Kyuss

Out in the desert near Palm Springs, bands ran their amps on petrol and played to small crowds of local kids. Kyuss emerged from those 'generator parties', and Josh Homme's guitar, tuned low and pushed through a bass amp, gave them a sound as heavy and hazy as the heat.

Blues for the Red Sun, co-produced with Chris Goss, is widely seen as stoner rock's blueprint: slow-motion riffs, John Garcia's bellowing vocals and Brant Bjork's loose, swinging drums. Welcome to Sky Valley stretched out into long, trance-like jams.

They split in 1995, after ...And the Circus Leaves Town, and Homme went on to form Queens of the Stone Age.