reach your ear drums) to its drawn out and crushing riffs, all lending to the addictive resulting product's one-of-a-kind nature. But Come My Fanatics.. isn't some humble beginning; no, it's a worthy opponent. |
| 4 |  | Colour Haze
Los Sounds De Krauts
Much of Colour Haze's output can sound a bit monotonous over time and they may initially come across as tired desert rock worship, but they've managed to trademark a fraction of that sound and master it in ways that would catch you off-guard, and leave it to the double album to have many moments that exmpemplify this with their most fierce solos and riffs. |
| 5 |  | Black Sabbath
Master Of Reality |
| 6 |  | Spiritual Beggars
Mantra III |
| 7 |  | Truckfighters
Gravity X |
| 8 |  | Farflung
A Wound In Eternity |
| 9 |  | Melvins
Stoner Witch |
| 10 |  | Blue Cheer
Outsideinside
yeah sure Sweet Leaf was where stoner rock started mkay |
| 11 |  | down
nola |
| 12 |  | Fu Manchu
In Search Of... |
| 13 |  | Soundgarden
Badmotorfinger |
| 14 |  | Corrosion of Conformity
Deliverance
Good friend of mine swears by this band and this album in particular. I have to hand it to him that this clears the top 5 of stoner/sludge/southern rock/metal sound/style e/z, and is a good set of riffs for a road trip or whiskey drinking soundtrack. Down's NOLA will always reign supreme though, and Blind will always be the superior CoC album |
| 15 |  | Buffalo
Volcanic Rock |
| 16 |  | Boris
Heavy Rocks |
| 17 |  | Clutch
Clutch |
| 18 |  | Church of Misery
The Second Coming |
| 19 |  | Acid Bath
Paegan Terrorism Tactics |
| 20 |  | Amon Duul II
Yeti |
| 21 |  | Sleep
Sleep's Holy Mountain |
| 22 |  | High on Fire
Art Of Self-Defense |
| 23 |  | YOB
Catharsis |
| 24 |  | The Heads (UK)
Relaxing With... |
| 25 |  | Hawkwind
In Search of Space |
| 26 |  | Ufomammut
Snailking
Maybe Godlike Snake would have been a better pick for Ufomammut on a stoner-themed list, but Snailking is my favorite Ufomammut LP so far by quite a margin. This band seems to scratch part of the same itch Godflesh tends to, especially when GF dip more into their psychedelic, drone-y elements (but also yes this band has a drummer). My fiance's exact words while listening to Odio in passing against her unintentional will were "this is scary" |
| 27 |  | Acrimony
Tumuli Shroomaroom |
| 28 |  | Monster Magnet
Spine of God |
| 29 |  | Big Business
Here Come the Waterworks
At this point I'm a straight-up Jarred Warren fan. First exposure to him was his vocal/bass presence on Melvins' (A) Senile Animal, followed by seeing him crush it in person for Unwound on their 2024 tour who he's still with today, and then discovered another awesome band he was in called Karp. Big Business isn't my favorite project he's attached to but this album is a huge exception. Check Hands Up and Shields and continue on from there if you enjoy |
| 30 |  | MC5
Kick Out The Jams |
| 31 |  | Elder (USA-MA)
Lore |
| 32 |  | Earthless
Rhythms From A Cosmic Sky |
| 33 |  | Dozer
Call It Conspiracy |
| 34 |  | Witchfinder General
Death Penalty
Good example of how 80s doom metal was formative to the first bonafide stoner albums. Invisible Hate and No Stayer are two highlights if you care to see why. |
| 35 |  | Slomosa
Slomosa |
| 36 |  | Kyuss
Blues For The Red Sun |
| 37 |  | Unida
Coping With The Urban Coyote |
| 38 |  | Queens of the Stone Age
Rated R |
| 39 |  | Brant Bjork
Somera Sól |
| 40 |  | Hermano
Only a Suggestion |
| 41 |  | Slo Burn
Amusing The Amazing |
| 42 |  | The Machine
Solar Corona
Great Euro-desert-rock that would pair nicely with any Colour Haze album but would also rank far ahead of any. |
| 43 |  | Bull Of Heaven
299: Self-Traitor, I Do Bring the Spider Love
If you recognize this band name, it's probably because they were a meme at one point for releasing an album 5.7 years in length (I guess? check 210: Like A Wall..). Can promise that this is nothing like that on a quality or remotely length level. It's a single song jam session that caps at just over 80 mintues, and will certainly keep the pineal gland calcified or serve as some pleasant background noise |
| 44 |  | Thumlock
Emerald Liquid Odyssey |
| 45 |  | Cathedral
The Carnival Bizarre |
| 46 |  | Causa Sui
Summer Sessions Vol. 1
