Sixty Watt Shaman is an American rock band known for incorporating hard rock with blues, southern rock and metal influences, originally based out of Baltimore, Maryland. The band play a diverse repertoire of hard hitting groove rock and ethereal psychedelic jams, with classic tube tones, echoing heavy blues, southern groove, doom, and even the ghostly spirit of historic Americana and Appalachian bluegrass. They formed in 1996 and recorded and released their first studio album in 1998. The band last recorded in 2002. The last official band tour was in late 2002 through January 2003; but, have made reunion appearances since. Currently, their efforts are focused on festival events in the US and Europe, with plans to record new music. They are widely regarded as innovators in their musical genre with the "Sixty Watt" sound, and have been both imitated and replicated by peers and bands who followed in their footsteps.