Best listened to on CD in your car stereo with the volume cranked up while speeding down a desert highway, Blues for the Red Sun is the band’s best (alongside Welcome to Sky Valley) and not only one of the greatest heavy metal albums of the 1990s, arguably one of the greatest heavy metal albums …
Kyuss – Welcome to Sky Valley (1994)
It would be a fair comment to say that music lovers are lovers of music because the bands that they love, no one else really understands. A feeling the fans of bands such as Kyuss must love getting. Yes, to those uneducated in this field, Kyuss may well sound like another rock ‘n’ roll band. …
The Record That Changed My Life: Justin Sullivan on Queens Of The Stone Age – Songs For The Deaf (2002)
It was in a cute little club in Sheffield. I had heard rumours about this band, Queens of the Stone Age. How can you not be interested in a band with such a name? I didn’t know what to expect- the best approach to a concert if you ask me. The Queens started with one …
The Record That Changed My Life: Josh Homme on Iggy Pop’s THE IDIOT (1977)
The Idiot is the most important album of my life, because it almost made me give up music forever. I have to explain this. It was 1994, I was 21 and still playing with Kyuss. Back then I almost completely refused to listen to anything else than Kyuss. I was young and stupid, and I …