A bunch of metal-worshiping whippersnappers from the California
desert, Kyuss (rhymes with "pious") came along just as the hair
bands of the '80s were breathing their last and helped inject a
much-needed new spirit into hard rock, melding the weighty riffage
of classic metal with the high energy of its speedier spawn. And
when guitarist and future Queens of the Stone Age leader Josh Homme
decided ...