It's All About the FUZZ! Some Fuzzy Album Recommendations! 

Check out our recommendations! Fuzz: fuzz-band.bandcamp.com/album/iii Fuzz: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-l_LXWZv9Fho.html Randy Holden: randyholden.bandcamp.com/album/population-ii Randy Holden: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eEE_ncKoCzo.html Black Rainbows: blackrainbows.bandcamp.com/album/black-rainbows-hawkdope-repress Black Rainbows: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GVDi-4_L_wE.html Bison Machine: smallstone.bandcamp.com/album/seas-of-titan Bison Machine: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-LktSussCDZA.html The Black Angels: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--mfLUEria2c.html The Black Angels: blackangels.bandcamp.com/album/death-song The Melvins: ru-vid.com/group/PLjYhpGCfoYYq5BMS2ijs5wZCCzHOfg4GE The Melvins: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Tx3DlvS71b4.html

Beautiful karen

First time I heard the idea for this show I thought "oooh someone better mention the Black Angels!"

Man, I would've never guessed you dug the Melvins Pete. One of my all time favourite bands. Love the show!

I got Geezer's Groovy on your recommendation. Really enjoying it. Thanks, SOT!

Not traditionally what's talked about on SoT, but Dinosaur Jr's You're Living All Over Me is the fuzziest thing I've ever heard. Throw Black Sabbath, Neil Young, and The Byrds into a blender and there you have it. J Mascis, the main guy in the band, has another band called Witch that is more directly inspired by Sabbath and I'd bet money that Pete would dig them.

Now that I know Pete likes the Melvins, I’m hoping that on a future show he’ll be recommending Locust Abortion Technician by the Butthole Surfers!

I have quite a few Melvins records but I'm going to check out the rest of the bands. Love this series.

Yay, Pete, finally ! A much deserved mention of the mighty Melvins. I`ve been waiting for years. Heavy and influential as hell, and you brought up some of their best albums. Also, Karen, when I think of fuzz, one of the first bands to come to mind is The Black Angels. Excellent picks and excellent show. Keep the Fuzz episodes coming.

Hi Karen - Black Angels! Oh yeah!! One of my favorite post-2000 bands. I love neo-psyche. Two great songs, among many, are River of Blood and Medicine (both on my top 10 song lists in their respective years). Their music puts my head in a very nice place. 😎

Man, I just love this show is so cool. kind of in between music like psych stoner, hard rock I’m really impressed at Pete picking Randy Holden and then I just so happy that you embraced the Melvins. back in 1989 and 90 I was doing light shows with them in San Francisco cause I just love this kind of blue cheer hard fuzz out music continued working with them in between Allman Brothers tours for the next four years. just a classic.

A lot of bands I cover seriously appreciate you covering the fuzzy stuff. Thanks for this!!!

Thanks a lot. Karen &. Pete for your time. I’m learning a ton 👍💯

Been getting into alot of Doom as of late. Trouble, Electric Wizard, Kyuss, St. Vitus, Windhand etc. So it is great to get all this new influx of Fuzz coming in from you guys. Thanx a ton for the suggestions tonite. Absolutely badass! 🤘

King Buffalo is who got me into the fuzz, not to long ago. If you ever have a chance to see them live, GO. My buddy just turned my on to this band, Kal-El. Real cool. Love the show.

DHU Records (Netherlands) Forbidden Place (Usa) Unforgiven Blood (Japan) Interstellar Smoke (Poland) some labels specifically about doom/psych/stoner/fuzz around the world with an amazing catalog!

Thank you Karen! I have love the Black Angels since Passover! Great to hear SoT mentioning newer but heavy underground type bands! I am not trying to be annoying.. but The Warlocks Phoenix Album is up there to! Props to The Warlocks! No one really cares or knows about them but they are fuzzed out dope-shakers! Thanks to SoT for the alternative to Taylor Swifty and RndB Diva pop crap! Great music is timeless!

Hi Pete and Karen. I'm not inclined to recommend albums. You guys already have to much to listen to. But if you like fuzzy space rock psych you really should listen to SLIFT - Ummon. It's a bonafide modern classic. The whole album is one fantastic trip. It can be a grower but if you can immerse yourself in it it's really totally awesome. For me at least. One of my all time favorite post 2000 albums. Fuzz on! The last Black Rainbows is one of their best. Great drummer. Have the 2 previous ones on order. Already owned a couple of the older ones. Saw The Black Angels live earlier this year. Good concert. I alsi saw them like 10 years ago in a smaller venue and that is one of my favorite concerts. Don't play them that much anymore. I mostly return to their first three records.

Great show! I love the Black Angels, and thanks for mentioning a couple I haven't heard yet.

Great show. Small stone is a fab label. Thanks for the fuzzy vibes folks

I definitely want to hear about the early fuzzy prog. Great show!

