Queens of the Stone Age

rollingstone

On this scorching debut, guitarist-singer Josh Homme — who formerly led Kyuss, a band revered among young stoners — joins with bassist Nick Oliveri and drummer Alfredo Hernandez to create a new turn in the saga of Pacific Northwest hard rock. They've found a vital place between art-metal seriousness and pop pleasure. It begins right […]

pitchfork

Stoner rock heroes Kyuss first morphed into the more melodic, loose-limbed variation of themselves, QOTSA, on this self-titled debut, now reissued.