Artist: Sleep
Genre(s):
Rock
Metal
Discography:
Dopesmoker
Year: 2003
Tracks: 2
Jerusalem
Year: 1997
Tracks: 6
Sleep's Holy Mountain
Year: 1992
Tracks: 9
Volume One
Year: 1991
Tracks: 9
Perhaps the ultimate lapidator careen ring, Northern California trio Sleep's career wafted in and out of focus from within their self-mandated cloud of marihuana fume. In their unretentive time together, the grouping issued some of the heaviest, virtually uncompromising doom metal albums ever recorded, leaving a fable far exceptional the actual volume of their production.Formed in the late 80's in San Jose, California by bassist/vocalist Al Cisneros, guitarists Matt Pike and Justin Marler and drummer Chris Haikus, Sleep immediately john Drew comparisons to under-appreciated 80's doomsters like the Obsessed, Pentagram and especially Saint Vitus. Their sludgy 1991 debut was named Volume One in award of their transonic godfathers Black Sabbath, merely it wasn't until Marler's release (reportedly to turn a thelonious Sphere Monk!) and the discharge of 1993's Sleep's Holy Mountain that their own, unique fate metal vision rightfully began approach into focal point. The album became a favourite of the lowering metal agitate, and Sleep were heralded aboard other bright retro-rocking groups like Kyuss and Monster Magnet as leaders of the newly emerging stoner john Rock / condemn metal scene. Such was the buzz surrounding the chemical group, that following a short European circuit load-bearing number 1 generation doomsters Trouble and English hopefuls Cathedral, Sleep was reportedly offered an unprecedented six-figure deal by London Records. But instead of grabbing their opportunity at mainstream stardom for all it was worth, Sleep vowed to turn over even deeper into their incredibly heavy and work-shy intelligent or else. After nearly deuce years of writing and revising material for their succeeding record album (to be named Dopesmoker, non surprisingly) amidst abundant weed wasting disease, the trio lastly delivered their long-awaited epic, now named Jerusalem, to London Records. But to their label's surprise, Jerusalem comprised a single, 60-minute magnum piece to cannabis which the band refused to cut or split up into sections under whatever portion. A nail impasse ensued, ligature up both parties in red River tape for some other deuce years. Finally, having smoke-cured their entire immediate payment advance through their bongs, Sleep decided to break up rather than giving up the album. Guitarist Matt Pike went on to form a new, more energetic weighed down metal band called High on Fire, patch drummer Matt Haikus eventually re-united with origination guitar player (and now ordained monastic) Justin Marler in The Sabians. In the lag, an unauthorised variant of Jerusalem was quietly released by Rise Above Records, but it wasn't until 2003 that a purportedly bona fide and fully endorsed interlingual rendition of Dopesmoker eventually reached record storage shelves, delivery the tortuous Sleep saga to a close at last.
