Man, fond memories of being a teen and first getting into metal and buying a then-new book called The Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal that was as you’d guess a primer on important bands but every now and then the writer would go hard for a name that was off the beaten path and prob the three lesser known bands he blatantly plugged for were Candlemass, Voivod and Kyuss. This was around 2004-05 and I tried to hunt down this and Blues for the Red Sun based on that book but at that time internet shopping was still in a relative infancy. Amazon was a fraction of what it became, specialty stores were hard to search for. Hell, even google was only gaining traction. And Kyuss couldn’t even be found on Limewire to pirate. But I finally managed to get a CD of this, where the tracks were bundled into suites like an 8-track, which initially frustrated me but it helped me fall in love with that whole record. Whether it or Blues is better doesn’t matter to me, they’re both perfect, filthy stoner psychedelia. The Isn’t Anything/Loveless of stoner rock