Who’s running this thing?
Longtime lurkers, working around the clock — military time — to re-ignite the quality music discovery and community that STONERROCK.COM always provided.
From December 15, 1999 to November 29, 2010, this address was the center of the heavy underground: stoner rock, doom, sludge, desert rock, heavy psych. 58,866 registered members. 3.2 million board posts. The review archive of record for an entire genre — the place where bands got found, tours got booked, labels got started, and lifelong friendships got made.
Then it vanished into the void, and the scene scattered to feeds and algorithms that never loved it back.
We’re bringing it home. The restored museum already serves 19,000+ original pages straight from the Internet Archive, each with its provenance and cryptographic hash. The boards are back and live. The review desk is open. The rest — the whole machine — is being built in the open, nightly.
What we stand on
No third-party ad networks. No selling your data. No algorithm deciding what you love. Reading is free; join free to post. Tips fuel the build. Records stream through official players (Bandcamp, YouTube, Spotify) so the band gets paid, not us. The full picture of what we collect and who touches it lives in the privacy policy — and the long-haul mission is simple: the heavy underground deserves a home that can’t be switched off again.