Blues For The Red Sun is the finest album by short-lived rock gods Kyuss. With guitars tuned way down and amps turned way up, Kyuss’s deafening assault switches from light to hammering in a blink on some tracks (‘Thumb,’ ‘Thong Song‘), while slowly building on others (‘Freedom run’). They achieve full rock bliss when they’re relentless. By updating Black Sabbath from the perspective of psychedelic jammers out of the Arizona desert, Kyuss established the blueprint for the entire stoner rock movement with this 1992 release. Even its makers never matched it, let alone beat it.
Tracklist:
A1 Thumb
A2 Green Machine
A3 Molten Universe
A4 50 Million Year Trip (Downside Up)
A5 Thong Song
A6 Apothecaries’ Weight
B1 Caterpillar March
B2 Freedom Run
B3 800
B4 Writhe
B5 Capsized
B6 Allen’s Wrench
B7 Mondo Generator
B8 Yeah