Wretch [PA]

Performer: Kyuss
Producer: Ron Krown; Catherine Enny; Kyuss
Distributor: WEA (Distributor)

Notes: Personnel: Josh (guitar). Audio Mixers: Chris Fuhrman; Michael Mikulka. Recording information: Headway Studios; Master Control Studios, Burbank, CA. Hindsight is always 20/20, but Kyuss' promising debut album, 1991's Wretch, was completely ignored by media and public. This is quite understandable, as a paltry production job fails to capture the band's earth-shaking guitar rumble, and only repeated listens allow full appreciation of the band's developing songwriting skills. The album's finest moments find the band in mid-pace, locking onto massive grooves on "I'm Not," "Big Bikes," and the awesome "Son of a Bitch." While less impressive, they still manage to inject memorable hooks and catchy riffs into full-tilt thrashers such as "Love Has Passed Me By," "Isolation," and the especially savage "Hwy 74." ~ Eduardo Rivadavia

Instrumental figures in the Southern California desert rock scene, Kyuss are notable not only for helping to lay the blueprint for what would later be known as stoner rock--playing a slightly funkier, more traditionally psychedelic version of the style--but also as the band that would spawn both Queens of the Stone Age and the Eagles of Death Metal. Founding members of the aforementioned bands, Nick Oliveri and Josh Homme, spent their formative years in Kyuss, as did drummer Brant Bjork, making Kyuss one of the most important hard-rock bands of the 1990s.

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