Was very close to adding their live in Copenhagen for this list - it shreds probably twice as long and thrice as hard as this, pairs nicely with a psychedelic of choice and also has a nice Love Supreme cover at the end. Summer Sessions vol 1 though is a great record nonetheless and better captures a stoner rock sound even if just at moments and in passing. |
| 47 |  | Slift
Ummon
Really glad that Ilion blew up around here on its release because it lead me to checking Ummon which is an objectively better album. Some loud, chonky, at moments experimental space rock that achieves those heavy cosmic trems but wouldn't call it metal like Ilion felt. Like a modern day Hawkwind |
| 48 |  | Black Rainbows
Holy Moon |
| 49 |  | Sofa King Killer
Midnight Magic |
| 50 |  | Captain Beyond
Captain Beyond
Another great proto-metal heavy-psych whatever-you-may relic that you can definitely hear bands like Kyuss and peers channeling in their sound. Mesmerization Eclipse is personal favorite heavy hitter off of this |
| 51 |  | Monkey3
39 Laps |
| 52 |  | White Hills
Live at Roadburn 2011 |
| 53 |  | Greenmachine
The Earth Beater
Cannot begin to express how much I stan Greenmachine. D.A.M.N. is the better record I'd say (don't sleep on Archives of Rotten Blues either), but for a stoner metal playlist The Earth Beater beats it back. Fans of the groovy, sludge-drenched sounds of Down, Acid Bath, Eyehategod and the likes, look no further! Greenmachine is your next all time favorite band for the next week or so. Definitely one for the "angry weed" mix |
| 54 |  | Orange Goblin
The Big Black |
| 55 |  | The Groundhogs
Thank Christ For The Bomb |
| 56 |  | Yawning Man
Rock Formations
This one's an odd one. An instrumental band that formed in the mid-80s and marks some of the earliest documented existence of the Palm Desert scene as a whole, but never released anything until 2005, well after some of the key figures in the movement fizzled. Rock Formations is the sound of surf meeting stoner. Would spin on repeat if I owned a bike shop or a dive bar |
| 57 |  | Halfway To Gone
Second Season |
| 58 |  | Spirit Caravan
The Last Embrace |
| 59 |  | Brainbombs
Genius and Brutality... Taste and Power |
| 60 |  | The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Are You Experienced |
| 61 |  | Kylesa
Spiral Shadow |
| 62 |  | Uncle Acid and The Deadbeats
Blood Lust |
| 63 |  | Red Fang
Murder The Mountains |
| 64 |  | Lowrider
Ode To Io |
| 65 |  | Toad
Tomorrow Blue
Spaghetti Hendrix |
| 66 |  | Dead Meadow
Dead Meadow |
| 67 |  | Motorpsycho
Trust Us |
| 68 |  | Lionize
Superczar and the Vulture |
| 69 |  | The Black Angels
Passover |
| 70 |  | High Rise
II |
| 71 |  | All Them Witches
Lightning at the Door |
| 72 |  | Samsara Blues Experiment
Long Distance Trip |
| 73 |  | Wo Fat
The Black Code |
| 74 |  | Bongzilla
Gateway |
| 75 |  | ZZ Top
Tres Hombres |
| 76 |  | Goatsnake
Goatsnake Vol. 1 |
| 77 |  | Core
Hustle is On |
| 78 |  | Truly
Fast Stories... from Kid Coma |
| 79 |  | Fuzz
Fuzz |
| 80 |  | Motorhead
Bomber |
| 81 |  | Sungrazer
Mirador |
| 82 |  | Only Living Witness
Prone Mortal Form |
| 83 |  | The Sword
Age Of Winters |
| 84 |  | Solace
13 |
| 85 |  | 16
Blaze of Incompetence
More angry weed music I stan |
| 86 |  | Amplifier
Amplifier |
| 87 |  | Hypnos 69
The Intrigue of Perception |
| 88 |  | The Company Band
The Company Band |
| 89 |  | Datura (NZ)
Visions for the Celestial |
| 90 |  | The Obsessed
Lunar Womb |
| 91 |  | Mammatus
The Coast Explodes |
| 92 |  | Graveyard (SWE)
Graveyard |
| 93 |  | ASG
Win Us Over |
| 94 |  | The Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound
Ekranoplan |
| 95 |  | Royal Trux
Cats And Dogs
Not necessarily stoner rock but most things punk blues / blues rock / Jon Spencer adjacent can absolutely geddit while smonkin grass (check Pussy Galore) |
| 96 |  | sHeavy
The Electric Sleep |
| 97 |  | The Hidden Hand
Mother * Teacher * Destroyer |
| 98 |  | The Atomic Bitchwax
The Atomic Bitchwax
This thing is difficult to find in regards to getting more than just a teensy taste of without resorting to the illicit methods, but if you can this may be one of the grooviest and most straight-forward stoner rock/metal offerings this playlist has to offer. Absolute ripper |
| 99 |  | Acid King
Busse Woods |
| 100 |  | Witchcraft
The Alchemist |
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