Sea of Green

Sea of Green's live shows -- with their liquid lights, incense, smoke machines, and pyrotechnics -- evoke the heaviness of the early '70s as much as their monstrous, riffed-out, and slightly skewed music. With a sound that draws logical connections between <a href="spotify:artist:5M52tdBnJaKSvOpJGz8mfZ">Black Sabbath</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:0k17h0D3J5VfsdmQ1iZtE9">Pink Floyd</a>, the band produces a head-trip of seriously psychedelic stoner rock.

Sea of Green formed in 1999 in Toronto, Canada, when bassist Eric Kuthe (whose parents used to run a rock club in Toronto in the '70s that played plenty of <a href="spotify:artist:5M52tdBnJaKSvOpJGz8mfZ">Sabbath</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:776Uo845nYHJpNaStv1Ds4">Hendrix</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:0qEcf3SFlpRcb3lK3f2GZI">Grand Funk Railroad</a>) and drummer Chris Bender got together with guitarist Travis Cardinal to jam. <a href="spotify:artist:3D21xod662H4wUw4r6vD89">Cardinal</a> took over vocal duties and the band began to write songs, citing influences as varied as the Queens of the Stone Age, <a href="spotify:artist:74oJ4qxwOZvX6oSsu1DGnw">Cream</a>, and <a href="spotify:artist:2DaxqgrOhkeH0fpeiQq2f4">Oasis</a>. They released their first EP, Northern Lights, on the Music Cartel label in July of 2000. The band completed their first full-length in late 2000 at the Chalet in Toronto. Time to Fly, produced by Nick Blagona of <a href="spotify:artist:6fvN9GmMCVKb5LY0WsnjFP">Nazareth</a> and <a href="spotify:artist:568ZhdwyaiCyOGJRtNYhWf">Deep Purple</a> fame, and which includes a mind-bending cover of <a href="spotify:artist:0k17h0D3J5VfsdmQ1iZtE9">Pink Floyd</a>'s "Breathe," secured Sea of Green as one of the leading purveyors of psychedelic metal. ~ Charles Spano, Rovi