I hate grindcore, but I enjoy Genghis Tron. They're not entirely grindcore though. Lot of electronic stuff in there too. It's pretty sick. :pimp:

I would think that you, as a prog fan would enjoy it, but if you don't like the vocals, then I suppose not.

Agreed. I'll be the first to admit that punk is one of my less covered areas of music, but I've always liked bands like the Clash, Butthole Surfers, the Dead Kennedys, Orchid, Cro-Mags, Iggy Pop, Converge, Husker Du and Botch. I've been getting into Crass, NoMeansNo and Fearless Iranians From Hell lately. And I've liked post punk like Joy Division, This Heat, Minutemen, Swans, Mission of Burma and PIL for a while now.

I don't see why some people can't appreciate both.

I'd agree with that. Though it seems to be somewhat popular here on MB nowadays (it's doing well in the polls).

I have albums by Ramones, The Clash, The Sex Pistols, The Buzzc*cks, Patti Smith, Crass, Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, The Stooges, MC5, Minutemen, X, Husker Du, Wire, Gang of Four, Fear, The Descendants, The Misfits, The Cramps, Discharge, Suicidal Tendacies, Bad Religion, Circle Jerks, Fugazi, Mike Watt, New York Dolls.

So yeah, punk is ok I guess.

I have a feeling this one will get me a bit of stick but it's been building for a while and I have to finally come out with it.

I fucking HATE Stoner Metal

It's like someone took all the good bits out of psychadelia and replaced it with horrible chuggy metal guitar riffs.

Boooo.

Kyuss <3

I tried

I tried Kyuss , Monster Magnet , Sleep and a few others.

They all resulted in the same this.

The realisation i'd rather be listening to Space Ritual or Volume 4 instead. Or even the first couple of UFO albums.

Yeah, thats what gets me, if you like Black Sabbath and Hawkwind, I don't see why you wouldn't like stoner metal. :-/

That's what I thought but it just doesn't work for me.

I've noticed about the bands that I do listen to of any genre tend to be the originals , or the first wave of bands. After that I lose interest. I guess those bands don't offer me anything i've not heard before.

Well I like stoner metal (mainly the more doomy type) and love Kyuss, but to be honest, I don't feel that it's that strongly linked with psychedelia. I don't doubt that the movement in the beginning was inspired by psychedelia, but nowadays, stoner metal seems to stand on its own.

Point being that when I listen to Sahg, Sleep or Starchild, it doesn't make me think of the vintage psychedelic gems of 1967-72, Gong, Hawkwind or the Ozrics.

I think that could be why it doesn't work for me.
It's moved too far away from what I liked about it in the first place.

I always though doomy guitars sound more natural with muddy 70s production. Thats another thing thats always put me off , it's like they're trying too hard to recreate something.