I have a very large metal collection and constantly am trying new bands, and old ones. This album is far from groundbreaking for its time. First of all, it's more closely aligned to grunge sound than metal. Boring riffs, some pretty lame lyrics (no shoes I wear thongs - seriously?) and delivery. For its time, I'd pick Soundgarden any day, at least Chris can sing.

Now I know why this genre is called stoner rock, because you'd have to be smoking something to give this album the praise it's been given. If you want crunchy hard riffs, there are better ways to spend your money, if you want musicianship, look elsewhere, if you want a great metal album, this isn't it. I just started getting into Corrosion of Conformity, a band from that era, and the album Deliverance showed the same day as this one. It's not even a contest which album is better, heavier, more epic, better produced. I'll sadly add this album and the other Kyuss album I ordered to my collection but after several critical listenings I think it's gonna collect a whole lot of dust. Really disappointed actually, I wanted to like this.

Highly, highly overrated.
I have a very large metal collection and constantly am trying new bands, and old ones. This album is far from groundbreaking for its time. First of all, it's more closely aligned to grunge sound than metal. Boring riffs, some pretty lame lyrics (no shoes I wear thongs - seriously? ) and delivery. For its time, I'd pick Soundgarden any day, at least Chris can sing. Now I know why this genre is called stoner rock, because you'd have to be smoking something to give this album the praise it's been given. If you want crunchy hard riffs, there are better ways to spend your money, if you want musicianship, look elsewhere, if you want a great metal album, this isn't it. I just started getting into Corrosion of Conformity, a band from that era, and the album Deliverance showed the same day as this one. It's not even a contest which album is better, heavier, more epic, better produced. I'll sadly add this album and the other Kyuss album I ordered to my collection but after several critical listenings I think it's gonna collect a whole lot of dust. Really disappointed actually, I wanted to like this. Highly, highly overrated.