Monster Magnet

“It's all-energy. It's rock excitement, psychedelic glory and space-rock hooks.” Sounds good to us!

- 

As underground minnows and progenitors of the stoner-rock genre, Monster Magnet shockingly became the toast of the mainstream in 1998 when their fourth fulllength record, Powertrip, was hailed as album of the year in both Metal Hammer and Kerrang! Frontman Dave Wyndorf, who still leads the New Jersey band, previews their 35th-anniversary tour.

Do you sometimes scratch your head and wonder how on earth Monster Magnet have lasted thirty-five years as a band?

[Laughs] There’s a part on the left-hand side with no hair left from my scratching. I never expected this band to go anywhere, or to play to more than four or five people. But when it was time to go left I went right, and when it was time to go right I headed left, and somehow we managed to go places.

Can you cherry-pick a few of the highs – pardon the pun – from the story so far?

There were so many high moments. Monster Magnet had only existed for around six months, and I’d never played guitar or written a song, so doing that for the first time was an important moment. Our first record [