Like the Velvet Underground and Big Star before them, Kyuss’s influence vastly outstrips the number of people who gave a shit about them at the time. The four albums Kyuss recorded before their abrupt split in 1996 have become the holy tablets of modern stoner rock, inspiring a generation of red-eyed longhairs in greasy T-shirts to attempt to replicate their desert-mystic enigma and steamroller-heavy low end.