Sleep - Dopesmoker Album

Tracklist

1	Holy Mountain (May 1994 @ I-Beam - San Francisco, CA)
2	Dopesmoker	1:03:31
3	Sonic Titan (April 1992 @ Gilman Street - Berkeley, CA)

Credits

• Art Direction – Arik Moonhawk Roper
• Artwork [Visual Flight] – Doug Ebright
• Bass, Vocals – Al Cisneros
• Drums – Chris Hakius
• Engineer [Engine-eared By], Producer – Billy Anderson
• Guitar – Matt Pike
• Layout – Drunken Monkey
• Mastered By – Mark Keaton
• Written-By, Producer – Sleep

Notes

A Newbury Comics Exclusive color vinyl pressing. Limited Edition of 500. 180 Gram Vinyl

"Dopesmoker" stands as one of the towering achievements in recent metal history, a mesmerizing, intoxicating, and incredibly complex song that is still unrivaled in the annals of (stoner) metal.

Album is packaged in a gatefold sleeve with a holographic cover, and includes a 18"x24" poster.

Barcodes

• Barcode: 7 07239 00492 1
• Matrix / Runout: Z65950 4 TEP2 90049-2 02
• Mastering SID Code: IFPI L909
• Mould SID Code: IFPI 2UA5
• Other (Disc): TPE-049
• Other (Sticker): TPE-049 CD/2X LP

Short intro

Dopesmoker by Sleep, released 20 April 2013 1. Dopesmoker Pt. 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: Dopesmoker. The Lord version features brand new artwork by long time Sleep artist, Arik Roper, who created something specifically special for the albums rebirth. The biggest difference between this new version and the old releases is the phenomenal remastering job by Brad Boatright. His vision was to enhance the original recording without changing it drastically. Documentary footage on Sleep and the story of Dopesmoker. Dopesmoker is available on both CD and LP through Southern Lord Records. is the third album from the American stoner band Sleep, released in April 22, 2003. 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. At the time of it's release, the band had long since broken up. Dopesmoker failed to reach any Billboard charts and wasn't reviewed by many popular music critics, although it received ver read more. Текст песни: Drop out of life with bong in hand Follow the smoke toward the riff filled land Drop out of life with bong in hand Follow the smoke toward the riff filled and Dopesmoker are two versions of the third album by the American heavy metal band Sleep. The albums were released in 1999 and 2003 respectively. The music for these albums was written during a four-year period when the group was working on a single song that was around an hour in length. Sleep had signed with London Records, which financed the album. When recording had finished, London Records was unhappy with the finished product and refused to release it. The album was later released in. When Sleep broke up after the failure of Dopesmoker, the trio split into two unequal halves: Almost immediately, Matt Pike started High on Fire, who have continued adding different kinds of fuel to the same generalized burn. Years later, Hakius and Cisneros would return as Om to explore the same iterative modalities that made listening to Dopesmoker feel like an instant inhalation. Dopesmoker is the perfect culmination before the collapse Pike's bombast meet Om's repetition, a friction that rendered ideal sparks. Advanced search. Type: Full-length. Release date: April 22nd, 2003. Catalog ID: TPE-049. 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 bands epic struggles to have it recorded and released between 1995, when they were first ready to record, and 2012, when the 3rd and final version was released, are legendary. Despite being rejected numerous times by record labels, Dopesmoker was highly critically acclaimed, and is now considered a touchstone of stoner metal and doom metal. Dopesmoker had been presumed to be Sleeps final album for over a decade before the release of The Sciences on 42018. The saga of Sleep's Dopesmoker was already almost ten years in the making by the time of its belated release in 2003. Originally slated to follow closely behind their second album of a decade earlier, the landmark Sleep's 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 refused to release Dopesmoker as delivered by the band - that is, a single, 60-minute-long. song . Sleep - Dopesmoker 2012. To favorites 1 Download album. Listen album. Stoner Doom. Songs in album Sleep - Dopesmoker 2012. Sleep - Dopesmoker. Sleep - Holy Mountain Live The I-Beam SF, CA. Holy Mountain. Doom Metal Stoner Rock Stoner Doom. The Sciences. Volume 1