Iron Backstage reviews the Kyuss tribute

When a project like Spaceship Landing: A Tribute to Kyuss drops, it’s bound to raise the eyebrows of anyone who’s ever been scorched by a desert riff. Twenty bands from around the world – all paying homage to Kyuss, the godfathers of stoner rock – is no small undertaking.

Now, the first review has arrived.

In their feature “Review of KYUSS Tribute: Spaceship Landing / Witching Buzz,” Iron Backstage Magazine captures the raw, chaotic spirit of the album with both humor and reverence.
They describe it as a record that “isn’t tidy, it isn’t polished,” but rather “rough, messy, alive.”

From Australia’s Amammoth to Italy’s Sonic Wolves and Norway’s own Mörkekraft, the review paints a vivid picture of a global underground scene united by distortion and desert dust.

“Mörkekraft (Norway) drags Writhe through frozen air… cold riffs, still somehow desert-dry. Weird. Yeah. Weird in the right way.”

It’s a short but striking line that sums up exactly what we were aiming for — a sound rooted in the desert, yet filtered through Nordic cold and the weight of our own atmosphere.

The review celebrates the diversity of the compilation, calling it “a map of fuzz and heat drawn anew,” where each band reinterprets Kyuss through their own landscape.
Italy dominates the lineup, but the reviewer highlights how bands from France, Spain, Germany, the USA, Mexico, Finland, Jersey – and Norway – each bring “something broken and beautiful.”

Iron Backstage’s verdict?

This is not a museum piece — Kyuss isn’t a band anymore, they’re a signal. These twenty bands caught it, distorted it, and sent it back into the world.