Track Listing

1. Thumb
2. Green Machine
3. Molten Universe
4. Fifty Million Year Trip (Downside Up)
5. Thong Song
6. Apothecarie's Weight
7. Caterpillar March
8. Freedom Run
9. 800
10. Writhe
11. Capsized
12. Allen's Wrench
13. Mondo Generation
14. Yeah

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15631 in Music
• Released on: 1993-02-15
• Number of discs: 1

Amazon.co.uk Review
A bit grunge, a bit metal and a whole lotta rock & roll, 1992's Blues for the Red Sun may well be the finest album by short-lived rock gods Kyuss. With guitars tuned way down and amps turned way up, Blues for the Red Sun practically deafens in its assault, switching from light melodies to hammering riffs in a blink on some tracks ("Thumb", "Thong Song") or slowly building to a high volume release on others ("Freedom Run"). When they do achieve full rock bliss, they do so unrelentlessly--"Green Machine" practically thrashes out for an atypical (for Kyuss, at least) three-and-a-half minutes. Updating Black Sabbath's heaviness by way of Arizona desert psychedelia and epic jams, Blues for the Red Sun established the blueprint for the entire "stoner rock" movement. Even Kyuss never matched it, let alone beat it. --Robert Burrow

Customer Reviews

Green Machine
From the 1st track 'Thumb'.You know you're gonna be listening to something special.This album sounds a little less produced than 'Welcome to sky valley' and 'And the circus leaves town'.
Almost sounding like the logical follow on from 'Wretch'.
I have to say this is my fave Kyuss album.Buy it you'll love it.

Heavy music is rarely this good!
This is one of those albums that's just fantastic, heavy and psychedelic in all the right ways. It's up there with "Master of Reality" and "Sleep's Holy Mountain", if it was better known I'm quite sure it'd be widely hailed as a classic, deffinitley one of the defining albums of that stoner rock movement we know and love.

Musically it has a good combination of chugging low down n' dirty riffs intersperesed with occasional moments of mellowness or psychedelic lead guitar playing that just seems to tumble over itself effortlessly from the speaker, it's bluring into itself without being undefined...magnificent. Josh Homme is very, very under rated as a player in fact.

Definitive stoner rock.
Kyuss laways hated the label of a stoner rock, and it is one that fits even worse to Josh Homme's more recent band, Queens of the Stone Age. However, listening to this album it is possible to see why they received the label. It's not pure rock and roll, nor is it heavy metal, thrash metal, jazz or any other type of music. However, it does combine all of these, funnels them through whatever narcotics were to hand and then tunes them as low as they'll go. It's one of the best albums to just sit down and let wash over you. It is also one of the best rock albums of the decade, and helped to both create and define a genre.
It doesn't matter how you label them , Kyuss were an awesome band. The opener of Thumb is one of the best examples of this. It shows off Josh's incredible guitar playing ability, and also John's incredible voice. Not a good voice by any standards, but it fits the music so perfectly that you can easily kid yourself that it is.
The album shifts seamlessly into Green Machine, one of the best tracks Kyuss ever recorded. It also has an awesome video which is viewable on the web. Apothecaries Weight follows, but it is 50 Million Year Trip that is the real highlight of the first half of the album. By turns thrash and heavy metal, rock and roll and jazz, this song has everything that was good about Kyuss and nothing bad.
Other album highlights include Freedom Run, Mondo Generator, which John sings through a megaphone, and Capsized, one of Josh's most fluid guitar pieces.
I can only recommend that you buy it. Whether you think that stoner rock is an apt label is up to you, but you don't need to be high to appreciate the majesty of this album.