Key facts
- Other names
- Stoner metal stoner doom
- Stylistic origins
- Acid rock doom metal psychedelic rock
- Cultural origins
- Early 1990s, California, United States
- Typical instruments
- Electric guitar bass drums vocals
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- music genre
- Subclass of
- psychedelic music
- Country of origin
- United States
- Image
- Queens of the Stone Age (229).JPG
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- topic's main category
- Category:Stoner rock
- inception
- 1988-01-01
- Commons category
- Stoner rock
- influenced by
- acid rock
- native label
- Stoner rock
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Encyclopedic overview
Stoner rock, also known as stoner metal or stoner doom, is a rock music fusion genre that combines elements of doom metal with psychedelic rock and acid rock. The genre emerged during the early 1990s and was pioneered foremost by Kyuss and Sleep.
Characteristics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “stoner rock” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.