stoner rock

English

Noun

stoner rock (uncountable)

1. (music) A subgenre of heavy metal which combines it with elements of psychedelic rock and acid rock.

   Synonym: stoner metal

   • 2022, Ryan Hibbett, editor, Lit-Rock: Literary Capital in Popular Music, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 130:

     As with psychedelia, the literary links of stoner rock are not its dominant features, especially insofar as many bands distance themselves from the broadly understood mainstream, which connotes forms of elitism and canonization.

Hypernyms

• rock

Derived terms

• stoner rocker

Translations

heavy metal subgenre

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Georgian: სტოუნერ როკი (sṭouner roḳi), სტოუნერ მეტალი (sṭouner meṭali)
• Japanese: ストーナーロック (sutōnā rokku)
• Portuguese: stoner rock m
• Russian: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• stoner rock on Wikipedia.Wikipedia