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Karma to Burn were an instrumental band, who were a powerful, rhythm-focused stoner metal band based out in Morgantown, WV.

Their instrumental album “Almost Heathen” is widely regarded as on par Kyuss’ “Welcome To Sky Valley” and Monster Magnet’s Spine of God, as one of the defining albums of the stoner rock genre, although the band themselves referred to their style as “malternative”.

The band was renown for their live performances and former Kyuss singer John Garcia was a big fan and even tried to sing with the band, which however did nt bear much fruit as he did not have the time to become a full-time member and Karma To Burn themselves weren’t sure his voice fitted in with their music.

Karma To Burn refused to give their songs ordinary titles, instead referring to them by numbers, which allegedly denoted the order in which they were written by the band.

The group quietly disbanded in 2002 after bassist Rich Mullins left to play full time in Speedealer.

Line-up:

Guitars: William Mecum (now in Treasure Cat)
Bass: Rich Mullins (left to play in Speedealer, now plays in Year Long Disaster)
Drums (-1998): Nathan Limbaugh
Drums (1999-2002): Rob Oswald, now plays in Nebula

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stoner rock, instrumental, stoner, rock, metal
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sstreisel wrote:
last month

check out treasure cat (Will the guitarist) and year long disaster (the bassist). They are currently with these bands.

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wostok_ wrote:
last month

probably the best ROCK band ever. at least the one without a singer.

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AgentMcgee wrote:
October 2008

'seems they don't need any fancy wrapping- no track names, or vocals.

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AgentMcgee wrote:
October 2008

Agreed.

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Myrdinx wrote:
October 2008

Almost heathen is probably one of the best albums ever.

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Ragib wrote:
October 2008

Who needs lyrics..they don t....awesome...

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lihi_lasslo wrote:
October 2008

Rockin'!

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bome99 wrote:
October 2008

This band!!! rocks!!

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Blotto22 wrote:
September 2008

yeah this sound is so anti.. best of the best is thirty nine.. great and dirty rock

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latz wrote:
September 2008

damn this band rocks so hard =)

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beardedpeanut wrote:
September 2008

mmmmmmmmm..... toasty karma

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Dzemka wrote:
August 2008

awesome.

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dakatarules wrote:
August 2008

...and Seven - great, great.

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dakatarules wrote:
August 2008

indeed. twenty four hours is one of my favourite. such a heavy and melodic... i love them.

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Evil_Eye_22 wrote:
August 2008

probably one of the best rock bands ever.

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namnatulco wrote:
August 2008

Thirty Nine is too fucking brilliant for words.

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Mindjack wrote:
July 2008

i like 27, but 14 and 36 are good to. x)

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marcodivision wrote:
July 2008

Il primo ed omonimo "Karma to Burn" è geniale!!! Una rarissima e riuscitissimao alchimia tra Stoner e Dark!

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namnatulco wrote:
June 2008

Sounds good.

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sourJane wrote:
May 2008

just dicovered, wow, awesome stuff.

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