Yall fluffed the fuzz on my dead black heart by talking about my favorite Melvins album, Bullhead And Black Angels! True to their name, taken from The Velvet Underground’s “The Black Angel’s Death Song,” they’ve taken the same dark, brooding elements that The Dream Syndicate initially did in 1982, but focused entirely on droning distortion, with touches of 13th Floor Elevators and Pink Floyd, but adding more recent influences of The Jesus and the Mary Chain’s buzzsaw noise, Loop, The Spacemen 3, and Spiritualized. My fave is their sixth and most recent, the double album Wilderness of Mirrors (2022). Coincidentally they are playing Levitation in Austin this weekend. They started it as Austin Psych Fest in 2008 -- you should come next year! I'm seeing Codeine & Unwound tomorrow, and The Well, Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats and High on Fire there on Friday. Black Angels play every year of course, so I saw them last year, along with Slift, King Gizz, Moon Duo, Frankie & the Witch Fingers and Jesus & Mary Chain. Hope Pete gives Truckfighters a chance, they're THE fuzz ambassadors of Sweden.

A huge thank you to Karen for mentioning Wilderness of Mirrors by The Black Angels. I somehow missed it.

Always looking for some new fuzz rock into, thank you guys!

Love the Black Angels they remind of a fuzzy Doors .

Love you Karen

Never really given Melvins a proper listen, but will now for sure. My 3 bands that I recommend are Sheavy, Psychlona and Slowner. Really enjoying these programmes Pete and Karen.

Can I recommend a UK label Rocket Recordings. I am guessing not a lot of their bands will have come onto your radar, but they have put out some excellent releases. Strangely Prog Magazine Presents Discovering are featuring them this month. I should also say not a lot what they release is the Fuzzy, Stoner type of Psych. They also deal in some experimental verging on brutal heavy psych. From their roster I would really recommend the new Smote album Genog, also the Sabbath influenced Pigs x 7, Teeth of the Sea, Gnoomes, and Utopia Strong. I have seen all these bands this year.

Hi all. Love the channel to death. For existing fans of heavy fuzz-pedal driven music, discovering ‘Population II’ for the first time is a similar feeling to finding cash in a pocket that you’d forgot about. One of life’s victories. The Melvins are a “snow globe” band, in that they operate within their own universe. A band so respected that sometimes Gene Simmons joins them on stage. A band so cool that Shirley Temple’s daughter used to be a member. A band so influential Kurt Cobain could only join as a roadie. A band so good that just their cover versions are worth checking out alone. I had the pleasure of seeing them live back in about 1992. They were SO slow and heavy, I swear they temporarily distorted space-time by creating their own gravitational field. But hey, it’s all relative. Still releasing great albums and EPs. I can’t recommend Melvins enough. Difficult to single out any particular album. All are different, All are the same. Will be checking out Fuzz, The Black Angels, Bison Machine asap. Karen. Thank you for showing the cover art. Much appreciated.

Hi Pete, Hi Karen. You two always have some great selections. Fun to watch you do these episodes, I look forward to them. This music is truly where the underground sound is thriving now. It's awesome to hear you cover it. I would have a few bands to consider reviewing. 1. Paralyzed (they sound like Steppenwolf meets The Doors with fuzz). 2. Maha Sohona (Swedish stoner / doom band). And what I would really love to see you guys do is an episode dedicated to The Re-Stoned (Russian instrumental trio that more than 10 albums in the last 15 years). They are legitimately one of the best instrumental bands on the planet with some solid variety in their fuzz.

Very cool episode. Thinking about fuzzy bands that are not stoner or doom, I would say that My Bloody Valentine can be a pretty fuzzy and loud band in their own way (as they are not a metal band at all). It got me some time to enjoy their music but I would say that if their music clicks for you, it's pretty rewarding and unique.

Bison Machine is a great find! I discovered Black Rainbows a few months back, love it!

It's funny and cool to hear about a local band in my area that I didn't know about. I checked out the Bison machine band . I liked them a lot. I live 10 minutes from Detroit. Thanks ! I really enjoy the program. I also checked out black rainbow Nice 👍

I'm waiting for you indepth discussion of Uncle Acid & the Dead Beats & Lucifer and would really like Karen to be part of those episodes 🤘🤘🤘

Great show you thinking of Roadburn it's Netherlands festival it's on my bucket list for sure.

Thanks Pete and Karen, I love this show. Always something new to check out! I'd really like you both to talk about "Nobody's Children - Good Times' ... maybe in a 60's focused episode. The first time I heard that song it blew my mind that it was recorded in the 60's.. or that it even existed on a record at all. It was my entry point into the whole world of US underground 60's rock. It also made me realise at quite a young age that music genres aren't 'invented', they are far more of a natural evolution.

Hey Pete, the Randy Holden cd wasn't too hard to find - it's licenensed Riding Easy records along with two other of his cds! Also, check out Fuzzorama Records out of Sweden, they have a small catalog but they have big big fuzz!!

The only fuzziest album I’ve ever owned and listened to would have to be Possessed(not the death metal band)the underground prog metal band from 🇬🇧 West Midlands which recorded an album called Exploration in 1971 which never saw the light of day until 35 years later it was released 2006 by rise above relics(a subsidiary of rise above record)which a mixture of psychedelic,prog metal, and stoner rock.Just want to say that!

