(en) Eduardo Rivadavia, « Kyuss Biography », Allmusic (consulté le ) : « …they are widely acknowledged as pioneers of the booming stoner rock scene of the 1990s… »
(en) Serba, John, « Bongzilla - Gateway », AllMusic (consulté le ) : « …sounding like a cross between Sleep's drowsy, Black Sabbath-like meanderings and Electric Wizard/Burning Witch-style gut-curdling, muddy sludge. ».
(en) Mason, Stewart, « Kylesa », AllMusic (consulté le ) : « …elements of hardcore punk, psychedelic stoner rock, technical speed metal, and good old-fashioned Black Sabbath sludge appear in their music. ».
(en) Rivadavia, Eduardo and Koets, Tara, « Electric Wizard », AllMusic (consulté le ) : « …it so effortlessly bridged the stylistic gaps between doom, sludge, stoner, horror, and, at times, even space metal… ».
Eduardo Rivadavia, « Kyuss Biography », Allmusic (consulté le ), Although they are widely acknowledged as pioneers of the booming stoner rock scene of the 1990s, the band enjoyed little commercial success during their brief existence […]. Soon hailed as a landmark by critics and fans alike, the album (Blues for the Red Sun) took the underground metal world by storm and established the signature Kyuss sound once and for all: […]..
(en) Brian Smith, « Huge stones », sur Metro Times, (consulté le ).
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(en) Garry Sharpe-Young, « MusicMight – Kyuss biography », MusicMight (consulté le ) : « [Kyuss] almost single handed invented the phrase ‘Stoner Rock’. They achieved this by tuning way down and summoning up a subterranean, organic sound… »
« What stoner rock delivers, slowed down and magnified, is the riff, the persistent legacy of Mississippi blues. »(en) Ben Ratliff, « Rated R: Queens of the Stone Age: Review », Rolling Stone, (version du sur Internet Archive).
