The Melody Web what each genre heard, and what it passed on

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Heard

Doom metal style · 1984–

Stoner keeps doom’s slow heavy riff and brightens the fuzz.

Influence
Psychedelic rock style · 1966–1969

Stoner keeps psychedelic rock’s fuzz sustain, modal riff, and long jam and plants them on a doom-weight floor.

Influence

Stoner metal

style · 1992–

Also called stoner rock

Kind of Doom metal

1990s Sabbath-weight rock/metal: fuzz, mid-tempo riffs, and a desert or cannabis public code (Kyuss, Sleep). It hears Doom metal for the slow heavy riff and Psychedelic rock for the desert sustain. Hard-rock is already a psych child, not a third parent here. Desert-rock leftover as a later scene tag on this node.

Listen

  1. Dragonaut Sleep (1992) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon
  2. Holy Mountain Sleep (1992) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon
  3. Green Machine Kyuss (1992) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon
  4. Space Cadet Kyuss (1994) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon
  5. Funeralopolis Electric Wizard (2000) YouTube · Spotify · Amazon

Passed on

Nothing in the corpus yet that this genre passed on.

Doom metal → Stoner metal

meter and groovetimbre and productionharmonystrength: highwell documented1991–1995recordingoral

Mechanism

Stoner keeps doom’s slow heavy riff and brightens the fuzz. Strength high.

Evidence

Sleep and Kyuss against 1980s doom; Grove on that fork.

Debate

Whether this is already rock, not metal. The riff parent is doom; the desert band can sit on both.

Mediators

artist: Sleep; artist: Kyuss

Psychedelic rock → Stoner metal

timbre and productionform and structureharmonystrength: highwell documented1991–1995recordingoral

Mechanism

Stoner keeps psychedelic rock’s fuzz sustain, modal riff, and long jam and plants them on a doom-weight floor. Strength high. Doom supplies the slow heavy riff (doom metal stoner metal); this file is the desert-psych color. Do not hang Hard rock as a third parent — that hop already sits on the psychedelic-rock node.

Evidence

Kyuss 1992–94 records against late-1960s loud psych; Grove on stoner as a psychedelic-adjacent metal dialect.

Debate

Whether this is already rock, not metal. The psych parent is the color; the riff parent is doom.

Mediators

artist: Kyuss