Stoner Rock
Stoner rock is slow to mid-tempo heavy rock with thick, fuzzy, low-tuned guitars and a hypnotic, groove-based feel.
It took shape in the early 1990s, most famously in the desert towns of Southern California. Bands combine the heavy riffs of 1970s hard rock and doom metal with psychedelic jams and a bass-heavy, warm sound. It is looser and more groove-led than doom metal, and far heavier than psychedelic rock.
Artists it is known for: Kyuss, Sleep, Queens of the Stone Age, Fu Manchu.
- Family
- Rock
- On Spotify
- A current genre
- What it is
- A genre
- From
- California, early 1990s
- Also called
- stoner metal, stoner doom
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 4%
About 3,200 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have stoner rock among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Stoner Rock artists
Black Sabbath
Queens of the Stone Age
Mastodon
Electric Wizard
Kyuss
Boris
Them Crooked Vultures
Eyehategod
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Melvins
The stoner rock artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.