Sleep (band)
| Sleep | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Stoner Doom |
| founding | 1990, 2009 |
| resolution | 1998 |
| Current occupation | |
| Al Cisneros | |
| Matt Pike | |
| Jason Roeder | |
| former members | |
| Chris Hakius | |
| Justin Marler (1990-1991) | |
Sleep is a stoner doom band from Oakland , California , formed in 1990 . She is considered one of the most important bands and pioneers of stoner doom.
history
Sleep were founded in 1990 by Al Cisneros, Chris Hakius and Matt Pike after the band members disbanded the previous project Asbestosdeath . The band was supplemented by Justin Marler after guitarist Tom Choi left, which led to the renaming of the band. The existing recordings of Asbestosdeath were re-released in 2007 by Southern Lord .
The debut album Volume One, which was released by the small indie label Tupelo Records and focused on traditional Doom Metal , gave the band sufficient attention for a contract with the Extreme Metal company Earache Records .
On Earache, the second studio album Holy Mountain, also known as Sleep's Holy Mountain, was released. For Holy Mountain, Sleep varied their style by including stoner and psychedelic elements. For Holy Mountain the band collaborated for the first time with Billy Anderson ( Melvins , EyeHateGod , Mr. Bungle ) as producers. With this album, created without Justin Marler, Sleep began to influence the development of Stoner Doom.
After Holy Mountain achieved initial success, Sleep received major label offers from Elektra and London Records . The decision to sign a contract with London Records was based on the better financial offer and the fact that London had fewer metal bands under contract at the time, which is why Sleep hoped for preferential treatment.
However, the label change caused a long-running legal battle between Earache and London. Which is why the follow-up album Jerusalem, written in 1995, was not recorded until 1996. The long wait, the recording process, in which Billie Anderson was again involved, justified an emerging dissatisfaction in the band structure. Hakius and Cisneros increasingly argued about rhythm figures and the tempo played, of the continuous piece planned for over an hour.
London refused, in spite of the intention stated before the signing of the contract, to publish the continuous piece of music as an album and had the master's degree revised by its own sound engineers. The version of the album, which was finally completed by London, was divided into six parts and released as a rare promo CD alone.
In 1997 Sleep broke up before Jerusalem was published. Pike founded High on Fire in 1999 . Cisneros did not play in any well-known band for several years and devoted himself primarily to his schooling until he founded OM in 2004 with Hakius .
Jerusalem was first officially published in 1999 through Rise Above . The 52-minute version still contained the six subdivisions. In 2003 the album was released under the title Dopesmoker with a playing time of approx. 64 minutes of the main piece and the approx. 9-minute hidden track "Sonic Titan" via Tee Pee Records . In 2012 the album was released again with another supplementary 12-minute track about Southern Lord . Each version appeared with a different design and cover motif. The band was hardly involved in the releases. Cisneros commented on the various releases that the 2012 version was the one he had imagined for the album.
In 2009 the band got together again to perform at the All Tomorrow's Parties Festival in Somerset . In the following years Sleep performed several times and denied a US tour. Meanwhile, the band split from Hakius and replaced him with Neurosis drummer Jason Roeder.
style
The band's debut album and the following EP are mostly still referred to as Doom Metal in the sense of the earlier Black Sabbath . The other publications that followed took on increasingly elements of psychedelic rock and created the Stoner Doom together with Kyuss and Earth , based on The Melvins .
The band uses a constant change between calm and rocky passages. Coming added embody Sleep with WahWah soli, Jaminterludes and pieces over 20 minutes, the play of the Stoner Doom. Excessive song passages, memorable rhythm structures and a bass-heavy sound shape the sound of the band. The vocals are sometimes rough, the drums clatter, the guitars are tuned lower and played through bass amplifiers.
Filmography
- 1996: Dragonaut (music video, London Records )
- 1997: Gummo ( Dragonaut and Some Grass (Soundtrack))
- 2005: Broken Flowers ( Dopesmoker (Soundtrack))
Discography
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- 1990: No title (demo album, self-distribution)
- 1991: Volume 1 (Album, Tupelo Records)
- 1992: Volume 2 (EP, Off the Disk Records)
- 1993: Sleep's Holy Mountain (album, Earache Records )
- 1999: Jerusalem (Album, The Music Cartel / Rise Above Records )
- 2003: Dopesmoker (album, Tee Pee Records / Southern Lord Records )
- 2009: Reunion at All Tomorrow's Parties (live bootleg, no label)
- 2012: Denver Colorado 05/09/10 (Live-Bootleg, Chalker Place Records)
- 2018: The Sciences (Third Man Records)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Eduardo Rivadavia: Sleep. Allmusic, accessed June 10, 2014 .
- ^ Daniel: Asbestosdeath in the web archive. Scenepointblack, archived from the original on July 6, 2008 ; Retrieved June 11, 2014 .
- ↑ Asbestosdeath. (No longer available online.) Aversionline, archived from the original on July 14, 2014 ; Retrieved June 11, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ A b Garry Sharpe-Young: AZ of Doom, Goth & Stoner Metal. 2003, p. 373f. ISBN 978-1-90144-714-9
- ↑ a b c d e J. Bennet: High Times - The Making of Sleep's Jerusalem. Albert Mudrian (Ed.): Precious Metal. Decibel presents the Stories behind 25 extreme Metal Masterpieces. Da Capo Press, pp. 292-303. Philadelphia PA 2009, ISBN 978-0-306818-06-6
- ↑ a b Dr. Rock: Sonic Titan: An Interview With Al Cisneros Of Sleep & Om. The Quietus, accessed June 10, 2014 .
- ↑ JJ Kozcan: Shrinebuilder interview. The Obelisk, accessed June 10, 2014 .
- ↑ a b Arne Eber: Aesthetics of Doom. (No longer available online.) ResettWorld, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on March 28, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Chart sources: DE US
