Zach Huskey's early bands were The Sciotics (with Sean Wheeler), Blue Sunday, Cloudy Daze and The Next.
His tuned-down guitar sounds epitomize desert rock as surely as the music of Kyuss, Fatso Jetson and House of Broken Promises..."[1] The following year, Dali's Llama released their second album entitled Creative Space.
Alfredo Hernandez said, "Way before Kyuss or Queens of the Stone Age, Dali’s Llama frontman Zach Huskey was a musician to be reckoned with.
In 2006, Huskey wrote some tuned down, heavy, slow, and sludgy songs, which became Dali Llama's sixth album, Sweet Sludge, recorded at The Sanctuary and produced by Scott Reeder (Kyuss, The Obsessed, etc.).
It was good to hang out again with my old pal Zach Huskey, who’s been a stalwart of the desert music scene since our high school days together.
Along with his wife/bassist Erica and drummer Robin, Dali’s Llama have been working hard - hardcore DIY, and in it for all the right reasons - for the pure joy of making music.
Around this time Dali's Llama performed with Fatso Jetson, Dixie Witch, Sasquatch, House of Broken Promises, SuperGiant, Floating Goat, etc, and they played the Stoner Hands of Doom Festival (SHoD VIII) in Mesa, Arizona.
They included Mario Lalli (Fatso Jetson, Yawning Man and Desert Sessions), Sean Wheeler (Throw Rag, Sun Trash and Charley Horse), Joe Dillon (from Hot Beat Pussy Fiend) and Scott Reeder.
It sounds clean but there is a cynical bite to the lyrics of songs like Theocracy and the punkish Grump that, political or not, adds thematic heft.
Not as much of a departure from the band's sound as I expected (riffs are still the trail boss on this wagon train), but the quicker, catchier song structures, heavy organ interplay, and the more jammed-out feel of the material sure do show another side to Dali's Llama.
Although this isn't the lavish, career-spanning box set the band deserves, Twenty Years Underground gives you a tantalizing taste of power and majesty that is Dali's Llama.
- Eleni P. Austin, Coachella Valley Weekly[7] In 2016, Dali's Llama released their twelfth album "Dying In The Sun", which had Joe Dillon rejoin the band, this time on keyboards.
They don’t try to be “scary” or to be “tough,” they just blast out cool, heavy riffs with excellent vocals..." – Mike Frame, Razorcake[8] Dali's Llama followed up with "The Blossom E.P."
"...Dali’s Llama may remain the desert’s best kept secret when it comes to songwriting, but like they do, they’ll keep moving forward anyway, and while parts of “Longtime Woman” and “Like I Do” feel like they’re playing to the band’s strengths, the jammier feel also shows the chemistry the four-piece have developed over their time with this lineup around Zach and Erica..." - The Obelisk[9] In 2019, Dali's Llama released the album "Mercury Sea", which featured the single/video "Weary".
It is the desert..." – JK, Stoner HiVe[10] Dali's Llama was credited and thanked in the John Srebalus film Such Hawks, Such Hounds (2008).
Eleni P. Austin wrote in the Coachella Valley Weekly, "If someone were to erect a shrine to the founders of the Desert Rock scene, an imposing Mount Rushmore-style monument, the four faces would have to be Mario Lalli, Herb Lineau, Sean Wheeler and Zach Huskey.