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Jul 11, 2012Cryptic and daunting, "Dopesmoker" is the quintessential stoner metal track. Sixteen years since its birth, it remains unsurpassed.
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Jun 8, 2012Take this, the album's third legit release (which, by the way, sounds so balls you can practically hear the dank nugs), pop it in, turn out all the lights, face Mecca, and bow down.
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May 15, 2012It's an album of endless pleasures, and its arcane, foggy-headed mysteries never stop revealing themselves.
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UncutJun 1, 2012The group's commitment and almost minimalistic sense of repetition resulting in a metal longplayer of unrivaled scope. [Jul 2012, p.96]
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May 15, 2012With a more dynamic and drastically enhanced sound, this is how Dopesmoker was meant to be heard.
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May 15, 2012Dopesmoker is an infinitely explorable listen, the kind of record that will goad your attention through miniscule rabbit holes whether or not you're as stoned as the people who made it.
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The WireAug 2, 2012Were it only instrumental, Dopesmoker would be some kind of masterpiece. [Aug 2012, p.55]
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Jun 12, 2012If the first [issue] had sonic charms which seem extemporary, this one is somewhere between the sublunary murk of the earlier bootlegs, the original band-approved TeePee records version of 2003 and a brighter, modern-sounding studio demo, but it's not glaringly distinct.
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May 15, 2012Come in expecting a mystical journey and take it for what it is--an hour-long, drug-infused jam--and you'll be pulled right in.
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Dec 28, 2012
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Jun 26, 2022so **** good its unreal, a centerpiece of doom metal and a must listen. 10 outa 10
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Jul 11, 2021AYO THIS EDIBLE AINT SHI-