Jerusalem and Dopesmoker are 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
Dopesmoker by Sleep, released 20 April 2013 1. Dopesmoker Pt. 1 2. 2 3. Dopesmoker P. 4. 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. Cisneros wanted to breathe some new life into the old beast and finally have the original vision of the album fully realized. Southern Lord was overwhelmingly ecstatic about the challenge of taking the reigns of one of the most important recordings in the history of Heavy Metal! The Lord version features brand new artwork.
The Sleep album Dopesmoker consists of a single, 63 minute song written by the band over the course of 4 years during the mid 90’s. The band’s epic struggles to have it recorded and released between 1995, when they were first ready to record, and 2003 (remastered in 2012), when the 4th 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
Album · 2003 · 2 Songs. This record is the power trio’s definitive statement: one 64-minute piece comprising gargantuan riffs felt more than heard, grooves that shift like continental plates, and Matt Pike’s croaking chants and esoterica. Buried deep within this immersive epic are moments of moody beauty, as when the band’s textural churns evaporate into amorphous psychedelia, but Sleep always circle back to their obsession with crushing slowness.
Then came the crunche. his DOPESMOKER album was an old recording from 1995CE, and was the culmination of years of Sleep’s collective (and terminal) Sabbophilia. You Can Call Me Al, or SLEEP’S HOLY MOUNTAIN. Fortunately for all of us, Justin Marler’s decision to enter a monastery soon after the release of the first Sleep album dramatically changed the sound of the group, and in a manner that could never have been anticipated. Gone was the emptiness of sound, and gone was the interplay between Pike and Marler’s guitars.
About Dopesmoker album. Album Dopesmoker (2003). Label Tee Pee Records.
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Dopesmoker | (1:03:34) | |
A | Dopesmoker Pt. 1 | |
B | Dopesmoker Pt. 2 | |
C | Dopesmoker Pt. 3 | |
D1 | Holy Mountain - May 1994 I-Beam, San Francisco, CA | 11:35 |
D2 | Sonic Titan - April 1992 Gilman Street, Berkeley, CA | 9:17 |
Category | Artist | Title (Format) | Label | Category | Country | Year |
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TP-049CD | Sleep | Dopesmoker (CD, Album, Dig) | Tee Pee Records | TP-049CD | US | 2003 |
LORD158 | Sleep | Dopesmoker (2xLP, Album, Ltd, RE, RM, Gre) | Southern Lord | LORD158 | US | 2012 |
LORD158 | Sleep | Dopesmoker (2xLP, Album, Ltd, RE, RM, Ind) | Southern Lord | LORD158 | US | 2013 |
LORD158 | Sleep | Dopesmoker (2xLP, Album, Ltd, RE, RM, Ora) | Southern Lord | LORD158 | Europe | 2019 |
DYMC-165 | Sleep | Dopesmoker (2xCD, Album) | Daymare Recordings | DYMC-165 | Japan | 2012 |
A | Dopesmoker | |
B | Dopesmoker | |
C | Dopesmoker | |
D1 | Holy Mountain (Live @ The I-Beam SF, CA. May 1994) | 11:35 |
D2 | Sonic Titan (Live @ 935 Gilman Street, Berkeley, CA, April 1992) | 9:17 |
Category | Artist | Title (Format) | Label | Category | Country | Year |
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TP-049CD | Sleep | Dopesmoker (CD, Album, Dig) | Tee Pee Records | TP-049CD | US | 2003 |
LORD158 | Sleep | Dopesmoker (LP, Album, Ltd, RE, Gre + LP, Album, Ltd, RE, Cle) | Southern Lord | LORD158 | US | 2016 |
LORD158 | Sleep | Dopesmoker (2xLP, Album, Ltd, RE, RM, Ind) | Southern Lord | LORD158 | US | 2013 |
LORD158 | Sleep | Dopesmoker (2xLP, Album, Ltd, RE, RM, Ora) | Southern Lord | LORD158 | Europe | 2019 |
DYMC-165 | Sleep | Dopesmoker (2xCD, Album) | Daymare Recordings | DYMC-165 | Japan | 2012 |