Sleep's Holy Mountain

Infobox Album
Name = Sleep's Holy Mountain
Type = studio
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Artist = Sleep


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Released = November 16, 1993
Recorded = Razor's Edge Studio in San Francisco, California
Genre = Stoner metal
Doom metal
Length = 52:14
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Label = Earache Records
Kreation Records (vinyl reissue)
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Producer = Sleep and Billy Anderson
Reviews =
*Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:ms2vad5ky8w8 link]
*The Metal Observer Rating-10|10 [http://www.metal-observer.com/articles.php?lid=1&sid=1&id=8372 link]
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Chronology =
Last album = "Volume One"
(1992)
This album = "Sleep's Holy Mountain"
(1993)
Next album = "Jerusalem"
(1998)
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"Sleep's Holy Mountain" is the second studio album by the band Sleep. It was released in November 1993 through Earache Records.

Release and reception

The recordings that would become "Sleep's Holy Mountain" were originally sent to independent label, Earache, as a demo. The label immediately signed the band and released the recordings exactly as they were received. It was the last album to be released by the band as a fully functioning group, as their subsequent albums were released after the group had broken up.

The album, which includes the word "stoner" in the lyrics of two songs ["Look into the rays of the new stoner sun rising," "Holy Mountain" and "Stoner caravan from deep space arrives," "From Beyond," lyrics printed in "Sleep's Holy Mountain" CD liner notes, Earache Records, 1992.] and prominently features cannabis leaves in its album art, is widely considered one of the seminal albums in the evolution of stoner metal. It became a favourite of the heavy metal press and the band was heralded, along with Kyuss, as leaders of the emerging stoner scene.

Track listing

All music/lyrics written by Sleep.
# "Dragonaut" - 5:43
# "The Druid" - 4:51
# "Evil Gypsy / Solomon's Theme" - 7:06
# "Some Grass" - 0:47
# "Aquarian" - 5:38
# "Holy Mountain" - 8:44
# "Inside the Sun" - 5:44
# "From Beyond" - 10:34
# "Nain's Baptism" - 3:02

Credits

*Al Cisneros - bass guitar, vocals
*Matt Pike - electric guitar
*Chris Hakius - drums
*Robert Klem - cover artwork

Pressing history

References

External links

* [http://www.earache.com/bands/sleep/sleep.html Sleep's Holy Mountain at Earache Records site]