Although I wouldn’t call this set “great,” I’d say it’s pretty darned good. It’s not Earth shattering in terms of originality and does suffer a bit from the “it sounds the same” virus. That said, it’s got some great riff driven stoner rock. This is more along the lines of garage band, DIY stuff than anything else, but it works quite well.

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Drums really drive this thing with an insistent percussion. The music has a heavy, stoner rock kind of vibe. This instrumental is part metal and part psychedelic rock.

This has more of an old time rock and roll vibe. It’s almost like The Stones go psychedelic garage band.

As this pounds out, it’s definitely heavy metal. It’s very much like early Sabbath in so many ways. Yet, there is a garage element at play. It shifts to more mainstream stoner rock from there. It gets back toward metallic territory later as the instrumental section powers forward.