Here is another cool Italian label what would fits to this show. Argonauta Records have the albums from Slow Wake and Wooden Fiels from them.

You're thinking of Freak Valley Festival, Pete. But, yeah, Melvins KILL on that set. The first time I saw them was Halloween night in Jacksonville Fla. I've also seen them with Melt Banana and Napalm Death in Atlanta. Ya'll made my day (week, month, year,etc) giving the Melvins their due. Thanks!

Starting the show with Fuzz and Randy Holden...2 fantastic choices!

Melvin's, Stoner Witch and Houdini

Definitely need a Melvins ranking the albums show

Awesome episode! Lots of stuff I love! Fuzz is great! Ty Segall releases a lot of stuff (usually more than an album or two per year) and switches styles often. A lot of his stuff isn't my thing (though always done well) but when he does do I style I like it's always really good. If you like Fuzz his album Slaughterhouse (released under the name The Ty Segall Band) is another one you will like. Garage Punk fans will dig his band G0GGS. Randy Holden just released his second solo album Population III last year I think. I haven't heard it but it got a lot of strong reviews. Blacl Angels are one of the best things going. I'm not even sure which of their albums is my favorite because all six are like four and a half or five stars out of five. They remind me a lot of 13th Floor Elevators without the jug along with Velvet Underground and Spacemen 3. They have a live album coming out for Record Store Day Black Friday. It should be good because they kill live. Obviously I'm a huge Melvins fans. I recommend The Maggot for Metal heads and (A) Senile Animal for fans of Heavy Rock that haven't heard them. Bullhead, Lysol, and Houdini are among my favorite albums of all time. Don't miss the chance to see them live. They still kill it and tour every year. Thank you.

They watch us from the moon, Black moon Circle, Mouth, Howlin Sun, Dommengang, Moundrag, Wizrd, Mammatus, Strange Horizon, Immaterial Possession, Altin Gun, High chair, Mesaverde, Hawklords bands for pete and Karen to check out

Great recommendations. Black angels have been one of my favourite bands for years. Doesn't the singer of black angels remind you of the Jefferson Airplane singer? Season 1 of true detective had Melvin's, sleep and black angels Freak valley festival has great sets. The rockpalast RU-vid channel usually has all of them I'll be buying that randy Holden album ASAP!!

I really like Duel from Texas and Sasquatch from L.A. If you and Karen have not heard them, I think you’d really dig em’. Also Tee Pee Records is another great label. Maintain The Fuzz!

Freak Valley Festival in Germany!

I just listened to Bison Machine. Very impressive sounding band! Give this band a chance. They are really cool.

Dinosaur Jnr would be a cool band to cover imo

The Seeds had some fuzz on some of their songs

WHAT A COOL LOVELY WOMAN, KAREN. THANK YOU BOTH PETE AND KAREN. I ENJOYED THAT !

Nothing beats good old pen and paper :-)

Randy Holden!

I ordered a CD from Gravitoyd Heavy Music by a cool band called Demons My Friends and they sent me a free CD by Electric Mountain called Valley Girant. I suggest checking out both bands.

Does this mean you’ll do an album ranking or top 10 albums from The Melvin’s?

Long story short. Knew a guy who played in a band on a bill with Randy Holden. He said the volume was excruciatingly LOUD.

Kyuss, Fu Manchu and anything by Brant Bjork covers my fuzz fix.......

Some fuzzy band's i like are 1000mods from Greece, Daily Thompson from Germany and Seedy Jesus from Australia.

Isn't the song "Fruit & Icebergs" also on the Blue Cheer album "New! Improved!"?

Great episode, guys! Love hearing about old favorites like Randy Holden and The Melvins and being turned on to new things for me like Fuzz and Black Rainbows. Similar thing happened to me earlier this week when I watched a video from Dillon at Noble Records in North Carolina here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-WNszBl9CCdk.html - holy cow, Treasure Trove indeed. All worth checking out including (band name first - album title follows) Hairy Chapter - Can't Get Through This Orion's Beethoven - Super Angel Octopus - Restless Night Aunt Mary - Janus Zipper - Self Titled The Illusion - If It's So Wara - El Inca Elias Hulk - Unchained Jeronimo - Self Titled Horse - Self Titled Black Spirit - Self Titled Reaction - Self Titled Winterhawk - Revival Mutha Goose - Self Titled Mouse - It's Happening to Me and You You guys could also do a great episode dedicated to the Brown Acid box sets put out by Riding Easy. Totally, fuzzalicious, @karenlaprez8358 😁

I think YOB would be a great band to explore on this show. From their earlier stoner stuff, to the middle stage of overpowering doom, and more recently delving into psychedelic territory. Always massively heavy and fuzzy.

hi guys Dont know if you have heard of the Australian Band TUMBLEWEED Great Fuzz band

True Widow Primitive Man

When metal gets too formulaic, I swim in the sea of fuzz.

Roadburn is the festival

Darkthrone's ultimate Black Metal fuzz album---Transilvanian Hunger

He done an album in 2022 called population 3

H.P Lovecraft from chicago 1967 !

Freak Valley Festival

Mike Portnoy has returned to DT

Roach Powder???