term to describe blues based metal/rock/doom/psychedelic music often linked to songs focused around or promoting usage of cannabis, marijuana, LSD and other mind/ mood altering substances and chemicals. From Stoner (drug user) and Phonic (sound).
Hey man, you should check out the new Kyuss album. The 1st song Gardenia is totally fucken STONERPHONIC dude. Must have played it 300 times today already. Fully takes your ass to another planet...
The grindset is a contemporary ideology of self-exploitation disguised as strength, deeply tied to the aesthetics of the “sigma male” and to new digital forms of patriarchy. It promotes the idea that human worth depends on productivity, economic success, absolute emotional control, and the ability to work endlessly, turning vulnerability, rest, community, and tenderness into signs of weakness. Beneath its rhetoric of discipline and power often lies a profound inability to relate healthily to pain, fragility, and human interdependence.
“That’s the grindset, brother. While weak men sleep and complain, sigma males stay disciplined, work in silence, suppress emotions, and build power while everyone else wastes time chasing comfort.”