Drop out of life with bong in hand, follow the smoke to the riff filled land. After justin marler left the group, the core lineup of al cisneros, matt pike and chris hakius went into the studio to record a demo cassette that they sent to earache records. Sleepdopesmoker exclusive 2 lp color vinyl newbury comics. The booklet features newly penned liner notes by the band.
Youtube oddities speed the track up to 10x the originals and it sounds comparable to a high on fire track. Listen to your favorite songs from dopesmoker by sleep now. Just saw sleep, they played this, it was the heaviest thing i have ever heard. The sleep album dopesmoker consists of a single, 63 minute song, written by the band over the course of 4 years during the mid 90s. The sleep mode starts after i leave the computer on to download. Get the guaranteed best price on heavy metal vinyl like the sleep dopesmoker at musicians friend. Originally released in 2003, following some label issues and prior versions, dopesmoker is sleeps final album and a stoner metal classic. Dopesmoker is an alternate version of jerusalem that we felt our fans might enjoy. This distinction belongs not to black sabbaths master of reality or slayers reign in blood. It would be a safe assumption to say that for most of the music listening populous sleeps opus, dopesmoker, would be the musical equivalent of undergoing trephination while overdosing on ambien, but for those with an open mind and a spliff it is nothing short of nirvana. Sleep dopesmoker dark green shirt southern lord recordings. This is the only official arik roper dopesmoker print in the world, and it is only available from outer battery records. Originally slated to follow closely behind their second album of a decade earlier, the landmark sleeps holy mountain, it lingered in unreleased limbo instead the subject of a vicious legal dispute between the northern california trio and their record company, london, which.
Dopesmoker is the third album from the american stoner band sleep, released in april 22, 2003. Collectors edition first pressing limited edition reissue. The sleep album dopesmoker consists of a single, 63 minute song written by the band over the course of 4 years during the mid 90s. Dopesmoker, the storied onetrack, hourlong album by seminal stoner metal outfit sleep, is finally getting released in the way the band intended. Originally recorded back in 1995, it languished in mostly unreleased form until 2003 when sleep the unholy trinity of al cisneros, chris hakius and matt pike finally started getting the attention they always deserved. Stream adfree with amazon music unlimited on mobile, desktop, and tablet.
It takes a while to get really good but when this shit pays off its worth it. The reissue features new artwork by the bands artist arik roper, a recording mastered from. Dopesmoker by sleep stoner metal vinyl, oct2012, 2 discs. Sleep are a band totally unlike any other and even if bearing some similar traits to other bands, their music is comepletely different.
Stream dopesmoker by sleep and 50 million songs with amazon music unlimited. The origin story of dopesmoker sounds like a lightbulb joke cowritten by nancy reagan and sisyphus. Three california stoners decide to write a song about how much they love marijuana. Drop out of life with bong in hand follow the smoke toward the rifffilled land drop. This early version, as yet unheard, contains a more dynamic recording and a heavier mix.
How do i turn off sleep mode in order to download extensive new software item. Originally recorded in 1995 and released as an unauthorized and bastardized bootleg entitled jerusalem in 1999, dopesmoker. Provided to youtube by the orchard enterprises dopesmoker sleep dopesmoker. Holy mountain in 2011, southern lord was contacted by sleeps al cisneros about the possibility of releasing a deluxe version of the classic sleep recording. Get a low price and free shipping on thousands of items. Dopesmoker official album cover print outer battery. With dopesmoker, youre plugging in for a journey, not a simple track. An album that not only has to do with sleep, not only actively wastes my time, is a tad ambitious, but is also an attentive listen. The 2012 reissue of sleeps dopesmoker with brand new album art designed by arik roper. Includes unlimited streaming of dopesmoker via the free bandcamp app, plus highquality download in mp3, flac and more. The bands epic struggles to have it recorded and released.
Southern lord records have announced a deluxe reissue of one of the towering achievements in metal history, dopesmoker by stoner metal. Now, 16 years after it was recorded, sleeps storied third and easily best album is finally available through a remastered, reillustrated reissue. Almost immediately, matt pike started high on fire. The cookie settings on this website are set to allow cookies to give you the best browsing experience possible. Jerusalem and dopesmoker are the third albums by the american heavy metal band sleep.
