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Om: Death to Fake Stoners
Al Cisneros is declaring an end to the term “stoner rock.” For starters, the singer/bassist of San Francisco’s Om claims most bands in the indie metal underground aren’t really stoners at all. Users, yes, but not stoners. “It’s a lot of alcohol. It’s a lot of cocaine,” he sneers. “I mean, most of those people […]
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Seminal Stoners Yield Mantric Metal
“I have always heard music and riffs internally throughout my life,” says Al Cisneros, bassist and vocalist of San Francisco trance/doom duo OM. He and drummer Chris Hakius have been challenging the definitions of “heavy” since their high school band Asbestos Death morphed into stoner icons Sleep in the early ’90s. When a major label […]