Acid Rock Doom
tagStarted 1993Peak 1998-2010Last big hit still active
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Doom's leaden riffs drenched in acid-rock psychedelia: wah-soaked solos, phaser and flanger swirl, fuzzed-out lysergic jams that stretch past ten minutes, and bleary half-buried vocals. Tempos drag, the low end is enormous, and the trip is hallucinatory rather than gloomy — a slow-rolling, mind-melting dirge built for headphones and altered states.
History
Emerging from San Francisco's mid-1990s underground, Acid King fused heavy '70s proto-metal with slow lysergic drift on their 1995 debut, while Bongzilla and Weedeater pushed weed-soaked psychedelic heaviness. Drawing on Hawkwind's acid haze and Sabbath's weight, the style threaded doom's crawl through wah-drenched jams, becoming a Roadburn-festival mainstay.
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Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoner_rock
- https://progrockjournal.com/news-us-psychedelic-doom-giants-acid-king-return-to-europe-this-spring/
- https://deathdoom.com/doom-metal/stoner-doom-metal/
- https://rateyourmusic.com/list/siLLy_puPPy/psychedelic-doom-metal/