Cisneros wanted to breathe some new life into the old beast and finally have the original vision of the album fully realized. In 2011, southern lord was contacted by sleeps al cisneros about the possibility of releasing a deluxe version of the classic sleep recording. Hang your posters in dorms, bedrooms, offices, or anywhere blank walls arent welcome. In or out of metals seedy musical ghetto, there are few records as epically conceived or grandly ambitious as sleeps dopesmoker. This new reissue is worth having by new sleep fans who havent had the opportunity to own the album before, but fans who own the prior edition of dopesmoker may want to hold on to their old copies or spring for the double vinyl version if they desperately want the new artwork and bonus track. The sleep album dopesmoker consists of a single, 63 minute song written by the band over the. To be honest, this is the only band that in my opinion can be classified as pure stoner doom. Is sleeps dopesmoker the heaviest album ever recorded. Check out the film such hawks, such hounds for some great insights from the guys on making dopesmoker. There was a rumour that they delivered the master tape to london records in a skull bong. Cisneros wanted to breathe some new life into the old beast and finally have the original vision of the album fully. When sleep broke up after the failure of dopesmoker, the trio split into two unequal halves. Get the best deals on sleep double lp metal vinyl records when you shop the.
The music for these albums was written during a fouryear period when the group was working on a single song that was around an hour in length. Shop vinyl and cds and complete your sleep collection. Matt pike guitarist denied this, but said they definitely shouldve done. No, the heaviest, sludgiest, most wicked album ever recorded is none other than sleeps doom metal masterpiece, dopesmoker. That doesnt happen often this album is like breaking bad.
The albums were released in 1999 and 2003 respectively. Almost immediately, matt pike started high on fire, who have continued adding different kinds of fuel. Free shipping on many items browse your favorite brands affordable prices. This is the definitive version of dopesmoker to me. Dopesmoker as a song and as a record is one and only. Fans of all things sunn o and earth will probably have heard it before, but let me be the first to say that this brand new remastered edition is the finest iteration of the. So get high, crank it up and listen with open ears and mind. Instead, dopesmoker is a standard stoner doom track simply stretched out to a stoners pace. In the smokefilled longhouses of metal, no song is as shrouded in legend or reeks as much of burning ambition than sleeps dopesmoker. Shirt brand is hanes comfort blend ecosmart 50% cotton 50% polyester. Dopesmoker is presented here in its entirety, exactly how the band intended it to be. Get the best deals on sleep lp vinyl records when you shop the largest online selection at. Southern lord records reissue a deluxe remastered version of sleep s dopesmoker containing the epic title track when we say epic, we mean a 63 minute long track in praise of weed in addition to an infamous live version of holy mountain recorded in 1994 at the ibeam in san francisco. Formed as a bay area hardcorepunk rock act called asbestosdeath, the band changed their musical direction and name and debuted as sleep with their volume one album in 1991.
The mix is just right and it just sounds like this is the way the song should sound and feel. Doom legends sleep are reissuing dopesmoker, which took nearly a decade to get released in the first place, via southern lord this year. A singletrack, hourplus song about weed composed over four years, it is an enduring curiosity that has been released and rereleased several times in the past years, on bootlegs and official albums. Coming directly from artist arik roper, this is an oversize, 17 x 36, 100 lb gloss print of the mind altering world of sleeps dopesmoker cover art.
The first time was in 1999, with a cutdown, remixed. The ultra limited rerelease of the classic sleep record. Dopesmoker was recorded by billy anderson neurosis, melvins at record two studio in comptche, california while recording the song, it began to form differently than the band had originally envisioned. The game of the album by sleep, the band, an endless runner minus the running based on the heaviest, highest album of all time. If you continue to use this website without changing your cookie settings or you click accept below then you are consenting to this. Produced by both the band and billy anderson, the album went through problems with their label london records who refused to release the album, which ran for over an hour and consisted of just one song, as the band intended which led to the album being released in a truncated format years later. Considering the stories of sleep blowing almost the entirety of their advance from the label on guitars, amps and a hell of a lot of weed honestly, im not making. Sleeps dopesmokerthe best stoner metal album ever observer. A benchmark by which all that dares call itself stoner rock must. High on fire electric messiah 2xlp sealed color vinyl metal wdownload sleep. The saga of sleeps dopesmoker was already almost ten years in the making by the time of its belated release in 2003. As a favor to fans, the reissue ends with a 10minutelong bonus track intended to be a palate cleanser after an hour of stoner dirge.