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Red Fang

stoner rock stoner metal sludge metal doom metal

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Red Fang capture the loud and fast, anything-goes spirit of classic rock with their heavy stoner-influenced jams. Emerging in 2005, the quartet make guitars the focus of their gimmick-free brand of driving rock & roll, eschewing any prog leanings and putting the emphasis on the riffs. The sound is tied together by a sense of punk urgency that spurs the stoner jams into action and gets the songs moving at a raucous gallop. Red Fang found mainstream success in 2013 with their Billboard-charting third LP, Whales & Leeches, and continued to hone their unrelenting, no-frills sound on subsequent efforts like Only Ghosts (2016) and Arrows (2021).

Based out of Portland, Oregon, and featuring the talents of Bryan Giles, <a href="spotify:artist:3jD4LaXdTKzJJuarvH62mj">Aaron Beam</a>, David Sullivan, and John Sherman, Red Fang made their debut in 2009 with a self-titled album released by <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Sargent+House%22">Sargent House</a>. For their follow-up, they struck up an unlikely partnership, heading into the studio with producer and multi-instrumentalist for the <a href="spotify:artist:7ITd48RbLVpUfheE7B86o2">Decemberists</a> Chris Funk. The move paid off for the band, who released their second album, Murder the Mountains, on <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Relapse%22">Relapse</a> in 2011. Red Fang revisited the partnership again for their third album, Whales & Leeches, which arrived in the fall of 2013 and made a respectable dent on the Billboard 200. The following year saw the group perform on the Late Show with David Letterman -- musical director <a href="spotify:artist:2CAITNejdagAXH9Scdt97z">Paul Shaffer</a> even sat in with the band -- and in 2016, they released their acclaimed fourth studio LP, Only Ghosts, again via <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Relapse%22">Relapse</a>. Five years later, they returned with Arrows, another bottom-heavy and hook-laden set of uncompromising stoner metal gems. ~ Gregory Heaney, Rovi

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