Whenever I hear about bands having creative differences and infighting and breaking up I tend to turn the other way. Some people will always say things like “yeah they made such great music together but they just couldn’t be friends,” or “tensions ran high” or something stupid like that. Let’s face what really happened though, which is that making music ceased to be fun anymore, plain and simple. And not just because there’s money involved and it’s your job, but because it’s not something you want to spend your time doing anymore because it’s as boring as a marriage that has run its course. This doesn’t seem to be the problem in the making any time for the stoner rock quartet Stone Eyes whose members all hail from Adelaide, South Australia. Let’s meet this cast of stoners shall we? On vocals we have Jordan, on guitar Joe, bassist Daniel and finally drummer Punda.
It’s been a while since the last time I got high and listened to music but I remember when that was one of my favorite past times ever. The music always sounded so good, so different than it did when I was sober. Not that it was bad then but I think or at least I think I thought at the time that I could pick out different sounds than I could when I was sober. My point is however is that Stone Eyes make stoner metal that is both fun and fun to listen to at the same time and that sometimes or at least often enough is a cause for a celebration that ego plays no part in the making of a record. Their self-titled three song EP Stone Eyes opens with the track “Heed” which wastes no time in developing into an all out hurricane of heavy stoner rock with the proper vocal tone that sounds just evil enough when needed to keep from going overboard into performance art territory. Next on the slightly sludgier but still very, very metal “Human” the band go batshit nuts and it’s nothing near original but it’s certainly spot on for the genre and done very well, so bravo to that. The closing tune “Vixen” follows this same sort of style as its predecessor but again our focus is that what Stone Eyes does, call it imitation if you will, is in many ways just as good as the bands that popularized and had success with this style of music. Now do yourself a favor and roll a blunt or pack a bowl or eat a freaking brownie, or whatever it is you do to get turnt, and give Stone Eyes a listen. You can thank me later if your stoner ass can even remember it was me who told you to do it.
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